Christmas Lens On Front Page Of Squidoo

It's been almost 2 weeks since I last posted here. So let's see what things have happened with my Squidoo account since.

Some of my lenses have been featured on the front page, including my Halloween lens on Grandma Halloween Costumes and my new one for a Christmas quest called Book Holders for Reading. Actually the book holders lens also got last week a purple star and it's been featured on the front page for the last couple of days already. I'm tickled pink!

I've started making a few Christmas lenses since the 2-3 I already have are making me some random sales. The two lenses I made so far are:

Presents for New Mums
Secret Santa Gift Ideas for Women

My goal is to make 10 Christmas lenses in November, so let's see if I can meet this challenge.

Became A Monster Giant Squid And Got A Purple Star

It's quite late in the evening, was about to go to sleep when I checked my email and noticed two mails from Squidoo. I applied to the next level of Giant Squid 50 called Monster Giant, and I've just been accepted AND I got a purple star, my 4th one so far for the lens Kindle Touch case with light. I'm doing my happy dance right now.

Just a year ago I treated Squidoo as some free web2 site to backlink my actual websites. Little did I know that things would turn around so far. Not only I've started earning on Squidoo, every month more than before (just passed $500 for the direct Squidoo payments this month for the April earnings), but I became a Giant squid, got 4 purple stars and learned to make great lenses and got to enjoy doing them too.

Here is the Squidoo dashboard notification about the monster giant squid entrance and the purple star on a lens:

My Lens On The Front Page Of Squidoo

I'm so thrilled, for the first time ever one of my lenses has been featured on the front page of Squidoo.com itself. The lens is called How to make natural perfume and it's based on one of my (many) hobbies. I love making my own perfume mixes and it's fun to learn about it.

The lens was created a bit over a week ago, and I entered in one of the Squidoo competitions called the Squidcademy Awards. Following that I got the day before yesterday a purple star for it along with 500 squidpoints, and yesterday received my email from Squidoo telling me that it has been selected for the front page.
I rushed to check it out, and indeed, the lens is there, featured every couple of times the page is refreshed. There are many lenses featured on the front page, so featuring them goes through a rotation process.

I took a screenshot of it 'for posterity', so here it is.

Second Purple Star

Shortly after becoming a Giant Squid, I got my second purple star ever. Yesterday afternoon while working on adding a new lens I got some nice 'monsters' falling down on my Dashboard. Curious to see what that was, I headed over to my stats and saw the message that I got a Purple Star on my Things To Buy After Christmas lens.

Woohoo, it is my second Purple Star. Things start happening at Squidoo, got both my purple stars and my Giant Squid status in December, and sales have started increasing a bit too. Hoping the positive trend will follow in 2012 as well!

My First Purple Star

I'm tickled pink! I've just woke up this morning to my first ever Purple Star at Squidoo! The lens that received the purple star is Curing Procrastination. But what does purple star mean in the first place?

Well, if you click on the '\Won Purple Star' link next to the little purple star on the right side of the lens, you'll see this little text pop up:

(click on the image to see it larger)

So either someone nominated as such, or Squidoo HQ found it and liked it enough to assign to it a purple star.

This lens is a T3 currently at 14,708 lens rank. Hope it will improve over time as well.