http://greekgeek.mythphile.com Adventures in Blogging and Article Writing (since 1993) Tue, 26 Apr 2016 15:56:40 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.0.38 http://greekgeek.mythphile.com/2012/06/online-earnings-diversification/ http://greekgeek.mythphile.com/2012/06/online-earnings-diversification/#comments Wed, 20 Jun 2012 22:46:21 +0000 http://greekgeek.mythphile.com/?p=2075 I’m reviewing which of my earnings come from where, in my slow march towards diversification. Last year, by the end of the year, Squidoo still accounted for 95% of my earnings, and most of the rest was Amazon Associates (despite Amazon Associates in California getting punted for several months). Alas, nearly all those Amazon Associates […]]]> http://greekgeek.mythphile.com/2012/06/online-earnings-diversification/feed/ 3 http://greekgeek.mythphile.com/2012/05/making-money-selling-zazzle-art-on-squidoo/ http://greekgeek.mythphile.com/2012/05/making-money-selling-zazzle-art-on-squidoo/#comments Sat, 12 May 2012 01:41:20 +0000 http://greekgeek.mythphile.com/?p=1985 http://greekgeek.mythphile.com/2012/05/making-money-selling-zazzle-art-on-squidoo/feed/ 5 http://greekgeek.mythphile.com/2011/11/tis-the-season-for-sales-research/ http://greekgeek.mythphile.com/2011/11/tis-the-season-for-sales-research/#comments Fri, 25 Nov 2011 19:01:14 +0000 http://greekgeek.mythphile.com/?p=1794 You should get holiday shopping lenses done now, because Google has been favoring fresh content more than ever, lately. (Of course, last month would’ve been better, to make sure it got indexed in time.) Regardless, this is the time to gather data about what your visitors are buying. On Squidoo, click the $$$ tab on […]]]> http://greekgeek.mythphile.com/2011/11/tis-the-season-for-sales-research/feed/ 0 http://greekgeek.mythphile.com/2011/10/making-money-online-coincidental-vs-direct-sales/ http://greekgeek.mythphile.com/2011/10/making-money-online-coincidental-vs-direct-sales/#comments Tue, 11 Oct 2011 18:50:30 +0000 http://greekgeek.mythphile.com/?p=1571 Squidoo, Hubpages and Wizzley users make money through ad revenue and affiliate commissions. Many of us who come to these sites with basic writing skills are shy about sales lenses. We take a pussyfooting approach instead: we write on something we love, and include links to products that might interest our audience. I call this […]]]> http://greekgeek.mythphile.com/2011/10/making-money-online-coincidental-vs-direct-sales/feed/ 3 http://greekgeek.mythphile.com/2011/09/silly-moneymaking-tip-action-figures/ http://greekgeek.mythphile.com/2011/09/silly-moneymaking-tip-action-figures/#comments Wed, 14 Sep 2011 02:35:36 +0000 http://greekgeek.mythphile.com/?p=1541 I’ve got just one word to say to you: “The Graduate” Or, wait, two words… I noticed this phenomenon several years ago when I converted a seminar paper on the Egyptian god Thoth into a Squidoo lens. People love action figures. Even in this economy, and especially if it’s something for which one would not expect […]]]> http://greekgeek.mythphile.com/2011/09/silly-moneymaking-tip-action-figures/feed/ 2 http://greekgeek.mythphile.com/2011/07/if-the-nexus-tax-killed-your-amazon-associate-account/ http://greekgeek.mythphile.com/2011/07/if-the-nexus-tax-killed-your-amazon-associate-account/#comments Sat, 02 Jul 2011 03:20:35 +0000 http://greekgeek.mythphile.com/?p=1315 … you can change your Amazon Associates links on Squidoo to Squidoo’s Amazon associates ID instead, and then get at least some commission. You know the drill: Squidoo collects about 8.5% commission due to its high volume, then pays us half of that, so you’ll be making less than before (assuming you were making 6% […]]]> http://greekgeek.mythphile.com/2011/07/if-the-nexus-tax-killed-your-amazon-associate-account/feed/ 7 http://greekgeek.mythphile.com/2011/06/captain-obvious-on-amazon-referrals/ http://greekgeek.mythphile.com/2011/06/captain-obvious-on-amazon-referrals/#comments Mon, 27 Jun 2011 16:45:03 +0000 http://greekgeek.mythphile.com/?p=1279 Most of you are much farther along than me in this whole Amazon Associates thing, which I only started doing systematically last holiday shopping season. I’m just overhauling a massive product catalog lens (a whole series of collectibles which I used to have divided up by page breaks), consolidating it and re-checking all the Amazon […]]]> http://greekgeek.mythphile.com/2011/06/captain-obvious-on-amazon-referrals/feed/ 0 http://greekgeek.mythphile.com/2011/01/squidoo-sales-lens-example/ http://greekgeek.mythphile.com/2011/01/squidoo-sales-lens-example/#comments Sat, 01 Jan 2011 21:41:12 +0000 http://greekgeek.mythphile.com/?p=938 When it comes to sales lenses, I’m  a newbie. I’ve been writing on whatever the heck I feel competent and compelled to write about, going with content first and the odd Amazon Spotlight as a complement to my lens. It should be possible to modify that approach to include reviews of things I genuinely use, […]]]> http://greekgeek.mythphile.com/2011/01/squidoo-sales-lens-example/feed/ 0 http://greekgeek.mythphile.com/2010/12/earn-your-commission/ http://greekgeek.mythphile.com/2010/12/earn-your-commission/#comments Sun, 19 Dec 2010 17:26:56 +0000 http://greekgeek.mythphile.com/?p=932 Most of us know this, but it’s such a succinct answer to such a common question (“why isn’t my page getting traffic/ratings/sales?”) that I want to preserve it here so I can remember it later. Quoth Notpop in SquidU: If your lens doesn’t do anything they couldn’t have accomplished themselves with the same number of […]]]> http://greekgeek.mythphile.com/2010/12/earn-your-commission/feed/ 1 http://greekgeek.mythphile.com/2010/12/squidoo-success-stories/ http://greekgeek.mythphile.com/2010/12/squidoo-success-stories/#comments Fri, 17 Dec 2010 21:15:39 +0000 http://greekgeek.mythphile.com/?p=916 With the biggest payout yet for many people — including me! — and the end of the year, Squidoo members are pondering Squidoo success stories…and failures. MikeEssex created a Squidoo Success Stories lens reporting on the real-life successes of several members, plus links to stats and earnings lenses by many members who maintain lenses or […]]]> http://greekgeek.mythphile.com/2010/12/squidoo-success-stories/feed/ 7