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Squidoo provides the opportunity to promote your favorite charity.
You can build a lens promoting the charity, encourage charity members to create their own Squidoo lenses about the organization or work with the charity over time to help them to become recognized by Squidoo.
If you take this latter course the charity will be able to receive donations via Paypal from Squidoo members and Squidoo itself.
Recently I was inspired by the charitable work of Sarah Garnett who established the Footpath Library in Sydney. Her growing organization provides books (mainly new) to the homeless and the disadvantaged in hostels.
The organization now supplies over 1,000 books per week to people in the streets and to libraries in hostels.
********************************************** Ron Passfield is a Top 100 Squidoo Lensmaster and Giant Squid. He provides free resources for Squidoo affiliate marketing on his Squidoo authority site: http://www.squidoo.com/squidoomarketingstrategies
Redgage is not just a social bookmarking site for uploading photos, links and videos. It is very much a social networking site. The richness of the online content is more than matched by the richness and diversity of the network.
RedGage facilitates the building of your social network through the add a friend button, the ability to store content in Collections and the capacity to develop a comprehensive profile.
Top Web 2.0 experts, like Mari Smith and Percy Belcher, stress the importance of transparency on social networks. Your RedGage profile page enables you to share a lot of your self - your work, education, history, interests, passions and the things you like. Additionally, you can add web links to your blogs, Squidoo lenses and other sites.
Your Collections, in turn, provide insight into your passions, preferences, hobbies and online goals.
By sharing something of yourself through your profile and Collections, you enable others to identify common areas of interest and connect with you.
RedGage can thus help you brand yourself - to show something of who you are, what you believe in.
As Mari Smith argues, authenticity and transparency enable others to relate to your humanness and to build trust and rapport.
Adding genuine and transparent comments to others' content helps to build on that rapport and trust and establish a lasting connection.
Social networks such as RedGage are not just information exchange centres - they are very much centers of human connection. By sharing something of yourself, you invite the other person to reciprocate and so a genuine relationship can develop.
As you explore the RedGage site, you will find heaps of Giant Squids and a host of excellent writers from sites such as eHow.com, Gather.com, Scribd.com and Associated Content. You will encounter photographers ranging from the amateur who just loves taking photos to the professional engaged in glamor photography.
RedGage enables the creation and sharing of all forms of creative expression including art, photography or writing.
So why not share and connect on RedGage and enrich your life? Create a revealing profile, build your Collections, add friends and make quality comments on Redgage content. You will be amazed at how many people from diverse parts of the world share your interests.
********************************************** Ron Passfield is a Top 100 Squidoo Lensmaster and Giant Squid. He provides free resources for Squidoo affiliate marketing on his Squidoo authority site: http://www.squidoo.com/squidoomarketingstrategies
Well I joined RedGage about a month ago and I am now enjoying the fruits of my efforts.
I've made $83 to date just from uploading some of my online content (a miniscule fraction - about .1%).
There are three ways to earn on RedGage as I explain in this video:
I like the fact that you get paid for your backlinks that you create on RedGage - much better than having to pay for them (...and some of mine have ended up on page 1 of Google results!).
I've created a Squidoo lens that provides hints, tips, tutorials and videos on how to earn money on Redgage: http://www.squidoo.com/redgage-money
RedGage enables you to upload videos, photos, links, blog posts and documents. Here's a Squidoo lens I've created to help people access RedGage'ssuperb tutorials: http://www.squidoo.com/redgagetutorials
I particularly like the ability to create links to mySquidoo lenses and then to store these individual posts in RedGage Collections so that visitors can access my lens ring on a particular topic. Here's an example relating to Tennis: Inner Game of Tennis
Of course, the other free benefits I get are sales of my Squidoo Marketing e-book, new subscribers to my ezine and potential affiliate sales.
Well, RedGage is a fun, FREE way to promote your Squidoo lenses and blog posts as well as your photos and videos.
You can join up through this link (takes you to a Popup registration form): Join Redgage HERE
********************************************** Ron Passfield is a Top 100 Squidoo Lensmaster and Giant Squid. He provides free resources for Squidoo affiliate marketing on his Squidoo authority site: http://www.squidoo.com/squidoomarketingstrategies
Squidoo is currently experimenting with different forms of advertising to increase revenues for charity and Squidoo Lensmasters. Obviously, the current economic recession is biting into revenues everywhere.
Squidoo, as usual, is being proactive about the current state of the economy.
So you may have noticed green in-line hyperlinks on your Squidoo lenses. You will also notice larger banners at the top of each lens.
Squidoo explains their current advertising experiment in the following Squid blog post: http://bit.ly/vftRZ
Of course, if you give all your direct Squidoo revenue (from Squidoo ads on your lenses) to charity, you can opt out of the banner ads and green in-line ads (but not the Google ads).
********************************************** Ron Passfield is a Top 100 Squidoo Lensmaster and Giant Squid. He provides free resources for Squidoo affiliate marketing on his Squidoo authority site: http://www.squidoo.com/squidoomarketingstrategies
You may think you know what these mean, but check this out closely. "Junk Topics" may include any lens on "weight loss" for example.
Let's help Squidoo achieve these goals:
"We're going to double down our efforts to help you make good stuff, via education tools, newbie programs, an ever-growing Giant Squids program, and constantly developing valuable new publishing features.
At the same time, we're making the not so good stuff a little harder to create. And the bad stuff, the really useless, really wasteful pages, and especially harmful pages, those don't stand a chance here."
ACT NOW, read the guidelines, check your lenses and take action where appropriate. If you need to export your lens content to another site, here's how:
These are significant policy changes - for you own welfare and for the good of the Squidoo community, please check out your lenses.
********************************************** Ron Passfield is a Top 100 Squidoo Lensmaster and Giant Squid. He provides free resources for Squidoo affiliate marketing on his Squidoo authority site: http://www.squidoo.com/squidoomarketingstrategies
One way to get good traffic to your Squidoo lenses is to create backlinks on social bookmarking and social networking sites such as Twitter, Facebook, MySpace, and HubPages.
RedGage claims to be "the first-of-its-kind web site that pays people for their online content and monetizes their social activity".
The basic principle is that you get paid per 1,000 views of the content that you submit (there are also bonus payments).
Content can be pictures, videos, blog posts, documents and links to websites, blogs or Squidoo lenses.
An interesting concept - leverage and monetize further the content you already have on the web!!
RedGage is working towards automatic import of material from your other social networking sites.
The content uploads are attractively presented so they provide a constant temptation to linger and look further.
However, I predict that RedGage will grow rapidly. It combines social bookmarking, social networking and revenue sharing - elements it has in common with Squidoo.
I have already linked up with lots of Giant Squids on the site and more are joining every day. They will also be promoting RedGage to their lists.
You can join up here (please record ronpass as the referrer when you complete the sign-up form): http://www.redgage.com/
Here's some RedGage helpful hints when you join up:
1. work on getting your profile set up first (with links to your Squidoo lenses, blogs, etc and include your interests - this encourages more friends/readers). 2. progressively invite others on the site to be friends 3. upload blog posts, pictures, videos, links to your Squidoo lenses, etc (and use the tags provided so people can find your content) 4. promote RedGage to others 5. comment on, and rate, other people's content.
RGHelp is a RedGage member who provides tutorials on all aspects of RedGage. You can check out the resources here: http://www.redgage.com/RGHelp
Work at this progressively and you will gradually build up heaps of backlinks, generate income, expand your subscribers and create a reverse traffic flow to your Squidoo lenses.
P.S. The site may be slow as the owners adjust capacity to meet the unexpected splurge in demand. A lot of people want to earn money for their content!
********************************************** Ron Passfield is a Top 100 Squidoo Lensmaster and Giant Squid. He provides free resources for Squidoo affiliate marketing on his Squidoo authority site: http://www.squidoo.com/squidoomarketingstrategies
Twitter Grader is an interesting free tool that gives your Twitter activity a grading based on criteria such as number of followers and tweets.
Twiter Grader explains their purpose below: "What Twitter Grader is trying to measure is the power, reach and authority of a twitter account. In other words, when you tweet, what kind of an impact does it have?"
The exact details of how the algorith is calculated is secret but Twitter Grader includes the following elements in their calculation:
1. number of followers 2. power of followers 3. number of updates 4. update recency 5. follower/following ratio 6. engagement
Twitter Grader then provides an overall score out of 100 (Grade) and an absolute ranking.
The Elite List is an ordered list of the top users (based on ranking) and this changes daily.
You can get access to the elite list by location or by a specific keyword and, if you are logged in with your Twitter username, you can follow listed members by clicking the link beside their name.
Ron Passfield, PhD, is a Top 100 Squidoo Lensmaster and Giant Squid. He provides free resources for Squidoo affiliate marketing on his Squidoo authority site:
Ron has been involved in Internet marketing and small business marketing since 2005. He is recognized as an expert in Web 2.0 traffic strategies being a Giant Squid100, Top 100 Squidoo Lensmaster and creator of the SquidooRoo social media training program. Ron is a Co-Founder of Wizzley, a Writer's community.
Ron's blog for his offline business is Human Resource Consultancy.
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