Squidoo: The Challenge to Make a Difference

Squidoo: The Challenge to Make a Difference

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Squidoo: you can make a difference

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.

This story is incredibly inspiring so I just had to create a Squidoo
lens to share it:
http://www.squidoo.com/footpathlibrary

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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

To learn more about Squidoo Affiliate Marketing
check out:
http://www.squidooaffiliatemarketing.com

Subscribe to Ron's free Squidoo Marketing e-course:
http://www.smsecourse.squidoomarketingstrategies.com/

Ron is the author of the e-Book:
Squidoo Marketing Strategies

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How to develop your social network on Redgage

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.

CLICK HERE to sign up with RedGage

For more information on how to make more money on RedGage
and build your social network, visit:
http://www.squidoo.com/redgage-money

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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

To learn more about Squidoo Affiliate Marketing
check out:
http://www.squidooaffiliatemarketing.com

Subscribe to Ron's free Squidoo Marketing e-course:
http://www.smsecourse.squidoomarketingstrategies.com/

Ron is the author of the e-Book:
Squidoo Marketing Strategies

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Earn money with RedGage - a review

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's superb tutorials:
http://www.squidoo.com/redgagetutorials

I particularly like the ability to create links
to my Squidoo 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

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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

To learn more about Squidoo Affiliate Marketing
check out:
http://www.squidooaffiliatemarketing.com

Subscribe to Ron's free Squidoo Marketing e-course:
http://www.smsecourse.squidoomarketingstrategies.com/

Ron is the author of the e-Book:
Squidoo Marketing Strategies

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Green Monsters Invade Squidoo

No, not really, there are no Monsters at Squidoo.

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).

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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

To learn more about Squidoo Affiliate Marketing
check out:
http://www.squidooaffiliatemarketing.com

Subscribe to Ron's free Squidoo Marketing e-course:
http://www.smsecourse.squidoomarketingstrategies.com/

Ron is the author of the e-Book:
Squidoo Marketing Strategies

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Squidoo Policy changes: check your lenses NOW!

Squidoo has made some major Policy Changes!!

You have until mid-July to get your lenses in
order or they may be locked or deleted.

Key areas of change:


#1 No Spam
#2 No X-Rated or Porn
#3 No junk topics
#4 A new limit on "overly promotional lenses"
#5 Plagiarism takedown

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:

• How to export your content

Giant Squid, PotPieGirl, has produced a number of great
posts to help clarify the policy and its implications - take
her advice:

Explanation of Squidoo Policy Changes

Should Affiliate Marketers Leave Squidoo?
(...the answer is NO!)

These are significant policy changes - for you own
welfare and for the good of the Squidoo community,
please check out your lenses.

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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

To learn more about Squidoo Affiliate Marketing
check out:
http://www.squidooaffiliatemarketing.com

Subscribe to Ron's free Squidoo Marketing e-course:
http://www.smsecourse.squidoomarketingstrategies.com/

Ron is the author of the e-Book:
Squidoo Marketing Strategies

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RedGage: pays you for your content!

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.

I was recently introduced to a new, unique site,
RedGage, by PotPieGirl, the creator of the
Squidoo weekly marketing plan.

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!

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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

To learn more about Squidoo Affiliate Marketing
check out:
http://www.squidooaffiliatemarketing.com

Subscribe to Ron's free Squidoo Marketing e-course:
http://www.smsecourse.squidoomarketingstrategies.com/

Ron is the author of the e-Book:
Squidoo Marketing Strategies

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