Loyalis might be the highest
something like $1,000 from 1 lens in 1 month

A thousand a month!! That is really good, I was expecting only about $200-$300.

From all the research that I have done; $1,000 is the most for one lens by Loyalis.  Remember though, that is just for one lens.  A person could have potentially hundreds of lenses or more.  I see a tremendous earning potential here...

If someone were to believe those ridiculous Squidoo eBooks by the get-rich-quick crowd floating around the Internet,  then there are lensmasters making like $5,000/day!  Yeah, right. 

Loyalis' $1,000/month lens may be the highest ever earned in a month from one lens, but may not be the highest monthy income ever earned by a lensmaster.  Speaking of Loyalis, I am still waiting to see the screenprints for his $1,000/month lens.   

Last edited by Janet21 (08/27/2008 10:02 pm)

In June, 100 lensmasters earnt $100+ from Squidoo (not counting 3rd party affiliate revenue), and 1,000 people earned between $5 and $99! Overall, Lensmasters raised $8,000 for charity in that month too (source).

Loyalis writes about his amazing earnings here, and he's not selling some cheesy eBook. His total revenue is approaching $3000 per month (includes 3PA revenue).

Of course, very few Lensmasters reveal their incomes - see this thread for further discussion: http://squidu.com/forum/viewtopic.php?id=20450

Yay I am in the 1000 people club ...  now to get to the $1000 lens club 

RickPhillips wrote:

So - about 1,100 folks earned five bucks or more last month -- out of how many lensmasters?

Do we have 100,000 lensmasters? If so, that would mean the odds of earning even 5 bucks on Squidoo is over 90-1. Interesting info.

thanks.

But unfortunately, a lot of them either never make a lens, make spammy lenses, make poor lenses or never manage to get any success with them.

If Loyalis is making $3k/month, then that is great for him. He certainly spends a great deal of time here making lenses.  However, since I am skeptical by nature, I would need to see proof before I am a true believer.  I mean no disrespect to Loyalis, I would be like that w/ anyone.

For me, I really love working on Squidoo, however,  lately I have been spending more of my time working on my own blogs.  This is evident in the fact that I only created like 2 lenses in two months. Yikes!!  I have been thinking a lot recently about how much time I spend on Squidoo and as much as I love it here, it is not my website.   While I believe Squidoo will be around for a long time, I don't know that for sure.  Anything can happen.   So, if 100% of my earnings are from Squidoo and they are gone one day, all of my hard work goes down the tubes.   That is why I am trying to build my blogs up so they can become even more profitable.  I am also dabbling in hubpages, just to have another platform to earn money.   I feel much more diversified this way.

However, as long as Squidoo is around, I will be here creating lenses, just not at the pace I had been in the past.  So, with only 84 lenses, $3,000/month is a long way off for me!   But, I will say I am truly thankful for Squidoo since it has opened up so many doors for me as far as earning an income online.   I have learned so much here.

Janet21 wrote:

If Loyalis is making $3k/month, then that is great for him. He certainly spends a great deal of time here making lenses.  However, since I am skeptical by nature, I would need to see proof before I am a true believer.  I mean no disrespect to Loyalis, I would be like that w/ anyone.

For me, I really love working on Squidoo, however,  lately I have been spending more of my time working on my own blogs.  This is evident in the fact that I only created like 2 lenses in two months. Yikes!!  I have been thinking a lot recently about how much time I spend on Squidoo and as much as I love it here, it is not my website.   While I believe Squidoo will be around for a long time, I don't know that for sure.  Anything can happen.   So, if 100% of my earnings are from Squidoo and they are gone one day, all of my hard work goes down the tubes.   That is why I am trying to build my blogs up so they can become even more profitable.  I am also dabbling in hubpages, just to have another platform to earn money.   I feel much more diversified this way.

However, as long as Squidoo is around, I will be here creating lenses, just not at the pace I had been in the past.  So, with only 84 lenses, $3,000/month is a long way off for me!   But, I will say I am truly thankful for Squidoo since it has opened up so many doors for me as far as earning an income online.   I have learned so much here.

Janet, that seems almost a "good-bye" letter!
Are you leaving squidoo? I hope not!

However, i need to agree a little with you, this is not our OWN site, this is a free platform, like many other free platforms, we'll never now the future. Even so, in the other hand, we never now the future, we can die tomorrow (i HOPE NOT!) or we can live 100 years!
I'm sure squidoo will last long and for good years, squidoo is growing fast, and if it's growing, the income is also growing (at least it should). Furthermore, if the income is growing, there's no reason to squidoo goes down.
I also have my own sites, but it's almost the same thing, we never now the future, just imagine that the server where you have the sites crash, and you don't have backups? puff gone!

I like the strategy of different source of incomes, but the problem with that (and i say it by my own experience) it's the time it takes, and you cannot grow steady in every platform, we've always to choose one of them as the primary.

Example of what i'm saying:

Strategy of different sources
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30 days with 8 hours a day:
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10 lenses (maybe only $50 a month)
10 hubpages (maybe only $20 a month)
50 posts on blogs (maybe only $50 a month)

Strategy of one big primary source (squidoo)
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30 days with 8 hours a day:
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100 lenses (maybe $200 a month)
1 hubpages (maybe $5 a month)
5 posts on blogs (maybe ($10 a month)

The problem with our own websites is it takes time, since we don't have authoritative domains, and squidoo.com by itself, it's an old domain with big authority for google.

Squidoo lasting long, i think it depends 99 on us, the lensmasters, the efforts we make on making good lenses and promoting squidoo in general.

What everyone thinks?
Squidoo Team, will squidoo last to eternity?

You might want to reread what I wrote, no where did I say Squidoo was a source of income instead of a platform for generating income?

Jonitas, that is my problem.  Squidoo was my first successful Internet endeavor (even though I had been trying for years) and for the past year and a half, my only source of income.  As you all know, I am a sahm, so I was beyond thrilled when I found a platform that actually started sending me monthly paychecks! lol!

But, now I think it is time for me to take what I have learned here and find other avenues of income.  I would be cheating myself if I didn't.  Yes, I agree with you Squidoo is profitable so it will be around for a long time.  However, it could also be a potential candidate for a buyout, and if that should happen, lots of things could change.   Again, this is all just random thoughts of mine.

The first few months for my blog have been really great.  I am on target right now to hit 6,000 visitors for Aug!  Maybe it was luck, or something I did, but for a new blog I am told that is a terrific start.  And, the earnings are coming in daily, too.  So it is something I want to spend more time developing.  You are right, you do need a primary source of income.   The next year will be the determining factor as to which platform that is for me, but right now I am exploring my options.  And, since I don't have 8hrs day available to work on these projects, I really need to focus.

This is definitely not a good-bye letter.  Squidoo is stuck with me for the long haul!

Last edited by Janet21 (08/28/2008 8:55 am)

JonitasKalimpo wrote:

It's good to "ear" (read) that, you're one of the perfect examples of how squidoo can work well.

thanks.