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#1 12/15/2009 6:10 pm
- MeganCasey
- Editor in Chief, Squidoo.com
- From: Back to the future
- Registered: 10/17/2005
- Posts: 599
Interesting payday stats (earned during Oct 2009)
Today's payday covered earnings from October (Halloween) which was a really great month for Squidoo. Terrific traffic, great lenses, Amazon module sales were thriving, vampires were hot thanks to Edward and Bella...
Thought you'd enjoy hearing some stats:
-- The top earner made more than $1300 for the month.
-- Hundreds of people earned $100 or more.
-- More than a thousand people earned more than $10.
-- Lensmasters donated more than $5000 to the Squidoo Charity Fund.
-- More than 90 people had 100 or more lenses all ranked in the top 100,000.
-- 150+ people earned more than $10 each for charity.
-- Dozens of lenses raised more than $100 for charity in just this one month alone.
-- The top 5 earning charities supported by Squidoo in October were: Save the Children, CAER, ASPCA, Acumen Fund and Room to Read.
-- A few of the most-sold eBay items on lenses in October included: halloween costumes, Christmas ornaments, crafting beads, zhu zhu pets, canon powershots, Coach shoes and bags, birthdaysupplies, Cuisinarts, Thanksgiving decorations, World of Warcraft Buring Crusade, Steampunk stuff, Wiis, pajamas, Nintendo DS games and skins, and even Kindles.
Many lensmasters report much higher total numbers when they take their off-Squidoo sales in to account -- additional revenue like sales from their Zazzle, Etsy and Lulu stores, from blog traffic generated by lenses, from consulting leads and so on.
Here's looking forward to even better reports for November and December!
Way to go, Squids.
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#2 12/15/2009 6:36 pm
- mrsquidoo
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Re: Interesting payday stats (earned during Oct 2009)
Great stats Megan! These last few months have been fun on Squidoo... I just bought something fun off of eBay with my Oct earnings!
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#3 12/15/2009 6:37 pm
- MeganCasey
- Editor in Chief, Squidoo.com
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- Posts: 599
Re: Interesting payday stats (earned during Oct 2009)
mrsquidoo wrote:
Great stats Megan! These last few months have been fun on Squidoo... I just bought something fun off of eBay with my Oct earnings!
Hope you bought it from someone's lens. 
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#4 12/15/2009 7:39 pm
- eclecticeducation
- Wow. Over 1000 posts.
- Registered: 12/31/1969
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Re: Interesting payday stats (earned during Oct 2009)
Thanks for the stats, Megan! Love them!!!! 
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#5 12/15/2009 9:16 pm
- KatherineKouture
- Landlubber.
- From: Dallas, TX
- Registered: 12/31/1969
- Posts: 25
Re: Interesting payday stats (earned during Oct 2009)
Thanks for the info! 
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#6 12/15/2009 9:20 pm
- Abseaz
- Got yer sea legs
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Re: Interesting payday stats (earned during Oct 2009)
Interesting is right! Good to know what the top earner made since I always wondered what it would be like. Something to strive for. This was my second payday and I jumped by like 70% from my first month! Can't wait to create some more lenses in the next few months!
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#7 12/16/2009 12:19 am
- Greekgeek
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Re: Interesting payday stats (earned during Oct 2009)
Good to see the mix of charity and earnings!
Most of us need to support ourselves at least somewhat, but it's great to be able to set aside a chunk for charities. I need to get mine up to 5% like Squidoo; right now it's around 4%.
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#8 12/16/2009 9:51 am
- kab
- Giant Squid Greeter
- Registered: 12/31/1969
- Posts: 1801
Re: Interesting payday stats (earned during Oct 2009)
By far, I had the best month ever. (But, no, I was not the $1200 earner)
Thanks, squidoo!
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#9 12/16/2009 11:54 am
- alteredkat
- Full fledged kraken (500+ posts)
- From: Canada
- Registered: 01/23/2008
- Posts: 600
Re: Interesting payday stats (earned during Oct 2009)
cool stats...congrats to top earner! ...wasn't me but I'm pleased with my little Oct Squidoo nest egg.
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#10 12/16/2009 2:46 pm
- divacratus
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Re: Interesting payday stats (earned during Oct 2009)
Any chance of knowing who the top earner is? Would be nice to go through the lenses and learn something.
Nice work everyone!
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#11 12/16/2009 3:07 pm
- jeffryv
- Citizen Squid Alumni
- From: Vancouver BC Canada
- Registered: 11/17/2005
- Posts: 2160
Re: Interesting payday stats (earned during Oct 2009)
Interesting
Only 90 lensmasters control almost 10% of all lenses under 100,000
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#12 12/16/2009 3:09 pm
- JaguarJulie
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Re: Interesting payday stats (earned during Oct 2009)
"The top earner made more than $1300 for the month."
Wow! That is pretty fabulous for being able to write about your passions, interests, hobbies and make more than what Social Security might pay in a one month period! There's hope for us old-timers to supplement that income.
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#13 12/16/2009 3:38 pm
- Squidster
- Positively aquatic
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Re: Interesting payday stats (earned during Oct 2009)
While I'm still one of the "more than a thousand" people it's indeed interesting to see it the way JaguarJulie puts it. This might take my kids off the hook!
divacratus wrote:
Any chance of knowing who the top earner is? Would be nice to go through the lenses and learn something.
Well, if this were public knowledge, how many folks do you think would do more than just "learn"?
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#14 12/16/2009 4:18 pm
- janices7
- Swimming pretty (100+ posts!)
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Re: Interesting payday stats (earned during Oct 2009)
Thanks for sharing the stats! It is so great to read about how well everyone is doing. I sent over $300 to the CAER Food Shelf which made me VERY happy! I was just having fun writing about stuff I enjoyed...who knew that my favorite charity could benefit so much
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#15 12/16/2009 4:59 pm
- KarateKatGraphics
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Re: Interesting payday stats (earned during Oct 2009)
Great stats! Thrilled with charity contribs. this month, plus encouraged by increasing earnings as I close in on 1-yr Squidversary. Thx for sharing the info, Megan.
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#16 12/16/2009 10:18 pm
- Jewelsofawe
- Citizen Squid Alumni
- Registered: 08/20/2007
- Posts: 189
Re: Interesting payday stats (earned during Oct 2009)
Wow! I did not know it was possible to make $1300...
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#17 12/17/2009 12:07 am
- spuds
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Re: Interesting payday stats (earned during Oct 2009)
The stats make great reading. Thanks for publishing Megan.
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#18 12/17/2009 5:08 am
- jeffwend
- Lens Promotion Mentor
- From: West Michigan
- Registered: 01/06/2007
- Posts: 1110
Re: Interesting payday stats (earned during Oct 2009)
jeffryv wrote:
Interesting
Only 90 lensmasters control almost 10% of all lenses under 100,000
I think that is the most interesting stat to me too.
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#19 12/17/2009 6:24 am
- Loyalis
- Captain Squid
- From: Singapore
- Registered: 12/31/1969
- Posts: 1088
Re: Interesting payday stats (earned during Oct 2009)
I agree with the Jeffs,
90 lensmasters control over 9,000 of the top 100,00 lenses
(probably more when multiple accounts are taken into play and the fact that there are several of us that probably have more than 100 lenses in the top 100k....)
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#20 12/17/2009 7:37 am
- 1SquidAddict
- Swimming pretty (100+ posts!)
- From: Devon UK
- Registered: 12/02/2006
- Posts: 175
Re: Interesting payday stats (earned during Oct 2009)
There was a time when the top earner for the month was named but it just resulted in a load of copycat lenses.
What I would be interested to know is what the highest top earner payout ever was - I think it was probably a lot more than $1,300!
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#21 12/17/2009 1:21 pm
- divacratus
- Full fledged kraken (500+ posts)
- From: India
- Registered: 12/31/1969
- Posts: 501
Re: Interesting payday stats (earned during Oct 2009)
Squidster wrote:
While I'm still one of the "more than a thousand" people it's indeed interesting to see it the way JaguarJulie puts it. This might take my kids off the hook!
divacratus wrote:
Any chance of knowing who the top earner is? Would be nice to go through the lenses and learn something.
Well, if this were public knowledge, how many folks do you think would do more than just "learn"?
.
In that case, let it be!
Congrats to the top earning lensmaster whoever he/she is!
Loyalis wrote:
90 lensmasters control over 9,000 of the top 100,00 lenses
.... And whoa!
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#22 12/17/2009 2:00 pm
- Dkprincess6
- Wow. Over 1000 posts.
- From: Moundsview, MN
- Registered: 12/31/1969
- Posts: 1473
Re: Interesting payday stats (earned during Oct 2009)
Wow! I am among the people that didn't think it was possible to make that much money in a month! I'm not even close to that much, but my payouts are getting bigger. Congrats on the top earner!
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