No Time To Squidoo
This past few weeks have not been very productive in terms of new lens creation. I may have mentioned it before, even though I think that some of my lenses are pretty good I’m just not seeing the traffic and more importantly, the sales to justify all this time I spent there. It’s nobody’s fault but my own, I know. I read about how my fellow lensmasters make hundreds, some even thousands of dollars a month on Squidoo. Makes me feel like I’ve missed the boat somewhere. I’m lucky if I make enough to treat my kids to a Happy Meal once in a while.
Yes, I love Squidoo very much. The community is great, it’s the first time I’ve been comfortable in an online community at all. And making lenses is immense fun, I could do nothing else all day, and I never run out of ideas either. The Giant Squids, Squidoo Activists and even Seth himself would keep me busy building lenses ’til the end of days. The only problem I have is that I need to contribute to the family income in a major way and I just don’t see this happen with Squidoo.
Ah, the distractions. Seth Godin launched Triiibes and many of us were scrambling to get in, just so we could answer YES to the question: Are you in the triiibe? Once there, I found myself out of place. It’s a great community with an incredible quality of professional members. It’s great if you’re looking to connect with marketing intellectuals, great for discussing the bigger picture. I’d love to participate more but again, it’s time consuming and fun but doesn’t help me put food on the table. At least not short term.
So now I’m taking the 30-Day-Challenge which needs all my attention. It’s still a lot harder than I thought. They make it sound easy at the start and watching the tutorials and using some software I can see that it all makes perfect sense. But it’s still hard work for me because of all the writing involved. This is the major stumbling block I encountered and unless I find a way to overcome that I guess it’s back to square 1 for me.
So there, I hope nobody reads my blog because I don’t want to come off as a whiner. If you do read this, just ignore this post, please. I just saw the need to write a post and this is all I could come up with. 
