Posts Tagged ‘Lens Flipping’

People always ask me about selling Squidoo lenses. Is it still something that can be done? Yes!

In Flip That Lens, I teach that you should begin building a list of buyers. I have a small list – about 300 people right now.

I flip lenses whenever I have time to build some extra ones. But if I wanted to, I could make more at it. Take this weekend for example. I wanted to take some time off from other projects so I whipped up a few lenses.

I made 7 lenses so far (still working on it today) and sold every one of them for $100 each. For each one, I wrote a 250-word introduction, and two additional 250-word text modules. I put a poll or Amazon Spotlight module in between the text and a guestbook at the bottom.

I write about 4-5 pages an hour and each lens equals 1.5 pages. If I use my DragonNaturally Speaking tool I create even more content per hour! So for about 25-30 minutes of work total (including building the lens), I made $100.

Here’s a screen shot of my PayPal account from this weekend:

http://www.tiffanydow.com/images/lensflips.JPG

I circled the lens sales. A couple of customers bought two at once.

$700 for 3.5 hours of work so far – not bad, right?

And I did it from home in between baking brownies with my kids and relaxing by a fire! This work at home stuff really pays off if you learn the right strategies.

You can flip lenses, too. All you have to do is build the niche lens topics like I did (This weekend I sold lenses on dieting, relationships, stress and the law of attraction).

I check out the Google AdWords tool for niche keywords and ensure those are in my lens URL and module titles and content.

Then I list them for sale to my target audience!

By the way – this is a neat tip for lens flippers: If you’re using Aweber to blast your list, check the option that lets you syndicate it. That way it gets blasted to Twitter, too! I have over 2,000 followers on Twitter so they ALSO get the lens alert notifications in addition to my list of 300.

Social marketing is very powerful. It can help you broaden your lens flipping business.

Tiff