Writing on Squidoo

Have you ever heard about Squidoo? We recently scanned our old notes about our blogging lessons and found out that our mentor had a list about writing on Squidoo and other get-paid-to-write-articles websites.

Squidoo

We tried it, as we usually do. Anyways, the ambiance on this site was quite kiddie and funny but still with the essence of being serious. Funny in a way that they use cartoon characters as a representation. They give points for leveling and trophies for everything you do with your dashboard as an achievement.

What was really amazing with it is that you can serve ads with Google Adsense and E-bay without even applying for it. As we all know that the standards of Adsense are really much hard to achieve. We had tried it once and we failed.

The only TOS(Terms of Service) we really remembered about them is that the article you wrote should be G-Rated because if you tried even once an X-rated article, you will automatically be deleted as member of them. So keep that in mind and we won't even try it.

Anyway, here's a step by step on how to work with Squidoo.

How to Publish Articles on Squidoo:

My Lens

1. Go to Squidoo.com and sign-up.
2. Start making your lens(Articles). Just be sure that you fill-up everything to make sure that it is ready for publish.
3. Set-up the ads for Amazon and E-bay (which in a way has auto fill also).

So start making your lens and discover what's really behind the squidoo smile!And when you're done, tell me how had it helped you too?

Writing offline by Windows Live Writer

The technology as of today really embeds itself into modernization for a better life like for a new blogger like me, Windows Live Writer is really a great help.

I was really glad when I first discovered this tool. A great way on working offline with your blogs. These also features a theme from your blog so it does really look like your working on your blog online.

I am using Windows 7, so it has a more modern programs that really is very much useful. You could even make a draft and set a date to when it would be published. At least, you could make a progress out of your blog, working on writing more with a less expense on being online. It is also a way of making, using and developing your blog on a much lesser effort on finance, although wifi’s are everywhere, but not at all free.

So, try discovering and adding your blogs on Windows Live Writer and start enjoying your blogging today.

Project Boards while making blogs

I would like to share this kind of affiliate program I just recently added on my blogs. I found this project board when I visited the Online Jobs Philippines website to find what's new. My eyes was caught with this project board which a lot of jobs are listed from time to time.

So I started visiting the site and sign-up for it as a member. On seconds, I became one. As I noticed, there are six free apps given to members namely:

• Job Finder
• My Site Stats
• Free to choose
• Free to choose
• Free to choose

And you can choose between:

Free Apps

1. Base CRM - which easily manage clients relations and track new leads [CRM]
2. Docracy - lets you save legal expenses by using and e-signing documents with clients
3. Fanzilla(which I also added in my free app) - helps you improve your facebook page to get more likes and leads.
4. Itweetlive - automatically target new  relevant costumers on twitter.
5. Billgrid.com - lets you send invoices, track payments and manage online expenses.
6. Clockodo - track your working times quickly, simply and reliably online.
7. Bookingbug - lets you take online booking inquiries from new and existing customers.
8. Kashflow - intuitive, easy to use online accounting softwares for free lancers.

But what really made me involve in this site is that aside from giving you these free apps, it does also allow publishers like us bloggers to earn while posting some built-in project boards or listed-related-jobs.

Project Board

They offer a widget type to display listed jobs. And these was really a helpful kind of affiliate I've ever discover since the day I blog :).

To visit my project board, just click here and start finding jobs for you.