One guy was celebrating when he was going to make $20. But are you? I read a lot of lenses on Squidoo where people were publishing their earnings. Now, in theory you are being “paid” for this. So here you are giving your valuable content to Squidoo. Do they publish their figures? How much do they pay in salary to their big-wigs by the way – are those number published? If I can find accurate figures, I’ll add them to this article. You are paying your way by giving them content, which they are using to get traffic from Google and make a LOT of money. Second Squidoo downside: so why is it they want you running on that hamster wheel anyway? If you don’t believe me, Google “operant conditioning” and “periodic reinforcement” and get educated about what is going on …Ģ. So what I want to ask you is: Do you want to be like a hamster running on a wheel for food pellets? Because that’s essentially what you are if you are chasing the tiers and the Giant Squid Club and all the other “rewards” that may seem like a big deal in the world of Squidoo but don’t add up to squat in your bank account. If you are not consciously aware of what is going on, you may find yourself running even faster to try to catch that next “points reward” from Squidoo. It’s the same mechanism video game developers use to get people addicted to video games. And they are even using “periodic reinforcement” (unpredictable rewards), which creates an addictive response.
They are using operant conditioning to condition you to keep publishing content. Pay very conscious attention to the “points” and “rewards” system. Well, at Squidoo they joke around about how it’s “addictive.” It’s not a joke. I want to follow my intuition purely without being a slave of addictive conditioning. I have stopped visiting blogs that encourage addictive behavior, and I even stopped checking my Google analytics statistics when I noticed that I was changing my blogging behavior based on the results. So I’m very aware of addictive patterns and how draining they can be. First Squidoo downside: they are using rat psychology on youĪs a personal transformation coach, one of the things I help people break out of are their addictions. So I’ll share my personal experience, and then you can make your own decision whether it’s worth the effort and the risk for such a small reward.ġ. And you deserve to know the kind of experience you might have there BEFORE you spend hours and weeks and months trying to make money there. Can you make good money on Squidoo?Īfter my recent foray into the world of Squidoo and SquidU, my definite answer is: these sites are not worth your time or your precious content.
This article is for people who are running real internet businesses and wondering whether Squidoo and SquidU forum are good places to make money and help their online business. Look, I’ll be straight up here: if you just want to post mojito recipes and you don’t need to make a living, then by all means, keep Squidoo-ing. So you want to make money on Squidoo? Are you sure about that?
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