You don’t know what you are missing, if you have not tried growing your home based business yet through Squidoo. Squidoo.com is one of the newer social networking sites modeled after MySpace and Facebook but unlike those two it encourages the marketing of products and services. This is a place that actually wants you to advertise your website.
To date, there are hundreds of different articles on hundreds of different subjects on Squidoo. The material is grouped by category helping the Squidoo follower get right to whatever they are looking for. The categories range from books, shopping, travel, music, tv and movies, to business, health and medicine, amongst others. If you were trying to design a road trip vacation this is one consideration.You can find articles on Squidoo to get ideas for locations, accommodations and |things to see and do. Take a look and you will see that getting possible leads for your business is not as difficult as you might think.
To be directed to your product or service the key to using Squidoo is to create a lens which will be used by Squidoo followers. To get started, all you need to do is create a free account. Take a look on other lenses on Squidoo before you set up your own. When you are ready to set up your own lens, click on the Make A Lens box and begin. To begin with you will have to explain what your intentions for the lens are. Next, you will fill in the URL for your website and pick a category that you would like your lens to fall under. Add some key search words for your lens and fill out your profile.
The reason why Squidoo calls their pages ‘lenses’ is to point out that this is what the user fucusses on. This site attracts nearly half million potential buyers a day for your products. When you begin with your lens you will be required to give a brief summary and title for it. You can then open a guestbook or set up a section for links on other sites on the subject. Squidoo even gives you a money making option where you can recommend other products that may tie in with yours and for every purchase that is made you can pick up a commission. All that is left to do is click on the publish button and watch your Squidoo lens do your work.
Carin Davis is the editor and webmaster of Carin Davis’s Home Business Training Secrets. A site dedicated to the development and training for Network Marketers and Home Business Owners.