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1. thefluffanutta (3 comments)

   May 13th, 2008 at 5:56 am

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   There’s a special ping tool for Squidoo lenses, that includes Google Blog Search and a bunch of other services too.

   thefluffanutta

2. Kelly (56 comments)

   May 13th, 2008 at 6:04 am

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   Thanks for the link - I was actually in the middle of doing a whole post on squidutils as your comment came in !

   Good to see you here - anyone who doesn’t recognise thefluffanutta from Squidoo should go and check out all of thefuffanutta’s lenses, not only will you get some great advice, you can see some EXCELLENT examples of how Squidoo lenses should be built.

   You can see a list of fluffanutta’s lenses here

   Thanks for taking the time to comment.

   Kelly

3. Peter Jenkins (4 comments)

   May 13th, 2008 at 6:15 am

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   hi kelly i wanted to say that i have been folloing your course on making money. i really like the way you are showing poeple with you example lenses. im still trying to get my lens built and like to say a big thanks for your help this weekend.

   can i ask why you are promoting another squid person on your blog?it all seems a little strange to me,i guess when you start out it takes long time to work out how everything works around the net.?
   peter

4. Kelly (56 comments)

   May 13th, 2008 at 7:33 am

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   Hello Peter and no worries on the ‘help’ front. I totally understand that when you are new to the whole internet marketing world it can seem a little overwhelming at times. If you need any help again then please feel free to ask.

   I presume you are making reference to fluffanutta above and asking why I would promote his lenses. The simple reason for this is ….

   Because they are good!

   Fluffanutta is showing people how to do great things with Squidoo that I wouldn’t have even known about had it not been for the lens - I think that everyone here knows that I am not a technical person. The lenses are well laid out and give the reader a great resource for building their own.

   I teach people how to make money with Squidoo, and marketing in general. There are things that I am just unable to do due to my lack of technical know-how so I will always recommend the best that I can find. For those of you who have my guide to Squidoo (Squidoo Queen) then you will be aware that I recommend Squidutiles there also.

   There are several fantastic people who I guess could be called direct competition, Tiffany Dow, Bob Jenkins, CaptainSquid to name a few. We all do things slightly differently but our main aim is the same - to help people learn something.

   I’ve spoken to Tiffany Dow on several occasions and she even gave me a testimonial for one of my products. I’ve read Bob Jenkins Squidoo Secrets and am a keen reader of Captain Squid’s blog (love the lenses too). Each one of these people are capable of teaching me and you something new about Squidoo and that is the main aim.

   I hope this has helped clear up some of your questions.

   Kelly

5. Jennifer Clements (4 comments)

   May 13th, 2008 at 9:55 am

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   Excellent Response Kelly

   I really do feel that this is why you are so successful. It’s not just your professionalism or your understanding of Squidoo, it’s the fact that you are a really genuine person. Having spent a lot of time speaking with you over the last three months, I can personally say (with confidence) that Kelly is one of the nicest marketers around.

   Not only has Kelly helped me to start making sales from my lens (four so far) she has invited me to take the knowledge that I have and let her know where I could improve the lenses that she has for the course she is running. This is a real confidence builder for me and I am looking forward to adding my 2 cents worth in the next part of the course.

   Jennifer Clements

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6. Jamma (7 comments)

   May 13th, 2008 at 10:01 am

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   To be honest I don’t really know why we are all feeling compelled to start jumping to Kelly’s defence here. The guy only asked a question and if he’s new to marketing and could seem a little odd to him. No one would expect to drive into McDonnalds and see them advertising Burger King would they?

   Nice answer Kelly and great to see other Squidoo’ers in here with us. Personally I think that this can only better us all as a group so I say THE MORE THE MERRIER!

   Jamma - AKA James Craig

   Jammas last blog post..1

7. Kelly (56 comments)

   May 13th, 2008 at 12:56 pm

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   @ Jennifer

   Hi Jennifer

   Thanks for your kind words. I’m really looking forward to getting your views on how the lenses can be ‘made better’ in the next part of the course. I’m pleased that you are still taking action with your new lenses that I saw today - great work!

   @ Jamma

   Hi Jamma

   Great to see you back up and running again - Looks like you have your PC back up and working now.

   I think you are spot on with what Peter has said. When you start marketing it looks like a very different world from what people are used to offline. Great analogy with BK

   Again, you are spot on with other Squidoo people being here. There are quite a few already here who have made some great progress since first starting out. Some that were around even before I was and they are fantastic.

   I look forward to seeing you in part five of the course (Jamma is obviously trying to keep this quiet but he is one of the people who made a sale in week two!).

   Keep up the great work people!

   Kelly

8. Jamma (7 comments)

   May 13th, 2008 at 3:09 pm

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   Yeah what a pain in the a**e that was! All sorted now though.

   Damn, I was trying to keep it in that whole post so I didn’t look like I was boasting about it. I’ve been working on the questions that you sent over for part five, but thanks to the PC issues I’m now about a week behind. I’ll be trying to catch up this week though.

   Jamma

9. Tony (9 comments)

   May 13th, 2008 at 7:46 pm

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   Hi Kelly thanks again for the great information I didn’t know about the RSS Feed for my lens. I just only added the RSS Feed for the other area of my lens. Thank you.

   Tonys last blog post..1

10. Kelly (56 comments)

    May 14th, 2008 at 2:58 am

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    Glad I could help Tony.

    Just sent you an email regarding your lens - Great Stuff!

    Kelly

11. Peter Jenkins (4 comments)

    May 18th, 2008 at 7:25 am

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    it seems that i have caused a bit of a stur with my last comment. i never ment anything nasty by it i promise i was confused why that it all. i hope that nobody is upset with me now. kelly has gone over andd above what she needed to do to help me so i am very greatfull to her.

    totally understand that you would let people no when there is another good product that can help us now. peter

12. Minsheyenwen (18 comments)

    July 10th, 2008 at 2:20 pm

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    This is Unbelievable!

    Hi Kelly Stone,

    Minsheyenwen here. I purchased Squidoo Queen on 6/10/08. I had already published 4 lenes before my purchase of your guide. After reading Squidoo Queen, visiting and reading the Squidoo Queen forum posts, checking your lenses on Squidoo and reading this blog I reviewed my previous published lenses, recognized things I could have done differently and made changes. Meanwhile, I was working on several new lenses in the background in the past 30 days. I published a new one on Sunday 7/6/08. Amazing the new lens went from # 465,000 on 7/6/08 to # 73,000 on 7/07/10 and # 7019 in Squidoo ranking today. Kelly, you have warned us not to get to excited about Squidoo ranking. However, I am very excited to see these results. I know I am doing something right! Thats a good feeling.

    Yesterday, I was adding more content to one of my new unplublished lens I saved the draft and by mistake–oops I published the lens. Today, around the same time I got my 1st Google visitor to the lens for a “longtail keyword”. This is Unbelievable! The lens was indexed by Google and I received “targeted traffic” within 24 hours of accidentally publishing the lens. I attribute this a Squidoo lensmaking succes and a direct results from applying what I have learned from Kelly Stone the Squidoo Queen and thefluffanutta’s Squidutiles. I thank you both. I am very happy.

13. Kelly (56 comments)

    July 30th, 2008 at 12:08 pm

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