by Katinka Hesselink on June 29, 2011
I had a panicky email from a fellow squid this weekend who was worried about whether she’d get to stay in the Giant Squid program, after having been accused of problem making on the new squidu forums. It really is unfortunate when people who worry are perceived as rocking the boat. When what they’re doing [...]
by Katinka Hesselink on June 27, 2011
Chefkeem at Wizzley shared some great tips for making it online on their forums today. One post he shared was the Noble Samurai videos on web conversion. Web conversion is basically the art of turning traffic into buyers. This post is about how to turn traffic into buyers on affiliate sites. Noble Samurai has published [...]
by Katinka Hesselink on March 31, 2011
WordPress is a great CMS to make a site with quickly and make it look good. However, like in many other CMSs, it’s not easy to get iframes or javascript included in posts and pages. Since many of the most used affiliate sites (amazon for instance) use either i-frames or javascript or both, the ability [...]
by Katinka Hesselink on February 8, 2011
Darcy wrote on my latest blogpost that I attributed 50% of my success to Squidoo. I was like: no, I don’t. I attribute about 10% of my success to Squidoo. 90% of my success is me. I’m serious: if it wasn’t Squidoo, it would be something else. Sure, I make about 50% of my online income [...]
by Katinka Hesselink on February 7, 2011
I thought it was high time I shared with you all where I’m at income wise. The calculations are somewhat imprecise, because adding up dollars and euros is a tough business. All those changing exchange rates… However, I do think it’s useful to share how things have progressed since last time I did this. It’s now [...]
by Katinka Hesselink on September 2, 2010
Bragging time again. It’s a good year for me financially. For the first time in a while I was able to go on an actual holiday and this month my online income alone is enough for me to live on and save a bit. In other words: I make minimum wage with my online income [...]
by Katinka Hesselink on July 26, 2010
A long time lensmaster asked: how do you value a squidoo lens? It turns out that TheFluffanutta has made a lens valuing tool that at least has the right factors in there. Here is what it says about my top lens: http://www.squidoo.com/spirituality-quotes Estimated value of ‘spirituality-quotes’ Current Lensrank: #104 Average Lensrank: #85 Worth $160.62 over [...]
by Katinka Hesselink on May 20, 2010
lakeerieartists invited me to blog here, so I thought I’d check out her blog in more detail. It turns out, she’s already written about the most important things. She’s discussed: How to article (which can be big) Selling a Tangible Item (which makes me most affiliate income) Becoming an Authority (which gets you links and [...]
by Katinka Hesselink on October 27, 2009
AKA: how to avoid getting banned by google adsense. Short answer: you should get an adsense account when the online properties you are going to be using it on have at least 100 visitors a day among them. I know this blogpost will likely not be read by those it needs to reach: newby online [...]
by Katinka Hesselink on January 20, 2009
Potpiegirl wrote recently that she feels all that talk about ‘following your passion’ won’t make you a living online. At least that’s how I understood this post about niches. She should know. I don’t agree with all her advice (her advice on tags is different from mine – though it’s a nuance thing), but on [...]