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#1 01/14/2009 7:20 pm
- Ener-G
- Citizen Squid Alumni
- From: Montana
- Registered: 11/18/2007
- Posts: 1421
A Squidoo Success Story
I have long admired those of you who are getting huge visitor numbers every week. My lenses are much more modest. Nevertheless that doesn't mean that they aren't effective 
I wrote a lens for a friend who started a clothing line called Just BEE. Her story is an amazing one of courage and perseverance after a massive head trauma. Her line of clothes reflects her beautiful spirit that continues to shine from her throughout all the adversity she's experienced.
You can imagine how hard it could be to start your own clothing line on a shoestring. I went to help her at a Yes! I Can! metaphysical conference that Hay House hosted in Las Vegas last June. Her booth was kind of quiet one afternoon, so I decided to show her how to Squidoo and made the lens about her company.
She just wrote me that that little lens, that gets maybe 3-5 visitors a week, brought her a fabulous new client. A woman in Phoenix found one of the Just BEE T-shirts in Red Lodge, Montana and fell in love with it. So she googled Just BEE and besides the website, up popped the Squidoo lens (just like HQ told us it would). The story that I wrote about her is what sold the woman on placing an order of Just BEE clothes for her own shop.
Even without mastery of keywords, SEO and all the other geeky knowledge, these lenses are powerful tools to help people.
Thank you, Squidoo, for all the many wonderful ways that you are making a difference.
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#2 01/14/2009 7:22 pm
- awelldressedbullet
- Wow. Over 1000 posts.
- From: Spanish, ON Canada
- Registered: 06/14/2007
- Posts: 1989
Re: A Squidoo Success Story
Very cool, that is so nice to hear.
And you can have all the traffic in the world, I actually call them "tire kickers", but how great it is to get that one special customer!
That's how a business grows, one customer at a time.
Congratulations and the best of luck to her!
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#3 01/14/2009 10:37 pm
- LindaJM
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- From: Happy Camp, California
- Registered: 06/11/2007
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Re: A Squidoo Success Story
What a wonderful story, gia... I love that she's prospering because of your lens!
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#4 01/14/2009 11:45 pm
- oneskms
- Positively aquatic
- From: UK
- Registered: 07/07/2007
- Posts: 344
Re: A Squidoo Success Story
Squidoo works in mysterious ways - we are all here for different reasons and success stories big or small are great to hear, congratulations, keep it going and hope the feeling of acomplishment lasts and your friend continues to succeed
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#5 01/15/2009 1:36 am
- Spook
- Mesonychoteuthis
- Registered: 12/31/1969
- Posts: 750
Re: A Squidoo Success Story
oneskms wrote:
Squidoo works in mysterious ways - we are all here for different reasons and success stories big or small are great to hear, congratulations, keep it going and hope the feeling of acomplishment lasts and your friend continues to succeed
I will second that sentiment
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#6 01/15/2009 1:45 am
- CDT
- First mate
- From: UK
- Registered: 05/25/2007
- Posts: 406
Re: A Squidoo Success Story
I just read this while drinking my morning cup of tea...what a lovely story to start the day with.
I'm so pleased for your friend - not only for her sales, but for the fact that he's lucky to have a friend like you
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#7 01/15/2009 2:01 am
- seedplanter
- Swimming pretty (100+ posts!)
- From: Pacific Northwest
- Registered: 12/31/1969
- Posts: 128
Re: A Squidoo Success Story
You've expressed it perfectly. Squidoo is so much more than individuals creating lenses. It's the connections we make, and how our lives spill over into one another's that counts.
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#8 01/15/2009 5:51 am
- thrivingmom
- Full fledged kraken (500+ posts)
- From: Texas
- Registered: 12/31/1969
- Posts: 527
Re: A Squidoo Success Story
It was so thoughtful of you to give your time to help this woman. What a great story! Thanks for sharing it with us.
*edited after visiting the lens* I love the lens. I think you did a great job with it. You were too modest to list the address in your original post, so I'm doing it for you:
http://www.squidoo.com/justbee
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#9 01/15/2009 6:14 am
- RickPhillips
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- From: georgia
- Registered: 03/21/2006
- Posts: 1301
Re: A Squidoo Success Story
Well stated - thanks for sharing.
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#10 01/15/2009 7:39 am
- poddys
- Indubitably tentacular
- From: Southampton, UK
- Registered: 01/15/2008
- Posts: 3044
Re: A Squidoo Success Story
That is a great story. Makes you feel warm inside, having helped her, and then fate played it's happy cards.
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#11 01/15/2009 8:55 am
- lisadh
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- Posts: 309
Re: A Squidoo Success Story
Thanks for sharing such a great story. It's amazing how one small act of kindness can create a wave of positive results. Here's to her continued success.
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#12 01/16/2009 7:58 am
- Portable_eBay
- Full fledged kraken (500+ posts)
- From: Philippines
- Registered: 12/31/1969
- Posts: 718
Re: A Squidoo Success Story
Ahhh the power of Squidoo at work... touching and inspiring.
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#13 01/16/2009 7:26 pm
- chefkeem
- Wow. Over 1000 posts.
- From: Austin, Texas
- Registered: 01/29/2008
- Posts: 1359
Re: A Squidoo Success Story
seedplanter wrote:
You've expressed it perfectly. Squidoo is so much more than individuals creating lenses. It's the connections we make, and how our lives spill over into one another's that counts.
Exactly.
And thanks for sharing this wonderful story, Gia!
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#14 01/16/2009 7:35 pm
- zuzanna
- Swimming pretty (100+ posts!)
- From: Victoria, BC, Canada
- Registered: 12/31/1969
- Posts: 182
Re: A Squidoo Success Story
Gia,
thanks for sharing this story. Congratulations to you and to your friend. Great lens!
Best regards,
Ilona Zuzalek
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#15 01/17/2009 10:17 pm
- Ener-G
- Citizen Squid Alumni
- From: Montana
- Registered: 11/18/2007
- Posts: 1421
Re: A Squidoo Success Story
Thrivingmom...thanks for adding the url. I didn't want to include it and get "moved" to the "favorite lens" category. Everyone else...what generous replies! Thank you.
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#16 01/18/2009 6:15 am
- BFuniv.com
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- From: Newport Beach, CA
- Registered: 11/17/2005
- Posts: 353
Re: A Squidoo Success Story
I've often thought that getting excited about the numbers may be good general marketing, but it is the quality of the traffic that is most important. Congratulations
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#17 01/18/2009 11:07 am
- Sarunas
- Got yer sea legs
- From: Lithuania
- Registered: 12/31/1969
- Posts: 41
Re: A Squidoo Success Story
What a wonderful story. :}
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#18 01/19/2009 9:04 am
- aj2008
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Re: A Squidoo Success Story
A lovely story Gia! I am so pleased for your friend.
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#19 01/19/2009 9:29 am
- Snozzle
- Full fledged kraken (500+ posts)
- Registered: 12/31/1969
- Posts: 502
Re: A Squidoo Success Story
Great story and that shows why the Internet has such potential. You never know who might see your lens, blog or whatever or who will link to it. On one of my blogs I once got over 40,000 hits in one day because a major site linked to it.
Mike.
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#20 01/19/2009 10:59 am
- marketingdevil
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Re: A Squidoo Success Story
Cool, she's a very lucky person :-)
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#21 01/19/2009 11:15 am
- The_Bard
- Banned
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- Registered: 02/22/2007
- Posts: 1344
Re: A Squidoo Success Story
Well yes, I agree that this is a jolly nice story, especially from one of my fave LM's, but really...the gushing sentimental replies are really over the top!
This "wear your heart on the sleeve" stuff is terribly un-British! I dread to think what will happen when the "Great Obama" is in power!
Some of you lot seem to think that Squidoo is the "second coming".
Honestly! tut..tut!!
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#22 01/19/2009 8:28 pm
- Ener-G
- Citizen Squid Alumni
- From: Montana
- Registered: 11/18/2007
- Posts: 1421
Re: A Squidoo Success Story
The_Bard wrote:
Well yes, I agree that this is a jolly nice story, especially from one of my fave LM's, but really...the gushing sentimental replies are really over the top!
This "wear your heart on the sleeve" stuff is terribly un-British! I dread to think what will happen when the "Great Obama" is in power!
Some of you lot seem to think that Squidoo is the "second coming".
Honestly! tut..tut!!
You know I just found out you are a Scorpio. Quite the stinging tail there, Paul.
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#23 01/22/2009 9:23 am
- The_Bard
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- Posts: 1344
Re: A Squidoo Success Story
Ener-G wrote:
The_Bard wrote:
Well yes, I agree that this is a jolly nice story, especially from one of my fave LM's, but really...the gushing sentimental replies are really over the top!
This "wear your heart on the sleeve" stuff is terribly un-British! I dread to think what will happen when the "Great Obama" is in power!
Some of you lot seem to think that Squidoo is the "second coming".
Honestly! tut..tut!!You know I just found out you are a Scorpio. Quite the stinging tail there, Paul.
Actually....I'm a Capricorn!
And anyone who says that's just an old miserable goat....beware! I'm not old! 
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#24 01/22/2009 9:41 am
- Ener-G
- Citizen Squid Alumni
- From: Montana
- Registered: 11/18/2007
- Posts: 1421
Re: A Squidoo Success Story
The_Bard wrote:
Ener-G wrote:
The_Bard wrote:
Well yes, I agree that this is a jolly nice story, especially from one of my fave LM's, but really...the gushing sentimental replies are really over the top!
This "wear your heart on the sleeve" stuff is terribly un-British! I dread to think what will happen when the "Great Obama" is in power!
Some of you lot seem to think that Squidoo is the "second coming".
Honestly! tut..tut!!You know I just found out you are a Scorpio. Quite the stinging tail there, Paul.
Actually....I'm a Capricorn!
And anyone who says that's just an old miserable goat....beware! I'm not old!
Oh for goodness sakes. I'm so dyslexic sometimes it drives me nuts. Somehow I kept thinking your birthday was in November even though we all just got done saying Happy Birthday to you. Or did I dream that too?
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