If you have hobbies you want to share information on, you want to drive traffic to a blog, or you just want to write about some obscure topic and don’t want to buy a domain name and hosting for it, you are a strong candidate for my new addiction - Squidoo. I love how easy it is to use Squidoo and I have gotten some traffic from it.

However, if you are in it for the money, be warned. It is slow going. Earnings build slowly as you make and promote more and more of your lenses. If you are making lenses on topics that aren’t popular, you may never see earnings from Squidoo.  Some people with popular lenses say they’ve made hundreds, mostly from their own affiliate sales.

By the way, if you do get into Squidoo and want to learn more, Tiffany Dow has an excellent e-book on using Squidoo that is well worth the low price. I read the whole thing twice the day I got it and I “blame” her for my addiction!

It’s funny how you forget that a term you use all the time isn’t self explanatory to someone new in your field. I had a new writer ask me what a query letter is today and thought I’d share my answer with other new writers:

A query is a letter you send to an editor outlining an article or story idea. It usually isn’t written yet because the editor may have a different slant on the article. Query writing is almost harder than writing the actual article because you have to catch the editor’s attention.
Here is a really good article on writing query letters:
http://www.writing-world.com/basics/query.shtml
Katelyn

So, you sent an unsolicited article to an editor and it has been three whole days. What is the editor doing? Why isn’t there a response? It won’t hurt to send a follow up email, right?

Actually, there are times when sending a follow up email is a great idea, but this isn’t one of them. Editors often have several hundred new unsolicited submissions to look over each month. In addition, each accepted piece means more work for the editor. Generally, sending a follow up email after only a few days is a bad idea and will make the editor wonder if you are going to be one of those “needy” writers.

Now, if the editor has had your article for six months and the magazine has a two month turn around policy, it is definitely time to drop a polite email asking if the manuscript was received. That article may be sitting in the editor’s “in case I have room” pile, but it could just as easily have been devoured by SPAM filters.
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