Where do I go from Here?

Alright, so I take back what I said about most people on Squidoo make money being kind of spammy. I ran into a few good folks who actually write some really nice stuff and are kind enough to disclose just how well they've been earning on their work.

Here's the drawback, these nice people have written hundreds of lenses. Yeah, I'm talking like 500 lenses plus. So does that mean if you want to produce quality work you have to do so in huge quantities to make a living? If that's the case, it's going to be a while before I get a payday. Like I said before, I only had 150 articles on eHow and that was over a year's time.

So do I stick with Squidoo and keep doing what I'm doing in the hopes that once I have a few hundred lenses under my belt I'll be doing well or do I move onto other ventures? I've got a lot to think about.

The problem I see is that I've got three kids at home, two of which are under five years old and are with me twenty-four hours a day. I only get to write while the baby is napping, so I don't have the time to pump out tons of lenses. Not to mention the fact that it takes me an eternity to write a lens because I'm such a perfectionist.

A friend of mine said that I would earn more money using my own Amazon modules, the trouble is that I don't know how to put my own modules in a lens. It always just comes out as a bunch of broken code. So I really need help figuring that one out.

The friend that made the suggestion is one of the good writers on Squidoo. Her name is Virginia and she writes very cool, informative lenses on really unique topics. I like her work. I think I'm going to focus on making people like her my Squidoo role models and forget about the spammy morons bragging about how to make cash by shoving affiliate links down your throat.

Virginia has an awesome lens about how much money she makes on Squidoo and how she does it. It's definitely worth a read, check it out here. But as I said before, she has way more lenses than I think I could ever produce on such limited time.

I think I'll take some time to look into other work at home possibilities. Another writer friend of mine, Lee Mellott, wrote a book called Work From Home Jobs: 101+ Real Companies That Pay! I'm going to pick up a copy tonight and see if anything stands out.

Until I find a better idea though, I'm going to keep working on Squidoo. Whether or not I'll ever see any cash from that work is still up in the air. I guess only time will tell.