Saturday, July 18, 2009

Groups And Challenges Biggest Lesson Winner

This week, we have two responses to the Question Of The Week, one of which comes from Spirituality, who won last week, so I am going to link to her websites since her lenses were so recently linked. Susan52 also responded, with an equally great answer, so her lenses, in all their glory, are linked below. Congratulations, Susan and Katinka!

Katinka responded to the QOTW (If you are participating in the RocketMoms, or the Giant Squid Challenge, or Giant Squid Summer School, what are you learning — the biggest lesson?):

The main thing I've learned is how important it is to step out of your comfort zone ocasionally. Those challenges set you thinking about making lenses in ways that you just hadn't done before. Because someone else is setting the challege.

Another thing I've learned - and from a business perspective this is a real important one - to make products on informational lenses part of the story. For instance, my lenses about spiritual quotes have NEVER sold a single book with spiritual quotes. So now I'm trying selling only ONE product: a notebook people can write their own spiritual quotes in. Because that's part of my story: the fun of collecting spiritual quotes. No idea if it will work, but it's better than showcasing books that people aren't clicking on, let alone buying.

Katinka is a student of religion and spirituality. Visit her site on religion and spirituality: katinkahesselink.net, and her spiritual blog: All Considering.

Susan's response:

Probably the biggest thing I've learned from RocketMoms and Giant Squid Summer School is that I actually can write on demand. I've never been confident enough to commit to any writing project for pay that would require assignments and deadlines. Squidoo has taught me how to be creative enough in my thinking that I've actually come up with some of my best writing as a result of assignments on topics that I probably wouldn't have considered on my own. It's amazing how that experience has affected my confidence level.

Thank you for playing, ladies!

Here are all 140 of Susan's lenses:

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