Today's Squidoo Lesson: Making a Lens About Your eBay Business

If you're going to make a Squidoo lens about your eBay business, you have several options.

First is the older eBay Squid template which looks like this. If you like the look of that template, go to the top right where it says "Make Your Own" and when you make your lens there, it will have that template. An OK choice; my third choice, though. My first and second choices follow.

Next is the SquidBids template, which is newer than the one above. SquidBids headquarters is here. Scroll down and choose a lens from among those listed to see what that template looks like. Create the lens from this page and it will have you fill in some information and build a simple lens for you. GOOD choice, maybe best depending on what you want your lens to look like. SquidBids HQ is a very good place to look at a lot of other eBay sellers' lenses to see what those people included in theirs. Some are good, some are better. It's really a matter of personal preference and what appeals most to you.

Third choice is the regular Squidoo template, a sample of which is here. This particular lens belongs to someone I met on Squidoo yesterday, a terrific lensmaster who has a really nice eBay store and a really good lens about her eBay business. She used HTML to add extra pictures, so the lens looks extra nice, I think. GOOD choice, but it doesn't specifically identify the lens as being an eBay lens, so it's up to you if you want it to be obvious from the start that the lens is about your online auctions. Again, a matter of your preference.

End of today's lesson. Now go enjoy Mother's Day!