Seasonal preps: Mall on Squidoo & Squidoo Gifts Mall

Who wants to think about Christmas in August? I'm sure nobody does, but it really is the time for you and I to begin considering what we will be doing for the upcoming seasons.

The Mall on Squidoo page has a PR of 5, predicted to go to PR6 soon, and with the rapid growth of these two groups, I have no doubt that these will be VERY DESIRABLE pages for you to be featured on.

With such a high PR, I am told that it is best for the pages/links to be on there for about 2 months, for your lenses to get an increase in PR for themselves.

So, keeping this in mind, I will be setting up the Mall Groups for the Fall Season which will last from September through to the end of October.

There will be a brief time to promote Thanksgiving, but I will want to begin Christmas promotion as quickly as possible to ensure we have the two months we need to be sure we are getting found in the search engines and have a good and beneficial PR.

So until the end of August, please either leave a comment on the Mall on Squidoo page or on the About the Mall on Squidoo page that you want to be featured either in the Fall season or in the Christmas Season and leave your lens link in the guestbook. Those who do so will be given priority consideration for featuring during this most important selling season of the year!

I am seeking appropriate artwork for the Mall Groups for the upcoming seasons. Internet shopping still needs to reflect the society around us and the seasonal interests of shoppers. I think our Mall Groups will do best if our artwork can reflect those seasons.

Spare Cycles & Squidoo

On the long tail blog, Chris Anderson discusses 'spare cycles'. He has described spare cycles as an 'awesome power.' This is his primary explanation of why there is such an explosion in blogging.

Spare cycles are also being used to begin building small businesses, and an opportunity to create an additional 'royalty' income for people who may otherwise be wasting their time with television or non-essential matters.

For example, no one would accuse Janet21 of having much time to waste, as a mother of three children. Yet she, too, seems to have enough spare cycles to build lenses like her Novelty Pillows lens, and a website, and to begin growing an extra income for her family.

Janet doesn't have a LOT of spare cycles, but she certainly makes good use of them! This lens is #8 in the Mall on Squidoo group, and she is already producing income from this lens, even though it is a new one. Your spare cycles, like Janet21's, can really turn out some performers!

No matter who you are, your 'spare cycles' are probably always unpaid time. One of the wonderful things about Squidoo is how fruitfully you can use your spare cycle time to build something that will enrich your future.