Flipping a lens is basically producing some new content on a topic and then publish a page on Squidoo. Once the page is produced, you sell it to someone else. Squidoo is pretty cool in that they welcome monetization of your lenses. In fact they include several modules that let you profit from Amazon and eBay and they will pay you a cut of the revenue. So this makes Squidoo attractive for people that are looking to generate passive income.

So today I decided to try my hand and producing a lens to flip.

First I needed to pick a topic. I settled on something job related since the current economy is in the tank and there are lots of people job hunting. So after looking around Google’s Keyword Tool I settled on targeting job interview questions.

Well after lots of fussing and messing around inside of Squidoo (first time using it), I managed to produce my first lens … How To Get the Job: Acing the Interview Questions. In the process, I managed to get plenty of “job interview questions” sprinkled in the content and worked in some contextually relevant Clickbank hoplinks and an Amazon book to be safe.

Ok now that the easy part is done comes the harder part … Getting someone to buy it from me. For without the sale, it is not a flip.

So is there anyone out there that is willing to give me say $50 for the lens (oh by the way $100 seems to be about the going rate for one of these things, but since it is my first it could use some more polishing)

If you are interested, please drop me a comment below or tweet me. I will keep everyone in the loop on what happens on the sale side.

Update: Well I have produced a lens, worked on getting some traffic to it, still can’t seem to find any takers. So far the flip has been a big bust. Have you had similar experiences on your flips? Let me know. I would love to hear from you.

Please let me have your wishlist. If I create a plugin from your suggestion you will obviously get a copy for your own use and lots of credit :)

So let me know what you would like to see.