If you have not tried growing your home based business yet through Squidoo, you don’t know what you are missing. Squidoo.com is a next generation social networking site, much like Myspace or Facebook, but adds an element that allows the marketing of products and services you may offer. This is a place that actually wants you to advertise your website.

Right now on Squidoo you can find hundreds of different articles on hundreds of different subjects. Squidoo users can easily look for whatever they want because all the information is classified according to their categories. The categories include; books, travel, music, business, health and medicine, tv and movies, shopping and many more. If you were trying to design a road trip vacation this is one consideration.You can find articles on destination planning, visiting attractions, and where to stay. Generating possible leads for your company has never been easier.

The key to using Squidoo is to create a lens which will be used by Squidoo followers to be directed to your product or service. Begin by setting up a free account. Take a look on other lenses on Squidoo before you set up your own. When you are ready to set up your own lens, click on the Make A Lens box and begin. To begin with you will have to explain what your intentions for the lens are. Next, you will fill in the URL for your website and pick a category that you would like your lens to fall under. Fill out your profile and add some key search words for your lens.

The reason why Squidoo calls their pages ‘lenses’ is to point out that this is what the user fucusses on. This site attracts nearly half million potential buyers a day for your products. Once you start your lens, you are asked to fill out the first module which is an introduction to you and your subject. You can then open a guestbook or set up a section for links on other sites on the subject. You can make easy money on Squidoo by linking different products to yours, and you will get rewarded for every product that is sold. All that is left to do is click on the publish button and watch your Squidoo lens do your work.

Carin Davis is the editor and webmaster of Carin Davis’s Home Business Training Secrets. A site dedicated to the development and training for Network Marketers and Home Business Owners.