I am learning a lot more lessons from making my lens: http://www.squidoo.com/30minuteslens than I expected.
- In terms of what people are interested in, I have had 3 times the visitors to this lens than my first two lenses.
- In terms of what it takes to make a great lens, I learned that quality is related to time.
- I learned that a lot of people feel the same way I did, wondering why they couldn’t make a lens in such a short time.
- I learned that posting in Critique me at SquidU has had a huge number of views vs. my first two critique me postings.
- I learned that getting people to try the experiment is harder than it seems.
- I learned that getting people to leave a comment, especially in answer to the questions I posed is even harder.
So how can I take the lessons I learned to make better lenses and more popular lenses?
My new question is this: Do you make lenses for the purpose of informing or do you make a lens because you know it will be popular? Or, have you found a happy medium?