You have got to try growing your home based business with Squidoo! Squidoo.com is one of the newer social networking sites modeled after MySpace and Facebook but unlike those two it encourages the marketing of products and services. This is a place that actually wants you to advertise your website.

Squidoo currently has a huge collection of articles an varied subjects. Whatever they are looking for the material is grouped by category helping the Squidoo follower get right. The categories range from books, shopping, travel, music, tv and movies, to business, health and medicine, amongst others. 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. Take a look and you will see that getting possible leads for your business is not as difficult as you might think.

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. To get started, all you need to do is create a free account. Take a look on other lenses on Squidoo before you set up your own. Click on the Make A Lens box and begin, when you are ready to set up your own lens. To begin with you will have to explain what your intentions for the lens are. Your next task is to paste the URL of your own site and choose a category for your lens. Complete your profile and try to add key search words so it can be found.

Squidoo calls the pages lenses because each is to focus on something that is important to the creator. They estimate a half million people visit the site each day, all potential buyers of your product or service. 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. Squidoo even gives you a money making option where you can recommend other products that may tie in with yours and for every purchase that is made you can pick up a commission. 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.