I agree. An officially-sanctioned way to put live sign-up forms on Squidoo lenses would be great.

However, I haven’t heard anything more about this topic in the intervening months and Lewis Smile’s method continues to work.

At this point, I’m taking a wait-and-see attitude and working on other sites.

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Subscribing to my lens is not the point I’m trying to make here, but, what I’m requesting from AWeber and Squidoo would make that easier.

Actually, you can already subscribe to a lens in a couple of ways.

At some point in the past, I’m not sure when, Squidoo changed the RSS feed for each lens. At first, it showed only when it was last updated - if I remember correctly.

Now, however, it shows the most recent Squidcasts.

So, that can be considered a kind of blog because you’re allowed to put real text and links in a Squidcast.

You can already syndicate that via email using a service such as Feedburner.

If you’re an AWeber customer, you can create a list and use the RSS broadcast feature to send any Squidcasts from the lens to the list.

That would have limited use, unless the lens were updated frequently and you sent a substantive Squidcast each time. For some lenses, however, it would be a great thing to do and I’m planning a few of them that I want to try.

For someone who doesn’t want to manage a real blog, a Squidoo lens can be used as a kind of mini-blog, and being able to subscribe to the Squidcasts feed could reach out to anyone interested in the topic of the lens. Plus, for those who are frugal, the lens is free.

On my Squidoo Marketing community, Katinka and I are having a discussion on her blog post, Squidoo Tips about just this subject.

In her last comment, she gives a link to a page on SquidUtils.com where a lensmaster can log in and get a variety of RSS feeds related to his/her lenses.

I just now learned that there is an RSS feed for all my Squidcasts on all my lenses at:

http://squidutils.com/squidcasts/from/johndilbeck.rss

If I wanted to start a mailing list and let people subscribe to all my Squidcasts, then it’s possible to do that now through Feedburner or AWeber or any other tool that sends RSS feeds through email to subscribers.

What I’m wanting to do is to be able to put an active AWeber sign-up form on a lens. If they would make this possible, then a lensmaster can set up a list on AWeber and let people subscribe directly on the lens, without having to go to a secondary site to do so.

So, we could add a list for lens updates and let people subscribe to it.

Or, more practically, we can have an AWeber autoresponder series, mailing list, or newsletter and put the subscribe form for that on the lens. That’s the original thing I’m wanting to do.

Does that make sense? I’m afraid I’m making this too complicated.

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JD

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He didn’t specify. Either way, I’m happy that they are looking into it.

I’m not trying to get credit for this; I just want to be able to add AWeber sign-up forms on my Squidoo lenses.

If they get this working, I’m happy for all the credit to go to AWeber and Squidoo.

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I wonder if he meant someone was “already” looking into it, or if you kicked him in the pants…now that would be cool.

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He said, “Someone on our development team is looking into its feasibility.”

Thank you very much, Tom. I appreciate it.

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