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For those of you in a hurry! Here’s the secret: Take an interesting and timely topic, build a fun and takeable (and talkaboutable) quiz, share with a network of people ready to play with you, add a dash of charity story for dogooding and good measure.

There you go. You can stop reading and go do it. Have fun.

For those of you with 30 more seconds on your hands, here are the 3 steps (and a bonus!) for making your own success with SquidQuiz.

1. Use SquidQuiz to quickbuild your own 10 question multiple choice quiz. Throw in some tricky questions, some funny ones, something to make people enjoy the brainteaser.

2. Keep your Quiz focused on a single topic. Like a quiz about your hometown, be it a small horsetown in California or Edinburgh or even beautiful Brussels. Or make a quick quiz about yourself and see how well your friends know you, or help your Twitter followers learn more about you. Get focused, and then get wildly inventive.

3. Spring your quiz on your friends, coworkers, family, followers, forumdwellers — people who know you or know your topic. Challenge them to post their scores and see how they do. Plenty of ways to get the word out, of course: Twitter, Facebook, email, you know how it goes.

Bonus: Better yet, set your Quiz royalties to support one of your favorite charities. For example, you could say: “Take my quiz about Sarah Palin’s new book Going Rogue and you’re helping raise money for charity, for free.”

(Well, the topic is up to you.) :)

Just the recipe for beating the lazy brain holidays? I’ll take that bet.