What is Fiverr?
Fiverr is a site for selling services for $5. The services on Fiverr are referred to as “Gigs”. Sellers are providers of the Gigs and buyers are people from Internet. The platform is very friendly and easy to use. This is the first site to offer service providers to the market for such a small price. Fiverr is a fast growing site with traffic increasing everyday. A lot of people go to Fiverr to find short term and inexpensive service providers offering the services that they need. The range of services (“Gigs")vary significantly from gift ideas, creating graphics, videos, programming, writing, advertising or social marketing, to name a few.
How does Fiverr work?
Buyers seeking services will search on the Fiverr.com website looking for Sellers offering services to fit their needs. Once a “Seller” is found offering the needed services (‘Gigs”), they will either purchase the Gig or send the Seller a message to discuss their services in more detail.
The $5 Fiverr fee that the buyer pays for the Gig, $4 is given to the seller and Fiverr retains $1 as their service fee. The Seller then completes the Gig and delivers the work to the buyer. Once the buyer confirms receipt of the finished Gig from buyer, the order is then marked completed and payment is processed and after a 15 days waiting period, the money then is deposited in the Seller’s Fiverr account and can then be withdrawn. It is better to wait to withdraw until you have a higher balance due to the PayPal service fee you will incur when you withdraw the money.
How to make money on Fiverr?
-First, you need to know what you can do best. Give some thought to your skills and what you can offer, discover yourself and be creative to find the best and most unique ideas. The services which you offer should be based on what you want to get, for example if you can do the work within 15 minutes, one hour you can get $16. If you can reduce the time and complete it within 10 minutes, you can then theoretically earn $24 per hour. As your skills improve, you will naturally earn more money.
So, once you find the types of services suitable to you and improve your speed and skills this can become quite profitable. A tip in completing the projects quickly is to focus solely on your work and not be distracted by the Internet, Facebook, Twitter, chat rooms, the phone or TV. With a full two or three hours of uninterrupted and concentrated work, you can easily finish all your new projects for the day.
-Secondly, for your list of Gigs, you be sure to create and write your gigs to look attractive and interesting. You may wish to use
Google’s free tool to check the keywords for your Gigs. Select the keyword with more than 10,000 searchs per month. You can then use it on your Gig title and keyword tags to draw more traffic to your Gig.
For example, it can be as simple and effective as, "
I will tweet Your Site/Service to my 94,000+ Twitter Followers for $5 " or "
I will record an excellent, professional voice over for you for $5". As an example to help you create your gigs you can see similar Gigs on Fiverr’s featured Gigs list. Next, add the description for your gigs, it should provide the buyer the confidence that you do good high quality work. Next, add related tags for your gigs, you can add as much as Fiverr will allow.
-Third, set up maximum date that you will deliver your completed work, you can add date you presume to finish the work. You will need to add a related image for your Gigs, which you can find at FreeImagesStock.com. Fiverr requires you to make your Gigs look very professional and use high quality related images.
-Fourth, be sure to always timely reply to any messages from a potential buyer. You could prepare a list of buyer's common questions and when you get a similar question, you just copy and paste the applicate answer. This will save your time and buyer will have good information about your services. As you gain experience you may improve your skills and ensure to finish all your projects on time.
Now, you can stay to see if someone sees your Gigs when they search and orders your service. If you do not want to wait, you can discover at next step.
How does we make more money from Fiverr?
Many people say that they have several gigs, but their gigs seem to lack views and orders. How can you solve this problem? The problem is targeted traffic, without traffic your Gigs will have a low amount of orders or possibly not sell at all. You can use some free methods to get traffic to your Gigs and earn more money:
1. Share the gigs on your Facebook or Twitter accounts. If you do not want your followers know you sell on Fiverr, just say this is from your friend’s service. But, when you say this is your service and people believe you, they will share this free for you. With large sharing networks, your Gigs will likely have more views and more orders.
2. Share the Gig’s link on related forums. For example: if you have an SEO service, or a write articles service, you could share the links on an SEO or webmaster forum. Some forums allow signature therefore you can put the links on your signature to get more people’s attention. I had a hub called
Do Follow Forum which contained a list of forums allowing signature.
3. Find your friends that have related free sites or blogs with good traffic and ask them if you can put your ads about your service on their sites to attract more buyers and possibly more decent orders.
4. When you have had some orders and positive feedback, you can request your new features at http://www.fiverr.com/feedback. They will review your request strictly. You must have services with good positive sales before requesting this.
5. When your Gig is a feature gig, it will appear on first page of Fiverr or the first page of your particular Gig category which will help in you getting a lot of orders.
Similar sites like Fiverr
The following are some similar sites to Fiverr. You may want to give them a try just by simply copying your gigs from Fiverr and rewriting some of the words. You may have a chance to get more orders. But as a warning, you cannot use your Fiverr account and Gigs to promote for these similar sites, you will immediately get banned and removed from Fiverr.
