Work from anywhere with fiverr
We have mentioned Fiverr here before as a means to off-load some work to talented entrepreneurs who are offering their services for a affordable flat fee. You too can offer your talents on fiverr, and not just for a measly $5,- per Gig.
When Fiverr first started, you were only allowed to charge $5. Now you can charge more, anywhere from $5 to $995.
While you’re setting up your Gig, you can create packages of your service for Basic, Standard and Premium packages, charging different prices for each. For each package, you can add extras and charge additional fees. A common extra is Extra Fast Delivery, where a buyer pays more money on top of the normal Gig fee to have the seller deliver the service faster.
Efficiency is the name of the game. There are so many offerings to chose from in every category that you can streamline your offering and make decent money for little effort.
A lot of the services are templated. For example if you offer to create an intro video to a customer for YouTube, it would mean you create a video template once and then simply replace logo, text, and possibly background audio to fit the next customers needs. Once the template is in place it would only take you about 15minutes of your time to create another version of it for another pay-out for you.
Some other services you could offer are things which can be done on a bus-ride. For example translating a short text from one language to another. Or you can offer article writing utilizing Google Voice Recognition to take over the typing for you. In that case you would simply talk into your smartphone, proof read the result, and send it out.
Finally when you offer a gig on Fiverr, please make sure that you follow all guidelines and TOS ( Terms of Services ) from all parties involved. For example users have been banned for providing a service to create a mobile app review. Once you are banned there is nothing Fiverr will do to help you to re-establish your account. In one example, a user was banned without breaking any ToS but the account was closed for good anyways even after the Fiverr support agreed that no rules or ToS were broken.
Unfortunately it is not always clear if you violate any rules as the same services which are used to ban some users are already offered at Fiverr. You may lose your account at any given time for no reason
Tips to attract Customers
You need to rank well on Fiverr, just like any other search engine. So a good SEO goes a long way to attract business to your gigs.
Use the right title and CAPITALIZE your keywords
Use appropriate tags
Create a good looking video for your Gig
Give your images the name of your Gig. This will help with the ranking and keywords
Drive traffic to your Gig using standard tools like social media, SEO, or web pages linking to your gig.
Buy some reviews ( only if you just start off )
Make certain you do only get five star ratings. Deliver top quality services/products as promised and on time.
The following video provides 12 professional tips on how to become awesome on fiverr.
In January 2018 Fiverr acquired AND CO, to track customers, payments etc. The following video gives a good introduction for utilizing this software.
How much can you possibly earn ?
While it is hard to imagine when you first start out, but people are earning thousands of dollars a month through their fiverr Gigs.
On this forbes article from 2016, we see people earning $15,000 to $48,000 per month through fiverr. If this does not motivate you to give it a try then nothing will.