How to Sell Your Freelance Work on Fiverr.com
Have you heard about Fiverr.com? If not, you’re missing out on a great marketplace for freelancers of all kinds: writers, virtual assistants, designers, programmers, social media experts, craft makers, and the like. The list goes on ad infinitum! You offer a service, such as, let’s say, designing a logo, for $5 with a timeframe you set. Each service is called a Gig, and you can offer multiple Gigs. If a buyer wants double or triple the work, they can purchase more than one Gig from you. Here are a few tips about how to succeed on Fiverr.
What Services Should I Offer?
To get an idea of what’s selling, perform a search for something you know you could do quickly and easily, maybe transcribing audio. Since you’ll just be starting out, you’ll probably need to offer to do whatever service it is in a day, which is why I suggest choosing doing something you know how to do very, very well (perhaps even with your hands tied behind your back!). Once you’ve performed a search, click on the High Rating link just above the list of gigs that pop up.
This will bring up the most highly rated gigs for your search. Most of these will be Level 2 sellers (but everyone starts at Level 1). Take a look at the description the person offers, the images, and the keywords to get an idea of what the market is asking for. Tailor your gig to be similar, but not the same as, some of the higher-rated sellers. Don’t copy them verbatim…no one likes a copycat!
My suggestion is to go a little above and beyond what the Level 2 sellers are offering. If they’re transcribing 5 minutes of audio for $5, then offer to do 10 minutes of audio for $5. If they’re offering to do it in 2 days, you offer to do it in 1 day. A lot of the higher rated sellers get so much work that the duration of a gig is a few days. Since you’ll probably not get too many orders being a new seller, you have the luxury (if you can call it that) of doing more, faster.
How Can I Possibly Make Money with Fiverr.com?
Good question! At first, you will probably not make a whole lot, mainly because you are a Level 1 seller and can only offer to do so much for $5. Once you’ve sold enough of a service, you’ll become a Level 2 seller where you can offer add-on services. This is where most people make their money. To be a Level 2 seller, you will need to have completed 50 orders (2 months minimum time) and maintained an excellent track record and excellent ratings.
You can also alter your listing once you start to get more orders. If you’d like to offer doing 5 minutes of audio for $5 rather than 10 minutes of audio for $5, or change your timeframe to a more reasonable duration, then by all means, do so.
How Much Money Can I Make?
There are some sellers on Fiverr.com that make a living off of the site…a very, very good living. But, the vast majority probably make a modest amount, which if you’re looking for part-time work, is probably what you’re shooting for anyway. Fiverr.com does take $1 out for each successfully completed gig, but most sites like this take some sort of commission. There is also the PayPal fee, so each seller makes $3 and some change.
How Can I Get My Gigs Noticed?
- Make a video! If you don’t know how, then do a search for a seller who does. For $5, you may get a great promotional video!
- Pay a fellow Fiverr seller to write your gig. If you feel your copywriting skills are less than stellar, there are plenty of good copywriters on there who can write your profile and your gigs for $5.
- Use good keywords. This is why you should pay a lot of attention to the sellers with the highest ratings, because they have optimized their description and keywords.
- Self-promote on Facebook, Twitter, and your blog (if you have one).
- Be patient. It took me about 2 months before I got a bite. Even then, I had to delete my gigs because I couldn’t follow through in the amount of time I gave in each gig.
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