3. How to make money with Fiverr even if you don't have a dime to invest
First of all you should always follow some simple marketing principles that apply to any place where you want to sell something - even in the "real" world:
- When working with a client, be polite, use proper spelling, grammar, punctuation, etc. It looks a lot more professional and communication will be more effective. This is overlooked, but every bit counts.
- Provide excellent service and deliver an excellent product. Whatever time you spent on gigs before, take double the time to do it. This is what makes you different from everyone else. Just because you're getting paid $4 to do something doesn't mean you should deliver $4 work. And as we all know, the lower the price the more people expect you to wait on them hand and foot for some reason.
Note: For those whiny a-holes, who expect you to feed them grapes from a silver platter, drop them. If they threaten to leave a bad review, tell them to F off - it is the risk of the job
3.1 How to set up your gig so that you get maximum sales
I will start off by outlining the "5 Golden Rules of Fiverr":
Did You Know?:
Fiverr itself takes one dollar from the seller for each sale, so the seller makes 4 dollars per sale.
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Think with me... about all the fast food chains out there that have their dollar/value meals. $1 for a cheeseburger. Might not seem like a lot, but
when you have 10+ items on the dollar menu, selling millions a day, it adds up. And that's exactly our mentality for our fiverr gigs. It all adds up.
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I want to outline some "golden rules" which will help skyrocket your fiverr earnings overnight:
Rule 1: ALWAYS Upload A Video For Each Gig
This rule may just be the most important rule. If you are charismatic and entertaining, this will increase sales as well. Just be clear and to the point. There may be a gig that is a better offer than yours, but if you have a great video, you will find your gig will continue to get more sales than your competitors. A TIP that you may not know is fiverr moderators actually view each video individually. If you mention fiverr.com once or twice, you will find yourself ending up on the first page, starting off with a little boost. This little trick has been working for me since I started really getting into fiverr, so I know it'll work for you. Use these tips above and you will see an increase in sales of about 75%.
Rule 2: Pick A Creative, Specific, And Eye Catching Title
This may be the oldest view increaser in the books, though it still works like a charm today. There are countless gigs out with titles such as “I will sing a song for $5” or “I will do graphic design for $5”. These are NOT good titles! An improvement would be “I will sing a PROFESSIONIAL amazing song for $5”. While this may not be the best title in the world, it's way more catchy that the first too. And that's really all you need. Another good one would be “I will design a KILLER amazing artist piece of art for $5”. I'm not sure if you noticed, but the two "good" examples have one word in all caps. It is part of Fiverr’s policy that only ONE word in the title can be all capital letters. TIP: take advantage of this and use that capital word to captivate the eyes of the browsers. Another TIP is to add “Within 24 hours” to some of your gigs that you can complete within this amount of time. Only do this if you are POSITIVE you can complete the gigs in this amount of time. If you can, you will increase your sales by up to 20%.
Rule 3: Upload a Custom Made Picture
You are required to upload a picture about the service you are providing. When you are doing this, try to use Photoshop. MS Paint will also do just fine, although I prefer Gimp. Create a flashy custom made image which represents your gig. Do NOT download a generic picture in google images for the sake of having a picture. The time you put into ensuring that your service is advertised as professional as possible will go a long way.
Rule 4: Have A Long And Articulate Description
When it comes to writing a description, the more words the merrier! Do not write two sentences and be general, explain how your product is amazing. Explain what you will do IN DETAIL and explain in as many words as possible the features of this service. Be very articulate and professional sounding, remember the costumer is only spending 5 dollars but he/she still doesn’t want to throw it away. Rather if they see that the seller has taken time to explain in detail the product, they will be more comfortable to spend that five dollars.
Rule 5: Always Have 20 Gigs Active At Once
The maximum numbers of gigs you can have at once as a seller on Fiverr is 20. If you have any less then that, you are simply not putting yourself in
a position to gain maximum profits. You have to be creative enough to come up with 20 things you can do for people for five dollars, even if many of the
gigs only get a couple orders a week. The key thing you must remember is creating multiple streams of income for yourself. That a gig that is just sitting there collecting two orders a week bringing in $8 a week is actually bringing In $32 a month and almost $400 annually. Which adds up to your total as a Fiverr Seller. In addition to this, every gig brings traffic to your page profile, which brings traffic to your other gigs! So the more you are on fiverr the better. TIP: have gigs in different sections not just the same one or two. It is important to spread yourself around be seen in many categories. This will broaden your customer base and may bring someone who originally purchased graphics from you, now purchasing music & audio.
These five golden rules should ALWAYS be applied to ALL of your gigs. If you practice these five golden rules of fiverr to the tee and do them correctly, you will earn drastically increase your profits on SELLING FIVERR GIGS.
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The great part about it is if you have not earned money online yet or if you are a relative new comer, having that fiverr money roll in will be a great motivation, and it will let you have a taste of what is to come your way. But what if you've never sold on fiverr? No problem. I have some great, tested ideas that will start making you money THIS WEEK.
But first here are some other tips that may come in helpful:
- When creating your gig, be very descriptive. Include a clause saying that you’re offering extra service for the first x number of people who order. Or something like, limited time offer – extra services. Don’t set a time limit though, because we’re not actually going to take it off.
- When adding the tags, type in the keyword that you’re going after and get a list of all of the tags that appear on the first and second page. Remove the duplicates; find out how much you can fit in there. If there aren't enough good keywords type them into G search and look at the suggestions. As a last resort go to a thesaurus and find something related to your KW. However this can sometimes skew your target audience, so use it only when you have a mental block.
- The picture should be simple and reflect your service. You should also add clear text to the image – one word with your keyword will most likely be good. The ideal dimensions are 385x266. The color that you should use for the background of the picture should be red. Everyone uses blue because that’s what people associate with friendliness. However, if you do it, you won’t stand out. I haven’t done extensive testing on this, but my results were good with it, so if anyone else has experience with it, chime in.
- The delivery date should be set to 1 day. You will go over, but what you do is keep asking questions. Send messages to your client so they feel like it’s more personalized. 99% of them won’t cancel because they have already put their trust and money into you.
- Now when you first get an order from someone, you have to establish trust with them. To start off, you have to have at least a 90% positive rating. Anything below that will result in very few orders, and even less of what we’re trying to do. Leave this account open, but make another one with similar gigs. When you make a new account, create unique descriptions, free offers, etc. Switch up the tags as well. Keep a check on damaged account, but don’t stress over it – focus on the new one. - THIS IS CRUCIAL
3.2 Methods
This chapter gives you simple methods to make money, and is for people that don't have enough money to invest or perhaps don't want to invest their own money.
The methods outlined here will make you sufficient money to join "The Big League" if you use them accordingly and respect the Golden Rules of Fiverr and the other tips in the previous lesson.
Selling Logos
This is as easy as it sounds. If you don't want to mess with complicated options that Adobe Photoshop provides, just go to http://logogenerator.com.
They are totally free and provide hundreds of already designed logos, each in its own category where all you have to do is input the title and motto of your buyer.
The top logo providers on Fiverr promise as many as 3 logos for one purchase but with this method it would take about 30 seconds to come up with 1 logo, so you can totally blow them out of the water by offering 4 or 5. Also, it is very important here that you include among your pictures one or two logos "designed for previous customers" (if you know what I mean)
Please go to that website now and see how easy it is.
Selling "Mobile Site Versions"
This is one of the methods where you don't actually sell on Fiverr, but you use it as a means to outsource your work. It is really simple to make a ton of money with this method but you need to have patience.
Offering mobile websites to business owners is very hot right now because there are many businesses out there that still do not have a mobile website.
1. Just search on Google for business in some areas, for example: "florists in Manhattan".
2. Visit the first results of Google, but search for individual people's website rather than big corporations, because those most likely already have somebody to handle their online stuff.
For instance, if you search for dentists and come across a pharmaceutical giant company, or Dr. John Smith's at http://johnsmithdentist.com you choose the former one.
3. Look in the website some way of contact, an email, a contact form, a phone.
4. Contact the owner, explain the importance of a mobile site version and say that you can do an excellent mobile site version for only $49 ( you could actually aim higher, with $99 or even $197 - you get the point).
5. If you get a YES answer just go to fiverr search for mobile site version and choose a gig with fast delivery and nice ratings (there are plenty!)
Here I included a template that I use to sell the idea:
You just have to replace the "dentists in California" part with whatever your target niche is and the link to the sample with your own personal one (ask the fiverr seller to provide some samples).
You can make a lot of money from this method only if you send a lot of emails (50-100 a day). But there is big money to be made, I assure you. I usually get about one sale every 50 emails, but that may vary. Alternatively you could hire somebody to do the emailing for you.
Dear Sir,
I have come across your website while searching for dentists in California and would have a business proposal for you. As you know, nowadays people would check for dentists using their smartphone or tablet rather than their computer, and having a website optimized for "the smartphone experience" could give you a plus in the eyes of your customers as opposed to your competition. I could provide an excellent mobile site version of your website for as low as $99. If you would like to see a sample of my work please visit http://mp4vimeo.com/unitron using your smartphone or tablet.
Looking forward to hearing from you soon!
Yours faithfully,
Radu Hahaianu
Article Writing
As a Seller
This one is pretty easy and foolproof. If you can write nice articles in English you could sell them for some extra cash on Fiverr. Don't expect to make a lot of money out of this one, as there are plenty of article writing gigs already on Fiverr.
However, most of them offer 500 word articles. You could go offering 600+ words or 2 x 300 words articles. Even more important, take your time and pamper the first buyers, keep them posted, always over-deliver and always ask for a nice review.
As a Buyer
You could start selling articles on any popular Internet Marketing forum that has such a sub-forum. Then, every time you get an order you just go to Fiverr and buy the gigs.
TIP: Search for new US writers on Fiverr that are relatively young, as they tend to charge not as much and you could easily get a 500 word article or even more if you are lucky for $5. This way you can provide "Native Article Writing Service" on forums, and charge as much as $1.5 per 100 words. Most of those even go as high as $2 per 100 words so there is a lot of money to be made.
Conclusion
Now you have three easy to apply methods to make your first hundred dollars on Fiverr within a month or less. If you put a lot of work and dedication into these methods you could also make a lot of money, because with time you get quality feedback and therefore more orders. However, I'm pretty sure you are more interested in cashing in a lot of money with minimum work, and that is covered with 2 methods in the next lesson.
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