The stories told in the Fiverr forum and elsewhere suggest a wide variety of experiences ranging from members who haven’t sold a thing after months of trying, to others who claim to have made $1 million from Fiverr.
An article about Fiverr on the U.S. News website features Mark Mason, a semi-retired man from Chicago who offers business services like writing marketing materials and makes $150 to $300 per day for a few hours of work on his gigs. The same article explains how college student Morissa Schwartz has made $7,500 in the last year by offering copyediting services.
Fiverr is an online marketplace to sell your skills as a service. You can sell any type of services that could be delivered digitally; say graphic designing, creative writing, video animation, parenting tips, cooking recipes and even fortune telling.
The pricing of any gigs starts at 5 US Dollars and hence the name Fiverr. You can offer services in multiple categories (music, video & animation, programming, writing, modeling etc) with a single fiverr account. Service buyers order your services via fiverr and you’ll get paid after you deliver them perfectly (fiverr will take a small percentage as commission).
In fiver, each service you offer is called a gig. Apart from the basic 5$ gig, you can also offer advanced gigs for a price above 5$. Many fiverr service providers offer value-added gigs at 10 USD for delivery within 24 hours. Fiverr has a global Alexa rank of 485, which means this website falls under the most popular 500 websites in terms of traffic.
How much money can you make selling fiverr gigs?
You might be curious to know how much money you can make selling mere 5$ gigs, right? In fiverr, the whole game lies in volumes. Well, quality is important but you can’t spend a whole day providing a 5$ service.
Take a look at the story of Redd Horrocks, a fiverr seller from Nevada. Redd made around 9,000$ in just 30 days through her fiverr gig (recording a voiceover in British or American accent). She used fiverr initially as a service buyer to get her documents formatted. But it was then Redd surfed over the website to get an idea of the services offered and she stumbled upon “voice overs”. Redd started a gig instantly offering “voice overs in British and American accent” and she made $1000 in summer 2013. However, by the end of March 2014, she successfully managed to reform her page with a video and outsourced the “actual work” to another contractor in Fiverr.
Let’s take a look at another Fiverr service provider Gigblast. Gigblast offers the service of logo creation for 10$. He also offers premium gigs for 50$ and 205$. Till date, Gigblast has amassed nearly 30,000 reviews and has 500+ orders in queue (at any point of time).
The total number of orders he might have serviced till date will be much higher than the review count(as not everyone who purchases will write a review). Let’s attempt to calculate the total amount of money made by Gigblast. We are taking only total number of reviews count for calculation (actual number of orders could be 2x or 3x the review count)
30,000 x 10 $ = 300,000 $
Take It to the Next Level
After you’ve made some sales, work to become a Level One, Pro League and Rockstar seller. At each new level you get extra selling tools, like the ability to offer additional options and add-on services.
At the moment, the maximum additional charge for an extra is $100, but depending on your gig, you might also be able to get customers to buy from you again. For example, I’ve bought covers for my ebooks on Fiverr for $15 and returned several times to the same graphic artist.
How to Make Money on Fiverr Money Without Climbing Levels
While selling gig extras is one of the best ways to increase your earnings on Fiverr, some products and services make sense even for $3.92 — what you net from a $5 gig.
For example, in two months Martin Buckley made $900 selling an ebook on Fiverr. It makes sense to sell something that has zero production cost and only takes a minute to deliver, but in addition to making $900 from that one book, Buckley had another technique: He promoted other books he was selling on Fiverr within this ebook! It pays to use every trick you can to maximize your per-customer income.
Here are some other online side jobs to consider:
Use your imagination to come up with something of real value. For example, one offer says, “I will answer 10 questions about Italy.” Most of us know enough about the place we live to offer a service like that — though I would give the customer an audio file rather than a typed response to make answering quicker.
If you have an unusual career, you could target those who might want to learn more about it by offering a video or PDF file that explains your work and how to get a similar job. Gigs where you sell the same thing over and over — and continue earning with little additional work — are some of the best.
An article about Fiverr on the U.S. News website features Mark Mason, a semi-retired man from Chicago who offers business services like writing marketing materials and makes $150 to $300 per day for a few hours of work on his gigs. The same article explains how college student Morissa Schwartz has made $7,500 in the last year by offering copyediting services.
Fiverr is an online marketplace to sell your skills as a service. You can sell any type of services that could be delivered digitally; say graphic designing, creative writing, video animation, parenting tips, cooking recipes and even fortune telling.
The pricing of any gigs starts at 5 US Dollars and hence the name Fiverr. You can offer services in multiple categories (music, video & animation, programming, writing, modeling etc) with a single fiverr account. Service buyers order your services via fiverr and you’ll get paid after you deliver them perfectly (fiverr will take a small percentage as commission).
In fiver, each service you offer is called a gig. Apart from the basic 5$ gig, you can also offer advanced gigs for a price above 5$. Many fiverr service providers offer value-added gigs at 10 USD for delivery within 24 hours. Fiverr has a global Alexa rank of 485, which means this website falls under the most popular 500 websites in terms of traffic.
How much money can you make selling fiverr gigs?
You might be curious to know how much money you can make selling mere 5$ gigs, right? In fiverr, the whole game lies in volumes. Well, quality is important but you can’t spend a whole day providing a 5$ service.
You need to service a large number of orders to make good money from fiverr. People(service buyers) use fiverr to get low-cost services. Where in this world will anyone get a model to endorse her brand (by holding logo board or signboard) for just 5$?
Take a look at the story of Redd Horrocks, a fiverr seller from Nevada. Redd made around 9,000$ in just 30 days through her fiverr gig (recording a voiceover in British or American accent). She used fiverr initially as a service buyer to get her documents formatted. But it was then Redd surfed over the website to get an idea of the services offered and she stumbled upon “voice overs”. Redd started a gig instantly offering “voice overs in British and American accent” and she made $1000 in summer 2013. However, by the end of March 2014, she successfully managed to reform her page with a video and outsourced the “actual work” to another contractor in Fiverr.
Redd has set up her basic gig (the 5$ one) for recording 125 words. The real money in Redd’s gigs lies in her value-added offerings where she charges 10$ for 1-day delivery, 50$ for recording additional 1250 words, 20$ for priority recording (where the order will jump the queue and get serviced with priority). Redd did not make any efforts to promote her gig outside Fiverr. At present, Fiverr is a big community of around a million users(active) and this user base is more than enough to get the required visibility and sales.
Let’s take a look at another Fiverr service provider Gigblast. Gigblast offers the service of logo creation for 10$. He also offers premium gigs for 50$ and 205$. Till date, Gigblast has amassed nearly 30,000 reviews and has 500+ orders in queue (at any point of time).
The total number of orders he might have serviced till date will be much higher than the review count(as not everyone who purchases will write a review). Let’s attempt to calculate the total amount of money made by Gigblast. We are taking only total number of reviews count for calculation (actual number of orders could be 2x or 3x the review count)
30,000 x 10 $ = 300,000 $
Take It to the Next Level
After you’ve made some sales, work to become a Level One, Pro League and Rockstar seller. At each new level you get extra selling tools, like the ability to offer additional options and add-on services.
For example, if your $5 gig is a video about the town where you live, aimed at people moving there, for an extra $40, you could spend two hours driving around and videotaping anything the customer wants to know more about.
At the moment, the maximum additional charge for an extra is $100, but depending on your gig, you might also be able to get customers to buy from you again. For example, I’ve bought covers for my ebooks on Fiverr for $15 and returned several times to the same graphic artist.
How to Make Money on Fiverr Money Without Climbing Levels
While selling gig extras is one of the best ways to increase your earnings on Fiverr, some products and services make sense even for $3.92 — what you net from a $5 gig.
For example, in two months Martin Buckley made $900 selling an ebook on Fiverr. It makes sense to sell something that has zero production cost and only takes a minute to deliver, but in addition to making $900 from that one book, Buckley had another technique: He promoted other books he was selling on Fiverr within this ebook! It pays to use every trick you can to maximize your per-customer income.
Here are some other online side jobs to consider:
- Crafts (if you can make them fast and cheap and use one stamp to send them)
- Photo-into-painting service (using software to convert the photo to look like a painting)
- Facebook promotion of customers’ products (if you have many friends)
- Writing (minimal for $5 — charge more for longer work)
- Business card design (with software doing the heavy work)
- Conversational language instruction (just a few minutes for $5, extra for longer sessions)
- Online research for writers (have a template and a system for speed)
Use your imagination to come up with something of real value. For example, one offer says, “I will answer 10 questions about Italy.” Most of us know enough about the place we live to offer a service like that — though I would give the customer an audio file rather than a typed response to make answering quicker.
If you have an unusual career, you could target those who might want to learn more about it by offering a video or PDF file that explains your work and how to get a similar job. Gigs where you sell the same thing over and over — and continue earning with little additional work — are some of the best.
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