Fiverr!

Hey guys! I just started using a great site called Fiverr. I've only had one gig so far, for a tarot reading, but I'm starting to find some ways to advertise. I'm also expanding my options as far as what gigs I can do. Anyway, Fiverr.com is a site where you offer a 'gig' to people for five dollars. You get four out of the five. Fiverr keeps one dollar. Once you reach level two, you can start charging more by expanding the gigs.

I've noticed a ton of editors offering up services on Fiverr. There are also some people who offer to write short stories or poetry. So if you are in need of some cash, Fiverr, with a little bit of marketing, can prove fairly lucrative. You also work one your own time, and decide your own work load.

Do you have a gig on Fiverr? What do you do? How much have you made?

Are you interested in using Fiverr? Why or why not?

Also, feel free to advertise your gigs after contributing to the conversation.

http://fiverr.com/gigs/search?utf8=%E2% ... 869&y=-106

I've looked at Fiverr in the past, but as a programmer, I concluded the time investment vs. the money received just wasn't worth it for me. It astonishes me that some people will even write custom short stories for $5, although they probably make a lot from the extra gigs for which you can charge more than $5.

However, for college and high-school students, the calculus is very different. I would've loved something like fiverr in my college days; even if it took an hour to do a $5 gig, it would've been worth it.

That's the way I feel about it. I think once you get past the first ten gigs in a month thing, and you can start using ad-ons, it could prove fairly lucrative. It's enough to put gas in the tank right now, which is what I need!

As a tarot reader, I also think it will be worth it in the long run. Tarot isn't really big where I live, and it probably never will be. However, with Fiverr I can reach a niche that isn't really available to me otherwise.

What advice would you give as far as marketing a gig goes?

You should check out the Fiverr blog. I remember reading one post there some time ago about a guy who had managed to make thousands of dollars a month on Fiverr. I couldn't find it, but I did see a bunch of posts of interviews with super-sellers.

I haven't used Fiverr myself, so I'm not sure the best marketing advice to give. But based on when I was doing programmer gigs, treat each gig as extremely important. Respond to clients asap, and if they're unhappy, do everything in your power to make them happy. Even when a client is unrealistic, one poor review can doom you when you're just starting. After a while, you can start to afford a bad review every now and then, but not at the beginning.

So treat each client like they're special and pretty soon you'll have plenty of business. I haven't done a programming gig in months and I still get emails every week from random people asking me if I can do X for Y amount of money.