I Just Bought a Car With my Fiverr Earnings - Ask Me Anything

[macromindglobal]

Congrats .!!!



Really inspired and working hard on fiverr to get my own car too 🙂



Ones again all the best.!!



Check my gigs for any graphics needs 🙂

www.fiverr.com/macromindglobal

[pearlsant]

@brandontvedt



Congratulations! Also, thank you for taking the time to help others achieve their goals. These gestures are the most admirable thing of all about forum posters.



I wanted to know what your marketing strategy would be if your were a “gifter”; a seller of tangible goods.



Thank you.



$-)

[derekrempel4770]

How come I havent had any responses, would someone mind taking a look at my page http://www.fiverr.com/derekrempel4770 and tell me what I am doing wrong?? Are my gigs not appealing, or is there ways you can get them listing better?



Sheriff’s Note: You’ve posted this one question on several threads. Please stop Spamming the Forum.

[seanwallace911]

How do you promote your gigs ?

[jtengle]

Reply to @derekrempel4770: It looks like all your gigs are brand new. Be patient, it can sometimes take a while to get your first sale. Once you have positive reviews more customers will feel better about buying from you. It took me about a month to get (sort of) established on Fiverr.



Your gigs look good to me, but could use some more sales copy. Flesh that out a bit and tell people exactly what they do and don’t get for $5.

[brandontvedt]

Reply to @foxella:



If you’re looking for general tips, they have been done to death already. I don’t mean to brush off your question, but I quite literally have nothing new to add to the threads that already exist; go check those out 🙂



I have one suggestion for you - if your gig was too ‘time consuming’, consider making it available for a +$20 extra. Not sure what powers you have at level 1, but once you hit level 2 you can probably turn it back on and charge a more appropriate amount for it.

[brandontvedt]

Reply to @sebski22:



Congrats, even getting past the 500+ mark here can be tough!



My thoughts on cancellation ratios are a bit mixed. Mine is extremely low, but I suspect that’s mainly due to the nature of the gigs I offer and my clear descriptions rather than me being special or awesome.



I think as long as you stay away from the official ‘bad cutoff’ (which IIRC is ~20%?) you should be fine. Past that, and you risk losing levels due to their automated system.



If you are worried about yours, consider investing some more time into creating and clearly expressing policies in your gig descriptions (whether you do revisions, how many, things like this). Having clear text in that regard really, really helps cut down on confusion I’ve found.

[brandontvedt]

Reply to @anarchofighter:



Despite your question only being two lines long, it would require more text to answer than anything else I’ve been asked thusfar. So kudos for efficiency, haha.



I’ll stick with the general conclusions, as most of the statistical stuff would put folks to sleep. Suffice to say I did my best to provide normalized conditions and use a control for comparison when possible. Relatively high confidence level as well, though I’ll spare you the Bayesian gobbledegook.



Basically, I believe that bonuses do work, but that they are better at creating upsells than they are in getting a new customer to make that initial purchase.



I believe, though I was unable to test (as I only have 1 account) that mentioning ‘bonuses’ in your profile increases the amount of clicks you get on to your individual gigs. My conversion rate fell (very slightly) but my total gig views seemed to increase when I adjust the profile itself.



The biggest single change I saw was when I started giving away a ‘free’ $5-$10 gig with the purchase of one of my $25-$50 ones. This increased conversions and total sales fairly significantly.



I also was unable to statistically test for this, but I believe they also increase the amount of ‘time wasters’ who message you; until I began running bonuses I never got messages from people looking for freebies, and now I do. Not a ton, but a noticeable amount. ~10/mo?



Hopefully that’s interesting or valuable to someone.

[brandontvedt]

Reply to @vegaspublishing:



I’m a professional freelancer operating on many of the extant platforms. I have to report this income the same as anyone else (unfortunately, haha).



In fact, just last year the IRS made a new regulation specifically aimed at freelancers (IRS 6050W).



This regulation will cause PayPal to 1099 you if you hit -both- of these requirements:

1. $20k+ total payments received
   
   
   
   and
   
   
2. 200+ total transactions made
   
   
   
   Since Fiverr money pays out through PayPal, and I (like most freelancers) accept a significant part of my income through PayPal, all of this kind of rolled together for me. Your mileage may vary, and if you’re earning more than say $5k/yr freelancing, I suggest you speak with an accountant.

[brandontvedt]

Reply to @kjblynx:



Actually Lynx, they don’t; not with the way the law is currently written (expect this to change in a year or so).



Most Fiverr providers will hit the 200 transactions no problem, but very few of them will hit the $20k.



So -technically- they don’t really have to report that, but it’s the same as not reporting tips or gambling income or something.



Still wrong, and totally not recommended, but they won’t -automatically- be 1099’d by PayPal (or Fiverr).



Applicable Fed regulation is IRS6050W.

[brandontvedt]

Reply to @kizermoore:



I’d do 2 things:

1. Put up some gigs that are popular, frequently selling products.
   
   
   
   You offer editing, but not original writing; why is this? The market for original content > editing market.
   
   
   
   Your poem and edit gig are both good, but not ‘mainstream’, so getting significant #s (or any numbers, if you are a new seller) will be difficult.
   
   
2. Put up some more creative gigs
   
   
   
   You have ‘I will write an original poem for you’. Boring. Try ‘I will write an original slam poem’; spice up the description, make it sound cool. Maybe offer to deliver a dramatic reading of it for extra $; offer to do all of the above and upload it to YouTube for even more $.
   
   
   
   Get creative basically, both with your gig design and what you choose to offer in them.
   
   
   

[brandontvedt]

Reply to @pearlsant:



I think if you’re selling something tangible, the key is to really be unique or creative.



If you look at some of the TRS who offer these sorts of things, they have -tons- of cool and creative stuff, most of which I would never have thought of in a million years.



If you don’t have ideas like this, you’re going to have a hard time competing against those who do.



I suck at that sort of thinking, which is why my gigs are all more practical in nature. Business consultants aren’t usually known for their flights of whimsy.



One thing you can always try is finding a successful gig by someone else, then adding a little bit extra to it, or putting your own special twist on it to make it different and/or better. I’ve heard that works well, though be careful not to actually plagiarize or you’ll lose your account and earn yourself the Mummy’s Curse.

[brandontvedt]

Reply to @seanwallace911:



I actually don’t promote them, at all - I’m getting basically as much work as I care to through the platform as-is.



That’s kind of a weenie answer though, so I’ll try to give you a tip anyways; I’ve heard great things about people making short webcam style videos about their gig, posting them on YouTube, and then using video SEO to promote them. Supposedly, these vids are generating decent traffic to the Fiverr gigs of a number of people.



If you have a webcam, a decent microphone, and can make videos, give this a shot.

[anarchofighter]

brandontvedt said: The biggest single change I saw was when I started giving away a 'free' $5-$10 gig with the purchase of one of my $25-$50 ones. This increased conversions and total sales fairly significantly.

 

I also was unable to statistically test for this, but I believe they also increase the amount of 'time wasters' who message you; until I began running bonuses I never got messages from people looking for freebies, and now I do. Not a ton, but a noticeable amount. ~10/mo?

 

Hopefully that's interesting or valuable to someone.

 

These points are exceedingly valuable.

 

I've also run some tests that lead mostly to more questions :) It's a curious quality.

 

I will share that I've had nice measured and tested results on feedback using a post-purchase, unadvertised bonus.

 

I do run a test account for these things. This also let's me test if things only work for TRS vis-a-vis level 2. I have a few seller friends who I got started on Fiverr who also let me play with their accounts for mutual testing results.

 

I wish I could see the Star Ratings. As I'd like to know the impact of bonuses on the more glandular measure. Of course, that's a Hobbesian wish since I want those stars to go away with the quickness. It makes "thumbs up" ratings seem like work and seem too serious.

[daffo]

Awesome! Congratulations…

[smokey1871]

Congratz on 1000 sales. I just made a measly 100+.

brandontvedt said: video-fied my gigs successfully without losing rank

I thought video fying is what all the cool kids are supposed to do?
Also any tips for me on my gigs? Mainly my best performing one.

[brandontvedt]

Reply to @smokey1871:



You -are- supposed to add videos, but there was apparently a glitch/issue where doing so caused your gig to become ‘new’ again, which would cause you to lose your spot on the search lists. I never experienced this problem, though enough others did where I know it was serious. The line was mainly a joke referring to that issue, though I get it isn’t funny to those it happened to of course.



For your gig, I don’t really have any tip on your main one, but I do have a neat idea for a new gig for you: live translation.



Create a gig and contact CS and ask for the permission to use s***e with it, and then offer to maybe translate during phone calls or something like that. That, or perhaps offer German lessons, also over s***e.

[razvan1]

Hello,



Congratulations for your success. Would it be possible to get some tips from you on how to optimise my gigs?



Thank you!

Razvan

[brandontvedt]

Reply to @razvan1:



Try checking out the super popular thread that deals exactly with that, which has hundreds of comments 🙂



http://forum.fiverr.com/discussion/13320/guide-creating-optimizing-your-gig



I don’t really have much to add that isn’t addressed there. I took a look at your gigs, the KWs etc., look OK to me. The titles look a bit funny (as in I don’t know if there is going to be a heavy volume of people searching for the words you use in the gig titles themselves) - this could be ignorance of graphic design though as I know very little about the field.

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[razvan1]

Reply to @brandontvedt: Thank you for replying so quickly. I will definitely take a look on that thread and think about my titles.

Best wishes,

Razvan

[dr_wiggins]

Congratulations on your Fiverr Success! Quick questions, Is it possible for me to change my display name?

[brandontvedt]

Reply to @dr_wiggins:



I don’t believe so, no. But then, you already knew I would say that, didn’t you 🙂

[freelancemm]

I actually took a break for a while after a somewhat decent steady amount of orders, and now i am looking to kind of go full force or at least put a good bit more effort than I have been into Fiverr, so my question to you is any recommended marketing practices? I can’t imagine all your orders come simply from Fiverr traffic, so any tips or suggestions I can add into my mix to get a higher sales count would be helpful!

[brandontvedt]

Reply to @freelancemm:



Actually, yes, all my orders come straight through Fiverr traffic.



I’m not really interested in promoting my gigs further, as I earn less here than I do on any other individual platform.



Personally, I use Fiverr as a ‘filler’ to supplement other, higher-paying work from other clients and places - the volume is nice, and the fact that I can turn it on and off so easily (because I do nothing other than rely on their traffic).



The earned rates less so, though I’m working on changing that. The biggest single insight I had was to start offering things that cost more, and asking fair prices for them. Once I learned that, my average sale price began rapidly rising.

[freelancemm]

@brandontvedt: Hm. Well, maybe they just rank people better if they have a much shorter delivery time as the order count for your content writing seems especially high for no outside advertising. I’ve had over 25+ orders in queue at a given time and don’t do outside promoting, but you having 55+ seems like I am missing out on something.