I made my first $100.000 on Fiverr and you can do it too! - Tips from a Top Rated Seller

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Congratulations for being a Top Rated Seller. I am not a Top Rated Seller but With God’s Grace making almost the same as you do, Cheers!

[israt_ayesha]

Hi congratulations for your great achievement.I think the points you describe is most important for the seller who are new in the marketplace like me.Thanks to share your valuable information with us .

[santiagoroli]

A big thank you for taking the time to share with the community! I am quite new to fiverr, had my first reviews and am alredy crazy about the platform! Its awesome to see how others have walked down the path of succes! With effort and the right mind set we’ll all get there!

[enunciator]

Hey guys,

this is quite a bait thread title now, I know. But it’s true though! I’ve been active on Fiverr since 2017, full-time since 2019-2020. Top Rated Seller for over a year if I remember correctly. I don’t want to brag about these $100,000 in income, but rather motivate you. Because when I started, I was still a student, had no idea about online business or Fiverr and had to take away deposit bottles at the end of the month because I didn’t have enough money to buy them.

An investment of $80 (the software I work with) and Fiverr have now resulted almost three years later in me working full-time from home, not having an annoying boss and yes, I do enjoy that freedom!

I’m active on the forum a lot, I’ve had some great conversations here, got super tips, met interesting sellers and would like to give something back today (even if it’s just a little something). So here are a few tips that will hopefully help you as a newbie, but maybe also as a veteran.

1. Know your value! I see so many freelancers selling themselves short! Stand by your skills and your prices. Of course, your rates should be realistic compared to your work time, but never let a buyer tell you what your time, talent and work is worth! The client’s budget has to adapt to your prices and not vice versa. You don’t go to the apple store and ask for a 70% discount on an iPhone because your budget doesn’t allow for more, do you?

2. Stand out from the crowd! I notice this especially when I search for a service as a buyer on Fiverr. In some sections the portfolios, prices and gig descriptions are similar as if they were clones. As a customer, you tend to buy on the off chance then. If you notice that your competition is big, then think about a unique selling proposition and marketing. Make a particularly appealing gig video, a humorous description or fancy samples! Think about your favorite products - they have competition too! So why did you choose your favorite product? Work on your online presence!

3. Prepare yourself for madness. This came to mind when a friend of mine also started his own business online and gave up shortly after because he couldn’t handle the attitude of some buyers. There are great customers! I love working with my regular customers, they are awesome! But a couple of times a week I get requests from people who brazenly want to negotiate your prices, insult you, threaten you (with a bad review for example), want to scam you, badmouth your work, don’t say hello or goodbye, don’t reply, waste your time or cancel your project. Grow a thick skin and be prepared. Don’t take it personally and focus on building long-term relationships with great clients.

4. Experiment with pricing. You don’t have to offer the same prices for years. Don’t be afraid to adjust your prices to your work time, education and professionalism. I too have shied away from this for a long time, thinking that the algorithm or the customers will then say goodbye. Exactly the opposite was the case and I then had the strongest selling months!

5. Turn down an order if you notice red flags or if you can’t provide what the buyer is looking for. Otherwise this only makes for unhappy customers, cancelled orders and wasted time. There’s no shame in turning down a project if you realize the scope is too large or the client wants something that’s outside your scope of work. I turn down projects several times a week.

6. Pay attention to your English. And I say that as a non-native English speaker! Fiverr is an international platform, which means English is a must. As a seller you need to be able to have a professional briefing to understand the project. If you don’t understand the client or you talk past each other, it will only lead to problems. If necessary, use free online translators or a language tools to correct mistakes. There is no shame in it, it rather shows that you are trying to do your best in communication.

7. Do not copy anyone and be unique! Every week other sellers are copying my description, even reproducing my work, stealing my portfolio to pass it off as theirs and matching their prices to mine. All in the hope that they will be successful. But who do you want to work with as a client? With the original or the copy?

I just realize this is already a pretty long thread. I’d like to update it every now and then when I think of something new that I think is important. I’m also happy about your comments of course!

Thanks so much for reading! I wish you all the best!

Best regards

Rag

$100,000 in income

I do also have orders of 1k / 2k+

he was making over $500,000 a year

Such numbers and big individual orders are a pie in the sky dream for me.

Well, at least I have fun most of the time with the orders I get. 😄

[hikarishinjo]

$100,000 in income

I do also have orders of 1k / 2k+

he was making over $500,000 a year

Such numbers and big individual orders are a pie in the sky dream for me.

Well, at least I have fun most of the time with the orders I get. 😄

Well this is definitely not the regular order amount of my activity on Fiverr.

Usually it is because of very consequent projects or for entire roles (for the VO part) of animations or video game characters.

Yes, the price is great but so too is the pressure to make things great for the client. I personally prefer handling 3 digits orders in the end.

[jawedali583]

Thanks for sharing such nice ethics of work there is no harm to follow these.
regards

[sumaiya_aktersk]

I have read your whole article, only a few things come to mind in terms of your suggestions. Newcomers have to work hard to stick to one word. You have to spend a lot of time behind the fiverr and know a lot.
Finally thank you very much. To share your experience with us.

[kimbi53]

Thanks alot for sharing these tips. I’ll apply them immediately

[courteousphoto]

Hey guys,

this is quite a bait thread title now, I know. But it’s true though! I’ve been active on Fiverr since 2017, full-time since 2019-2020. Top Rated Seller for over a year if I remember correctly. I don’t want to brag about these $100,000 in income, but rather motivate you. Because when I started, I was still a student, had no idea about online business or Fiverr and had to take away deposit bottles at the end of the month because I didn’t have enough money to buy them.

An investment of $80 (the software I work with) and Fiverr have now resulted almost three years later in me working full-time from home, not having an annoying boss and yes, I do enjoy that freedom!

I’m active on the forum a lot, I’ve had some great conversations here, got super tips, met interesting sellers and would like to give something back today (even if it’s just a little something). So here are a few tips that will hopefully help you as a newbie, but maybe also as a veteran.

1. Know your value! I see so many freelancers selling themselves short! Stand by your skills and your prices. Of course, your rates should be realistic compared to your work time, but never let a buyer tell you what your time, talent and work is worth! The client’s budget has to adapt to your prices and not vice versa. You don’t go to the apple store and ask for a 70% discount on an iPhone because your budget doesn’t allow for more, do you?

2. Stand out from the crowd! I notice this especially when I search for a service as a buyer on Fiverr. In some sections the portfolios, prices and gig descriptions are similar as if they were clones. As a customer, you tend to buy on the off chance then. If you notice that your competition is big, then think about a unique selling proposition and marketing. Make a particularly appealing gig video, a humorous description or fancy samples! Think about your favorite products - they have competition too! So why did you choose your favorite product? Work on your online presence!

3. Prepare yourself for madness. This came to mind when a friend of mine also started his own business online and gave up shortly after because he couldn’t handle the attitude of some buyers. There are great customers! I love working with my regular customers, they are awesome! But a couple of times a week I get requests from people who brazenly want to negotiate your prices, insult you, threaten you (with a bad review for example), want to scam you, badmouth your work, don’t say hello or goodbye, don’t reply, waste your time or cancel your project. Grow a thick skin and be prepared. Don’t take it personally and focus on building long-term relationships with great clients.

4. Experiment with pricing. You don’t have to offer the same prices for years. Don’t be afraid to adjust your prices to your work time, education and professionalism. I too have shied away from this for a long time, thinking that the algorithm or the customers will then say goodbye. Exactly the opposite was the case and I then had the strongest selling months!

5. Turn down an order if you notice red flags or if you can’t provide what the buyer is looking for. Otherwise this only makes for unhappy customers, cancelled orders and wasted time. There’s no shame in turning down a project if you realize the scope is too large or the client wants something that’s outside your scope of work. I turn down projects several times a week.

6. Pay attention to your English. And I say that as a non-native English speaker! Fiverr is an international platform, which means English is a must. As a seller you need to be able to have a professional briefing to understand the project. If you don’t understand the client or you talk past each other, it will only lead to problems. If necessary, use free online translators or a language tools to correct mistakes. There is no shame in it, it rather shows that you are trying to do your best in communication.

7. Do not copy anyone and be unique! Every week other sellers are copying my description, even reproducing my work, stealing my portfolio to pass it off as theirs and matching their prices to mine. All in the hope that they will be successful. But who do you want to work with as a client? With the original or the copy?

I just realize this is already a pretty long thread. I’d like to update it every now and then when I think of something new that I think is important. I’m also happy about your comments of course!

Thanks so much for reading! I wish you all the best!

Best regards

Rag

I just realize this is already a pretty long thread.

If even that’s a long thread, that not makes this boring. Really interesting information for new sellers, either for veterans, hope to see updates of this thread 🙂

[kirtipurohit]

That’s really great! I had a start with a great client and he gave me a tip! My first order and a tip?! I was on ninth cloud which led me think that everyone is good here and there. But later, I met some rude buyers, non-co-operating.

I remember one buyer whose work was very urgent his job was on stake. I agreed that I will try my best (only a matter of 1 hour session) and will send offer after the session. I did like 80% of the work but just left me saying that I didn’t successfully do that.

This is how I’m getting smarter, nearing the target of Level One Seller and fighting!

[didographic]

@raghnalltuathai Thanks for sharing your Fiverr journey, I hope that will be helpful for me.
Also congrats on the $100,000 milestone. 👍

[ex_design18]

All of the types are awesome. It will help me and other new sellers to motivate. Thank you so much for share your experience with us. Hope you will do well in the future.

[bigrose21]

I want to make $100,000 on Fiverr, too. I’m gonna do my best to learn everything I need to know to earn that kind of money!

Congratulations Raghnalltuathai.

[ranisuchi]

Hello I have created a gig about 7 days ago. But i can not find it by keyword search yet. It is better to say that fiverr has warning me 12 days ago and took my level, after that I created it but still now unseen. But the support team told me that my is active and searchable. Can u give me a suggestion pls

[noirparliament]

On 4/13/2021 at 9:45 PM, raghnalltuathai said:

Well, I never had a month without any orders since then. But I had some very bad months compared to others. The worst month was about $1.200. Still sounds like a lot but I live in a pretty expensive country and have to pay taxes and health insurance as well as my personal fix costs, so these months got me kind of in trouble.

Would you mind sharing what steps did you took to improve your impressions, clicks and overall performance of the gig while going through that period of stagnation? Thanks in advance!

[siddheshmishra]

First of all congrats! 
Thanks for sharing such wisdom. You have beautifully articulated this article. I got demoted to level 0 because of high number of cancellation of order as there was emergency in the family and i had to attend. Now probably in coming next month i would be on level 1 badge again. 

[xuancar]

Useless. All depends on Fiverr algorithm. Almost 1000 five stars reviews, 6 years in the platform. No orders. 

[mariashtelle1]

On 6/25/2021 at 8:08 AM, mdridoy1403 said:

Congo man!

How do you know he’s from Congo? 

[nicol_makula]

It's really important to have a USP! You won't get noticed otherwise.

[jacy_wilkie20]

Thanks for the encouragement! I've made only $300 in almost 2 years of being a Fiverr artist so sometimes I feel like giving up but thank you for this encouragement!

[divi_depaa]

On 4/13/2021 at 9:53 PM, raghnalltuathai said:

Hey guys,
this is quite a bait thread title now, I know. But it’s true though! I’ve been active on Fiverr since 2017, full-time since 2019-2020. Top Rated Seller for over a year if I remember correctly. I don’t want to brag about these $100,000 in income, but rather motivate you. Because when I started, I was still a student, had no idea about online business or Fiverr and had to take away deposit bottles at the end of the month because I didn’t have enough money to buy them.

An investment of $80 (the software I work with) and Fiverr have now resulted almost three years later in me working full-time from home, not having an annoying boss and yes, I do enjoy that freedom!

I’m active on the forum a lot, I’ve had some great conversations here, got super tips, met interesting sellers and would like to give something back today (even if it’s just a little something). So here are a few tips that will hopefully help you as a newbie, but maybe also as a veteran.

1. Know your value! I see so many freelancers selling themselves short! Stand by your skills and your prices. Of course, your rates should be realistic compared to your work time, but never let a buyer tell you what your time, talent and work is worth! The client’s budget has to adapt to your prices and not vice versa. You don’t go to the apple store and ask for a 70% discount on an iPhone because your budget doesn’t allow for more, do you?

2. Stand out from the crowd! I notice this especially when I search for a service as a buyer on Fiverr. In some sections the portfolios, prices and gig descriptions are similar as if they were clones. As a customer, you tend to buy on the off chance then. If you notice that your competition is big, then think about a unique selling proposition and marketing. Make a particularly appealing gig video, a humorous description or fancy samples! Think about your favorite products - they have competition too! So why did you choose your favorite product? Work on your online presence!

3. Prepare yourself for madness. This came to mind when a friend of mine also started his own business online and gave up shortly after because he couldn’t handle the attitude of some buyers. There are great customers! I love working with my regular customers, they are awesome! But a couple of times a week I get requests from people who brazenly want to negotiate your prices, insult you, threaten you (with a bad review for example), want to scam you, badmouth your work, don’t say hello or goodbye, don’t reply, waste your time or cancel your project. Grow a thick skin and be prepared. Don’t take it personally and focus on building long-term relationships with great clients.

4. Experiment with pricing. You don’t have to offer the same prices for years. Don’t be afraid to adjust your prices to your work time, education and professionalism. I too have shied away from this for a long time, thinking that the algorithm or the customers will then say goodbye. Exactly the opposite was the case and I then had the strongest selling months!

5. Turn down an order if you notice red flags or if you can’t provide what the buyer is looking for. Otherwise this only makes for unhappy customers, cancelled orders and wasted time. There’s no shame in turning down a project if you realize the scope is too large or the client wants something that’s outside your scope of work. I turn down projects several times a week.

6. Pay attention to your English. And I say that as a non-native English speaker! Fiverr is an international platform, which means English is a must. As a seller you need to be able to have a professional briefing to understand the project. If you don’t understand the client or you talk past each other, it will only lead to problems. If necessary, use free online translators or a language tools to correct mistakes. There is no shame in it, it rather shows that you are trying to do your best in communication.

7. Do not copy anyone and be unique! Every week other sellers are copying my description, even reproducing my work, stealing my portfolio to pass it off as theirs and matching their prices to mine. All in the hope that they will be successful. But who do you want to work with as a client? With the original or the copy?

I just realize this is already a pretty long thread. I’d like to update it every now and then when I think of something new that I think is important. I’m also happy about your comments of course!

Thanks so much for reading! I wish you all the best!

Best regards
Rag

Valuable tips. "Grow a thick skin and be prepared. Don’t take it personally and focus on building long-term relationships with great clients." I loved this point. Thank you so much. I will follow it.

[only1kader]

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Thanks for the great article. I have learned new things. I have completed every requirements to be a Top Rated seller around 4 months ago. I have got the Top Rated badge yet. Any suggestion on this issue? 

 

Thanks again.

[gnosysfiverr]

On 4/13/2021 at 9:57 PM, imagination7413 said:

2. Stand out from the crowd!

Whether it is a coincidence or otherwise, somewhere I (even being new to Fiverr) I also conclude to the same thing last week. I have started to with the gigs that will help my clients to get more tangible value.

Reading your success story reinforced me that my thinking about my judgement was not wrong.

Thank you!