Hijacking fiverr gigs for easy cash

That's also known as Fiverr Arbitrage - and I have purchased some WSOs (and other products) that promote this as a business model.

So it's doable, especially for outsourcing. The problem is that your Fiverr gigster might disappear on you, or that your client will find out about Fiverr (which is no longer such a big secret...), especially with Fiverr running ads all over the place these days.

I have done It with Major success. Also I'm sure many people here have done It that wouldn't want to admit It because they may have sold Gig services on here, on their site, or other forums.

I would have to say It's all of the above. As long as the customers are happy I see no wrong done. Many people outsource for services they sell.

Of course it's doable and viable, and I'm sure you're not the first to think of this. And I'm sure some have done it.

Yes it's scalable.

If you have to ask if it's ethical, then maybe you're looking for someone else to help shoulder a burden you don't want to carry all by yourself. Just a thought...

A short book could be written answering or addressing the question of it being worth it.

Nothing wrong with getting inspiration from anywhere or anyone.

But if you really want to be successful, then avoid copying what someone else has already done. If there's no difference between them and you, the other person has experience and you don't. So why choose you when they other is more experienced and skilled?

Of course offering it elsewhere may negate that consideration.

However, think about what you're doing and developing. If you get in the habit of this practice, then you are really only hurting yourself. Maybe you don't care and just want the money which is your choice.

But you don't grow or develop any skill other than merely copying and sort of pasting.

Get inspiration and then add more value to it. Maybe you can think of a way to do more, do it better, be more unique, add more leverage which is value. Increase the value proposition and that will make you more money and your marketing and advertising will be more powerful.

Learn who's in your audience, and then make a list of all the value propositions and then use them in your marketing and advertising.

Don't be mediocre or part of the herd. What's the defining characteristic of the herd that's hiding in plain sight?

They all look the same.

You don't want that if you want to be in business.

i call this the Jay Abraham business model.. profiting by being in the middle.. think it as a way to sell your resourcefulness.

Yes that's doable, the only thing is you have to find a good and reliable gig to start with.

Yup.

"Buy low, sell high"...

That method's existed for ages.

First time I heard of copy cat marketing. No not being a smart butt.
Yes copy catting has been around since IM has. We all use it, This is how everything gets better.

Ethical, depends on how closely you copy I guess. Most the stuff on fiverr came from someone else anyways though. Some just make it better is all.

I am not usually in this particular department of the Warrior Forum, but I just happened to drop by and fell over your post.

I think the other members who have commented so far have all made valid points that I find interesting, and I'll explain why in a moment...

The idea you mention goes on all over the place. There is always someone who makes a profit "off the backs of others" - be that un-or ethical.

I work online and can make cash, but I generally earn my cash from Adsense, flipping websites, writing for others, (articles and sales copy).

I am definitely no techie but like a lot of others, I can create wordpress sites.

I am also guilty of having bought more than a fair share of lousy wso's :p

Anyway... the other day I landed my first ever "offline" job.

Some one had mentioned to another person that I created websites and that resulted in the said person contacting me and they asked me to copy a website that they owned. I did that and then changes were asked to be made - I did those too.

Certain things were requested to be added to the new site, that involved some coding and I am no coder!

So off to fiverr I went and I had the job done! That's right - $5.

My "client" told me that his company had paid over $5,000 for the original site to be made (!!) but he was thrilled and said mine was a lot better

Believe it or not - he pulled $600 out of his pocket and said, "Is that enough?" I just looked at him and he took my tempory silence as a sign of dissatisfaction and started to count more money out of his wallet.

I asked the guy, "Are you sure?" "Here take it. Take it!" I refused the extra cash and accepted the $600.

He then asked about "throwing it to the world" as he called it... and asked if and how I could do that.

After talking things over he was on the phone several times, (sometimes as late as 10pm in the evenigs), asking if I could do more and more jobs, (of which most he wanted "completing yesterday" and other jobs asap!

Now he owns a large business and he makes a fortune from the work of others. That's what being an employer is about - and making profit. Some employees get paid more than others.

As wordwizard has mentioned - you can do what you want to do. Bear in mind what she says.

@OldeEnglish40oz - I totally agree!

Ken Thompson offers you some sound advice and whether you choose to use what he says, or not, is upto you.

I would suggest you use what you can benefit from and "position yourself" as an employer or middleman, (whatever term you prefer), to leverage the work of others and re-sell the completed service for a profit. It's all above board.

Imho KT has made a lot of good points.

Jackson Tan, DotComBum, GBM say it short'n'sweet. This is what most wso'ers do.

@hustlingsmoke Quite right. We all use it. Some abuse it too. There is a fine line...

But I will definitely outsource what I cannot do myself, or I don't have the time to do.

The jobs that my client has put on "my table" range from writing articles, translating, press releases, video narration, pdf's, seo, site promotion, apps -- plus more.

I have even been offered a full months employment for a few thousand dollars if I will just concentrate on this one client :rolleyes::confused:

Outsource if you can. We are all in business to make a profit.

With reference to the OP - a massive %age of all the service sites you see that offer services like, but not limited to, video promotion, FanPage Likes, BackLinks, even Article writing are created by people who outsource all the work to Fiverr sellers.

If you want to do it - go for it. How you do it and the "path you choose" is your call.

Good luck!

Doable?
Ethical?
Scalable?
Viable?
In every way -Yes. You see, one of the greatest investments most Internet Marketing Experts have is. .. . (drum roll) . .Creativity. You just have to think an alternate way of doing things and if it proves to accomplish its purpose and even more- effectively then you can sell the so called "System" for some nice $$$.

Cheers!

Its Great And Creative Idea My Friend.. It Really Works When We Have All The Proper Service And When We Sell The Services For More Price In Our Site its worth it..

Yes, it's ethical and worth it as long as the gig owner deliver the task correctly and quality depending on what you price it BUT if they deliver that only worth $5 and not the PRICE that you are selling, then there will a problem with you in the future as it can affect your reputation as a seller.

Regards,

Ronnie

You are simply brokering a deal by doing this. There's nothing wrong with leveraging supply and demand for the purpose of making money. How is this technique different from hiring an employee or owning a used car dealership or trading in the stock market?

"middlemen" existed time imemorial, they simply help the seller get a LARGER consumer base[more traffic] and the buyer gets his NEEDS ;which is good for the both the buyer and seller
While the arbitrager dude profits in the middle

I guess everyone is happy here( Buyer/Arbitrager/Seller)

It's doable but I won't recommend this route. This route is the root to all "middle-mans." There's nothing wrong being a middle-man, it's totally legal. Nevertheless, there's a price to being a middle-man. You'll usually have quite a number of competitors and the "ideal" way of beating your competitors down is to reduce your price. Soon, you'll find yourself constantly fighting in a war of "who offers the lower price wins."

Disadvantages:

1) You'll face with lots of competitors (for some products/services)
2) Have to always compete in prices
3) Hardly will you have long-term customers
4) You'll lose the "Fun" of being an entrepreneur (at least, this was how I felt when I was a middle-man)
5) Your reputation might be affected when your customers found out that you're a middle-man (no one likes to deal with a middle-man imo.. especially online)

Advantages:

1) Easy to start a business
2) Little to no-cost for start up
3) Save time creating your own product/service

These are merely my own opinions and I might be totally wrong. Don't just take my words for it. Do your research and do what you think is right for you.

Good luck,
Jeremiah

that's pretty much do-able but I have one question here.Something that is worth 4$ can you sell it further for double the money! :S i don't think so!

Absolutely ethical. You give what is being asked as a fair price, and the fiverr gigger gets extra jobs, which they were unlikely to otherwise get. IT's a win winner. Is rewording necessary?

That's great idea. But isn't easy as it talked anywhere.
I'd like to go to Fiverr directly with $5 and found that high raing Gig rather than buy anything from a website for $50

A lot of people do that on my clone. They use ebay/craigslist/their own site and double and sometimes quintuple the price and make a good living

Yes you can do that...some people make reselling like that their full-time gig

You can do that for any type of service mind you and even better would be "undercutting"

someone rather than overcharging. For example, find a service that someone charges $100

for and you attempt to advertise the same job for $75.

You can leave only from this business model, do it online and offline too

Such methods already widely known and practiced

This is very doable and has been done for a long time really. The only conflict I see with this model is the fact that you would need to be able to pay your fiverr to get the work done. You would have to make sure that your earnings from the other site is available to you asap. Other than that, this is arbitrage at it's best.

Everything is great until you shoot your eye out.

What happens when you have 400 orders and you can no longer contact the fiveer provider?

I have made good money using fiverr and i cannot do without it. Sometime, i stop accepting offer because of huge clients. It will look so childish to get offers that you cannot fulfill. It is good to learn how to manage your clients and not what you will get from them.

A lot of people out there already doing this type of Fiverr outsourcing. If you type in Google 'Get Twitter Followers' you will see that the top sites have pretty expensive rates. These rates seem expensive to us cause we know about Fiverr but the most people do not know about Fiverr.

If you are interested in this business model I would recommend checking out some of Daniel Evans' products as I know he often writes ebooks centered around Fiverr outsourcing strategies.

It is indeed ethical. Millions of people make a living by doing exactly what you suggest....brokering. Realtors, for example, don't own the homes they sell, they simply match buyers and sellers.

I think your idea is a creative one and I wish you well if you try it. As many folks have pointed out, customer service (ensuring the service providers deliver) will likely be challenging, but when isn't it? Lots of luck!

Rick

It's very doable.
Simple micro job arbitrage.
I've been doing it with seomall and some im related gig sites and forums. works pretty well.

Very doable as many people are already doing this.

This is just middle manning, if you want to do that then narrow yourself down to posting fiverr gigs elsewhere for $10.

So for example, find someone who wants a website built for $1000 and then hire a designer for $600 to design the site, that's how the real hustlers arbitrage.

Don't confine yourself to making lousy money because everyone else is.