I am Giving up Selling on Fiverr

Can understand. I only use it to pay for my expenses: link building, articles, etc.

Yeah, I had done that as well, but that was a good while back. However, even with the up in prices allowed, I don't think I'll be wandering back

Smart! There are a lot better ways than fiverr to make a little money!

What were your services? If it wasn't anything that enough people would want, then find something that sells. I know there are some crazy gigs happening, but I doubt most people are getting rich from them.

There's a new WSO released by footbag_man just today that could very well solve your problem.

Fiverr is good for those who can deliver their gigs fast, without trouble. If your service is time consuming, you won't be paid for your time and your work.

Perhaps it’s a good decision to build your business and also simplify your gigs. Offer something you can do without wasting time.

I really like fiverr as it pays for my over head...most of my gigs take me only a couple of minutest to do.

A $5 job! Even a beggar earns more in an hour.

I am not a fiver star by any stretch of the matter. That said I am wondering if you are not missing something. Is there no chance to create a follow-up of any kind? Seems like a great foot in the door.

It's a matter of time management. If you can figure out how to semi-automated services on there, or how to use it to leverage and upsell to existing business offerings you own, it's fantastic.

But of course, It's not for everyone and doesn't come without its cons. But then again what doesn't have its cons in this crazy world.

You have to get past the whole $5 thing to see any return on there IMO.

Once you get your wings and you can offer upsells, that is where the money can seriously pile up.

I dont see the option to sell for more than $5

This is the way I see it...
When you start out in IM, any money is good. If you're making $5 a day from fiverr, thats great! Thats almost 2 grand a year... that's a nice new computer, laptop, tv, tires for your car, etc.

Then maybe you're up to $100 a day (hopefully from methods other than fiverr or you would be one busy person!). Congratz! You've made it further than probably 90% of people who attempt IM.
But is what you're doing for that ~37k/year able to be scaled? Can you live off of ~37k? Well yeah you could... but not very comfortably.

So you've got some plan to make a good 100k/year from IM... And you would be set right?

Don't aim low. Making money on the internet has extreme potential. There are millionaires out there who do absolutely zero work now, and the money still trickles in. Outsourcing is probably the most efficient when utilized in an IM business, so take advantage of that. You may not have the funds to do it right now, but plan for it in the future.

The biggest mistake people can make in IM (in my opinion) is setting their goal to low, and not predicting what will happen in the future. If you aren't anticipating, you're reacting. Reacting to a situation yields much less results than acting out of anticipation.


tl;dr... aim for the skys bro =]

I'll say a GOOD DECISION !

Even I used to earn a lot on Fiverr, I made small webpages, created landing tabs on Facebook Pages, designed the cover pages, etc. I was even promoted to level 2 seller, but working this much just for $4 seemed unreasonable.

After that 60% of the buyers don't even leave a review after the order is completed.

And even then people need revisions and they are not willing to pay more for that! And you ultimately need to revise it, because if you don't, you get a negative review and your fiverr carrier (atleast for that username) is over !

Fiverr, according to me, is only for those sellers who sell pre-made things/products or where they don't require any work done.

I just started using fiverr again.

If you don't have a lot of work coming in and you need some additional income, fiverr is great. I just use fiverr as a back up source of income. I only have one gig on there anyways.

Yup, I can understand how you feel. You're essentially trading time for money by providing a service. It's a great way to make money, especially fast money, but there are other methods that can bring you passive income for a long time.

My question is, do you have enough saved up to spend on those passive income projects? For example, you might have to buy a domain, hosting, maybe even an autoresponder, depending on what you'll be working on. So, do you have the money to purchase those things?

Also, would losing the money you make from your services affect your lifestyle in any way? Don't expect to make fast cash from any of the passive income streams, that doesn't happen most of the time. So, think it over, and make a decision. If you can afford to wait 6 months (just an assumption) to start making money from IM (because an average blog takes that much time to start earning substantial cash, unless you are using paid promotion methods), then you're ready to quit your services.

Start promoting your gig via YouTube. I know some guys who are doing well with this method of traffic generation.

I been trying to find something to sell on fiverr but just can't find anything worth my time for $5 when I have million other things going on but would be nice to get some extra cash from gigs that I can do quickly.

Its not easy if you have not started from start, you have to put a lot of effort in promotion of your gigs elsewhere

The really clever folks use Fiverr for lead generation, capturing "leads" that they can move into higher paying services.

Fiverr is something that you can do while doing something else Whenever you have some spare time, deliver a fast and easy to do gig. You will add extra money to your normal income. It fast and not hard at all!

Hi,
Instead of quitting, why don't you try doing something that is less time consuming? You can have more than one gig, too.
In case you didn't know there is also Fourerr.com. They charge $4 for their gigs.
Good luck
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Fiverr is all about time management. But one thing I liked about Fiverr is that we can meet people without talking about the prices as the price is already been fixed at $5 whether it is buyer or seller. In Fiverr if you go for self-marketing, you can anticipate it to get you prohibited completely. I think internet has given us wide options to make money online. Every site has their pros and cons I think it’s a good decision that you thought of building your own business. It’s a good step that you took and thought of investing in your own business.

Fiverr is a great place to earn some money to pay for your business expenses, as long as it doesn't take too much time away from your main business. You won't get rich there, unless you are using it as a way to gain leads for more expensive upsells like others have said, but you can make the money you need to pay for your paid marketing methods.

Jon.

I view third party services the way I view doing business in the developing world: never put in what you're not prepared to lose entirely.

Never let others control your long term web position.

I don't think giving up a revenue channel is a wise decision.

In entirely depends on your services and how fast you can complete. Fiverr pays my online WSO purchase expenses.

If you invest more than 1 hour to get $ 5 , then give it up ONLY after you realize you can't tweak and improve it ... All the best.

Any Money is Good Money.

Once I bought a gig for an hour training on marketing. It was a webinar and we were in 80 attending it. 80 x $5, you see you can make a decent income with a bit of creativity.
Good luck

If you are going to 100% depend on Fiverr for the income, then I doubt that you will be able to earn much. But the real smart marketers will be using it as a lead generation tool and they will try to upsell them more expensive packages.

Even if you are doing affiliate marketing or selling your own products, the real profits does not come from the front product because that is used to compensate for the time and money that you have invested into the marketing campaign. The real profits come from the backend products.

Fiverr is a good way to get your foot in the door for a potential bigger job which happened to me often when I was active in the community.

Good luck with any future endeavors,

Gengis

You have to always focus on ROI. If you can find an activity that has a positive ROI based on Fiverr's pricing, go for it. Otherwise, skip it.

I agree. the payout in fiver is too cheap. If you selling something there, it must be something that requires from you minimum time to complete the task otherwise it doesn't worth it.

The best part of fiverr is the order will come automatically, without doing anything. Specially for myself, where I am always struggling to marketing my websites or products.

On fiverr as soon as I enable my gig, wola. Messages and orders coming automatically.

I mean there is no need for any marketing effort. But that is right, I cannot make more than 100 bucks after satisfying the customers, with my php/mysql programming gig, which really required lot of efforts some time.

That is why I always took some pause and try something and again come back with fiverr to make myself motivated for the online business.

Love fiverr.

That's the very smartest decision you have for changing your plans to make a long term business rather than quick and short term income. you must spread your horizon and discover other opportunities that make you more stable financially. Goodluck!

Good for you! There's no point underselling yourself, especially if you aren't earning enough profit.

Although I do not get a lot of money. Fiverr pays me $3.92 via pay pal per gig. I do get a lot of exposure. This can factor into more work later on. Please remember that a lot of people who created businesses using Ebay back in the 90's later on used the knowledge that they did gain. Maybe you should maintain on Fiverr a smaller presence.

The genius behind the $5 gig concept is that it makes the risk involved in buying a gig minimal, and the reward large depending on the gig. So a very large river of buyers becomes possible due to the low price point. Increasing the gig price will in most cases reduce the pool of willing buyers.The other value in Fiverr is that it can supply easy pocket money now, while building a more stable and substantial earnings for the long term. The two business models do not have to be thought of as being in competition with one another.

The answer to the low price problem, on the seller side, is either to create higher priced gigs, or only do ones that are quick/easy to complete (increasing the reward by lowering the time/labor). Candidate quick completion gigs would be using software that generates lists or products within minutes (let the PC do the work), selling ebooks or PLR, etc. For an item in demand, this leads to multiple orders coming in that can be completed within an hour, instead of one.

I'm selling on Fiverr for almost a year now and I absolutely love it! Each month it pays for my auto responder, other fiverr gigs I'm buying, some of the cheaper IM products etc. The gigs I'm offering take between 2-10 min to complete. It is true that sometimes I'm wasting time that could be invested to grow my business but on the other hand I'm not using my credit card for the things I've mentioned above each and every month... It works for me!

Fiverr is best place to sell software or anything related to products and not service. U waste time to give service to people just for $5, example : creating website, getting traffic, design, and many other services. But Fiverr can be a source of money if u sell software, cause it can run automatically and u dont have to touch anything.

Fiverr can be a great loss leader to gain new clients or leads, so it may be worthwhile continuing with it.

Giving it up will depend on your own personal finances, it may not be making you a lot of cash, but can you afford to lose that income?

Fiverr it's OK when the task takes to complete a few minutes...

Hey!

The key in fiverr is to only sell services you can complete easily (less than 10 minutes of work), so you could handle an high amount of orders in a short period of time.

If you find a service that can be easily completed and got a solid demand, you have a goldmine no matter how big the competition might be! That's the way people make full income directly from fiverr, and set-up a real business model.

Fiverr seems really complicated to make money unless you're providing something really unique. I only use it for voice overs currently, but somehow, the person I use always has 50+ people in the que.

Give up on Fiverr and focus on building your own business. Why can't you do what you did on Fiverr and create your own business from that?

I did fiverr a while ago, but had to stop cause it was only making me about $50 - $60 a day. I had much better luck building niche sites and putting them on clickbank and they do very well.

I think you are better off doing that, and building a real business with leads, and lists and pages you can test and tweak to increase conversions.

Fiverr is not a real business it is a money spinner, if the fiverr site went down tomorrow, and Im not saying it will, but if it did, you would not have a business.

If you are offering some digital download like a wordpress plugin or graphics pack then Fiverr can definitely be worth your time. If you are doing something time consuming like logo design then I would stay away from it.

Fiverr is good for outsourcing work, but for sellers it's near impossible to make a full time living from it. It is good however for funding some side projects and getting some extra financial support and side money. Some people do really well on it designing eBook covers and get 20+ orders per day but this is rare.

Depends on the gigs you were offering and how long they took. If you have something going that others don't necessarily offer and you can add genuine quality at the $5 price point, then it's a no brainer to have it as a stream of income imho.
I had wandered away from it till the new look made me see it in a new light.. I am enjoying being on it much more now than when I didn't understand how to use it properly and wasted hours on trying to get things right for unappreciative buyers.

I took my gigs down because I felt I was devaluing my personal brand. I need to look at long-term effects on my business, not at the opportunity to make a quick buck. (And a buck is really about it, literally.)

there's lots of ways to upsell of fiverr. Heck if you don't have any larger products try teaming up with a product/service guy of here.

I personally make quite a few gigs on fiverr. Though it s true, the site has grown a lot and your job is just one of many others. I have placed my ads on other sites such as gigbucks.com or fivebigones.com. There you can even chose a higher amount than 5, and fbo is priced in Euros (and takes less commission, if I recall well,than the others)

I use to sell trafficgeyser blasts there, but became too much of a headache, and I did not want to soil my profiles with others videos

If that is what you want. If its because you can't hang though then congrats cause I like quitters, makes my job easier in the long run.

Joking. I wouldn't quit though, do you now most people on fiverr use it to get them to there regular site and upsell them.

I do not know about others, my income has been constant and now it has doubled with fiverr. I make average $2000+ with fiverr

I haven't had great luck with Fiverr over the last little while ..

Sounds good! Yeah, what I like about fiverr is its a great place to step in front visitors. I mean the traffic converts very high. I'm talking the traffic that buys our gigs they convert into my main opportuntity very high.

Its a great place to get going and earn some cash you can throw back into your main business! I average an additonal $600 to $1200 per month just from fiverr traffic alone!

Totally true, a friend of mine made about 100$ a month on fiverr.

Now he has his own business built with the same effort and makes with EXACTLY the same time about 800$ a month.

Fiverr is also not the best possiblity, because they take 20%.
If it looks like 1$ it seems not much, but if you imagine you make 1000$ and 200$ is just taken from you it is.

So, good choice!

Yeah I agree you can't rely on fiverr alone, try selling on gigbucks, it gives more options higher than $5. On gigbucks you can sell upto $100.

Those of you on Fiverr what services did you offer and where do you plan to offer your services going forward ?

The worst thing about fiverr for me is the high percentage fee they charge (20%, come on!). $5 is not bad for some small assignments, but $4 is a whole lot worse. I still think it's a good place to generate quick start-up cash, especially if you can offer a service that will take you 20-30 minutes to deliver.

The thing I discover from Fiverr is that genuine Gigs always ends up having very little sales and they will quit Fiverr within a very short time frame. It is always those who do very minimum, with softwares templates and fake reviews and likes that will go a long way.

I think fiverr is a great starting point... But ultimately, it's awesome to create a business of your own! More time and money freedom... Not to mention the coolness of being your own boss and giving yourself a raise whenever you like

Three years ago, I was fortunate enough to find a great service to offer on Fiverr. Today I am a level 2 seller and have an excellent reputation. I keep selling to old and new clients all the time. Fiver has been one of my main income stream and I am trying to find ways to scale it up and multiply my earnings

I have started Fiverr just before an week.I m selling links from my own sites..in fiverr.
i think its not so bad place to earn.
If you guys have other options to earn more then please share here..

Fiverr's got a good idea by letting people post gigs for free and making it really easy to facilitate trade. They have a slick interface, the ability to upload images and videos, and let people concentrate on their gigs. They do this right. Brokers should enhance trade, not impede it, and a lot of them get it wrong.

Fiverr doesn't compete with their own sellers, which is good; although it definitely is a buyer-biased arrangement. Things have improved somewhat since they allowed sellers to rate buyers too and make a comment in their own defense.



Where Fiverr falls short, in my opinion, is inconsistency of enforcement. I've had gigs canceled due to "3rd party mentions" because a report happened to contain a link to an affiliate product, and some nice fellow screamed "bait and switch" without even bothering to read the other 30 pages. That gig is gone, but I'm still sporting his negative rating - and he even wrote back later saying to remove it!

Then later I buy a gig that is doing gangbusters, and the guy keeps hitting me with OTO's and 3rd party squeeze pages and just going to town on his own platforms. I sincerely don't get it!

There are many Fiverr clones. What Fiverr brings to the table is traffic and ease of use. A smart loss leader if you know how to use it. I've signed up for about 10 clones and only ever sold one thing on them collectively. If you're going to use a gig site, I'd advise to find a way to make Fiverr work. I'd also advise to be prepared to lose your gigs.

One last thing: I sell more units on Fiverr than I can give away for free. Perceived value is real, my friends.

I will recommend people per hour for professional service sellers. Its much better than fiverr and can earn more money.

There are now many other micro outsourcing sites just like Fiverr that are structured differently, for one thing some allow you to charge more for your services. The only difference is that they may not get as much traffic as Fiverr. You can make some decent extra monthly income from Fiverr but as IMs we should be able to take advantage of the opportunities that these micro outsourcing sites provide and use it to our advantage. You don't necessarily have to post gigs to make money from these sites there are countless other ways to benefit from the services offered.

How much do you actually get paid of those 5 bucks? I assume fiverr takes a cut of the cake? Paypal prolly wants their cut too?

Fiverr is a great way to outsource tedious tasks. If you are offering a service that takes more time to do than its worth, there are other ways to make money offering your service. If you are not using a software that could automate your gig, then you should more than likely leave fiverr alone.

You can still sell at fiverr ,but do not spend all your time at fiverr.

I think you can use it as a lead for more business later. Not sell and forget. Sell and build a relationship and then offer other services or products.

What's good to sell on fiverr? Maybe I could start and then build a list of buyers whom I can then target for other IM stuffs

Fiverr is interesting. I started there just to see if it was possible. I offer writing gigs. Sometimes I take a long time to complete my gigs and sometimes I whip them out without too much thought. I like it because it brought me to WF. It's offered me opportunities while sitting on my couch watching Family Guy and I don't have to sit in traffic or pay for gas so it's a win. Because of fiverr I've learned about getting into a whole world of IM that I'd never considered so I'm still excited about the possibilities because of the potential to lead to new places otherwise unknown or unfamiliar. The other bonus is I get to keep my writing in a constant flow while I work on personal projects that have an opportunity to payoff but as of yet are more output. Everyone has their needs and right now I enjoy completing projects, I like deadlines, and I like spreading my work into areas of the globe I would otherwise have a difficult time reaching through direct targeting. Long story short, it's given me options and for that I'm thankful. I wish you all success in your endeavors in whatever form they may arise.

All the best

I would not suggest giving up on Fiverr. Through Fiverr, I have landed two long-term clients, one for $2K+, and one for $250+.

It's all about the way you approach it and how much time you spend doing each gig. If you're able to do one $5 gig in 15-20 minutes, that's a decent hourly rate of $12. It's above minimum wage and it's a great way to build seed capital for bigger things.

But, yeah. If you're a freelancer, I recommend having your own website to deal directly with clients. It works out for more revenue both ways. See this article (NON-aff, but I did write it)

I do some gigs that depend upon software that I already own.

It's easy and quick. If it were more than that I'd probably not put much into it...

It's cool for some pocket change, but for me that's about it...