FiveRR -- Gigs You've Hired (And a "did you know?")

[MJ DeMarco]

FiveRR is an awesome resource for Fastlaners in a build/creation mode.

I don't think people realize what kinds of tasks can be done on FiveRR, and incredibly inexpensive.

This thread is to post your FIVERR gigs that you've done, your thoughts, and your experience.

Ill start...


Did you know that female voice on The Millionaire Fastlane audiobook's introductory material is a FiveRR gig?
(The copyright disclaimer, etc.)

When I needed someone to run through my copyrights and intro, I wanted a female voiceover -- I found one on FiveRR!



What have you done on FiveRR? And were you happy?

 

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[AllenCrawley]

I've used fiverr on multiple occasions to upload videos to all video hosting sites. Saves me a ton of time and very happy with people I use.

 

[Pinnacle]

I've had testimonials done, cold calls made, scripts written, flyers handed out, social media marketing done, and intro videos recorded.

I'm very pleased with the services I received. When I look at Fiverr from the provider's side of the coin, I sometimes feel like those people are really cheating themselves in charging such low prices for the services they offer. I'm grateful, but respectful of that fact at the same time.

 

[AllenCrawley]

I sometimes feel like those people are really cheating themselves in charging such low prices for the services they offer.

The ones with some business sense are using fiverr as a "foot in the door". I've received pdf's from sellers once the gig has been completed that offer other higher priced services with links to their website and social profiles and maybe a free offer for signing up to their email list. Now I don't know how successful they are with this but at least they are trying to upsell.

 

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[JasonR]

I've used Fiverr to get a couple of logos done - ended up not being happy with them.

However, I will use Fiverr again to get an brand intro Video done, and perhaps other gigs which do not require a lot of creativity.

 

[MJ DeMarco]

I sometimes feel like those people are really cheating themselves in charging such low prices for the services they offer. I'm grateful, but respectful of that fact at the same time.

I'd rather do 20 gigs that take me 20 minutes each (400 minutes, nearly 7 hours) than commuting to some shitty job with a shitty boss, ie McDonalds, and working 8 hours a day for $8/hour -- add in gas costs, traveltime, you're looking at 9, maybe 10 hours of your day.

FiveRR = $100/day
McDonalds = $64/day minus taxes on earned income ... Net about $50.

FiveRR wins. More $. Less taxes. Business experience. Potential business leads. Less time. No boss. #WIN

 

[healthstatus]

Videos, video intro graphics, css, testing, ethical hacking, interior decorating, DROPBOX to 18gb x2 accounts (this is awesome), genealogy research, usability testing.

Warning: it can be a black hole for productivity. You end up doing a bunch of useless crap because it is only 5 bucks but sounded cool when you hit the buy button.

 

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[MJ DeMarco]

DROPBOX to 18gb x2 accounts (this is awesome)

What is that?

 

[JAJT]

What is that?

If I recall this is using dropbox's referal bonus in order to take advantage of bonus storage given per sign-up.

 

[Tommy92l]

I'd rather do 20 gigs that take me 20 minutes each (400 minutes, nearly 7 hours) than commuting to some shitty job with a shitty boss, ie McDonalds, and working 8 hours a day for $8/hour -- add in gas costs, traveltime, you're looking at 9, maybe 10 hours of your day.

FiveRR = $100/day
McDonalds = $64/day minus taxes on earned income ... Net about $50.

FiveRR wins. More $. Less taxes. Business experience. Potential business leads. Less time. No boss. #WIN

I literally said this same thing to someone last night. The only thing is, it takes some figuring out to get people to notice your gigs.

 

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[JAJT]

The only thing is, it takes some figuring out to get people to notice your gigs.

I would liken this to any job's 3 month probation period where you learn that you can either sink or swim.

 

[healthstatus]

What is that?

If you use dropbox to share files, the free account gets you 1 or 2 gb, I did a fiverr and the guy set me up with 2 18gb dropbox accounts, which makes sharing files with my VA, the rest of my team a snap, I use the second to share pics/videos with the family.

 

[JasonR]

Dropbox is legit. I used Google adwords to increase my free account to 18+ GB...but Fiverr would have been cheaper!

 

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[LightHouse]

DROPBOX to 18gb x2 accounts

Awesome idea, just ordered!

 

[The-J]

I myself write testimonials on Fiverr. The money is OK but due to a few glitches causing gig cancellation my rating is all the way down at 83%.

Three reviews per product for $5. Can't get much better than that.

I'm awaiting a huge project (300 products!) from a guy who is extremely pleased with my work. 300 products will only take a few hours to do. Fiverr takes 20%, so at the end of the day I'll be left with $400. $400 a day is something you can get used to, even though it's still Slowlane.

The__j will write a testimonial review for three review sites for $5, only on fiverr.com

^shameless plug. I'll do five reviews for Fastlane members in need of testimonials, for the same $5 price. Seriously: can't get much better than that. Once I get promoted to higher level seller, I'll be increasing my prices a bit.

ALSO: I got a gig request to write negative testimonials for competitors. I declined: you're either black hat or white hat when it comes to this stuff, never both. I decided to stay positive. I dunno, just my own personal decision

EDIT: Thanks to Likwid and another repeat customer, I'm back at 89%! On my way to going up the ranks!

 

[Likwid24]

Three reviews per product for $5. Can't get much better than that.

I'm awaiting a huge project (300 products!) from a guy who is extremely pleased with my work. 300 products will only take a few hours to do. Fiverr takes 20%, so at the end of the day I'll be left with $400. $400 a day is something you can get used to, even though it's still Slowlane.

The__j will write a testimonial review for three review sites for $5, only on fiverr.com

^shameless plug. I'll do five reviews for Fastlane members in need of testimonials, for the same $5 price. Seriously: can't get much better than that. Once I get promoted to higher level seller, I'll be increasing my prices a bit.

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Why didn't you tell me you did this!!! lol

I can use a few reviews. Maybe I can even send you a sample so you can give me a truly honest review.

 

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[Likwid24]

Thnaks for Starting this thread MJ. It's already given me a few good ideas. I used Fiverr to help with my social media pages. It didn't do too much, but hey, it only cost $5. It was well worth it!

 

[needchaser]

I used it for creating an open link wheel of back links to a site I was testing out a few months back, they delivered what they promised but it did not seem to do much for the site, although I'm guessing it was much more effective before the penguin / panda updates. I figure $5-$10 SEO is not gonna get you much, if anything it could hurt your site nowadays, so I wouldn't recommend it for that but if anyone has had good experience with it please correct me. I keep seeing gigs for turning your website into a mobile app, which I could use down the road but I'm guessing that for $10 this is probably too good to be true as well, anyone tried that gig?

 

[The-J]

Why didn't you tell me you did this!!! lol

I can use a few reviews. Maybe I can even send you a sample so you can give me a truly honest review.

I just started doing them a few weeks ago.

And only if you deliver to Canada Unfortunately, I myself have no use for a paint brush cover (no paint) but my dad could definitely use it. My parents wanna finish the basement and repaint my old room.

 

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[Likwid24]

And only if you deliver to Canada Unfortunately, I myself have no use for a paint brush cover (no paint) but my dad could definitely use it. My parents wanna finish the basement and repaint my old room.

PM me your address and I'll send one out.

BTW- Just ordered your services.

 

[The-J]

PM me your address and I'll send one out.

BTW- Just ordered your services.

Just send the information and I'll write you the reviews.

 

[JaySoriano]

Full Disclosure: I'm building a service to somewhat compete with Fiverr

I've had little luck with most services, but what can you expect for $5?

But, the best gig, bar none, are user tests/beta testers who will test your service using screencast software. Unlike other websites, you don't have to pay for a subscription or a package of user tests, you can buy a single test for $5.

Just watching how a possible user uses your app has extraordinary value.

 

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[The-J]

Full Disclosure: I'm building a service to somewhat compete with Fiverr

I've had little luck with most services, but what can you expect for $5?

But, the best gig, bar none, are user tests/beta testers who will test your service using screencast software. Unlike other websites, you don't have to pay for a subscription or a package of user tests, you can buy a single test for $5.

Just watching how a possible user uses your app has extraordinary value.

Why compete with Fiverr?

It's kind of got its own novelty thing going: what would you do for $5?

Granted, a large number of the gigs on Fiverr are absolute garbage (who would design a GOOD logo for you for $5? Shell out the extra $94 on 99designs). But rating is a dead giveaway: high ratings = great gigs. The more orders they've taken, the better.

 

[JAJT]

Why compete with Fiverr?

I could see a site called "fiddy" being setup where everything is $50. For that price I can't help but imagine the quality of service for high-order requests would be much better.

 

[Determined2012]

Why compete with Fiverr?

But rating is a dead giveaway: high ratings = great gigs. The more orders they've taken, the better.

That is not necessarily true at all!!!!

I used a guy on fiverr who had an excellent rating- he upsold me 11 additional units--- I didn't know, so my $5 dollar gig wound up costing me $60. It was a CRAP job... I found a guy on Fiverr to make 11 or 12 corrections to what this guy did, thus giving me exactly what I should have paid for the 1st time around for: $5!!!

So the 1st guy with the good ratings totally got over on me... And did a CRAPPY CRAPPY job.

As someone else on this forum noted, it is truly incredible and amazing what someone will do for $5.

 

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[JasonR]

Why compete with Fiverr?

It's kind of got its own novelty thing going: what would you do for $5?

Granted, a large number of the gigs on Fiverr are absolute garbage (who would design a GOOD logo for you for $5? Shell out the extra $94 on 99designs). But rating is a dead giveaway: high ratings = great gigs. The more orders they've taken, the better.

It's a minimum of $300 on 99Designs, FYI.

 

[GThreepwood]

I hired some lady to call my Dad and sing him "Happy Birthday" in a Marilyn Monroe voice

 

[lookingahead]

I haven't used it to hire anybody, mainly cause I haven't spent the time to look through at all the different gigs. But I have used it to generate some spare change. (drop shipping/wholesale lists, and romantic date ideas) Generated about $30 for about 20 mins of my time.

 

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[The-J]

It's a minimum of $300 on 99Designs, FYI.

I'd still rather pay $300 for an excellent logo than $5 for a lame one.

 

[jljtech]

I have had some great success with Fiverr. It got to the point that I had to pause my service to give myself an opportunity to meet the order demand. It truly is a great marketplace for small services and there are some real gems to be found.

It is kind of funny how I got started. I basically said to myself, "let me just try this out". I did some brainstorming and identified something that I could offer which would provide great value to my buyers while not taking me too long to complete. $4k later and I am really shocked!

Right now I am working on the upsell. Fiverr is fairly strict about its users pushing customers outside of fiverr. They have even cracked down on messaging someone with your email address. Regardless, there are a number of ways to engage your customer and entice them to visit your offerings outside of the site.

All in all, selling and buying is great on fiverr. Like I said before, there are some real gem's being offered.