Hello, I'm Gohar from Pakistan and today, I'm going to talk to you about my experience at Fiverr and how I earned 2000 euros on the site.
Ok, what is Fiverr? Fiverr is a space, a platform where you can sell your services online. I started this experience at Fiverr in 2015, I think, and at the time I had finished my degree, in college, I was just working part-time, so I wanted a little extra money, and also a way to occupy ourselves we have free so I looked on the net for ways to make money on the net, online. And I found Fiverr.
The first question you may be asking is Who can sell on Fiverr? And everyone can sell, everyone. There are categories for everything, so What can you sell? I advise you to sell something that you are Exceptionally Good! Really very good!
Because the rating you receive from your customers is very, very important, for you continually receive more work. So this is a cycle, and if you have good ratings, get more customers, and if you have a good rating there are always customers coming in, so keep that in mind.
Categories in which you can have a service. You can be in the area of Graphic Design, you can make illustrations, you can make drawings, you can enter the marketing area digital, that is, creating content for other people, publishing content for other people, appointments, be a kind of assistant.
You can also enter the category of writing, reading texts by authors, and checking for errors, and correcting, you can also enter in the world of video, animation, if you like it, music, programming also, create apps, create websites, and also in the area of photography, you can take photograph of any product they send you, or take a lifestyle photograph, for example, you jumping in the middle of the beach, there are so many requests, from many customers, work you will never be lacking.
But I advise you to find something that is exceptional and that you know that you are very good at it, and that there is no way to you have a bad rating. This is the first step, knowing what you are going to sell, this is very important.
In my case, my first gig, your service, it's called gig, my first gig, and the only one that gave me a lot of money, about 80%, 90%, of the 2000 € that I have here, was to draw portraits. At the time I started to draw some of your portraits, and I started to see that there were looking for that.
As I did it at the time, I transformed this on my first gig, but in the first few hours I didn’t have any results, nobody passed by. So I decided to take an extra step, and see what happened. And this is the first tip I have for you.
Before I give you the tip, I just want to tell you one thing, before you start I have to tell you that this is a platform, you are using the space on this platform. Fiverr takes a percentage of all sales from you, and if you think it’s too money, a very large percentage, I do not advise you to go to Fiverr because you they will be very irritated. Because in all sales they take you away money, so .
I want you to be aware of this, if you want to enter this platform I don't want you to be upset about this, because you are using a service of them, and it's a fee .If you have a lot of customers, outside the Fiverr, I advise you to use these customers and to look for customers outside of it . but if you have a hard time getting customers and you want quick money, I advise you to go to Fiverr.
You will be left without a percentage, but, you will win more customers and more money, so this is up to you! Before you start to have that notion, Fiverr will take a percentage from you So, I just wanted to show you that I really won 2000 €. As I told you, I haven't been working a lot on Fiverr, because I'm working full time right now, but, I can't show you until 2015, but for example, two years later, in 2017, I was already slowing down a little bit, but even so I managed make lots of sales! Okay, so, I think we can talk about the my trick to start.
Because, as I told you, this is a cycle, if you have a good ranking you have more sales, and more people find you and then go crazy! I had to take a vacation from Fiverr, there is an option to take a vacation, say that we are not working on Fiverr, because I was receiving so many orders, that I couldn't do everything, so please have notion of that.
This is a cycle, if you have good ratings, you will have more customers, and if you continue with good ratings you will generate lots of customers, so I had to start somehow. Buyer Requests are people who are not supposed to want to be looking for someone who do the work for them but put an ad An ad saying "I want a person take a picture on the beach, and the money I can give is this "And then people apply for that ad. And I applied for one of those requests, and after an hour or two I received an OK.
I did it really fast, I got a rating of 5 stars, and from there I received customers, because I already had a good rating, and people were entering. As I started to earn more rankings of 5 stars, I started to receive many more, because as I told you it is a cycle. If you want to enter Fiverr, I strongly advise you to go to that hidden place of Fiverr,
I don’t understand why it’s so hidden, but I advise you to go there, and see what s that you have something in your area that you know how to do. And write a little text saying that you can do this in X hours and that you don't care about the price, or think the price is right, and wait a little bit. Usually people at Fiverr are always very active, at least from what I’ve seen, and it's a really good way to start.
So, responding to Filipa and responding Susana, I didn't promote my work, I didn't spend money on Sponsor here at Fiverr because it wasn’t necessary, I didn’t really feel the need. Now I’m going to show you how you can make a Gig, from scratch, as quickly as possible, so you don't get too tired, so let's go! Ok, if you want to create an account on Fiverr you can use your account Facebook, your Google account, or your email or username.
I will then sign in with my Google account. When you create your account, you will have something like this, so we are going to Gigs, click on Gigs, and click on the green button called "Create a New Gig" Ok, now we have our Gig Title, I will do something I'm really good at, what are we going to do. For example, I will draw your portrait, any thing works.
Let's take the Photography area, let's here to the category and we will choose Video & Animation, and we will choose "Product Photography". Then, inside here we are going to tell you what kind of format we are going to offer. I will offer in JPG and also in PNG, and then Photoshop or Raw I'll add it as an extra, so I won't load it now.
Here in the tags I go for Sports Photography, Beauty Photography. Ok I’ll load Save and Continue. In the next part, it’s the price, so you can create a base price, and then people can add some extras. But you can also use packs. Is for they just need to click on Try Now, and choose the name of the various packs. The basic pack will be, as the name says, it will be the base, so here I will just put 5 photos, and the photos will be delivered in 2 days.
You choose the type of things you are going to do. After Revisions, I usually use Unlimited here, that is, people can ask you for revisions all they want if they are not satisfied. Now in the price I'm going to put the base price, so I go for 10 in these, in this I want it to be a little bit more so I go for 25, and this will be a little bit more, and it will be, for example, 50.
And from there you start to fill all these categories. Then, in the extras, for example, I had told you that I wanted to add the files option Raw, and Photoshop files, so I'm going to click on Add Gig Extra, click here, and I will write Raw Files, and then in the extra I will say that it is another 5 $ for these file originals, and I will go on for no additional days.
So, you have all these options, so if your customers want faster delivery come here Extra fast delivery, and in Basic you say you can do it in one day if you pay another $ 15, for example, and do that for the rest. I will go to you show my own Gig, so not having to fill it all out, so my gig that I have now active is jus tone, and it’s just for my regular customers to be able to find me.
You can see that I put I will make a drawing of you in vector style, I put in the Graphic Design Category, and I posted Portraits and Caricatures. After you already realized this part, I will pass it on. In pricing, I decided to do just one basic with the same value for everyone, and then with the extra adds more to the customer's price.
If the price is too high for the customer I usually talk to him first and make my own proposal. Then in the description I put Just send me your picture high quality works bests and I'll make a drawing of you in this kind of style, and here you will see the type of style that I'm talking about here in the description. And then you can ask the most frequently asked questions that people can ask, so, I put here "What will the person get if they buy my gig", "What does the client need to do to get started", "What kind of work do I have more ".
For example, in the first one I say that I will receive an image with this quality, and with these dimensions, with a transparent background and with White. and After the requirements, I just asked people to send me a photo with the highest quality possible And put here in the attachment And then in the gallery I showed some images, some portraits that I made And you can, of course, add more and more.
I don’t have that many because, as I started making a lot of portraits for clients These portraits are being added here to my gallery, so There is always more work, and different work that I can show that I did, so, I have more images here than those two initials that I put In the end something like this will appear for people to come by and make their purchase.
When someone asks for your service you will be in contact with that person through a chat, so You can send previews of your work, so they can see if they want to change anything or not And always try to make your client 100% satisfied because it is very important to classify of 5 stars If you feel that a customer is not that satisfied, and that it will give you a bad ratin I advise you to refund the money, that is, do not send the work but they send the money back.
because it's much more important that you have a 5-star rating on everything than having a bad rating, because afterwards it is much more difficult to receive new customer focus a lot on the customer even if he is not 100% correct in the things he says in the way you speak Because you will find everything You will not be able to choose your client, it is the client who chooses you You meet all kinds of people And always try to make him as satisfied as possible .
This is much more important Than receive 5 $ 10 $, believe me You may have spent a little time with him But it is better to refund, return the money, than to get a bad rating believe me I don't want this video to show you that you can make easy money Because that's what it looks like, if it does But I want you to realize that this is work, you will spend hours on your computer as if it were a normal job,
a part-time job or a full-time job You have to organize your time well And doing things so that you don't take anything out of your life, or take anything out of your work But I don’t want you to think this is easy money, it’s not easy money you will work for it, the only difference is that you are not working in an office you are working at home, or in a cafe,
wherever you are most comfortable but have more freedom to choose the place where they work, but will work in the same and I want you to realize that taking into account that I started in 2015, I want to explain to you why I only have 2000 € because 2000 € is very little but as i told you, i was working part time and fiverr was taking me a lot of time I was receiving a lot of orders, the first 1000 € was from that small time where I was working part-time fiverr, and another job, and and I was getting really tired, because I also want to work on my hobby which is Youtube .
so I prefer not to receive so much money on Fiverr, reduce it a little bit to be able to work on youtube maybe it's a little stupid decision, but I thought it would be the best but I managed to receive some customers who were customers from a few years ago I started to work with a British author and and I managed to make book covers, characters posters to advertise the new books and I continue to work with him since 2015 Fiverr brought me regular customers who always come back to me even though i am in f mode holidays on Fiverr and no one finds me, apart from regular customers, I still managed to receive some money, and I was getting those 1000 € spread over a few months But believe me if I was working on it 100%, believe me it was much more than 2000 € because 2000 € is not that much, taking into account the years but in relation to the time period and the time I spent it is a lot of money I hope you enjoyed this video I hope you gave some tips on Fiverr and how to get started on Fiver I think the tip of going to Buyer Requests is very important for you to start because you have to show that you are good, so you have to start somewhere and have to go get the customers then the customers come to you but in an initial moment it is very important that you go after them, at least in the beginning but that's it I hope I took all your doubts if by chance I didn't, please leave in the comments that I answer in the comments and if there are a lot of questions I answer in another video I hope you enjoyed this and see you in the next one!