How to get more sales on Fiverr (Part 1)

Need more sales? Help making your gig? Want to know what impresses buyers? This post will help!

Fiverr is more that just five dollar. It is a place to sell a service / goods for seller, and place to buy a budget needs.

Fiverr is a website where everything is sold starting at $5. Its a website where you can outsource anything for less. Gone are the days when you have to pay $50 for an e-cover design or $30 for a 500 word article on freelance.com or guru.com.

This is why fiverr is the biggest thing that has happened to the internet for the past 3-4 years. Fiverr is real guys and i don’t know why some are still doubting Thomases. An author for example who just wrote an eBook definitely needs a cover for his eBook.

He could go on Fiverr and buy different cover types like eBook cover, CD cover, Hard-book cover and Kindle cover for the eBook. On fiverr, he can get them for $5 per cover and for $20 total for the 4 cover types as against buying expensive software to do it himself or using eBook companies which charge like $20 per cover.

Fiverr is a place for outsourcing and if you are in internet marketing circle, you will understand why webmasters outsource. There are many to do and you just have to outsource. Webmasters outsource ecovers, blog posts, website design, social media buys, fresh articles, website submissions, article submissions, logo design, backlinks building etc.

Fiverr for freelancer

The way to make serious money on Fiverr is to work your ass off until you get promoted to a Level 1. Then work even more until you’re at a level 2.

Why is this the secret sauce? Because once you are a level 1 or 2 seller, you can upsell your buyers on all your gigs.

There are some really lame examples of this and there are also some brilliant sellers who are really approaching this the right way and making bank.

Creating a Gig

When you sign up for Fiverr, you get all excited to be able to finally make some ‘easy’ cash online. To create a gig, click “Sales” on the top bar of the Fiverr page, then the green “Create Gig” button on the right side. Here are the tips the other Fiverr sellers suggest.

• Research

The KEY to being successful on Fiverr is making a gig with originality. This means you need to really be different than the rest of the sellers here! Sure, you can offer something similar, but to really stand out and make a difference, you need to be yourself and come up with something new. How?

Look at Featured & Top Sellers for inspiration!
This does not mean copy their gigs or offer the same things they do. What you need to do is get the motivation to be yourself and look inside yourself for your unique skills. Can’t come up with any? Start writing down every little thing you do at work, school, and in your free time and you just might realize there is a lot more to you than you think. Seriously, not everyone can do everything you are able to do, so market that stuff and go for it!

• An enchanted title

Do not explain everything you are going to do in your title, it just makes it cluttered and it will cut off the words strangely in a link.

A wonderful Top-Seller here made the best statement for this. “When a buyer clicks on your gig, there should be no surprises.” This means you need to keep your title direct and to the point. There are only 80 characters in a gig title, and really should should stay below that without difficulty.

The words you use should be words a buyer/customer would use to find something, so don’t add all the extra keywords, especially since you can put those in your description or tags. Need a little encouragement, look around at the other gigs sold in the same field as you are trying to sell, but do not copy that!

• Right category (ies)

You don’t go to the kitchen appliances section of a department store to look for shoes (at least, I hope not), so don’t try to place your gig into a category and subcategory which would not make sense from a buyer’s view.

Your gig may fit into multiple categories, so it is up to you to judge which one makes more sense and fits more of the details of the offer. If you really cannot decide, perhaps separating what you offer into multiple gigs based on each part of what you offer will help.

Do not make the same gig for two different categories! With the current set-up of Fiverr, you can only offer a gig to a Buyer Request if your gig and the buyer’s request are the same category and sub-category, so be aware of how your buyer would think and sort your gig properly.

• Showing off your talent (picture)

The gig gallery is where you upload images to represent your gig. Images must be in JPEG format, 682 pixels wide x 459 pixels high and no more than 2MB each.

Your image needs to be related to the service you are offering, or better, show buyers who they’ll be working with and by adding a photo of yourself.

Your image cannot be a stock image or something you do not own the copyrights to. When a buyer is browsing the Fiverr search, they will only see an image and the gig title, so try to not have any words in your image and still make it eye catching and appealing.

• Your full offer (description)

Your description needs to contain as much useful information as possible in less than 1,200 words. Don’t just restate your gig offer and your credentials, include a bullet-point list of what exactly they will receive when they order.

Be as clear as possible on what you will and will not do so you run into less issues in the future. I try to include the phrase, “Please contact me before ordering so we can work out the details,” so I have less surprise gig orders.

• You’re it! (tags)

Many people say the tags are key to getting sales, but I cannot show you any hard evidence. You have five(5) tags available to you, which can be multiple words or a single word.

Again, think as your buyer would think and add tags which are relevant to your gig and not mentioned in the title. I often ask friends to review my gigs and give me a few words that first come to their heads when they think of the service I provide.

• Express your self (video)

I believe the video is really what sells a gig in the end. I know I am due to an update on my gig videos since the changes made to Fiverr.

It is true that the best sellers on Fiverr get up in front of a camera and introduce the gig on their own, but this isn’t absolutely required. I highly recommend showing at least a picture of yourself, and I definitely recommend using your own voice.

If you have a computer, you most likely have some free video editing software where you can make a picture slide show with special effects and your own sounds, or an actual video recording with all the options to clip and edit. I use Windows Movie Maker, personally.

Videos are submitted for review by Fiverr before they are public, so don’t panic if you do not see your video right away. Patience is all part of the process.

• Activation

You have to manually activate your gigs now after you make them. To do this, go to your “My Gigs” page and click the number with “Suspended” as its description; this will bring you to the page where the gig(s) you just created are located and where gigs you decide not to offer for a time will go. Click the check box next to the gig(s) you want to activate then click the “Activate” button on top. Tada!

I will continue my article “Promoting your Gig” in Part 2. So, Please be patient!