How To Make Money On Fiverr — Make Over $1000 Online

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Mani Pathak
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11 min readFeb 3, 2023

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How To Make Money On Fiverr
Review On My Fiverr Profile. Source: Fiverr

I love freelancing ever since I started back in 2017. It’s a highly profitable, easy-to-start, and trusted way to make money online.

Don’t make it hard and waste your time. How To Make Money On Fiverr in an easy and professional way?

You will learn:

  • How does Fiverr work?
  • How to sell on Fiverr (Services)?
  • How to make money on Fiverr?
  • How much does Fiverr take?

After working with over 200 clients from more than 25 countries, I can certainly guide you with the best strategies that worked for me and you can try the too.

👉 You can check my freelancer profile here: Mani Pathak

If you don’t have any experience, still you can follow the step-by-step process and start to make money on Fiverr and Freelancer.

My chat with the client (Freelance work). Image By Author

Remember.

If you are professional with your clients and in your work (output), clients are more than happy to pay $100 to $10000 for each work.

Finding your first freelance work could be a little tough but if you show respect and dignity in your work, it’s quite easy to get your 10th and 1000th projects.

The more reviews (5 starts) you collect the more it becomes easy to get new Fiverr orders and the more money you can make.

I’m about to start to form the third question (most important) and will address all others in between. The next 5 Mins are quite crucial and please skip at your own risk. Hmm :)

How to make money on Fiverr?

If you want to make money on Fiverr, you need to follow create a profile and publish your very first GIG (Services) on Fiverr.

It’s 100% free and signup and takes less than 30 mins to list your first services on Fiverr.

Though, your success entirely depends on many things.

  1. Gig (services) pricing plans.
  2. Your work experience and ethics.
  3. Customer satisfaction.
  4. Client reviews.
  5. Project/ Gig details
  6. Seniority- days spent on Fiverr.
  7. Fiverr GIG SEO and graphics.
  8. Your gigs ranking on Fiverr.
  9. Competition.
  10. The right selection of niche and services in demand.

For beginners, it’s not easy to make everything possible on Fiverr to make a decent amount of money and that’s the reason nearly 80% of freelancers make less than $500 every month.

But, It’s not impossible.

How To Make Money On Fiverr
How To Make Money On Fiverr? Image Created In Canva By Author

Let me make it easy for you. I have my secret formula to place yourself in the top 20% of Fiverr freelancers who make up to $50,000 per month.

Trust me, I’m among the top 20% at Freelancer.com (Fiverr alternative).

Step 1: Profile Creation And Gig Setup

It’s really important for your to read carefully ad follow each and every step of this guide so that you never get lost in the mission and your chances of failure could be significantly reduced.

Image By Author Using Canva. Signup At Fiverr

Follow the steps:

  1. Go to the Fiverr website.
  2. Signup with your email, Facebook, or Google accounts as shown in the above image.
  3. Next, it will take you to the other pages where can fill in your basic detail, skills, and education details to complete your account (Video Tutorial).
  4. Once you have successfully registered, it’s time to create and sell your services.

Common Mistakes To Avoid:

When you start to create a profile, you may make some mistakes that largely impact your earnings on the platform (Fiverr).

Avoid these mistakes to make money on Fiverr.

Image Source: Fiverr. Top Fiverr content writers profile.

If you check carefully, you will notice a few things where you can’t make mistakes in creating your own profile.

  • She has the word “Writer” in her user name and in the same way, you can also choose a user name that also contains the keywords from your niche. Such as — SEOFreelancer, WebDeveloperMike
  • Professional descriptions for your Fiverr profile show be killer and they should cover why you are different and better than others and pro in the services you provide. Including past experiences also helps.
  • Profile icons should be your “Face” or logo to build trust, you can’t leave it blank.

These are really important things that you can’t ignore on your Fiverr profile.

Step 2: Create A Fiverr GIG (Services)

Whether you are a writer, freelancer web developer (like me), or video editor and want to sell any other services on Fiverr, you need to list them individually.

After signup, you list your services, decide your charges, and explain the details of your services so that people can hire yours directly.

Image Source: Fiverr. Top Fiverr content writers profile.

When an employer makes a search on Fiverr, Your GIGS are shown along with others or appear in featured gigs.

To create a Fiverr GIG follow the steps:

  1. Go to the “Become a seller” page of Fiverr.
  2. Create a Gig title, select category, and meta tags.
  3. Set up your gig pricing.
  4. Write a gig description and FAQ.
  5. Enter Requirements.
  6. Add photos or a video to your gig.
  7. Publish your gig.
Video Source: YouTube. How to create a Fiverr GIG.

This video can help you create your very first Fiverr GIG which can start making you money on Fiverr.

I lately, Found an article that goes into detail to explain the right way of creating a Fiverr GIG. You can read that here.

Things to keep in mind:

  1. Give your GIG title appropriately and using a few keywords in the title can help you rank on Fiverr.
  2. Never suer poor quality or copyright images as gigs banner (info-graphic).
  3. Before creating a project (GIG) description you can take a look at the top-selling gigs in your niche to get a better IDEA.
  4. Select the right category and subcategories.
  5. It’s hard to make decent money but keeping costs low until you have a decent number of 5-star reviews will help you get your first order.
  6. Don’t list the services which you are delivering or not a pro in that. It will ruin your profile reputation which matters the most.
  7. A long and clear description of what the buyer will get from you after placing an order makes it easy to generate sales on your Fiverr GIGS.
Source: LinkedIn

This is how you can list your services on Fiverr that makes money for you and you don’t make miss that matters.

Pay attention and don’t miss to read carefully.

Step 3: Promotion and sales

Even though you have everything until now (Profile and GIG on Fiverr), you can’t literally make money initially until you market GIG manually.

Obviously, to make money on FIVERR, beginners have to put in extra effort as compared to established freelancers.

The Fiverr algorithm doesn’t give a huge boost to your new listing until you have a decent number of 5-star reviews and experience.

Fiverr counts on various things:

  1. Your selling seniors in the days- It means how long you have been on the platform.
  2. Your earnings from Fiverr in the last 30 days/90 days.
  3. Reviews on your Fiverr gigs and bad reviews.

For beginners, it’s literally impossible and that’s the reason you need to have a decent number of followers.

That’s the reason, You need to market your GIG to generate orders.

There are many ways of doing this. It could be free as well as paid marketing.

Free ways to promote your Fiverr gigs

It’s very easy and 100% free to promote your Fiverr gigs for generating orders. The more you promote the more you generate leads and earn money on Fiverr.

  1. Join Facebook freelancing groups and promote your Fiverr gigs there to generate leads (orders).
  2. You can use QUORA to generate free traffic and sales. Answering the questions related to your services with links in-between will help you get more orders.
  3. Medium- Just like any others, Medium posts, and publications can also help you reach 1000s of readers and potential customers.
  4. You can invite your existing clients/friends to place an order and make money. It also helps to get reviews and more internal leads on Fiverr.
  5. YouTube videos and blogging is a very powerful way to promote your Fiverr gigs for free.

Example:

Being a freelancer web developer, blogger, writer, performance marketer, and growth hacker, I sell my services I use both Fiverr and Freelancer.com.

But to promote my profile, I wrote on Medium, Quora, and my personal blog. I also apply all other free and paid ways to generate leads.

Pricing free help is also a great way to build trust and generate new leads. I have a post here about “how to create a blog” which has over 700 share and literally many reader got inspired to ask for my paid services.

This all could happen because It’s my free help in the form of a detailed post about blogging and it shows my ability to deliver the perfect work.

It’s hard to gain trust on a new profile but with the right marketing strategies, it is not quite difficult.

My freelancer profile.

Maybe you don’t have money to invest in your Fiverr freelancing business but you need to follow the right strategies to succeed.

It’s not always about money but passion.

As you can check my Freelancer.com profile, I have many reviews and all of them are 5-star.

After working with over 200+ clients. My advice is available in the form of this post for free but it’s more worthy than any e-book you purchased lately.

I’m not writing this post spending 3 days for fun but to help you find the exact information (My secret/experience) that can work for you.

Many readers will just read a part of it and comment to blame but that’s literally their problem that they don’t have a focus to understand the intensity of this post.

It’s not a pizza on your plate that you need not brainstorm or work on.

To make money on Fiverr, you need to read everything I have shared in this post as well in-between.

Avoiding my advice is our choice, I’m happy only a few 100 readers could take the real benefit and started to make money on Fiverr.

Online Marketing — Paid Ads. Image by rawpixel.com on Freepik

Paid ways to promote your Fiverr gigs:

Paid ways may be a little technical and may require a little investment to promote.

There are many good paid ways to promote your Fiverr gigs to generate orders for making money.

  1. Google, Fb, Bing, and other search engine ads (PPC Ads).
  2. Influencer marketing- Hire tech influencers in your niche to promote your gigs.
  3. Cold email marketing to generate orders.
  4. Video ads on Facebook and YouTube for leads.
  5. Guest posting on high DA sites with your gigs links.

You can simply grab the link of your Fiverr gigs, build a landing page (Which links to the GIGS) and start to run paid ads for generating new orders.

That’s how easily you get new clients and 100s of reviews in the early days to build a decent reputation on the platform.

As we know by now, after having 100s of real reviews Fiverr algorithms start to promote your gigs for free on the platform, and even with paid or free ads, you being to get new orders.

My advice:

You may read 10 articles on “How to make money on Fiverr” but if you could read just one post, that I have shared here and follow carefully you can make money for sure.

  1. Carefully read and create profiles and gigs.
  2. Promote online using any paid or free methods.
  3. Deliver the work without compromising the quality of work.
  4. Be professional and keep the cost reasonable.
  5. Build trust and review your profile.

It will make your freelancing business skyrocket. There more you concentrate the more money you make on Fiverr.

FAQs. Photo by Ann H

Frequently Asked Questions:

Let’s answer some commonly asked questions that may clear every doubt and help you start today.

How to sell on Fiverr (Services)?

It’s quite easy to sell your services on Fiverr. Follow the steps given below:

  1. Register at Fiverr and create gigs ( I have already discussed how to do that in this post (Above).
  2. Promote your Fiverr gigs for orders.
  3. Deliver the work and get a review. Obviously, money will be paid at the end of project completion.
  4. Keep engaging with your clients and make more money.

How does Fiverr work?

Fiverr is a freelancing platform where you as a freelancer can list different services which you wish to sell to other employers (Registered users) for money.

You both are charged a 20% commission for using the platform to hire freelancers or to work for clients.

You have to be skilled to sell your services on Fiverr else it will not work for you. Though, there are a few things that can be learned and sold with the weak. Such as Graphics designing, writing, keyword research, data scraping, data entry, and proofreading.

Over 200 kinds of services you can sell on Fiverr.

How much does Fiverr take?

Fiver takes nearly 20% of your earnings as a platform free once you are hired and paid any amount.

Though, it’s 100% free to join and list your services.

Mistakes to avoid at Fiverr

Fiverr makes over $5,000 every month for many highly active and trusted freelancers though you can make some mistakes as beginners.

  1. Always set reasonable pricing for your gigs after evaluating other gigs on the platform.
  2. Try to maintain a rating (reviews) of 4.5 and above 5.
  3. The clarity in the project description helps. Keeping clients in dark can ruin your profile and business.
  4. Never take the project off the Fiverr platform or ask employers.
  5. Don’t delay in response to client messages.
  6. Never try to delay the project or ask for more price after tacking the work.
  7. Learn new skills and list services that have low competition.

Summary:

The average earning of a Fiverr freelancer is above $500/month and it is possible to make over $10,000 every month on Fiverr.

Anyone can join freelancers for free to sell their services and it takes less than 30 mins to register and create gigs.

New freelancers, need to follow each and every part of this post to make money without any trouble.

Remember, over 80% of freelancers QUIT as they don’t know how to win orders on Fiverr with.

First, learn and then start with all of your energy to make money.

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Mani Pathak
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7X Top Writer, SEO Expert, We Designer | Writing to help you grow businesses and make money online. → https://bit.ly/explore-with-mani | 📩 hello@manipathak.com