My Honest Review of Fiverr

Freelancing

Freelancing is becoming a legitimate option for many online professionals, as it lets them lend their expertise to clients around the world. Similarly, business owners who don’t have time to handle all their needs often look to freelancers to produce quality content on their behalf.

This is where a site like Fiverr comes in. They’re one of the most popular sites for professionals who want to lend their expertise and clients looking to purchase quality content and services. Let’s take a look at their business model and their key features.

In this article, we break down the pros and cons of Fiverr’s features to help readers decide whether they’re a good fit for their needs.

Fiverr

Fiverr is an online platform that allows buyers and sellers to connect, and facilitates transactions for digital services such as website design, logo design, transcription, copyediting, and many more products. Their name comes from the original price for all services being just $5.

As an online marketplace for freelance services, Fiverr provides businesses and clients with low-cost providers from all over the world. The main idea behind the company is to streamline the process of hiring or getting hired as a freelancer. Fiverr is also one of the top Upwork alternatives.

All too often freelancers and clients must work through a middleman or an obstructive HR department, but by providing direct contact between these two parties, Fiverr allows professionals to freely sell their services while helping businesses coordinate their purchases much more efficiently.

How does Fiverr work?

Fiverr lets clients pay in advance for Gigs, which constitute any digital service ranging from WordPress design, logo creation, writing services, to even voiceover work. Although all services were priced at $5 when the site initially launched, freelancers can now set their price to whatever they choose and can offer package deals, or Gig Packages.

What is Fiverr good for?

Fiverr is a platform that offers a wide range of digital services. Some of the most popular services include logo design, WordPress development, transcriptions, video editing, and social media posts.

There’s a large market for visual design, particularly for logos, business cards, book covers, or album covers. You can also find experienced freelance writers who will translate certain documents, produce different types of web content, and can even edit your scripts and books.

Fiverr even created it's own business platform for invoicing, time tracking, and expenses, called AND.co (read our review of AND.co)

Basically, if you or your business needs a job that can be completed and delivered through electronic means, you can find a seller on Fiverr who’ll do it for you. If you’re a professional looking to sell your services to prospective clients, Fiverr is a good platform to get started.

Who uses Fiverr?

Freelancers.

And people that want to hire freelancers for basically anything!

Some companies use Fiverr Business, a paid function that streamlines the process of finding the right freelancer for specific organizations. Notable companies that use this function include, but are not limited to:

• L’oreal
• Unilever
• ByteDance
• 888.com
• MyHeritage

What does Fiverr cost? (Fiverr Pricing)

Fiverr is free to join for both sellers and buyers.

For each gig, buyers pay whatever price is set by the seller. Many freelancers’ prices start at $5, but this widely varies among certain sellers and projects can certainly cost more than the starting price.

A buyer can end up paying anywhere between $5 and a few thousand dollars depending on the complexity of the gig. Like we mentioned earlier, there is also a commission fee for each gig that can be either $1 or 5% of the total price.

Companies can also join the aforementioned Fiverr Business to streamline the freelancer vetting process and leverage the platform to budget and manage specific projects with multiple team members. This service costs $149 per year, but they’re currently offering a free one-year trial.

Fiverr Review

Fiverr is an excellent option for buyers who need certain digital services done fast and on a budget. While many are put off by the sheer number of freelancers on the service itself, the platform provides plenty of ways for users to find the perfect match for whatever service they need.

My favorite part about using Fiverr was the fast turnaround time for contracted gigs. Because sellers often complete a project in under 48 hours, even if their delivery time is delayed you’ll still get whatever service you need in under a week much of the time.

But even if you aren’t satisfied with a freelancer’s work or if you didn’t receive a project on time, Fiverr thankfully allows refund options. If a seller is late and unresponsive for 24 hours, you’re free to cancel an order and get your money back.

Additionally, you can often pay extra to guarantee a quicker turnaround. Sellers can also charge for revisions, or not offer revisions at all, so buyers should be on the lookout for these details on user profiles.

A concern I had going in was not being able to quickly find a freelancer among the thousands of different sellers available on the platform. It seems that Fiverr is aware of this, as they have plenty of tools available to find exactly the seller you’re looking for.

You can apply search filters based on sellers’ expected delivery times, price range, style, language, and more to optimize your contracting process (watch my video below to see this in action). For buyers with a little more time, they can create job posts and wait for freelancers to come to you rather than actively look on their own.

However, it’s important to recognize that not every freelancer on this site will be top-notch. There is a very wide pool of talent on the site, and many of the freelancers in certain categories are entry-level.

I’m reluctant to place this as a negative since Fiverr seems to understand that quantity doesn’t mean quality when it comes to freelancing, evidenced by the intricate seller rating system and the ability to leave user reviews for each freelancer. With that said, it’s worth noting that buyers will have to do plenty of research on a seller if they expect elite service.

For freelancers, Fiverr is certainly a good place to start their careers. It’s intuitive, user-friendly, and there’s guaranteed to be thousands of potential clients roaming the site every day. However, as with any job board or freelancing site, you’ll need to grind out a high volume of jobs to gain credibility and build your brand.

How much success you’ll have on Fiverr is dependent on other factors like your profession and how much demand there is for your level of expertise.

Pros: Here’s what I like about Fiverr

• The interface was easy to use as a buyer. I could identify what I wanted and how to go about hiring a seller.
• Affordable prices – unlike other design marketplaces that generally offer standard packages, designers on Fiverr (“Sellers”) set their own pricing, meaning you can shop around and find a designer that suits your budget. 
• There were lots of filters and search options available to make sure I could find who I wanted to complete a gig.
• Users can select from a wide array of digital services, ranging from web design to book cover illustrations.
• The refund option, even though it has to go through Fiverr’s customer service program, is fair and gives a flexible time frame to look over submissions.
• The average turnaround time is great for clients looking to get projects done fast.
• It’s easy to tell an inexperienced or poorly received seller from an experienced and well-regarded one even amongst the thousands of freelancers.
• You can really find gems and save lots of money on freelancing cost. I once paid over $2K for a ghostwriter to handle a project on Upwork. I later tried hiring another ghostwriter on Fiverr. They did virtually the same exact work for $190. You live and you learn!

Cons: Here are the only things I don’t like about Fiverr

• There’s always a chance that certain projects will not live up to expectations (though refunds can ameliorate this). 
• Customer service wasn’t always reliable and can ignore or fail to respond to requests. 
• Freelancers do have to give up a fifth of their revenue for each project, necessitating prices to be slightly higher. 
• Whether or not you can get revisions is up to the seller, and since they’re generally never free, it can either be costly or frustrating for buyers. But you can negotiate with them before giving them the project.

Fiverr Review: Conclusion

If you’re after web design on a relatively tight budget, Fiverr is a good option to explore. You get a decent pool of designers to choose from, and the right tools to make sure your project runs smoothly from start to end.
Our tips for getting the most out of a Fiverr web design project are:

• Have a clear brief, and plenty of visual examples for the kind of design you want.

• Spend the time to closely review seller profiles and portfolios – and stay away from low-rated sellers, or ones who have worked on few projects, even if the pricing looks good.

• Make sure that you and the designer are on the same page with regards to scope, before ordering a project.

• Be proactive in communicating with the seller and asking for updates.

• Make sure to closely review submitted designs and provide feedback all at once, as revision rounds are limited.

Blogging Can Change Your Life

Blogging has changed my life and I guarantee it will give you something that can make a little extra money or become a full-time money maker. I just started my Work from Home blog a few years ago and already reach almost 400,000 people a year. Not only does this provide a huge community to share with but I think most people don’t understand just how big a business it can be. I won’t tell you that blogging is the easy passive income everyone makes it out to be. It’s a business and I had to build it from the ground up but it’s a business that grows like you wouldn’t believe. In less than four years, I’ve grown the business to over $100,000 a year and broke $10,000 a month in 2018. 

You see from that chart though that it didn’t start that way. You have to get started first and that’s what we’ll talk about in this article. I’m going to give you a step-by-step to picking a blog topic, starting your website and what you need to set a blog up for success. I’ll walk you through all the way so that anyone can get started blogging. The rest of the series will give you everything you need to make that money from writing posts to getting the word out, all the ways I use to make money and the biggest blogging challenges. Let’s get to that process of how to start a blog. 

It’s going to be an easy, procedural article today and I’ll screen share exactly what you need to get started. If you want a quick checklist of everything we’ll be talking about in the series. I’m posting the videos over the next two weeks but you can get that checklist with everything you need right now. One of the first questions people ask about starting blogging is, well, what should I blog about? It’s maybe more important than you realize for a couple of reasons. First, you’re going to be doing a lot of writing and talking about this subject and it could be a business that lasts decades. 

You definitely want it to be in something you enjoy talking about and learning. Also though is some topics are just more profitable than others. There’s a saying in online business that the money is in health, wealth and love. It’s those three major topics; health and fitness, personal finance and relationships where the most ad dollars are spent, where the most is spent on courses and just where people are most willing to spend money. Of course, there are a lot of narrower topics within these larger ideas and you don’t want to start a blog on something as broad as personal finance. 

You want to narrow what you’ll be talking about further to a specific category in personal finance, maybe saving money or investing. You can also narrow your blog by your audience,so speaking to a specific group like stay at home moms or families or millennials. This narrowing is called your niche and it serves two purposes. First, it brings you closer to your readers because you’re talking more directly to them and their specific needs. Also though, this is going to make your blog an authority in that specific topic. Google will see that you’re building authority in one area and will rank you higher and your visitors won’t have to sift through dozens of unrelated articles to get more of what they came to your site for. So we’ve got a topic that we enjoy and a niche within it that’s going to make money, now is the step of picking your website name and getting it online. These are technically two steps but I’ve got a solution that will take care of both in one that I’ll share next. Now in the good old days of 2005, it used to be that you could get a boost on Google if your website name included keywords. So you got all kinds of blogs like how to make money.com and passive income.com but now your domain name really doesn’t matter as much. That means you can pretty much name your site whatever you like, something that’s easy to remember and spell. The one thing I’d caution about here is putting your name in your domain. The problem here is that if you ever want to sell the website, it’s obviously going to be harder to find a buyer if everyone knows the site as joeschmo.com. Picking a blog name that’s available can be tricky so I’ll use the domain name checker on bluehost to see if something’s available. If it’s not then the site will make a lot of suggestions here and I wouldn’t necessarily go with any of these but they can give you some ideas that you can try out different combinations of adjectives and other words. Now to get your blog online you’ll need to register that domain, your blog name, and you’ll need web hosting. Web hosting is just a company that holds your website on its servers and then delivers it across the internet to readers. For both of these, I recommend Bluehost and have actually negotiated a special deal if you use the link I’ll include in the description below the video. I recommend Bluehost for quite a few reasons and it’s the host I’ve started all four of my blogs on.

 First, with bluehost, you get your domain registered for free which saves you ten or fifteen bucks right there. It’s also one of the most inexpensive webhosts and offers a lot of freebies that we’ll look at in getting your blog set up. I’m going to walk you through setting upyour blog but really it takes all of about five minutes and Bluehost makes it extremely easy. This is why I love websites as a business idea. For less than that mocha-coca-china at Starbucks, you can get your website up and running for a month and making money. We’re going to select that basic plan and next they’ll ask you to pick a domain name which we just talked about so you just enter your site name in here. You can change this from .com to others like .net or .biz but I would recommend sticking with the .com type. A few things here on the account signup page, most of this is just your contact information and payment so all pretty easy though I will point out some of this package information. First here is you can change the length ofyour plan from twelve to 36 months. Even the shorter-term plan is pretty inexpensive but I always like to lock in the biggest discount. This business is something you’re going to be building and making money off for years to come so getting that discount is always nice. Some things they try to upsell you on here that I usually just check off. The domain privacy information isn’t really that big of a deal. I’ve got my home address on mine and have never had a problem or you can use a PO box. This site backup plan, you’ll be able to backup your site with free plugins we’ll use so we’ll click off that as well and save you the three bucks a month. Then we’ll uncheck this site lock security because this isn’t really something you need to get started either. 

So this brings my total to just over a hundred dollars which remember is for three years of hosting. Basically you’ve got your site online for three years so I’m going to enter in my information and click submit. You’ll get a confirmation email and next be prompted to create a password for the blog so not your birthday and no pet’s names please. We’ll just use the auto-generated passwords for now. Next it’s going to prompt you to pick a theme for your blog. This is like the layout or design of your blog what people see, so it’s hugely important. Bluehost will show you the free themes toget started so we’ll just pick one of these. That’s basically it to get your blog online. It used to be that you had to install WordPress but now Bluehost is doing all this automatically for you. Your blog will be in a temporary status at first and just show a “Coming Soon” page so when we click through then we can click to “Launch Site” and take it live. Here we’re still on the Bluehost panel which is like a behind the scenes dashboard for your Bluehost account. You’ll rarely use this so we’re just going to click to Login to Wordpress, the behind the scenes for your blog itself. And here’s WordPress, once we x out of all these notices on the right, you’ll see the left-side menu which is how you’ll make changes to the blog and manage it. There’s some basic setup you’ll want to take care of like changing your site title and tagline in Settings and then General Settings.  

You can also try out a few different looksfor your blog by going to Appearance and then themes to let you pick some of the other free themes. Once you’ve got your website up and running, there’s something that’s going to make your life a whole lot easier called plugins. These are computer programs that you can install onto your website to do a specific task like keep you from getting lots of spam comments and making it easier for people to share your site on social media. To add a plugin to your blog, just click plugins on the left menu in WordPress. You’ll see all the plugins on your website and can click Add New to search for ones you want. When you find one, you’ll click Install now and then Activate to get it working. There are more than 30,000 plugins availableon WordPress but understand that having too many can slow down your website. There’s no consensus to how many is too many. Whenever you decide on whether to add another, just ask yourself if you really need what it offers. Let’s look at some of the plugins I usethat will be critical to starting your blog. Most of these are free plugins though they might have some premium levels. When it comes to paying for plugins, I only have three plugins I pay for and only consider one absolutely necessary for beginner bloggers. First is Akismet, probably the most widely used plugin on WordPress. This one filters obvious spam comments soyou don’t spend hours a week deleting crap from your comment section. It’s free and the first plugin everyone needs to install. 

Next is Broken Link Checker. Now a broken link is anytime you click on something online and all you see is an error page or a 404 page. This is obviously super annoying for your readers and Google will actually ding your site if it finds too many. So you install this broken link plugin thatchecks all the links on your website to make sure they go somewhere. A word of warning though, this one can slowdown your blog if you leave it on because it’s constantly running through checking your links. Instead, what you want to do is install itbut only activate it for maybe a weekend each month. Let it run for those three days or so to checkyour links, fix any broken links it finds, and then deactivate it so it doesn’t run continuously. Next is the PrettyLinks plugin, easily myfavorite plugin and the only premium plugin I think every beginning blogger should have. 

There are two things this plugin does. First, it let’s you create a link you want to put on your blog. So if you’ve ever hovered over a linkable text and seen just a jumble of letters, with PrettyLinks you create a link that starts with your website name and looks much more professional. More importantly though, the plugin makes it easy to manage all your links. You can change out the direction or the target where the link goes when someone clicks. This is hugely important for products or affiliates. You might link your course or an affiliate on a dozen or more pages on your blog but if you ever want to change the link then you have to go to each page and change the link. 

With pretty link, you just go into the plugin and change the target and it’s automatically changed on all the pages. The plugin also shows you how many people clicked on that link and from which page so it’s a great tracking tool. The next plugin I recommend is the Shareaholi social sharer. If you’ve ever noticed those social share buttons on the left side or top of a blog post, it’s probably shareaholic. This just makes it easier for readers to shareyour article and gets you more traffic which is huge for new bloggers. One feature I like about Shareaholic is that you can set it to float where it will stay showing on the screen even as someone scrolls down the page. 

Now you’ve got your blog set up and you’re ready to start posting, getting visitors to your blog and making money. Next week, I’m going to show you how to write a blog post that will get noticed, not just by visitors but by Google to rank in search. I’ll be revealing secrets I’ve learned to make writing easy for anyone so make sure you check that out. If you want a quick checklist to getting started blogging, everything we’ll be talking about in the series, Stay tuned. If you’ve got a question about money, just scroll down and ask it in the comments and we’ll answer it in a article. 

How To Earn Money Online in India For Students

EARN MONEY ONLINE IN INDIA

In this blog you will get to know about some best and effective methods on how to earn money online in India for students. These methods are also valuable for others. Read this blog completely to know all of them and apply the method in which you are comfortable. 

1. Blogging

Blogging is a best way to start earning easy money online. Now a days Blogging has become a trending and a great way to earn money online as a student in India. For this you just need to create a blog on Blogger or Wordpress. Mostly these two are the most famous and reliable platform. Both are great, but personally I am using blogger. After creating a blog you will have to write some blogs regarding some topics. Publish at least 20-25 blogs and after that you can send request to monetize your blog through Ad Sense. You will earn money by ad revenue with Ad Sense. What you will do is just writing some blogs on several topics,You can choose any topic of your own interest. For a Student who don't have a lot of free time, You can write something on a topic in your phone whenever you get some time and later copy paste your work and publish the article. This is a best way to earn money online in India.

2. Freelancing

For a Student freelancing is also a great option to choose for some online earning in India. Let's talk about this.

What is freelancing really is?

Freelancing is just providing your work or service online. That's Simple.

For this you better have a skill to provide on a freelancing platform. Like If you have a good knowledge of Photoshop or on graphic designing you can provide graphic designing service on any freelancing platform. You can choose the work in which you are interested. You don't have to do any work forcefully because you have freedom to choose your work or task. There are thousands of freelancing platforms, but Freelancer, Upwork and Fiverr are most popular ones. You can promote your work through blogging also by writing about your work or service in your blogs. 

3. Content Writing

This is also a great option for those who love to write on different topics. There are a lot of
websites available on the internet but few of them are hubpages, The Writer's Den and many more. In these websites you can write articles on a lot of different topics. After writing you will have to send them for review.These websites will review your work whether your article is copied or something, they will check for errors and after approval your article will be public and you will get a decent amount of money through these. The more you write the more you earn. For students who really loves to write this is a best pick for them.

4. Social Media

This is one of the greatest ways to earn some money online. Social Media is a platform which is being used highly each and everyday. Everyone is active on daily basis on every platform, So We can use those platforms to earn simple money. Now a days almost everyone is posting about their daily life and gaining followers. These followers can help you to earn money online as a student. For this you can start different pages on Instagram on some specific topics or niches. Also for doing this it's not necessary to give specific time in this method. You can post a picture or video in your page whenever you are free. Just manage to post one or two posts regularly. In any method Consistency is the key to success, but in this method it matters a lot. After some time, when you gain some good amount of real followers, You will start to get messages on your inbox for promoting different products or services. By uploading them on your story you will get a decent amount of money directly. 

5. Affiliate Marketing

This method is best for everyone not only for students but everyone can make a six figure income through this method. There are a lot of students earning money online through this method.

What is affiliate marketing?

Affiliate marketing is promoting someone else's product. There are a lot of websites that offer affiliate programs and also there are websites which offer you a list of products to promote. After joining the affiliate programs, You will get your own affiliate link. After that you will have to promote products or services, you will get a solid commission every time it gets a sale through your affiliate link.

This method holds the power to change your life completely. For making a really good money through affiliate marketing you have to promote the product as much as you can.The more you promote the more chances you have for getting a sale. 

6. Online Tutoring

This method can be a best choice for those students who are really good in studies. In this method you have several ways to make money 

online. You can make a digital course on some topic and publish it to websites like Udemy and others. If you want to know about some good websites that provide same service, You can ask me in the comments. I will help you as much as I can. Also you can teach students through zoom call and earn money directly. There are a lot of websites available over the internet. Just research a little bit and you will get to know about them very easily, It's not hard to find such websites. By this method you excellency in studies can give you really good money. You will become someone's teacher on an online platform. If you are good at studies you can do the same thing in your locality or your nearby places. This will help a lot and many students actually earning money through this method offline, But in this digital era you can do the same thing online. 

In my upcoming blogs I will share full details on each topic, So If you wish to earn money online through real ways Stay tuned with me.

Thank You for reading this article. 

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