How to Make an Extra 10 a Day on the Internet
If you're looking for a quick way to earn an extra ten dollars on the internet,Fiverris a website that allows you to post jobs to do just about anything for a set price tag of $5. That also means you can visit the website to purchase those jobs from other people, as well. If you visit the website, you will discover that there are thousands of jobs available to purchase, but if you start clicking on them, you will notice one thing: most have a zero rating and no one has bought them. The biggest challenge in earning money online through Fiverr is: getting someone to buy your gig.
The process all starts with the job you are going to post up. Before you post any job, there are two things to do:
1) Do a search for a related job - in the top right hand corner is a search bar. Plug in some search terms that you would use to describe your job. You'll receive a page with related results to those terms. Click through on some of the jobs, see how many people have bought the job, and also how the person describes it. If you see a job that has a lot of matches, but poorly written descriptions, make note of it as a possible job. If you see a job with a lot of matches, with a lot of people buying them, note that too as a possibility. When you find something that has no results or very few, then you know you may have found a winner.
2) Scan down the list of "Suggested Gigs" - on the lower right hand side, there are short notices with gigs people want completed. If you see a bunch of ideas posted that are related, go ahead and create a separate gig for those ideas if it matches up with your skills. If you see a suggested gig that you know you are qualified for, click on the user name and send them a message about it. This works great because you may be one of the only ones applying for the job, and have a real shot of selling yourself to that person.
After I have a job to post, I have to think of a great title for the job. Scanning through the other jobs on the site, and my own, the best way to capture people's interest is to keep the title short, relevant, and use a number. People are visiting the site to get something done quick and easy. A quick scan of the titles that their search brings up has to be concise so they can capture all the words easily and make a decision to click or not. They really don't want to waste a lot of time doing research on these gigs. They want solutions, now. Numbers are how you make your job stand out from the crowd of similar jobs.
Here are some titles that came up after a search for "write article":
- I will write a 500 word article, review or blog post for $5
- I will write 300-500 word articles on any topic or niche that is rich in content, fully researched for $5
- I will write, stories, poems, columns, reviews, etc.for $5
With the first, you know exactly what you are getting from the title alone. With the second, the job title was too long to fit into the space, so people will either pass by it or have to click on it to get more information. The third is too general - you don't know how many words the article will be, or length of poem.
Next is the Description of the job. Again, people are looking for simple, concise, and numbers in the information. They want to know the quality you can provide, a reference to a related job/blog posting/portfolio, a quote from a previous client praising your work, etc. You shouldn't bog down the description field reiterating what you said in your title. A 500 word article/blog post is a 500 word article/blog post. Highlight the quality of your work and the timeline of what they will expect.
The Instruction field is useful to get a job going right away without a major delay with you asking the buyer questions. You may put a series of questions in the instruction field to get the topic, key words to use, other terms, links to add in, or colours to use with logos/graphics, and so forth. Ask 3-5 questions to cover the general idea of the job that gives you enough information once they answer to contemplate the job and comeback with a few other questions for more detail, or even start the job.
People are going to find your job primarily through the Tags and the Category you specify. Other than adding in all the usual tags (e.g. writing, articles, blogs), try to find a few unique terms that fit into the job but will help it stand out. Enter a few of those unique terms into the search bar, and you will discover some very small niches of jobs available. A search for "wacky" brings up a job for "I will watch a movie and review it for you for $5." There are only 19 jobs related to "wacky," plenty of room to get in there. "Writing" has 4400+ jobs - not a lot of room for competition.
You also get to set how long it will take you to finish the job, and a picture. An important thing to note about the completion deadline is the fact that if you go over the deadline date, the buyer has the option to cancel the job altogether. A good strategy is to submit the work you have done, explain the situation and how much more time you need, and it will work out better for you in the end. If a buyer cancels your job after you miss the deadline, your rating drops. If they cancel after you submit the work, your rating doesn't drop.
Now that you have completed your job, entered in all the tags that you can fit, wrote the best 450 word description of your life, the next thing to do is to promote it. Fiverr is social media ready. From any gig page, you can send it to Facebook, Twitter, email it, send it by MSN Messenger, Digg it, and so much more. You can share the link to your profile and that will list all of the gigs available from you.
Once you land that first gig, it will only be a matter of time until you receive the next, and the next. Occasionally, you will hit a goldmine of someone looking to have a lot of tasks done and will use you to complete them all (for continuity in the work, and for ease of communication). The key to Fiverr is getting that first job and then your name will become more viral on the site. People are much more likely to use someone that has "experience" on Fiverr than someone with a zero rating. Focus on the details of your job postings, promote your gigs, and do a great job with the final product, then the rest will take care of itself.
