05 Dec
Fiverr has now become the world’s No. 1 best online earning platform. Fiverr is a place where you can buy or sell a service known as a Gig, and here we’ll learn how to create a Gig on Fiverr and use this amazing platform to scale up your e-commerce adventure. Surprisingly, Fiverr is the world’s largest marketplace for digital services with more than 400 categories. The platform is easy to use for both sellers and buyers saving money for both parties.
Most of the sellers sell their services at highly affordable rates. However, expert freelancers offer their services worth $200-$300 and even more. Fiverr currently lists more than 750,000 services priced between $5 and $150.
Excitingly, Fiverr is my No.1 recommended freelancing website to learn exceptional skills, scale up an e-commerce business, and start a full time freelancing career. If you don’t know how to create a Gig on Fiverr that can quickly sell it’s services, I’d appreciate you to keep on reading.
Let’s get started!
1. What is Fiverr?
In 2020, from the very beginning, the whole world started facing the deadly disease— COVID-19. It’ll be an un-forgettable year for all of us. I would like to highlight the importance of just one thing here— “freelance or work from home”. People who have been used to working from home didn’t get much impact. Honestly saying, their earnings grew, and it was Fiverr that made all of that possible in such trying times.
Fiverr is the leading freelancing hub and the world’s largest digital marketplace. The company started it’s operations back in 2010, and since then, it is benefitting both businesses and freelancers.
As of September 30, 2020, Fiverr has 3.1 Million active buyers.
According to the 2020’s 3rd quarter results, Fiverr continued to grow by 88%. It’s a huge success definitely.
Simply, Fiverr is an ideal platform for business owners, digital marketers, content marketers, advertisers and entrepreneurs. If you are looking to earn cash as a freelancer or save cash as a startup owner, Fiverr is my ideal and recommended spot.
2. What is a Fiverr Gig?
A Fiverr Gig is a simply a service that you sell. For instance, if you are a logo designer, or a mom who writes from home, you can create a gig to sell your logo designing and writing services through Fiverr. I’ve a sincere advice for freelancers to create a gig professionally. If you don’t know how, I’ll walk you through the steps to create a stunning and a professional gig.
As Fiverr is the largest digital market for freelancers, each gig is just like a digital shop. Buyers go through gigs and choose the best gigs that offer best services at affordable rates. Fiverr sellers offer a myriad of gigs, ranging from E-commerce management, sound design, web design, logo design, graphics, writing and translation and market research, to custom greetings, programming, audio, tech, video animation and personalized gifts.
3. How to Create a Gig on Fiverr?
A gig is the core asset you have on Fiverr, the more awesome it is, more buyers it will get. More importantly try to make it as professional as you can by writing your offers, pricing and delivery time. As I said earlier, if you are a newbie on Fiverr, you must have a question in your mind, what is a Gig? The answer is simple— every service or product on Fiverr is called a gig.
After you sign up on Fiverr, you need to create gigs to start getting orders. In the beginning, you can create only 7 gigs. My humble advice to you is to max out all the available gigs by adding different skills. To get more orders as a beginner, you’ll have to lend your gig for a lower price. One more thing you must keep in your mind, Fiverr is a search engine for freelancers. A gig with good reviews and a 5 star rating will bring your gig up in Fiverr search engine.
So, if you are going to create a gig on Fiverr, the first step is to sign up on this freelancing platform.
4. How to Sign Up on Fiverr?
To become a seller on Fiverr, click on Become a Seller or you can click the join button at the right top corner. Fiverr has the options to sign up using Facebook and Google Connect. In order to create an account, simply enter your email and click continue.
Either you click on become a seller or join, it’ll take you to the sign up screen. Sign up through Facebook, Google or Apply ID, whatever is more convenient to you.
You’ll receive a confirmation email, so click on Activate your Account to activate the account.
Simple sign up, isn’t it?
5. How to Verify a Fiverr Account?
To make your profile more trustworthy in the marketplace and improve the quality of gigs, it is highly recommended to verify your identity. Fiverr asks for account verification to prevent fraud and malicious activities. After you sign up on Fiverr, you’ll receive an email to complete the identity verification within the first 14 days. Fiverr will ask you to submit any of the following documents.
- National ID Card
- Driver License
- Passport
Take a selfie and submit along with any of the above documents issued by the government. Additionally, to verify your phone, please take the following steps:
- Click on your profile picture, and then click Settings > Security
- You’ll see phone verification area, click Verify Now
- Fiverr will automatically detect your country, so you don’t have to put the country code
- Put your phone number and select any of the verification methods i.e. verify by call or SMS
- You’ll receive a call or SMS depending on the method you selected with the code, submit it and your phone verification is complete
The verification processes make your account more resilient and secure. So, make sure to complete both verifications.
6. 5 Steps to Create a Stunning Gig on Fiverr
All right, we have signed up on Fiverr and completed the verification process. It’s time to learn how to create a gig on Fiverr to start our freelancing journey on this great platform. It’s a 6 step process creating a gig and publishing it live.
i) Gig Overview
On your dashboard, you’ll see Gigs in the mid, click to create a gig.
I am just sharing this as an example, you need to write a catchy gig relevant to your focused skill. Don’t forget to put metadata and search tags about your gig. It’s important from SEO point of view as gig metadata and search tags help bringing up your gig in search engine.
Click save and continue to the next step.
ii) Gig Scope & Pricing
The next step is setting the gig packages and each package’s price. These packages are easy to understand and create. For instance, in the following image, I’ve created 3 dummy packages for my video animation gig.
- Lite
- Advanced
- Platinum
I’ve written the packages name, their description, revisions and delivery time. At the end, I’ve set the price of each package. The buyer will pay the price according to the package he’ll buy.
You can edit your gig or remove a package anytime.
If you ever get confused, click on the relevant box and Fiverr bot will explain about it at the right.
Click save and continue.
iii) Gig Description & FAQs
Now, in the next step, write a complete description about your gig. Your gig should say it all and it should be highly professional.
Look at the following description, I’ve taken it from one of the top rated freelancer.
iv) Gig Requirements
In the 2nd last step, we need to ask at least one question as a requirement. In my opinion, if you’ve more relevant questions, the buyer will feel happy to answer them as it will clear the scope of the project for both parties.
For instance, I’ve just added a random question that buyer needs to answer.
Add the question, save and continue to the most important step in building our gig.
v) Build Your Gig Gallery
A gig without any video, photos, or portfolios can not ever win buyer’s trust. According to Fiverr;
Videos can increase user engagement by 40%
It’s the only way to showcase your talent. Furthermore, you can add samples you’ve created for other clients with prior permissions.
Finally, we just need to update our details regarding tax regulations. Let Fiverr know about your citizenship, click No if you don’t belong to United States.
Lastly, hit the publish button and your first gig is ready and available for the buyers. Now start selling it!
Though most of the people don’t disclose their earnings but some people do. Trust me, it gives you a lot of motivation and hope that making money with Fiverr is quick, easy and simple. You just focus on your gig, handle the work in time and get great reviews.
Here’s a screenshot I took from a guy who shared his earnings from Fiverr.
So, a Fiverr gig is not an ordinary profile, it’s your full-time career. Think differently!
7. How to Get Paid on Fiverr?
Finally, for sellers, it’s the most common question.
Luckily, Fiverr comes with 3 payment methods to withdraw funds:
- Paypal
- Bank Transfer
- Fiverr Revenue Card
- Direct Deposit for US citizens
Therefore switch to selling and go to earnings to add a payment method of your choice.
PayPal does not work in most of the countries, Direct Deposit is available for US citizens and you can get the Fiverr Revenue card. But people recommend to use Bank Transfer method as Payoneer supports this method. Payoneer is a gift and a blessing for freelancers, it is supported world-wide. More importantly, I’ve found it amazing and every internet geek recommends it as the best payment choice.
8. Fiverr Gig Summary
2020 was a dramatic year and it will be remembered forever. The whole world got locked down in their homes and honestly, no one expected that. The pandemic stuck 2020 was the best year for e-commerce businesses. On the other hand, I must say, freelancing has proved itself as the biggest and safest income resource in the world. Freelancing isn’t a new normal, it’s old. Unfortunately, we never took it seriously.
Fiverr offers you the opportunity to make a 6 figures per year salary. You just need to know how to create a gig on Fiverr and learn some selling skills. Finally, I’d like to say to create all the gigs you’re allowed to and add more skills and portfolios. A highly professional gig on Fiverr is your strongest online resume. One more thing, never copy the content, keep your gigs original with a learning motive.
Don’t wait for the next moment, start your freelancing career with Fiverr right away.
Hi, I am Faisal Rehman.
