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.
Important Note:
This tutorial is divided into 2 sections:
- Section A is about starting a freelancing career with Fiverr.
- Section B talks about using Fiverr to scale your e-commerce business.
Now let’s get started!
Section A
Do you want to know what is Fiverr and how to make money on Fiverr?
Well, it’s never been easy before. You just need to know how to create a stunning Gig on Fiverr to turn your passion into career.
I’ll highlight all of that in this section. let’s move on.
1.1. 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.
1.2. 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.
1.3. 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.
1.4. 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?
1.5. 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.
1.6. 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!
Section B
Do you have an online store, an e-commerce business or planning to launch one? Launching an e-commerce business can be tough and needs business development and marketing strategies.
Let’s explore how Fiverr can hold our back scaling up an e-commerce business from the beginning in this section.
So, keep moving!
2.1. What is Fiverr Business?
For an -ecommerce business, you need to have the best business tools, all in one place. A lot of stuff is happening at the same time while you are running an online business. Let me share an example to better understand the concept and how Fiverr Business can help you out there.
For instance, you are going to launch an online clothing store which can be a challenging process. You’ll have to take critical decisions about the following:
- Products/Cloth
- Descriptions, Meta, Content
- Web Hosting
- Content Management System like WordPress
- Web Designing
- Social Media Presence
- Brand Value
- Engaging Audience
- Traffic, SEO
- Taking Payments
- Brand Evaluation
Trust me, I’ve just highlighted the key aspects and the list is longer than you think. Running an e-commerce business needs collaboration and teamwork.
Fiverr Business is free for the first year, no credit card required.
Now imagine, you are going to hire freelancers to do that for you. It’ll create an extra overhead for you, right? So, Fiverr Business helps you find the most talent freelancers for your e-commerce business. There will be a dedicated Fiverr business success manager to find the right fit for you. Furthermore, you can manage all your business activities on one dashboard.
With Fiverr Business, you can:
- Create new projects
- Get a unique freelancers catalog
- Track the project status
- Approve and release payments
- Create workflows
and more…
Finally, Fiverr Business guarantees to find the top-rated freelancers, saving your time and budget.
2.2. How to Scale an Ecommerce Business with Fiverr?
If you want to grow your business with a fast pace, you have to outsource most of the business tasks. There is no doubt about that you can handle the workload all alone. An e-commerce business needs planning and smart decisions.
Fiverr is the number one outsourcing platform in the world. It has helped millions of businesses.
Fiverr is one of the greatest innovations for entrepreneurs who are starting out.
You can get a lot of things accomplished with a small fee for any imaginable service. Therefore, outsourcing on Fiverr is cheaper than hiring an entire new employee. With Fiverr, your business will get growth, speed and sales.
In the beginning, your business needs banners and logos, graphic designing, digital marketing, voice overs, video editing, content writing, translation, copywriting, SEO services, or affiliate services, there will be a gig for it on Fiverr.
Fiverr offer more than 3 million services with secure transaction, and with great value.
Fiverr is a business services hub. Here’s a short review from G2 about the talent you can find on Fiverr.
2.3. Choose a Niche for Your Ecommerce Business
It’s the most critical part of your business. Which niche are you going to compete with? Is it lucrative enough and something you can feel passionate about? Niche is all about choosing the exact right for your business. Let me share an interesting example with you.
Source: BigCommerce
There are thousands of e-commerce categories. The above graph shows a massive spike in the grocery business for March 2020 when stores shut down. There are no big changes in the other e-commerce categories but grocery e-commerce is leaving all the categories behind.
So, if you are under pressure and stuck with niche selection, Fiverr is here to help. I’ve just found a highly affordable gig to guide you step by step for niche selection.
2.4. Product Research
Whether you are going to run a dropshipping, Shopify or Amazon business and looking for the best selling products, you’ve to carry out extensive product research. Finding a winning product means a product with high demand and a low competition. Simply, product research means to find products that sell.
There are outstanding Fiverr services that help you find the niche based products with market volume and deep analysis.
Scaling a business means an increase in product sales and introducing new products.
You can find all the best product research services on Fiverr in the e-commerce management section. By the way, I’ve found this gig with over 1.5K reviews nailing product research.
2.5. Web/Logo Designing Services on Fiverr
If you are looking to have a very unique and fabulous website for your store, or you are looking for any modifications in your current e-commerce website, Fiverr has the best sellers to do it. There are outstanding Fiverr services that offer you completely custom coded websites in the language of your choice.
Here are the best services offered by Fiverr when we are talking about website, logo and graphics designing:
- Highly responsive and professional websites.
- Front-end web development.
- Mobile-friendly custom websites.
- Payment gateway integration
- Brand logos.
- Website graphics.
- Social media integration.
and much more…
It’ll be a separate article if I start writing about these services. Just to summarize, you can find the best services for web, logo and graphics designing in their respective categories.
2.6. Use Fiverr to Promote Your Business
An e-commerce business needs continuous promotion. You have to keep your customers updated about your brand. There are a number of ways you can use Fiverr services for business promotion. You can hire social media managers for business promotion on social media platforms.
Whatever your business is, there will be a service available for you on Fiverr for business promotion.
2.7. Scale the Store's Organic Traffic
A business with low targeted traffic will not bring leads and sales. We all know that e-commerce is one of the areas that has a seen a massive boom in the recent years. On the other hand, it has created an intensive competition for small business owners. SEO has become more and more tough and getting on the first page of search engines can be very challenging.
The traffic can only be increased if your e-commerce website has a powerful backlinks profile. These backlinks help your business to rank for the targeted keywords bringing in traffic.
You can check out all the SEO services on Fiverr here.
So, that was a quick overview about scaling a business with Fiverr. Therefore, if you are going to launch a business or have a running business that needs improvements, get on Fiverr and hire highly talented professionals for your business projects.
Fiverr: FAQs
3.1. What are the best platforms to start an e-commerce business?
Here are the best e-commerce platforms to start an online business:
- Shopify
- Woocommerce
- Wix
- Bigcommerce
- Magento
- 3dcart
3.2. What are the Best Services Related to Ecommerce on Fiverr?
Following are the best services on Fiverr you should go for the business success. The number is too large, so, I’ve just summarized the top 8 services for your business.
- E-commerce development
- Business marketing
- Website builders and CMS
- E-commerce management
- Social Media advertising
- Product descriptions
- Photoshop editing
- Shopify VAs
3.3. How to Find Good Fiverr Sellers & Gigs?
In order to identify good gigs and sellers, please make sure to check their ratings and reviews. Read what buyers say about the gig. In addition to that, please check the seller level. You can learn more about seller levels here.
3.4. How much Fiverr Business will Cost?
For a team of 50 users, Fiverr Business will cost $149/year. Wanna give it a try? Go ahead, it’s totally free for the first year.
3.5. 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.
Time to Wrap it Up
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.
We are going to welcome 2021 after a couple of days.
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.
I hope that you are having many new year’s resolutions. I’d recommend only one, and that is Fiverr. Trust me, it’s a game changer.
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, scale your business with Fiverr right away.
Hi, I am Faisal Rehman.
