Now if you’ve done as I suggested in relation to choosing a username then you
will have opted to choose a username that reflects your service.
Many people like the idea of selling on fiverr, and I can remember when I first
came across it that I spent around 2 hours of my then employers time surfing the
site looking at the crazy gigs on offer, but then when it comes to deciding what to
sell they draw a blank.
Well if you can’t think of anything to sell then I’ll spin the positive and say that’s
a good thing as it means you can think up an original idea rather than copying
the masses.
Firstly one big myth is that you can only sell services on fiverr that you can
deliver online, well I’ll dispel that myth as you can sell any physical product that
complies with fiverr’s sales guidelines (Permitted articles etc.) and you can opt
to sell it Worldwide and charge people for delivery on top of the standard $5
price. Indeed I did this and one of my first ever sales was shipping a laminated
QR code from the UK to the USA. This went the extra mile and the customer was
overjoyed to get it.
Indeed if you can find something low weight and low cost to sell on fiverr, then
you could make a good living by carving out your own niche in selling a physical
product.
You will find some fiverr guides that give you ready made examples of what to
sell, but this guide is designed to be thought provoking, I don’t want you to be
following sheep, I want to inspire you to design sheep!
The best way to do this is via brainstorming. Firstly: -‐
Make a list of what you are good at doing be it at home or at work.
Make a list of what you like doing at home or work – the best ideas will most
likely be the things that you like doing at home.
Note the difference between the two – some things you maybe good at doing but
not actually like doing, some things you will like doing and be good at. It’s the
crossover of the one’s that you are good at doing and the one’s that you like
doing that you want to shortlist.
Now I would advise writing as long a list as possible of each of the above two
lists, and be creative, and crazy even – note that some of the best selling gigs on
fiverr are the mad ones. Check them out at http://fiverr.com/categories/fun-‐
bizarre/ but don’t do it at work, as you will easily spend two hours in
wonderment at just what people will do for $5. This section alone shows you that
just about anything does and will sell on fiverr.
Got a crazy new idea that no one else is selling? Great then you could be a top
seller in know time at all.
Then once you have your shortlist think carefully at anything that’s going to take
you longer than 15 mins to do. As fiver pays you $4 from each gig, then if you can
do 4 gigs in an hour then that pro-‐ratas out at $16 an hour, which working from
home with no overheads is not bad. No fuel needed to drive to work, no
expensive deli lunches to buy, all those overheads are gone when you work on
fiverr.
Personally after six months I looked at how much time I was spending on my
fiverr gigs, and guess what I did? I deleted my top two selling gigs!
That’s right I didn’t pause them I just down right deleted them. This actually
caused me problems as they were so popular to start with my regular customers
simply placed an order for the work via any one of my other (Totally unrelated)
gigs. So I honoured those orders but let them know I was stopping that service.
The problem was I was taking up to 20-‐30 mins for these two gigs, so whilst I
was selling a lot I was only making $8 and hour and working a LOT of hours! Not
my idea of a good home based business. So I was brutal and took it a step further
and cut out any gig that took more than ten minutes. This meant initially I took a
dip in income, BUT my hourly rate pro-‐rata went up to 6 x $4=$24 an hour, and
now all but one of my gigs actually takes 5 mins or less, and some of those come
with extras at $10 (or $8 paid to me by fiverr) each.
This de-‐stressed my fiverr gigs entirely, I stopped worrying about was I going to
get everything done on time, to focussing on gigs that I could get a good payback
per hour on.
Think of why you need to do this – if you get 10 orders a day that take 30 mins to
process a day each that means it will take you 5 hours a day to earn $40, now
$40 a day extra sounds good but do you want to spend 5 hours a day after work
to earn it? I think not….