Modifying Gigs, using them to increase your earnings, and deleting gigs!
Once you’ve been active on fiverr for around a month you will be able to see
what is selling well and what isn’t. Most importantly you will be able to see
which of your gigs are burning up your time and it’s these you need to actually
consider shutting down or modifying (And yes you did read that correctly
“Shutting Down”). Ideally you want to modify them and use the power of levels
to do this.
Basically you will find that most gigs that take a lot of time can be modified and
split in to chunks of work that you can then charge more for (only when you get
level 1 or 2 though).
An example of this was a piece of software I sold complete with installation for
$5, but the installation was killing me. So when I reviewed my gigs, I saw the
ideal opportunity to break out the installation as an extra and charge a further $5
for. This took a gig that had been burning time in to a good earning gig, more so
when I increased the installation fee to $10. Of note is that just about everyone
buys the installation and never queries the price, as for the service it offers it’s
still very, very cheap.
So to summarise if a gig is taking too much time and you have reached level 1 or
2 then look to break the gig down in to different elements you can charge for.
You may still take the same time to do the gig, but you could charge 2-‐4 times the
amount, which may well make the gig more attractive to you to stick with.
Also don’t be afraid to delete a top selling gig if it’s taking too long to do. Earning
$5 is no good if it takes 30-‐60 mins to earn it.
I did this with my best selling gig! It was a re-‐writing gig and got me so much
work it was untrue BUT it took up so much of my time I couldn’t focus on
creating new gigs that took 1-‐2 minutes to fulfil. After all I wanted fiverr to make
me easy money, not have me spend 30 mins to earn $4 in my hand.
Deleting that gig was the best thing I ever did! Within a month I was earning
50% more money and spending 90% less time working as I was able to use the
time saved to think up new gigs I could do in less than 5 minutes.
How you manage your gigs is up to you but I choose to offer ones that take no
more than 10 minutes of my time and most I aim to have done in under 5 mins –
that prorates at $60 an hour! Now do you see my point?
TIP: Don’t delete a gig initially but pause it, you can always restart it, but I found
people were ordering against the paused gig (They can still do that! Unbelievable
but true!), so I had to delete it, so I could buy time to regroup and recharge my
efforts.