There is nothing better than earning money from the comfort of your home. So, here is a complete and easy A to Z guide on how to make money on fiverr.

In this regard, you might be aware of Fiverr. Even if you know nothing about it yet, you’ll have a sound understanding of the process at the end of this blogpost. Remote work is a need of the time and Fiverr is the best option to start your journey, so beginners often need to know how to make money on Fiverr and here is the best guide to start with. If you need to know basic understanding of freelancing and its prerequisites, here is a complete and easiest guide to start freelancing on Fiverr today.

What is Fiverr?

This is a platform that provides you an opportunity to showcase your skills once you have learnt any of the thousands of skills to earn money online. It works on a beginner friendly model that allows buyers to find sellers like you are going to be one. Buyers contact the seller, discuss requirements and place orders. On the other hand, you as a seller have to sign up easily on fiverr, make your gig in an outstanding manner, and you’ll start getting orders and making money online right from your home through fiverr. But it’s not a walk in the park. You’ve to toil for that. For greater results, give yourself and fiverr some time to rank your gig and show it in search. We’ll discuss getting into the first page of Fiverr search in this blogpost.. 

How does Fiverr work? 

Fiverr works on a model we’ve hinted above and we’ll understand it in a better way here. 

For Buyers

To understand how to sell on Fiverr, you should be able to understand how Fiverr works for buyers. Isn’t it? A buyer searches Fiverr for the service they want. In the search results, the services appear in the form of gigs. The buyer opens a gig whose title and thumbnail looks good to them. They see the description after opening it and it the service meets their requirements, they place the order, or contact the seller to discuss the requirements. 

For Sellers

It’s for what you are here. Login to Fiverr, click Become a seller, and fill the details. You will not have to fill any payment details to start with. You have to complete the profile by providing some relevant information, linking your social accounts and cell number (always kept private), and languages you can speak and understand. These information will be displayed on your profile except contact information. The real deal begins when you make a gig on your seller profile. You can always switch between seller and buyer profile.

What is a gig on Fiverr? 

A gig on fiverr is listing of a service that contains a gig title, a thumbnail, a description of the seller’s service, it’s pricing, extra offers, and FAQs about the service. 

You can make a gig once you are a fiverr seller. Moreover, some gigs require compulsory tests while others have optional tests. More tests you succeed, the more reliability badges you get on your profile. You can list your service you offer. Here are some skills or jobs for beginners to start freelancing on fiverr today.

How to make a killer gig on Fiverr? 

Making a gig on fiverr is a bit strategic task and we’ve to do it after doing some research. Here we’ll explore some of the steps to make a killer gig that converts: 

How to make a thumbnail for Fiverr gig?

Firstly, make a relevant thumbnail that attracts buyer. A thumbnail is important because it is the first thing your potential buyer notices while searching for a service. When it looks good and relevant, buyer reads the title and clicks the gig. So, make thumbnail as attractive as possible to get more clicks on your gig. Don’t crowd the thumbnail with text. Put only the relevant text and image that relates your gig. You can design an attractive thumbnail on Canva by just dragging and dropping. 

How to write gig title on Fiverr?

Make a title that is searched. Consider yourself a buyer and think how you will search for the gig service you are going to provide. That’s the title of your gig. For instance it is: eBook cover design. This service will be searched by putting more or less similar keywords. So, include all of these words in your title. Intend not exceeding 50 characters. Check “SEO Title” while writing a gig title. For our searched keyword, let’s make a gig title out of it. It should start with the words like make, design, write etc. Fiverr adds “I will” automatically at the start of it. So the gig title could be: 

Do eBook cover design OR Design an attractive eBook cover OR do professional eBook Cover design. 

Remember that don’t exceed 60 characters including spaces. And It’s great if you keep the characters count under 50.

How to write a gig description that works? 

Writing a gig description is a bit challenging as you have to sum up everything within 1200 characters. I repeat characters, not words. So use this space wisely as it’s the final assessment of your service and buyers will read it once they click your gig. If they find it useful for them, they contact you to discuss, or place an order. 

Here’s how to write a gig description under 1200 characters on fiverr that works:

• Start your description so that the first line contains all the searchable keywords for your service, but in a meaningful catchy welcome statement. (60-80 characters)
• Briefly describe what you offer and how you will do it. You can use bullets there. To enhance readability even more, you can use highlight function. (200-300 characters)
• Also tell your potential buyers what you don’t offer in your services. Sometimes buyers confuse one work with another. For example, in eBook cover design gig, you can tell your potential buyers that you don’t write or proofread eBooks.  (100-200 characters)
• Tell your buyer what they should expect in the delivery and in which format they should expect. (100-200 characters)
• Tell your buyers what you will require to start the order. (100-200 characters)
• End you description with call to action (Contact now, order now etc.). (100-200 characters)

Following is an example of a good gig description:

How to choose a category for your gig? 

Fiverr will ask you to choose the category of your service. It will give you options to choose from and choose the closest possible category for your gig. Choosing it right will help you find the right buyer requests (we will talk about it in coming sections). For instance, don’t check packaging design if you are designing eBook covers. Fiverr allows you to opt more than one categories for your service. Choose wisely and don’t go irrelevant to confuse Fiverr algorithms. You can add up to 3 tags or keywords for your gigs too. 

How to set pricing on Fiverr?

Setting price becomes a problem when you are a beginner. Sometimes, you find it hard to decide whether to go high or to start with low pricing. You should set the prices that return value for your time, and are market competitive. You can go little lesser as beginner, but never go too low or too high. Just look at your competitor and see what they are offering. Avail all three slots of gig packages where you can set your price plans.

Some other important tasks to do while making a gig are:

Set FAQs about your service as buyers have some typical questions in their mind while seeking a service. Moreover, FAQs provide you extra text to associate with your description. Each FAQ can have 300 characters and you can put up to 10 FAQs. Bam! 3000 characters where you can explain your service with little more liberty as compared to gig description.

Set your requirements. It’s important to ask things from your buyer to fulfil their expectations. Make full use of multiple choice questions, and free text options in setting the requirements.

In this guide on how to earn money on fiverr for beginners, you’ve learnt every step of making a great gig on fiverr till now. Congratulations! You’re a champ!

You are All set!

After following each of the above guides on how to earn money on fiverr, you are set to publish your gig. Congratulations! Click Publish and you are online.

After publishing your gig

Once you’ve published your gigs, notice how your gigs are performing. Keep an eye on stats. Check how much impressions your gig is getting vs how much clicks are there. Impressions means how many times your gig appeared when someone searched the relevant keywords. Clicks means how many people clicked after looking at those thumbnails. If you aren’t getting much impressions, it means your gig isn’t ranked. You should change keywords by looking at your competitor’s gigs that are ranking. Try to use those keywords, but never ever copy a gig title or description, it will lead to deletion of your gig. If you are getting impressions, but not enough clicks, it means you need to change your thumbnail as people only click when thumbnail attracts them.

What are the levels on Fiverr?

Levels are an automatic reward system by Fiverr. In this reward system, a seller is awarded an upper level when they achieve a specific milestone set by Fiverr. You don’t have to apply for it as it’s automatic. Here is how it works:

Once your gig is ranked up and starts getting impressions, clicks, and orders, you start making money on Fiverr right from your home. In this regard, Fiverr keeps an eye on your gig and profile. When you are sixty days old on Fiverr, got at least 10 orders, earn at least $400, and spend 30 days without warning, Fiverr awards you a badge called “Level One”. Before that, you are Zero Level seller and level up means increase of sales and increase of your earnings on Fiverr. Following are the levels that fiverr awards to it’s sellers:

• Level Zero
• Level One
• Level Two
• Top Rated Seller

When you start working hard on your orders, getting next level becomes easier. Keep working hard!

How to get more orders on Fiverr?

After exploring how it works, here is an important step in this all important guide on how to make more money on Fiverr. In order to get more orders, follow the guidelines here:

Upsell your gig

If you have made a gig that prices $20, it doesn’t mean you have to sell your service only for $20 and cannot go further in prices. Always try to upsell when some buyer contacts you. Tell them about more relevant services you can offer. Try to get more bulk orders. Don’t let them go!

Communicate well

When someone contacts you, that is half an order. To make it full order, you have to communicate well. Start well, end well! Read the first message carefully. That message might contain a problem most of the time. You have to understand the problem of the buyer and revise the problem in the reply. Give them a possible solution you can provide.

Work for five star rating

Fiverr and every other service platform works mostly on rating. If the service has a great rating, people buy it. Otherwise, no one likes to put their money at stake. So, you need to work for a fiver star rating-the maximum you can get is fiver stars, and it demands only some hard work. Following three parameters decide where your rating of an order will stand. Your buyer will rate you on the basis of:

• Communication
• Delivery as described
• Recommendation to other buyers

By keeping these in mind, give the best service to your buyer and meet the expectations of the buyer.

Endnotes

Above is a comprehensive guide on how to start making money online on Fiverr and I’ve put it together using my whole experience as a freelancer. In this regard, I have put together everything that could come your way while starting freelancing on Fiverr. However, if you have something to add, you are welcome to add in the comments section, I will appreciate that. To sum up everything, you should read this complete beginner’s guide to start on Fiverr. Don’t forget to add your views or comments in the section below. All the best!