It was quite frustrating when I didn’t get orders for my first 19 days on Fiverr! I don’t want you to wait for days, weeks and even months. Below is a complete guide on how to get first order on Fiverr without waiting for weeks and months, based on my personal experience. After this guide, you will be able to:

• Get more gig impressions
• Generate more gig clicks
• Convert gig visitors into orders
• Respond buyer requests in a better way

In short, this proven guide covers each aspect of what can affect your orders. Let’s start without any further ado!

Here are the proven tips on how to get first order on fiverr in detail:

Pick a niche & don’t go general

Consider yourself as a buyer who needs business card designed. Will you pick a gig that reads: “I will do any graphic design task”? Never. Because you need an expert of business cards designs not a jack of all trades. That’s why you need to be specific in your niche or service. Buyers love to hire experts of what they need. They don’t want to keep their hard-earned money at stake. Here is a complete guide on how to choose a profitable niche for you. Let’s move further in this complete guide on how to get first order on fiverr.

Prepare appealing gig media that gets more clicks

Your services are better displayed when given a visual touch. Use attractive and relevant gig images as they are first to display your gig. If they present your case strongly, buyers will click. A click is half a sale 😉

Add at least 2 images if your gig offers non-graphic services. If it provides graphic services, add 3 images. Prepare the visually attractive gig images that present your work in a great way.

Don’t stuff your images with text. There are enough options for putting text; like you can use pdf to put as much text as you want, you can use FAQs, and description. Make great gig images at Canva. It offers you to make some great graphics by simple drag and drop method. You can make a pdf, and video for your gig as well.

Use video if your gig is related to video and animation. Or even from another niche, a short 30 sec video describing your services will make a great impact on buyers.

Write a right description – to convert clicks into sales

Gig description often decides where your gig will be ranked. It’s because it contains more text than any single section, but still only 1200 characters. You have to describe your gig within these characters. In the coming lines, I will tell you how to add 3000 more characters to describe your gig perfectly.

Following is a little guide on how to write a description that converts the gig clicks into sales:

Start your description with targeted keywords. First two lines should feature the keywords that you are targeting. You should research well before you are writing gig description. For this purpose, keep an eye on your competitors who are giving you same services. Specially the ones who rank on first page. See how they are starting the description and what relevant keywords they are using in the first lines.

In keyword research, note:

• Their starting line
• The relevant keywords in the first two lines
• The frequency of keywords in description

Write the following in your description:

• Describe what you offer in your gig
• Put keywords in a meaningful way, don’t try to stuff them everywhere
• Describe what you don’t offer, to avoid out of scope orders
• Add a free add-on to attract your buyers. Like a free source file, a buy one get one free offer etc.
• Add call to action in the end

Here is a Recommended blog post that guides you on how to make a perfect fiverr gig.

Make full use of FAQs

Description might leave some questions in the buyer’s mind. So, FAQs are bonus to your gig description and big thing is that each FAQ answer allows you to write 300 characters and you can write 10 Frequently Asked Questions – an additional space for 3000 more characters to describe your service more clearly, and biggest thing is, it appears below description. Remember I asked you about adding 3000 more characters to your gig. Here it is!

Respond All Ten Buyer Requests Daily

Here is another of the best tips on how to get first order on fiverr. You can announce your presence directly to buyers who need your services. Buyers post request describing their needs, and these appear on your profile if they are relevant to your gig.

As a level zero seller, you can respond ten buyers requests daily, offering your buyers what they need. In the start, buyer requests might not show but these will start showing in 2-3 days. You have to stay active. Write a complete proposal to each buyer request you are responding. Don’t respond if you are not expert of that task.

Here is how to respond buyer request to win it:

• In the start, describe their problem in your words so that buyer might know that you know exactly what they want
• Describe your solution towards that problem
• Explain your process to satisfy the buyer so that they are convinced that you are right person to solve their problem
• If you can do that faster than the buyer demands, it’s another bonus
• If you have link to your portfolio, send that

Showcase your portfolio

As it’s guide on how to get your first order on fiverr, so you might raise a question that how can I have a portfolio even before my first order. Here is solution. While practicing, save your masterpieces and upload them on a platform like:

• YouTube (a time-lapse will work great if it’s a graphic or video service)
• If you have a website, it’s great. It’s perfect to upload your sample work there
• If you don’t have a website, get a domain and make a free blog on blogger (without hosting charges) or WordPress (with hosting charges). Showcase your work there.
• If website, or YouTube is not an actionable option for you, show your work on Behance, Flickr, or any similar website that hosts portfolios. You can provide their links in your description too. It will make a great impact on stamping your authority on your potential buyer.

Communicate clearly

Once your potential buyer contacts you, it’s your communication that either retains them or make them leave your gig. Here are some tips on how to communicate well with your potential buyers to drive sales:

• Answer the queries of the potential buyer. If you are not clear about some query, take some time to research about that
• Discuss the requirements clearly
• Describe them the process of your work flow to make them satisfied to buy your service
• Never promise a deal that you can’t do
• Set a timeframe that you are easy to go with
• If you are unclear with something, don’t hesitate to make it clear by questioning the buyer. It makes them more satisfied.

Communication is the final step to drive your sales in this guide on how to get first order on fiverr. Once you get the order, complete it with dedication, and deliver the order within the given time.

Get five star rating to get more sales

Once you have got the order, put your efforts into that and deliver in time. Deliver the work with complete details on how to use the files you are delivering. There are 2500 characters to describe your delivery. If your client needs some changes, make these changes with open heart and if they point out some problems, listen to them and solve these. Don’t hesitate to accept your mistakes if they point out any. Correct them and deliver the work in the way client wants.

Once the client is satisfied with your delivery, they will accept it and will give you rating. This rating will be based upon:

• Your quality of work
• Communication with buyer
• Buyer’s recommendation to other buyers, based upon your overall performance

So keep these in mind while working for a buyer. Once buyer fives you five star rating, it’s a signal for Fiverr algorithms that you are some great addition to their seller network and they start ranking you even higher when some buyer searches your target keywords. Higher the ranking, more clicks, more sales! That’s the way to go!

Endnotes

The eight tips on how to get first order on Fiverr are the extract of my freelancing career and once you cover all these, you will start getting orders and not only the first order, it’s how you start getting consistent orders. If you have some more query about getting orders on fiverr, please ask in the comments and I will reply you right here. Tata!