Fiverr is one of the two biggest freelancing platforms in the world. If you are thinking to start selling your services on Fiverr, there are certain dos and don’ts to be taken into account before stepping into Fiverr Freelancing Platform. In this blogpost, we are going to cover each and every aspect that you must think about before starting freelancing on Fiverr. So, don’t miss a single thing that’s worth learning about Fiverr in this blogpost. Let’s get into it:
Why Fiverr?
Fiverr is largest growing freelancing marketplace where skillful professionals are rushing every single day. It’s because of certain reasons we can’t ignore. Let’s check what are these:
Ease of use
Fiverr is pretty simple in usage for both buyers and sellers. For sellers, it’s just signing in, create a gig, make your profile little attractive, and boom, you’re all set. For buyers, log into Fiverr, select a skill you want to buy, pay with a couple of clicks, and you’ve got it! With that simple procedure, Fiverr is easiest platform to use for buying or selling the services.
Beginner Friendly ranking system
With a seller’s perspective, Fiverr is the most beginner friendly for sellers who want to offer their services online. It gives beginners and top sellers the equal opportunity to flourish on the platform. For this purpose, it gives some badges like Fiverr’s Choice to encourage buyers to get the services from newbies on Fiverr. Due to this factor, newbie freelancers tend to sign up on Fiverr rather than other marketplace.
Buyer Request option
Specially for sellers, this Buyer Request option is one of the biggest success factors on Fiverr. As a seller, you need to respond a proposal from a potential client, describe your offer and bid on the proposal, and the buyer might accept your bid if you’ve described your offer completely and it attracts the buyer. You can respond (bid) to ten buyer requests (proposals) per day.
No cost upfront
Fiverr doesn’t charge anything to log into the platform. It doesn’t demand any money to bid on proposals, or listing your services as gigs. You are charged 20% when you’ve completed your order as seller. Before that, it costs nothing at all. So, what’s the point of not selling there? Well, we’ve to check that in coming sections!
Provides free course to get started with Fiverr
Fiverr provides you a free introductory course to get going with Fiverr. It tells about how to start on Fiverr, what are the things that should be kept in mind while setting your profile and many many more. You must take that when you log in to Fiverr as a Seller.
Why NOT Fiverr?
Well, everything isn’t meant for everyone. So, there are some reasons not to select fiverr as your freelancing platform. Here are these:
Stay ready to get banned over buyer’s reports
Fiverr can ban you over any dispute with a single buyer even though your past has been clean. It won’t even bother sending some warning most of the times. So, you must not have all eggs in one basket. You should keep plan B ready for any bad times, in case you Fiverr account gets banned. And you need to be apologetic to your buyers for this reason.
Can permanently ban you over little things
Fiverr can permanently ban your account over things like sharing email address, credit cards information, payment details, offering academic services or anything similar. So you always need to be very careful about these things while dealing on fiverr.
Customer Biased
Like every other platform, Fiverr is inclined more towards customers rather than sellers on the platform. It keeps its integrity intact for customers and they keep coming back for more sales. Due to this reason, you need to be cautioned while working on the platform. If there is any dispute between you and your customer, the decision is always on the side of your customer, and not you!
How Payments work on Fiverr?
Fiverr releases payments 14 days after project completion and then these are available for withdrawl. During this period, Fiverr keeps your money in transit. You can withdraw using these three methods:
Paypal: You can withdraw your money using PayPal and minimum withdrawal amount is $1. Best options for the countries where PayPal is available.
Payoneer: Using Payoneer, you can get your money in your bank account. It’s a little longer way, but is suitable for the countries where PayPal is not available. Minimum withdrawal limit is $20. Recommended for beginners. (Don’t withdraw $20 because it will stay in Payoneer as most of the banks don’t allow amount less than $20. After $3 Fiverr to Payoneer fee+ 2% deduction, it would be around $16 which will stay inside Payoneer until next income is received.)
Revenue Card: It is made possible with the help of Payoneer. It’s yearly fee is $30 and can get using the link on Fiverr earning page.
What can and can’t you offer on Fiverr?
You can offer pretty much every service that is legal. Even prayers. Yes people offer prayers for bucks on Fiverr 😀 However, here are some of the services not allowed on Fiverr:
Copyright infringed services or products
You can’t offer any content or services that are copyright infringed. For example pirated plugin installation, borrowed eBooks or anything that isn’t created by you and you don’t have permission to use and offer its distribution. So, never offer anything like this on Fiverr otherwise you will get banned or your gig will be removed.
Adult Content or Services
You cannot distribute adult content or adult services on Fiverr. If you do so, you can get banned immediately. It includes every adult related services and distribution of content that can somewhat related to it.
Violent gigs
You cannot offer any services that is somehow provokes, promotes and endorses any kind of violence. It will lead to getting banned permanently.
Assignments and academic services
Assignments and academic services are banned on fiverr. You cannot do some academic work that is supposed to be done by any student himself/herself. Such services will lead you to getting banned permanently on Fiverr.
You can do pretty much everything else that is inside Fiverr’s rules and regulations.
Don’ts on Fiverr
You should never do some things on Fiverr. These will lead you to getting banned on Fiverr. Check these out below:
Never copy a gig description or gig image
You must never copy a gig description or gig image. Fiverr’s algorithms will detect these and will at least delete your gig, if not complete fiverr profile. So, write your own gig description, create your own gig image, and you are good to go.
Never ask for or give email address or payment information
Fiverr strictly disallows sharing any personal contact information or payment details for transactions outside Fiverr. That’s because of your and buyer’s security and prevention from getting scammed. That’s why you shouldn’t share any personal contact details or payment details. You can get mail address as the requirement for some necessary task like logging into client’s website.
Never use two accounts on same system
Fiverr allows only one account per person, and if it’s banned, you are supposed to not create another. If you use two accounts on the same pc at the same time, it would lead to getting banned in both of the accounts. So, don’t do this ever!
Never talk to anyone about academic assignment
Some scammers might approach you saying they need to get some sort of assignment done from you. Or they need your help in their assignments. You must decline their offer and block them. They are scammers and won’t get anything done from you.
Do’s on Fiverr
We’ve included don’ts earlier intentionally. It’s because we need to first learn to survive then we start flourishing. So, here are some important things to keep in mind to flourish on Fiverr:
Stay Active and Online
You need to stay active to rank your gig on Fiverr so buyers could find you easily. Staying active also helps you replying to the queries some potential buyer sends you, and eventually get the order from them. A great way to stay active and respond queries in time is installing Fiverr Mobile Application.
Check competition
You should make your gig on the keywords that are less competitive. You can check how many gigs are ranking on specific keyword by searching that keyword on Fiverr. Also keep checking the competition time to time after making the gig as well.
Get more positive reviews
When you start getting orders, you should work with as much dedication as possible. Communicate about everything with your client. Discuss every aspect of the project with the buyer. It will lead towards successful ending of the project and buyer will happily give you five stars and possibly some bucks of tip. It will boost your confidence as well as earn you more projects and good ranking on Fiverr algorithm.
Reply Immediately
No one wants late replies. So do your potential buyers. Whenever you get a message from your potential buyer, or a returning buyer, reply them immediately to earn more and more projects. Make full use of Fiverr app for this purpose.
Utilize new functions
Fiverr keeps rolling out new functions time to time to get better and better. Like last time it rolled out a function of adding some reputable clients to your gig. Make full use of these functions. These help you stand out of all other sellers.
Wait for good time
When you make a gig, you would not get order straightaway most of the times. It would take few days, or few weeks to get your gig ranked on fiverr. Then you will get some queries related to work, or you need to respond buyer requests to get projects. Just trust the process and you will rock.
Conclusion
Upon reading everything, you must have got an idea about how Fiverr works, if you didn’t have already. Following this complete Fiverr beginner’s basic guideline, you can start on Fiverr as a Freelancer if you have got a skill. If you have some more comments, please feel free to comment below and we will love to come back and reply your queries. Over to you!
