Fiverr Review

 

Fiverr Review

In this blog I'll be doing a Fiverr review. So before we dive in I just wanted to say that I'll be covering both the perspective of a buyer and the perspective of a seller on Fiverr. Now just to briefly tell you a little bit about myself I've been using Fiverr since 2012 and I've actually sold thousands of dollars worth of gigs on Fiverr. I've also purchased over 1200 gigs on there so probably around 10,000 when you look at it. So with that being said i think i can give you a good perspective of how the platform works. Some of the pros and cons on the platform I'll also have some affiliate links below. If you want to see some of the best gigs that I use and recommend on their site with that quick intro out of the way. Let's dive into the buyers perspective. So from a buyer's perspective Fiverr is tough to beat. I say this because you can outsource all kinds of projects or tasks that you either don't want to do or don't have time for. There's ones that you might not even be able to do yourself that you need someone that's more of an expert to be able to help you. So if you're someone like me who has worked full-time while creating an online business. What you can do is use your ability to leverage how you pay for things. So if you want to pay someone to work on tasks while you're at work during the day it's incredibly beneficial for that and you can see right here there's people that can do all kinds of things. So it says logo design WordPress voiceover whiteboard social media. I've literally probably outsourced to all these things right here before SEO which I definitely have outsourced to before on various sites. That i have illustrations translation data entry and book covers probably out of the 10 that i just showed you the only one i haven't done is a book cover. So I've literally used all these popular services right here. You can go and just see which ones are available and which ones would work well for you. So another benefit here that i wanted to cover is that if you're someone who lives in a country where five dollars is not a lot of money. Like in the united states for example you can basically do some kind of digital arbitrage in a way and take advantage of the favorable exchange rate. So if you can find someone to make alogo for example for just five dollars or maybe fifteen dollars in this case up here for one of these top rated sellers. If you can get somebody to do that for only five dollars ten dollars fifteen dollars. It's not a whole lot of money and it's a whole lot less than you'd find someone to make a good looking logo like one of these four fifteen dollars or five dollars or something like that within your own country. Because of how favorable the exchange rate is. It's essentially a way to leverage your time for less money while taking advantage of these favorable exchange rates. This is something that i should mention works both ways. So maybe where someone lives fifteen dollars is a lot for a logo and with their exchange rate. It might be the equivalent of five times the amount of what they're charging because of how the exchange rate works. So it's a great way to take advantage of it and it actually benefits both the buyers and sellers by linking the two together. Another benefit that i wanted to mention as a buyer is that you actually get more protection than the gig seller does. So this is a negative for a seller but definitely a positive for a buyer because you can request multiple revisions or dispute orders to get your money back. If the seller does a poor job now this is something i try to avoid and when I looked at over my 1200 orders that I've done on the site there's only been about seven percent that I've had to cancel. So you can put that in perspective and see that overall for the gigs I've ordered. I've gotten what i want about 93 percent of the time so there have been times that i actually had to request revisions where if something is messed up in. Let's say an image that i order or something like that then may be i have to go back and have them redo that or if there's data that's wrong i might have to have them make a revision to that. But rarely do you need to do revisions from my experience and with only seven percent of gigs canceled that really isn't that bad in my opinion. But again you do have that advantage as a buyer to be able to go back and request revisions and cancel the order if you're not happy at all. With the results now as a seller on the platform I actually had a pretty good experience overall and now I've actually considered going back on here because they offer these pro services. These are vetted professional services and are verified by Fiverr. So if i were to just click this on you're gonna see that you can actually charge hundreds of dollars even thousands of dollars to have these vetted services that are pro services. So this is logo design and it says starting at 900. if i were to click on this this is going to be an expensive gig but nine hundred dollars fifteen hundred dollars twenty six hundred dollars for two logos. They're going to be professional high-end logos. Now personally i just wouldn't pay that much for a logo especially with some of the great logos I've got on here. But you could do this for WordPress for an example and look at pro once for WordPress. You might be able to find someone that can make you a beautiful looking site for cheaper than you can get within your local area. Overall i would say if you have a passion or skill that you're looking to earn some extra money from it's worth checking out. There's so many different categories here on the site that you could go and put gigs up for and start earning some extra money from them. It's definitely worth checking out in my opinion and at least brainstorming and seeing what you can charge for things or if there's ways that you can make extra money online by offering something that you like to do. Anyway so as a seller there's a couple drawbacks that you should be aware of before you start. One is that they have a pretty big fee structure so the overall fee is that you're going to get a 20 fee on whatever you sell so for example if you have a gig listed for 100 and you do the order for someone and complete that order you're going to be paid eighty dollars. Another negative that you're going to actually have to wait fourteen days after it is marked as completed so then you'll be able to withdraw the funds after that 14-day period. In reality nobody wants to wait that long when they've done the work but i will say the process used to be longer than 14 days when i was selling gigs on here a lot in the past. So i should give them some credit here and improving the overall turnaround time but still 14 days to wait after you do the work kind of stinks in my opinion. Now of course all these terms could change over time and they've changed several times over the years that i've been on a platform. However it gives you a good idea or an overview of the platform. What you can potentially expect to see now overall i would say that Fiverr definitely favors the buyers on their site over the sellers. If you're looking to purchase some gigs on there and really get your online business moving quickly for less money i think it's a no-brainer to use as a buyer. As i mentioned earlier i've got some links below to Fiverr gigs that i recommend checking out.