How to Make Money on Fiverr in Cameroon

Everyone can make money on Fiverr with one or two digital skills. Today thousands of Freelancers are earning 6 figure incomes online from Fiverr.

Since its launch in 2010, Fiverr has become a significant freelance marketplace. Not only did it establish credibility within a short period, but it has also emerged as one of the go-to platforms for freelancing beginners.

So, can you make money on Fiverr? Definitely, but the level of difficulty will vary from service to service. Based on my experience as a buyer and Seller, there is still space in the Fiverr market, and the tips shared in this post will help you achieve some great results.

What is Fiverr?

Fiverr is an online platform where users sell their products and services for $5 each. Fiverr brings together buyers and sellers from all over the globe.

Earning five dollars per task may sound like little, but those short sales can add up to hundreds of thousands of naira very quickly if you know what to do.

Regardless of your skill level and experience, there is something you can offer the global market for outsourced services on Fiverr. The available services range from business promotion, social networking, and advertisement to funny videos, graphic design, and translations, to mention just a few. These offered services are called “GIGS” on Fiverr.

How Fiverr works?

The central concept behind how Fiverr works is similar to other online marketplace platforms. A service offered on Fiverr is called a Gig.

The service is offered by the Seller (freelancer) and bought by the buyer(employer). Five dollars is the famous starting price for offers on Fiverr. Before you can buy or sell anything, you must first sign up.

On Fiverr, buyers can browse and search for Gigs they wish to buy. When a buyer is ready to make a purchase, they make an order and then proceed to checkout to pay.

All purchases are subject to a processing fee, Fiverr charges the buyer a $2 processing fee on each purchase and 5% on purchases above $20. Sellers keep 80% of each Gig they sell after completing and delivering the task.

1. Signup on Fiverr

If you want to make money on Fiverr, then the first step is to sign up. Only registered users can buy and sell on Fiverr.

After successfully signing up and confirming your account with a registration link sent to your email, you will need to create your seller profile. Your profile is how you present yourself to the community. You are encouraged to submit yourself professionally.

2. Create a Fiverr Gig

A Gig is a service offered on Fiverr’s website. For example, a Gig can be as simple as “I will do a guest post on my business blog for $5”. Sellers have the option to choose their starting price point. Sellers can even offer multiple price ranges by using Gig Packages. Gig Packages can provide buyers with different service packages at different prices.

3. Start getting paid

After signing up and doing all the necessary account setup processes, you just need to wait for your first order from a customer. To make this happen faster, try to promote your services wherever possible. Enter some unique descriptions to attract customers and use good images or videos. Once you get your first order, try to make your first customer as happy as possible, and don’t forget to ask for positive feedback or review.

Four Tips to Make Money Online With Fiverr

Why do some Fiverr gigs have endless orders queued up while other almost identical gigs can go months without getting a single sale? The answer is visibility. Applying these tips will help you create a Fiverr business that stands out.

1. Great title and descriptions

One of the best tools to improve your chances of getting noticed and making sales is writing SEO-friendly titles and descriptions for your gigs. A great trick to ensuring you come up with a great title is to look at the label and reports of other high-performing gigs in your Fiverrs category or sub-category.

Do the same for the gig description that you did for the title. What words appear most frequently among a dozen or more successful sellers? These sellers aren’t working together, but a meta-analysis will show that they all have some things in common. There’s a reason for this.

2. Good customer reviews

Good reviews build confidence and make clients more likely to buy. From my experience, around 60% of clients who order on Fiverr will leave a review, so you can double the number of studies to get a rough idea of how many orders a specific gig has amassed.

Do everything possible to take care of your clients and earn their 100% positive, five-star reviews, and don’t start buying or creating fake reviews. Following up with customers after the order is delivered also makes sense to build a good customer relationship.

3. Fast order delivery

Fiverr loves fast delivery. Delivery time is one factor affecting Fiverr’s internal search ranking. If you want your Gig to be ranked high among all sellers by the level of quality as judged by Fiverr’s ranking algorithm, then you should strive to deliver as fast as reasonably possible.

Depending on your offering, you can set a minimum delivery time of 2 days to give yourself some wiggle room for when you’re sick or just having a bad day. You can also choose whether or not you will offer extra-fast delivery for an extra fee.

4. Be friendly and polite

Customer service is essential. Communicate quickly and be charming. You have to make them feel unique and meaningful because the truth is, they are: your livelihood on Fiverr depends on positive reviews and repeat clients.

There are times and places for telling bad clients to jump off a cliff, but that should be an absolute last resort. Even in a rush, polite language like please and thank you will help your buyer feel valued. It will also encourage buyers to use the same language when addressing you.

Conclusion

The number one rule of selling on Fiverr is simple: Be awesome and deliver a great product. Every client you meet will want pure awesome sauce every time, and if you’re not giving that, they’ll go elsewhere. There’s plenty of room for mediocre sellers on Fiverr, but if you want to stand out, you must be good at what you do.

And finally, remember that Fiverr is a means to an end, not an end. You still have to do your own advertising for your sales to be consistent. If you’re a writer, start a blog and use it to promote your Fiverr page. Start a podcast if you don’t like to write and enjoy speaking.