Day 13- Make money with Fiverr

Hey guys, 

As promised this one is about making money, and truth be told this is the first time I'm actually making money online. 

What is Fiverr?

Fiverr is a site that gives you a chance to make 4$ per order. In this site you will have to create "gigs". You write what you are willing to do for 5$ publish it and wait for people to order your service. Out of the 5$ they will pay, 1$ is a commission that the site takes. 

How does it work?

Once you have your gig up and running people will be able to order from you. You will get notification to your e-mail for every order or message you get. When you create the gig you will have to write the estimated time it will take you to complete your order. Once an order is made you will have to deliver by the deadline you wrote. If not able to do so you will have another 24 hours before the client will be able to cancel his order without your permission. Once you deliver the complete work the client will approve it and the order will be marked as complete if the client does nothing the order will be marked complete automatically after three days. Once you complete an order the money is yours and after two weeks you will be able to withdrawal it or use it to order on Fiverr. As far as cancellation goes, there are a few ways to cancel an order, if you and the client both agree to cancel the order you just do it and all is well. If you decide to cancel it alone it will cost you in your rating.

How to choose a gig?

sounds easy right? well it basically is but here is the catch: You have to come up with a gig that will be worth 5$ for the clients but won't be too time consuming for you. Think about how much you are making right now and think about how many gigs you will have to do per hour to get to that payment. then divide one hour (60 minutes) by the number of gigs and you will find out what is the maximum time you will have to dedicate to each order. For example, although right now I'm doing nothing so basically every dollar I make is worth my time, I thought  about my last job where I made about 10$ - 12$ an hour. That means I will have to complete 3 orders per hour in order to make the same amount of money. If you divide 60 by 3 you will find that every order should take me about 20 minutes. 

I recommend to go for something less time consuming and create a gig that will allow you to complete orders in less than 10 minutes. This way you will be able to make 24 $ per hour. Take into consideration that you will usually won't get more than 6-8 orders a day so this can't be your primary job or anything like that but it can definitely be  a way to make extra few bucks  everyday. 

How to get orders?

As I said before,  the gig MUST be worth 5$ or more. If not  most people won't be willing to pay you. When you create the gig make sure you describe in an attractive that will make you sound professional in the area you chose. Add a relevant picture and most important add a video, the video usually make you sound more believable and attractive. Moreover, you should make sure you put the gig in the right category and write the right key words. Just think about the people who would be interested in a gig like yours and what would be the search words they would use. Make sure the work you provide is good and that the clients are happy so that their rating will be good. Don't worry if you get a few bad comments  if most of your clients are happy it won't make a difference since the  more orders you take the less a few bad rating will effect the rating percentage.

Another thing that I haven't figured out completely yet is how to get your gig to the first page and how to get featured. From what I understand the more positive ratings you get from your customers the better your position will be, I also read somewhere that once you get to 20 positive ratings you will get featured. I don't know if it's true or not, I'm only at 15 right now. I will let you know if it's true once I will get to 20. Once I figure out how to get my gig to the first page I will let you know. But even now when my gig is only at the second page in the video section I still get about 4-5 new orders each day.

My experience: 

I created my gig 13 days ago, I already made 72$ and I have new orders in my pipeline worth 76$. Sounds nice right? The thing is , at first I put too much time in to every gig, and got so stressed about keeping my customers happy I wasn't sure if it was worth it.  another thing is that just after I created the gig and started getting orders I was shut down for about 4-5 days by my personal life. My initial deadline was 7 days, so I was left with 14 orders that I had to deliver in less than 24 hours. This time pressure made me create a more efficient system and finally I was able to deliver all the orders. After that I edited the deadline to 10 days, but I am trying to complete orders as fast as I can so I won't get into the same mess again. 

These are my gigs:

Let make money people!

Yours,
The Beginner

Day 11- Making money with Facebook

If you don't know what Facebook is  you probably don't have a computer ! Facebook is a successful social networking site, through it you can connect with people that have the similar interests as you. It is a really great way to promote products, advertise and more. when I first heard someone say that you can make money with Facebook I was a little shocked, I mean I've been using it for about four years and only now I find out I can actually make money with it??? Well, it's not that easy and like everything else you do, you need to invest, time, effort and creativity - here are the ways to make money with Facebook in a really general way.

Before you sign up you have to think of what you want to achieve and which people you want to attract to your profile. It means you don't have to be yourself ! The goal is to become an expert in the topic of your choosing. 

After you develop your profile and get known on the area you chose there are a couple of things you can do: 

1. Sell on the Marketplace -You can place ads in the Marketplace for free without limitation of the number of ads. So If there are products you want to promote, or you found stuff on e-bay that are related to your niche you can post them there and sell them. 
2. Promoting your site with Social Ads - If you have a website you want to promote you can promote it with Social Ads. Facebook is not currently charching any more for ads that contain a social call to action, although a recent Nielsen report claimed that almost 70% of users are more likely to click on an ad previously visited by friends. In addition these ads will appear in a users friend's newsfeed.It’s important to keep in mind that Facebook is still social media, and so marketing efforts should be information and value driven, because the goal is to appeal to them not to “hard-sell”.

I created a fan page for my blog and I have some people sign to it, not many yet, but I think that in time I will learn more about how to attract people to the site, I think I already posted about how to create a fan page so you can take a look at the archive. You can also connect your blog to your facebook page so that every time you post on your blog it will come out as a note on your facebook page. 

Let's make money people! 

Yours,

The Beginner

Day 9 - Get Rich Fast?

Hey Everyone, 

Today I will write a shorter post about the affiliate gurus and all the other advertisements about making 300$ a day in five minutes. Well if you read my blog so far you would know that I've just started this whole making money online mission. Before I started writing the blog I looked around, did a lot of research and read a lot of false promises. I also found out that once you start searching these things out online you are bound to get tempted and press on those ads about the stay at home mom who started making 345$ a day in less than two weeks. After you press on the ad you get to a squeeze page that tempts you to buy this product which usually worth 20,000$ but you will get that and more for just 40$ and this formula you will get is bound to make you rich fast! 

Sounds AMAZING right? Well, those gurus would never read this so I'm not really worried about what I'm going to say next. After about a month of 24/7 on the internet I have to say I'm just sick of it... Just because I know it's not possible, all I'm saying is don't fall for it and buy the stuff they sell you, they usually just give you a general over used ideas about online marketing without any of the essentials and technical stuff. Luckily I have a friend who has been in my situation and already made most of the mistakes, he told me not to buy those things because it never works, you just have to understand something and the sooner you get it the better. There might be some shortcuts along the way but in order to succeed in this you have to work hard for a while, try things and make mistakes .... You can't shortcut the whole learning process, if we could, we would all have been rich by now! 

Nonetheless, I do have respect for those guys and they might be who they say they are so here is a little tip, I sign in for their e mail list on the squeeze pages, get a lot of junk to one email that is maid just for them, they send me a lot of offers but since I've already resolved not to buy anything I dismiss them easily... 

WHY do I do it?  --- I learn from what they are willing to share, I learn about the right terms to use in affiliate marketing, the different sites and tactics that were used ect.. HOW? Well, those gurus send you a lot of junk but in order to make you stay on their list they give you bits of useful information just to get you curious...  I gather that information and try to create  a bigger picture. 

My recommendation is : If you decide to try and learn from them don't buy anything. Get the information they give you and try to screen out all the 'marketing' so that all that is left is the little bit of information. If you like the tactics they use on you just try to learn that instead of the information they send, but most of all don't spend to much time on it, and don't let them discourage you! 

Let's make money people! 

Yours, 

The beginner

Oh, by the way this the site of that friend I mentioned earlier, he really knows what he is doing and gives practical tools, he helps me with something I'm trying to do and until now he is just great! So this is his site.. you can take a look and see if you like it....

http://makemon25.syqel.hop.clickbank.net