Why Aren't My Fiverr Gigs Selling?

Why Aren't My Fiverr Gigs Selling?

Many new Fiverr sellers get discouraged after they've setup a few gigs and a few weeks go by without a sale. Really getting things rolling on Fiverr is a slow process and can take a while. I think it was about a year in to my Fiverr journey before I started consistantly getting sales and building up some solid feedback.

The thing about Fiverr is once your sales start rolling in and you start getting some gigs, if you do a good job and impress the customer and earn a good feedback score you will begin showing up higher in Fiverrs searches and the higher you go in searches the more gigs you will sell. Once things get rolling it really does snowball and before you know it you'll be selling 5-8 gigs per day, but it does take patience.

A good strategy for putting gigs up on Fiverr is to do some keyword research and figure out what people in your niche or seeking your services are searching for. You may even want to search your keyword or term in Fiverrs search and see similar gigs that pull up in results.

Never copy someone else's gig, however you can use it as inspiration and take some ideas such as what their title looks like, the type of gig photos they have, what their description is like, etc.

If you've listed a Fiverr gig and two weeks passes and you don't get any sales try searching for your own gig in Fiverr search. If you pop up and find yourself you are ranked in Fiverrs search function and you can improve your ranking by tweaking the title, description, or even changing a picture. If you don't show up in Fiverr search it's best at that time to just abandon the gig and start fresh.

Some people report that they change up their gig title, description, and photos on a monthly basis to kind of reshuffle themself in search and keep things fresh. Personally I've had some gigs that have been successful for over a year without any tweaks, however many do report that a gig that has always sold well will just die in it's tracks for no reason and that's when you want to shuffle things around.

The main lesson is be patient. Put together quality gigs, promote your gigs outside of Fiverr on social media, your Youtube Channel and Blog, etc. Gigs will start coming, make sure you deliver quickly and over deliver above customers expectations and your Fiverr business will continue to grow.

What Types Of Gigs Should I Offer On Fiverr?

What Type Of Gigs Sell Best On Fiverr?

Fiverr.Com is a great site for freelancers to offer their services. Though many people think of Fiverr as being more for graphic design, web design, and business related tasks, Fiverr is really about anything you could possibly need to hire anyone for.

Need someone to dress-up like a hippy or a clown and sing Happy Birthday to your friend on their special day? You can find it on Fiverr. Need to buy 10,000 Twitter followers and have them delivered in the next 24 hours...Fiverr got ya covered. Need your homemade rap album you made  in your basement remastered so you can throw it up for sale on iTunes, Fiverr has gigs for that too.

In terms of being a Fiverr seller there are some best practices such as always delivering on time, always delivering more than the customer is expecting and being responsive  to customer inquiries and requests. That said you should offer gigs that play to your strengths. If you're a writer don't try to offer SEO gigs if that is not your strength. If your music producer don't offer graphic design gigs, offer music gigs that play to your strength. Pretty much whatever skillsets and strengths you have someone is out there searching for them to perform some type of job or task.

A couple tips I do give to new Fiverr sellers is personally speaking I like to offer gigs which are pretty cut and dry in terms of whether the activity was performed. For example, something like I will Tweet  your message to my 10,000 Twitter Followers. I either did the gig and tweeted the message or I didn't but there's really no need to ask for revisions.

That said say I offer a design gig. I'm only making $4 after Fiverr takes their cut. If someone asks me to do 10 revisions and I wind up spending an hour and a half on the project, I'll probably be disapointed when my payday is only $4 for all that work. For that reason I like to offer either digital products or cut and dry services and not something where a buyer can claim they are unhappy and want me to redo the job 10 more times.

Now that isn't intended to turn you off to selling on Fiverr or even to turn you off from offering a certain type of gig. I know many grahpic designers make a killing on Fiverr but personally I like to stick to gigs that are fairly cut and dry.

Best of luck selling!!!