Fiverr Outsourcing Gigs

by Francis
(December 06, 2012)

Getting this logo done was not always easy

I thought I had a pretty good deal with this gig. The user promised a great logo delivered in two or three weeks. He was smart to add additional gigs that you could buy in addition in order to speed things up.

I want to economize some money and was ready to patiently wait my three weeks until I get my logo. Also, he has only had good feedback so I was willing to trust in the process.

Now here’s what happened, I wrote to him the following;

After I have submitted this message and waited the time needed; I got the response from him.

I genuinely could understand that this Fiverr person did not want me to leave him a bad feedback. And I also understand if there’s a technical glitch.

However, I never received my logo up to this point of writing this blog post. Perhaps, this will work out. I have sent him a last stern email.

The problem is Fiverr’s rating system. It’s heavily geared towards the seller and not the person who actually pays the money. That, in my opinion, is a flaw on the Fiverr website.

A few days after my logo was supposedly delivered, I still got an option to resolve a problem or ask for a refund. A few days later, this option has disappeared. The only thing I can still do is give a positive or a negative feedback.

I can even imagine that a few days later, he will get a positive feedback by default. I’m not sure about this but I could imagine this happening.

So as long as I still have some leverage, I will be able to put negative feedback on this seller’s page. If he delivers good results, I will probably be able to change this into positive feedback.

Bottom line, when you pay your money on Fiverr, it’s your job to run after the results because it will be difficult to get the money back.

I hope that the final outsourced logo will be worth it. I have had more worries than $5 are actually worth.

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by Francis
(December 03, 2012)

A few days ago, I had a heated discussion over Facebook with an acquaintance of mine. He really had a problem with the old design of my Facebook fan page. Instead of getting annoyed at how personal his comments were, I try to find the optimal solution. Some people suggested I use 99designs to get a logo created for about $100.

The problem?

I was simply not ready to spend $100 just to have a design created. Perhaps some time in future when I’m ready to invest that much money into my website, but not now.

Creating a Logo for Only $5

Luckily, there are cheaper alternatives out there. The alternative is called Fiverr.

For such designer jobs, the Fiverr service is the ideal solution. I won’t create a logo for my website itself. I don’t want to risk any copyright problems or something like that. But for a Facebook fan page or a Twitter logo, this is perfect.

No one will get angry at me for using something like that for a Twitter or Facebook logo. It’s simply a decision of practicability versus risk and return of interest. And $5 for a logo, that’s okay.

Choosing the Right Designer on Fiverr

Fortunately and unfortunately on Fiverr, there are many designers. Simply looking for the feedbacks score is not enough to find the best one. It takes some time to really read what the people write on the feedback reviews.

Since it’s only $5, I can risk it and try to choose one of the designers I found interesting. He has a delivery time of 18 days and almost 200 orders in the queue. This is enough for me to say that this guy probably knows what he’s doing. Also, he’s a top-rated seller and has a feedback score of 100% good feedback.

This sounds okay.

I am really excited about seeing the results from this outsourcing experiment. I’m just about to order this Fiverr Gig. These 18 days of waiting time will be killing me. Having patience is not something you can outsource just now 🙂

Appearance versus Content

The bottom-line in my opinion is, if I have a great Facebook fan page where I post useful stuff from time to time. Then, real fans and real friends will support me even if my logo design sucks. This is my honest opinion.

If I put all my efforts in having a nice appearance but what I’m talking about is uninteresting, this really would be the worst choice. But just in order to make my very visually oriented visitors happy, I’m ready to invest a little bit into a nicer logo.

Let’s hope it’s worth it.

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by Francis
(November 08, 2012)

I have come to this conclusion not so long ago. A few discussions with internet savvy marketing friends confirmed this suspicion. Using Fiverr for internet marketing, traffic generation or lead generation is pretty much useless.

If you’re reading this and have no idea what I’m talking about, this is essential for some technical details that website owners have to deal with. Fiverr actually can be useful for fun stuff like unusual gigs that make you laugh. Check out the sections of fun or bizarre or creative sections in Fiverr to get good stuff for your money.

Back to the website owners. The last few days I’ve intensely read up and informed myself about lead generations and solo ads. I really needed to put down this blog post to warn every internet marketing newbie to try out Fiverr to use lead generation.

Of course I could also say: “just try it out, what’s the harm, it only costs $5”.

The problem is: those people offering these gigs on Fiverr are working with exactly this mindset of all the newbies and make money out of those people who do not know better.

If you really want to be successful with internet marketing especially via email, my personal advice would be to hire a specialized Email Marketing Assistant.

This move alone will indeed save you lots of time and, therefore, money and you won’t need to stress yourself out over getting your hopes up with internet marketing on Fiverr.

I hope this one warning posts will help at least a few readers. If it does then it will have served its purpose.

by Francis
(October 12, 2012)

Today I’m trying another experiment. What it will cost me? Some time, some effort, some brain power and $5. I’m talking of course about the website Fiverr where you can order all sorts of stuff.

I set up a new page where I wanted to drive traffic to, to see if it is working. One gig promised me 5,000 human visitors for the price of $5. From the point of view of a cost per click marketing, this is a no brainer. The question is, though, are these visitors real? Can I use them?

The simple test I’m making is to send it to a website which has a sign up form. If a lot of people sign up for free offer and join my mailing lists, then I know that this traffic is genuine and I can use it.

Normally, I would never do that with a website which is important to me. But the landing site I’m talking about is free blogging website which is not that important. After you buy the gig, you are sent to your PayPal page. Pay your $5 and you are off.

Now I just follow up and sent him or her, the website link I want to drive the traffic to and then I’ll have to wait for a day or two. Depending on the gig, you have to invest some time waiting but all of this information is disclosed upfront.

As a website owner, I have to warn you to be extremely careful with search engine optimization, traffic driving or other quick solution tactics with Fiverr. You might break your website and lose traffic in the long run if you try to manipulate search results using Fiverr.

I am doing it because it is an experiment and I want to tell you how this went. You, however, should be careful. Save your $5 if you don’t know what you’re doing. But if you want to have fun with crazy or useful gigs, Fiverr is possibly the fastest outsourcing service available for outsourcing newbies.

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Disappointing Results of Quick Traffic Driving With Fiverr

by Francis
(October 12, 2012)

I got my Fiverr gig completed in time. Unfortunately, the results are very disappointing to say the least. The bad thing is I can’t really give him a negative review.

When you have a look at the stats of this gig, as shown in the picture at the top of the post, you’ll see that this person claims to have delivered 12,000 clicks to my website.

The data does not really show any problems. The analytics on my site, however, did not show this sort of activity at all.

The bad thing is I did not install Google Analytics on this blog page I wanted to send traffic to. I relied on the automatic visitor counts of Aweber where I have placed an Aweber form on the blog page.

So I can’t really disprove that this person has done a good job. What I can see is that I did not get any results. No subscribers, no visitors. So to be honest, I was really disappointed with this Gig.

I think those $5 were spent in vain. Perhaps not in vain, you should reconsider seriously when you think about buying quick traffic from Fiverr. You might not necessarily hurt your website. However, you might not also necessarily get the wanted response.

Let’s have a look at where the traffic comes from. Some from Facebook, some from Twitter and most of it via email clients. I assume that they are able to drive this much traffic in such a short time using some sort of automated huge email network.

It’s clear that many of the visitors will not appreciate the website I’ve shared there. Also, most visitors come from China. Without wanting to sound disrespectful, I’m not even sure if all these clicks and people are real, to be honest probably not.

How else could you explain that someone sends 10,000 visitors to a random website overnight? Those can’t be interested normal people.

So I was greedy, it was my fault. I shouldn’t have used Fiverr to drive traffic to my website. But it was an experiment as I said in my last post.

So what I will have to do is to give a positive feedback because I cannot really prove that this guy did something wrong. But still it has a bad after taste. I’m not really happy with it.

To outsource traffic generation, I believe it’s smarter to create your own hard work product and content and have it marketed by your virtual assistant specially trained for this.

Dear website owners, try to stay away from traffic driving Fiverr gigs. That is my take home message.

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Whoops – never mind. Traffic was sent as promised by the Fiverr Gig

by Francis

Although that traffic bought by Fiverr yielded no profit or interaction whatsoever, the traffic bought by the gig I told about in the post above was delivered as promised.

So – I cannot complain. I only make the observation that traffic bought through a Fiverr gig with doubious background to say the least is probably not the smartest move for your website. 😉

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by Francis
(July 02, 2012)

Here is another micro task I outsourced to Fiverr end of last year. For another website of mine, I have used Creative Common pictures from Flickr which didn’t cost anything. I was looking for higher quality stock photos, only to see they are pretty expensive. Then I stumbled on this Fiverr task:

A guy called “100K” made this Gig:

I investigated. I wrote back and forth with him and then I just bought the Gig.

It goes pretty fast spending five dollars on Fiverr because you can literally buy a Gig with one click.

Anyways, after I explained to him what the pictures should be showing, I indeed got a very nice archived download with more than 80 high quality stock photos. They were not branded in any way, high quality and high resolution.

Then I got stuck: I did not know where the pictures came from and if would get into trouble using them.

I decided to ask the “100 K” guy if he knew about the copyright details to use the stock photos.

That’s where he was not much of a help. Here is what he said:

“Yes. You can use these pictures at anywhere you want without any license. As you know I provide pictures to my customers without any kinds of rights. It’s 100% legal.

As you have already heard downloading is not a crime if it’s used for people’s right. That’s what I do.”

What? Yes or No?!

This is gibberish!

And also it is nonsense.

I realized that I had bought material which I could not use legally.

Bottom line:

This Gig really sounded great. Like a great deal. People left awesome feedback for him and everything looked fine. Only that you couldn’t use the results without fear of someone filing a complaint against you.

Is there any method I can use these pictures anyways?

This is one the question I asked to my virtual assistant.

Here is what he thinks about it:

What is your opinion on this?

What will you do with 80 high resolution stock photos that you just bought for five dollars? Would you either discard the photos or ignore your investment of $5 or would you try to find a way to make a use of them.

I will love to hear your insights about it.

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by Francis
(July 02, 2012)

You read right. You have to got to love the Dropbox service. I am using it every day – but I am not going to pay for it. The free service does more than enough for you if you only have smaller amount of files to backup and share.

But with several cooperations with virtual assistants and hundreds of sub-folders being saved into my dropbox, I was running out of space quickly.

For five dollars, I found a Gig that said that in a very legal and official way, they could expand my Dropbox to 18 Gigabytes of free storage space.

Sounds like a real bargain?

Believe me. It is!

From all the Fiverr Giggs I did up to date, it was the most effective one. If I have spent $150 dollars on Fiverr Gigs, this one Gig probably was worth it for all those Gigs together. It was very simple. I got my referral links from the Dropbox website.

I told him my current account capacity and I looked if I could provide an .edu account to him.

If you are a student, you know what that means.

It didn’t take half a day until I got what I paid for – and even several gigabytes more.

This person over delivered.

Are you interested?

You should be.

Check out this link if you want to increase your Dropbox size. Tell the guy I said hello!

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Jul 09, 2014

From 2 to 66.75 GB by: Francis Just recently, Francis (my employer) helped me expand my Dropbox. During my rest day, I got these series of notification and had no idea why they are thanking me for referrals 😀 lol Nevertheless, I am so happy that I will no longer worry about file storage and I will no longer need to delete files that might be of use in the future.