Must-see: Why your business needs mobile NOW and how to get it on Fiverr...
The good folks at Milo have produced a stunning infographic that lays out a compelling case for mobile sites. You’ve probably been hearing about mobile for years. We know we have. And you’ve been...
View ArticleFiverr Payoneer Mastercard: Great deal or cheesy ripoff?
First rolled out to top-rated sellers, Fiverr is introducing a method for withdrawing your earnings. It’s called the Fiverr Revenue Card. So far it is still limited to the two top levels, to our...
View ArticleI will send you to Heaven…for $5
We knew the bar for creative Fiverr gigs was getting pretty high but we had no idea it extended to the afterlife. Take this offering from Fiverr seller itsheaven: I will help you to go Heaven !! Yes !!...
View ArticleUPDATE: Speed demon! Speed drawing gets you eyeballs
In June we brought you up to date on the doings of nathanshields, Fiverr’s premier stay-at-home dad, illustrator and math teacher. We showed you a sample speed drawing video and explained how the whole...
View ArticleFiverr Featured Gigs and the Long Tail
Featured gigs are the Holy Grail for Fiverr sellers. A Featured gig guarantees first page placement — at least part of the time, it rotates — and perhaps first page section placement as well. One...
View ArticleHave roseguillen doodle your logo or banner ad
Her work serves equally well as a Facebook cover, too. Who’s roseguillen? She lives in the Philippines. She’s an industrial engineering student, as well as a designer and artist. And she loves to...
View ArticleDriving traffic with Fiverr: One experiment you should never try
“I thought I was being smart. I thought I could pay someone five bucks and they would work their magic and funnel all sorts of traffic to my new blog. Of course, I was experimenting, but I had no idea...
View Article“How I got screwed out of $44 in sales on Fiverr”
This seller — who shall remain nameless because we don’t have permission to publish his name — brings a problem with Fiverr to our attention. We’ll call him Pickle. Pickle points out that Fiverr’s...
View Article5 reasons why you must buy this artsy video slideshow
We just got back from Famous Bloggers School. Don’t lie, you’ve seen their ads inside matchbook covers. They Laughed When I Sat Down at the Keyboard, But When I Started to Type…! Yeah. Those guys. So...
View ArticleIt’s mandatory now: You must report your Fiverr income to the IRS
Or…”Area Woman Makes An Extra $7,300 and Pays Taxes on It” This just in from CNET, who apparently just woke up and realized that for the last three years people have been making money on Fiverr. To...
View Article3 strategies for dealing with an unhappy Fiverr buyer
Courtesy of one of the black hat forums, we have a report from a novice Fiverr seller named aegroeg. She set up a Fiverr gig to produce a custom music beat for $5. She didn’t promote this gig in any...
View ArticleBeware the Bing, AdCenter and AdWords coupons on Fiverr
From Yahoo Answers: On Fiverr, people are selling $250 coupons for advertising on bing and adcenter for only $5. How is that possible? All the reviews are positive too! How can they be doing this? Is...
View ArticleHow Fiverr killed the market for freelance writers
This just in this morning from Patrick Lambert, a freelance writer in Montreal: I joined (Fiverr) in early 2011, and was active on the site for over a year, until late summer 2012, when my sales went...
View ArticleWas Fiverr hacked on January 14?
If posters on the BlackHatWorld forum are to be believed, it sure looks like it. At 4:12 pm a user reported all Fiverr gigs were redirecting to an mdlasky “Jesus” page. In other words, no matter what...
View ArticleAre you a blogger? Fiverr is looking for content creators
…and no, not at $5 a pop. At least we hope not. An intriguing item from the jobs board at Problogger crossed the transom this morning. Can you crank out original SEO-conscious content like crazy per...
View ArticleVaughn Fry snarls: “Fiverr needs a wake-up call!” (VIDEO)
He’s got 559 subscribers on one of his YouTube channels — 550 more than we have. He’s famously bad-tempered. He does video movie reviews. He thinks Lena Dunham is a talentless hack. (Gotta agree with...
View ArticleYouTube cancels billions of fake music industry views. Could yours be next?
Perhaps you thought your YouTube channel was too small for YT to go after. Perhaps you were wrong and have found that out already. One thing’s for sure, though. YouTube disclosed recently that it had...
View ArticleHow to crowdsource your graphics project on Fiverr, part one
We need a logo for a new website project. But we don’t really have a good idea what the logo should look like. All we have is a name and a vague concept. If you’re like us, crowdsourcing can really...
View ArticleWhat to do when a Fiverr seller cancels your order…or you have to cancel a...
So you’ve spent some time going through the listings on Fiverr, paying special attention to seller ratings and feedback. You made your gig choice carefully and submitted payment. Then the seller comes...
View ArticleHow to crowdsource your graphics project on Fiverr, part two
[Part two of a series. Part one is here.] Our mission is to find 10 graphic artists on Fiverr, give them all the same criteria, and see what happens. Here’s our job spec: The logo will be for...
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