How to sell services on fiverr
TUTORIAL: How to Create a Fiverr Gig and Start Selling Services to Make Money Online
hello everybody Chris here and today I'm
going to show you how to create a gig on
Fiverr now if you don't already know
what 5r is fiber is a site where you can
basically go on tell other people with a
gig what service you are offering and
either promote yourself basically link
people to the gig or wait for people to
come by and find your gig in their
internal search engine to basically buy
the service from you
so you're posting a service via a gig
and people buy that service from you you
go ahead and do it
it's called fiber of course because the
standard gig pricing is $5 though I
believe you can change around the
pricing and you can always offer extras
for extra money so before we get started
if you do want to support the channel
you can do so by going to
patreon.com/scishow I had and get right
into it so to get to this create a gig
page what you would do is go up here to
the menu after registering an account of
course go to selling and you'll see
create a gig down here that will link
you straight to this page so the gig
title always starts with I will and then
you put basically the rest of your title
on what kind of service are you offering
in this example we'll just keep it
simple and talk about creating an e-book
cover ie book covers or something a lot
of people need and a lot of people don't
really want to do it for themselves and
it's pretty quick to do so it's a good
service for a five dollar fee so if you
were going to create an e-book cover for
other people you would just put that in
the title so I will create an e-book
cover
for your book I mean you can mess around
with the title a little bit more of
course to get a more precise and one
good idea
just like YouTube is to try to kind of
hit on certain keywords figure out what
people are going to be searching for and
then you want to include those words in
your title so that when they see it in
the search engine it's going to catch
their eye the same thing applies down
here at the bottom for tags okay
so next up you have to pick a category
there's a bunch of different ones out
there and you can pretty much tell it by
the way these are just the top level
categories there's more beneath it you
can tell that there's a lot of different
things that people are offering on
Fiverr and other sites like this and
that's just because it's quite possible
to get a lot of work done online these
days so in this specific case the book
cover would be a graphic or design so
we're going to choose graphic and design
and we can select from the sub category
down here you can see each category has
like 10 or 15 extras so book covers and
packaging is exactly what we're looking
for now down here cover photo is going
to be pretty important for you I believe
the correct image specifications are 600
pixels by 370 so it's 600 wide and 370
tall and you can double check that if
you need to but it's going to be a jpg
image or jpg image that you're going to
be uploading make sure you own the
copyrights obviously you don't want to
get sued probably won't happen but they
mean you don't want to risk things now
if you've already C for this specific
get created some ebook covers or you
have any other portfolio work you want
to demonstrate with an image you can go
ahead and post this here it's actually
pretty nice when you see the work that
other people have done and you can
always come back in here and edit it if
you need to now with the description
this is where you give more information
tell people exactly what you're doing
what they should expect when you have
exported the the file you have it all
done and anything they need to include
could go here it doesn't have to go here
because on a future page a future setup
page the buyer instructions
that's where we detail that and but
sometimes I like to add it into the
description anyway so we'll just write
something here I'll create an e-book
cover obviously this is just for
demonstration you would put more in here
and you have bulleted points available
and bold if you have something you
really want them to see I would
recommend bolding it could be like a gig
rates how much you're going to do per
gig and a gig it would be the $5 fee
people can buy multiple gigs
simultaneously now gig metadata usually
something you actually want to do so for
this specific one we can choose book
cover because that's exactly what we're
offering for packshot I would say 2d
graphic because covers are 2d of course
image it's going to be a JPEG image for
the specific type because that's what
Kindle prefers about if you wanted to
say off with the Photoshop file you
could also do that here by checking PSD
and of course these settings are going
to be different depending on what kind
of gig you're offering this is just for
the e-book cover obviously so things
that people probably want to see web
publish ready and if you can get it
ready for print as well where it is
compatible with say create space or such
things you could check that here there
the more things you can offer with these
gig metadata's the more customers are
going to be able to reach because
different customers are going to be
needing slightly different needs
obviously so tags or taxonomy are
basically keywords that are associated
with your gig and will help the search
engine figure out where to display it so
for ebook covers I would say ebook cover
is a very very obvious tag to use you
could say Photoshop creation or let's
just go with Photoshop work sometimes
the tags that are already there might be
a little bit better and as a third one
you could say jpg exports not really
great tag but we got to move on here so
duration the maximum time to deliver
this is by default how long at most you
expect it will take you to complete your
gig and send the final work off
to whoever you're sending it to so in
this case you could say three days or
two days to deliver generally if you
don't want to go to like seven days or
more than that being that it's basically
a market place anyone can sign up for
its kind of competitive and if I saw
someone who said that was going to take
them a week I'd probably just go to the
next guy so if you're going to do this
probably want to be on top of your game
now once you've chosen a maximum
duration you can go ahead and save and
continue it looks like oh yes of course
I forgot to choose an image so I'll just
grab this Kindle eBook career of cover
creation off of my desktop and the
description should be at least 120
characters long so I'm going to do that
really quickly done obviously you want a
real description oh wow it won't even
let you spam like that okay that's
probably a good thing because you don't
want people you don't want people
spamming your site with cheap gigs only
the real people are the best for this
site there we go and we'll save and
continue to do okay now on this next
page configure pricing the first thing
that you have an option to do and I
almost always do this is to check extra
fast now this means you can do you gig
in less time guaranteed for an extra fee
usually five or ten dollars now in this
case I could say one day which means
from the moment they give you the gig
and order it you have 24 hours to
complete it but they will pay you extra
in this case so licensing is something
that may show up depending on your gig
if you're doing audio or graphics you
don't necessarily have to check this but
if you want to charge extra to guarantee
that it is legal for commercial use you
could do that there including the source
file is pretty much a given it's it's
really easy to just have that there and
maybe some people want it so they can
make slight edits to it now if you have
any extra gigs or gig extras rather that
you want to add in addition to those you
can do that here write a description too
how much you're going to charge for that
how many days choose a type of which
there will be quite a few different ones
and you can choose to charge for
shipping though this would only apply to
certain gigs I basically if you're
sending them a physical object and
you're going to want to charge shipping
there of course because otherwise you
won't make any money on it but if that's
not relevant to you than just hit save
and continue well now I do have to
uncheck that because I wasn't actually
going to fill on that gig service so
let's go back to the next page okay so
here is where you can upload a video you
can always do it later but having a
video is usually considered a really
good idea on Fiverr basically it's a
30-second introduction that you created
explaining what your gig is about you
don't have to do it certainly you don't
but it can be a really good investment
of your time especially if you want to
get more orders because if people see
that you have a video especially one
that may have your face cam using webcam
or something like that then people going
to think you're a lot more credible
you're not just some shady guy hiding
behind a computer you're someone who's
actually willing to put your face on it
now of course that doesn't mean you need
to put give you full name or anything
like that but yeah just having a video
that kind of advertises your gig when
people come to your page is really nice
to have and as you can see they say that
you would sell two hundred and twenty
percent more on average and that's
pretty considerable ok so we're going to
skip that for now and here on the bio
instructions page they've changed this
bound a little bit over the last few
months I guess you have the option to
choose three different types of answer
free text which is where they can just
type whatever they want and include
attachments multiple answer which is
where they can well check boxes
obviously basically if you have some
instructions and you want to give them
different options or you want them to be
able to easily tell you what they're
looking for like
you want it as a JPEG image or PNG image
for instance you can have two check
boxes there and they can choose which
kind of image you want to export an
attached file would be if you have like
a script that they need to send you
before you can get started or
instructions or maybe a copy of the
ebooks so you can skim it and make the
cover for it that would be attached file
and you can attach file you can have
them attach files to free text but if
you want to make it mandatory you
definitely want to use attached file now
you don't have to have just one
requirement here you can see number one
you can add multiple ones
so something requirement one and then we
add another requirement attached file
the file please and so on and so forth
so then when they go to actually order
they're going to see this and they can
type their instructions and attach the
files as necessary and then at this
point you can basically just go ahead
and publish your gig within I think a
few hours or 24 hours something along
there you kid will be published it'll
show up in the search engines and people
will be able to go ahead find your gig
and start ordering now if you want to
ensure you get kicks you may want to go
ahead and promote it basically send
information out to social media sites if
you have a blog or website or anything
like that you can get Fiverr what would
you call it like plugins to basically
display your gigs on those sites and let
people click and get to your page on
Fiverr and go ahead and order them but
in general that's really all there is to
creating a gig on Fiverr so if you have
any questions feel free to leave them
down below
I've been Chris thank you very much for
watching and I will see you in my next
video
