Fiverr Fever

 

There’s a new kind of fever that’s spreading like a contagious disease in the internet, and it has nothing to do with Bieber. Guess what, it’s call Fiverr.

Above: A screenshot of Fiverr.com

Basically, Fiverr is a place where one can buy or sell anything for a fixed 5 dollars. It doesn’t matter what you’re selling, whether you’re offering designing service or doing voiceovers or draw cartoon of people. All these and more could be done at Fiverr.

It asks the question: What are you willing to do for $5?

Some people can do really weird things for 5 bucks. The sky is the limit for one’s creativity. But of course, what you want to sell gets filtered so you can’t just sell anything you want.

The categories of gigs (referring to jobs or tasks) include Gifts, Graphics, Video, Social  Marketing, Travel, Writing, Advertising, Music & Audio, Fun & Bizarre, Tips & Advice, Business, Technology, Programming and Other.

As featured in The Wall Street Journal, NBC, Yahoo! Finance, CNNMoney.com and many other trusted sources, Fiverr is definitely one of a kind. Quite revolutionary, I would say, for now many other Fiverr clones (Fiverr-like websites) are mushrooming. One thing’s for sure, the Fiverr is spreading.

There’s even a Malaysian Fiverr. Check out www.iwill.com.my, which isn’t really a hit, although the price range is more flexible there.

There’s a reason why Fiverr would only have $5 dollar gigs. It’s this feature that allows only a target market of buyers and sellers and brings in a sense of uniformity in all the gigs.

My experience with Fiverr…

Personally, I signed up with Fiverr a month ago. So yeah, I’m a tyro in this. Then I posted some gigs that I will do for $5. At the beginning, nothing was happening. After a few days, I totally forgot about Fiverr.

Then, after a week or so, I received an email from Fiverr that somebody is having a conversation with me in Fiverr. So I checked it out, responded to the person, and soon got an order from him. Really exciting.

So that’s how I got my first $5 using Fiverr. The first gig turned out to be good, and soon the same buyer ordered some more. Now I have more than $10 in my account. Cool.

I’m pretty happy with the overall system of this website. It’s still in beta mode so I’m looking forward to future makeovers that would make it much more efficient and better than ever.

Some suggestions:

1. For now, when a finished product is delivered, only 1 file could be sent at a time. It would be great if multiple files can be sent at the same time.
2. At the right side there is a section for “Gigs Requested”, but it only lists a few at a time. I would usually find myself hitting the refresh button to see which task could be done. Fiverr can have another page for all “Gigs Requested” and a responding system to it so that users can view all these available tasks and respond more efficiently.

Are you feeling the heat yet? Start exploring Fiverr and start doing stuff you like while earning a little too.

Oh, and by the way, I’m Chillthefiver in Fiverr.  :]

http://fiverr.com/users/chillthefiver – my link.