What would you do for $5? Me, I wouldn’t do much for Old Abe, so when I stumbled on Fiverr.com – I loved its uniqueness but immediately proclaimed “this, will never work!”. I couldn’t image people would do “good” work for $4 (fiverr.com keeps a $1 for each order). But then I tried it… whoa, this is kick ass.
I have now placed around 16 orders, I have had only 1 deal not pan out, and when an order goes bad you simply cancel it and are instantly refunded.
The idea is simple – people post “I will do XYZ for $5″, you order it and they do it. The range of services are endless! They literally have everything from “I’ll call your boss and quit - for $5″ to “I’ll build a video for your website – for $5″ to “I won’t shave my arm pits for a week – for $5″.
So far I have spent $80 on:
- A free satirical BP Oil business card template for MemeCard
- Articles, blog posts and product descriptions proof read and edited (not this one
- Creating my bio for the book WordPress Top Plugins
- Advertising one of my sites to 17,000 twitter followers and 5,000 Facebook friends
Fiverr lets me buy bite sized business services 24 hours a day, for less than a McDonalds Value Meal. And like the McRib Value Meal or buying domain names, I am quickly becoming a fiverr addict.
Check it out at http://fiverr.com
Fiverr is very cool. I used it often to get tweets out to large amounts of people at a time. I have also just tried UpHype.com. This one’s is all about “Hype” and is more focussed on marketing efforts to promote your message, business or product? UpHype jobs are called “Hypes”. Hypes range from promoting your message to a user’s 100,000 Twitter followers to writing an article or press release for your blog. http://uphype.com. Plus it has a fun design like fiverr.
I love Fiverr also, made around 8 purchases so far and love the way it’s so easy to use. However I know how the site is going to end up like, overly used and full of, well let’s say, spam. Useless or repetitive “gigs”.
I’ll stick to it though, however I wish they would allow people to make more money. You can’t really do anything with five bucks.
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There is beter alternative then Fiver – http://MyJobCentre.co.uk/ – It’s UK’s version of Fiver and revenue for one gig there is $6.30 instead $3.92 like in Fiver!
Recommended definitely.
Regards,
Anne