How to get orders on Fiverr?

Like thousands of freedom lovers around the world, you have decided to choose freelancing as your career for future. With freelancing you can earn money with no limits in your very suitable working hours. If you select Fiverr, a non traditional market place, to offer your services then the million dollar question is how to get orders on Fiverr? 

Fiverr, unlike Upwork & Guru, provide the opportunity to sell your services just like one can sell the products on e-commerce websites. Freelancers post their services in the form of Gigs and clients actually buy these Gigs by placing an order. The freelancer who's Gig is purchased by the client will provide the services according to the Gig description and get paid.

So the plan here is to promote your Gigs on Fiverr just as a seller promotes his products on e-commerce websites. In the digital world promotion means ranking. Your task is to rank your Gigs for first or at least top pages. Here are some steps you follow to rank your Gigs and attract more clients to place orders.

1- Find Magical KEYWORDs:

a- Title must have the most relevant KEYWORDs to the Fiverr searches for the skills you offer. To check this relevancy you should search top ranked Gigs (at least 5). Please note these KEYWORDS

b- Now with these selected KEYWORDS create a little long tail KEYWORD and search it in Fiverr search bar, some KEYWORDS have search volume less than 300, and some have more than 10000.

c- Your task here is to find your magical KEYWORDS with search volume 350 to 1800. As these KEYWORDS are in demand but with low competition. So try hard to put different options to get your magical KEYWORDS for ranking your Gigs on top.

2- Design your Gigs

After getting you magical KEYWORDS now you are ready to design your Gigs

a- make an appealing title for your Gigs to attract the attention of buyers buy using your magical KEYWORDS.

b- select Category & subcategory for your skills you are offering in this Gig.

c- attach search Tags according to your skills set, like for "Graphics Design" you may use  Tags with Logo Design, Business Card Design, Letterhead Design etc.

Here you have done a very important phase of your Gig design.

3- Offer Packages

In Fiverr you have the opportunity to offer your services in three packages named as Basic, Medium and Premium.

Basic has low level services with minimum price, Medium is bit high level services with higher price and Premium is with advanced services and maximum prices.

You can change the name of packages from Basic, Medium and Premium to some more attractive one like Cool, Smart and Boss. It will show your creative skills to the buyers.

To set the services and price levels in your packages you can search the top ranking Gigs of your skills in Fiverr sorted by " Best Selling". Set these levels in a more competitive way so the buyers will be ready to purchase your Gig.

4-Description

Remember the titles and tags are designed to rank the Gig, it's actually a description which tells the buyers about the services you offer. In this section describe yourself and your work briefly.

The description should not be ambiguous in any way, otherwise it may lead the buyers about the services you are not offering. And if buyers cancel such orders it will affect the rating of your Gig negatively.

Use of your KEYWORDS and Tags in description repeatedly will also help to rank the Gig. Start description with one or two line personal intro, then talk about your work experience and latest projects. Tell the buyer in detail that why you are the best option to his projects and what is your way or pattern to handle such important projects. So the buyer should get the clear idea about your expertise, way of work and finally what the value buyer will get after placing you the order.

Always close the description with some "call to action" words which entice the buyers to contact you.

5- Fill some FAQs

After description it is very important as well as helpful to fill some Frequently Asked Questions. Think about what questions the buyer would need to answer from you.

Like 

a- Q: Are you ok to discuss before placing an order?

b- Q: When will you be available for Skype? etc

6- Use of Image & Video

Images are not only more helpful to get attention of the buyers but also a good image speaks hundreds of words. For thumbnail image always

select nice eye-catching image

Simple to understand

Use less words with readable font size

Use attractive color combinations. 

Studies show that on Fiverr the gigs with videos are visited much more than those without video. So make a 1 to 2 min brief video of your work description. Give a brief intro of yourself and explain your description section in good words with a clear voice. Explain your services and experience to attract the buyers.

It gives the buyer more confidence to contact and start conversation.

7- Usage of Social Media

Share the link of your Gigs on social media sites, like Facebook, Instagram, Twitter and LinkedIn. More you share the Gigs on social media more the masses now about your work and you have better chances to have order on Fiverr.

Farhan Baig

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