In today's Website Marketing Newsletter...
How Much Is Your Time
Worth.... More Than Five
Bucks?
One of the things I enjoy most about making my living online is
the time freedom. You know, work when you want, no alarm clock,
all that stuff. But I still need to get work done -- sometimes
a lot of work. I mean, this website marketing stuff can
be really time consuming.
But I have a secret weapon. I pay others five bucks a pop to do
the stuff I don't like to do, and the stuff that takes me too
much time. Today I'll explain some of the tasks I've been
outsourcing $5 at a time and how it's been
working.
If you've been doing any sort of business online you're
probably aware of fiverr.com - a place where people do things
for a fin. Five bucks for all sorts of crazy, wacky, zany "gigs"
as
fiverr.com calls them.
But amongst the "sing and dance your
message" and the "underwater photo service" gigs, there are literally thousands of practical,
mega-useful gigs for online businesses. The secret is in knowing
exactly what gigs to look for, and finding the right service
providers/sellers.
Best Time Saving Fiverr Gigs For Online Businesses:
Over the last few months I've ordered about a dozen different
gigs. A few of the gigs I ordered were largely responsible for me getting
one of my new blogs to the first page of multiple search
engines. The result: lots of passive traffic and income.
Of course SEO related gigs are just one of countless gigs you
can use to grow your income. You just have to be careful when using fiverr for SEO and link
building. There are lots of sellers who will spam your URL to
thousands of sites for five bucks, but you don't want to go that
route. As I shared in a previous Bizweb eGazette on
SEO and backlink building, you want to pace yourself and use
different link building strategies.
OK, so let's say you want to use Fiverr to help get your site
ranked better in the search engines. Rather than buy gigs that
promise you better ranking, a better strategy would be to write
a great article that contains a link or two that points to your
main site, then get the article onto
multiple websites or blogs. This can reallly boost your ranking in
any niche.
The problem is, lots of people have
trouble writing articles. Fiverr to the rescue. There are tons
of article writing gigs offering
unique, 400 word articles completely written from scratch for
five bucks.
Once the article is complete, you can find then easily find a gig that
will submit the article to multiple sites and blogs for you on a
scheduled "trickle out" submission. This simply, 2-gig, ten
dollar outsource strategy can help you grow the
number of incoming links to your website and be a huge help in
getting your site ranked better. And you can do it as often as
necessary.
Another example of a mega-useful gig is press release
writing and submission services. I hate writing press releases.
I also hate joining multiple PR sites and submitting my release
to them. But press release sites are a great way to jumpstart a
new website or blog, by getting some initial traffic and those all-important
links. So whenever I open a new blog I find a reliable Fiverr
gig and have all the work done for me for five bucks. What a
deal.
These are just a few examples of great ways to use fiverr.com --
there are literally thousands of others. I mean, logo design,
header design, blog setup, fan page setup, video creation,
voiceovers, squeeze page and autoresponder setup, and I could go
on all day.
I urge you to use your imagination and think of all the things
you know you should be doing in your online business but haven't
had time to do. You can probably
find someone who will do it for $5 by searching for a gig on
Fiverr. But before you do, read the rest of today's gazette.
Next I'll go into the secret to finding those hidden gems on
Fiverr -- the best, most useful, super-productive gigs, right
after this quick time out...
Serious Income Requires Your Own Products
Here's the
secret resource being used by many of the gurus you know...
(They won't admit it, but more than likely,
they use this.)
Get Serious. Get Your Own Products.
The Secret
To Finding Really Awesome Fiverr Gigs:
Once you know exactly what service you need done, head over
to fiverr.com.
Step 1: Search Fiverr.com
Start by using the search bar at the right side of their site to find people
offering the service you need. But the real secret is in
what you
enter into the search bar....
Let's say you've researched a particular article submission
service and found it to be extremely helpful in building
incoming links to a website. But the cost of the service is too
high for your current budget, at say, $99 a month. And even if
you wanted to become a member of that service, you're not sure you would have time to submit enough
articles to get your money's worth.
Rather than entering "article submission" into the fiverr.com
search bar, be VERY specific. Search for the name or abbreviated
name of that specific article submission network and you'll
likely find a seller who is a member. For five bucks a pop
they'll submit your article to that network through their own
paid account. You get all the benefits of membership to that
article submission network but without paying the hefty
recurring fee.
Step 2: Filter by Rating
Once you see a list of sellers offering the
service you need, the next step is to sort them by rating. You
do this by clicking the RATING link just above the listings.
This is near the top of the page where it read "filter gigs by",
and gives the options of Auto, Popularity, Rating, New, etc.
The reason you want to sort by rating is because you only
want to work with proven sellers who deliver great results.
While it's only five bucks you're spending, you're doing this to
save time. Working with an unproven seller can result in wasted
time and less than optimum results.
After clicking the filter by RATING link you'll see your
search results reordered by customer satisfaction. Next, start
clicking through each gig, paying attention to the number of
happy face ratings versus frown ratings. Only order gigs from
sellers with little to no negative reviews, and with at least 10
(preferably a LOT more) positive reviews.
Step 3: Spend $5 Give the Seller Great Info
Once you have a positively reviewed seller who offers exactly
what you're looking for, click order. (You'll have to log in
first or join for free if you're not already a member.) After
paying the five bucks, you'll need to provide all the
information the seller needs to perform the gig.
For example, if you are buying an article submission service
make sure you provide the article which contains your correct
URL, the exact keyword phrases that describe your site or blog,
and any other important information the seller requests. Gig
results are only as good as the information you provide the
seller.
OK, that's it for today. I hope Fiverr.com is as helpful to
you as it has been to me lately. Use it to free up some of your
time. You can use the extra time to work on other things in your
business. Or if you're like me, you can spend an extra day each
week on the golf course. ;-)
See ya in a few
weeks...
Jim Daniels
Jim at bizweb2000.com
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