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1. Introduction to the Class: Okay guys, so welcome everybody. We will be covering what the content of the
class is going to be. As you know, this is going
to be a masterclass. So this is going
to teach you how I basically started from nothing
as a totally new seller and not knowing how
Fiverr platform worked to being a top ranked Seller, Pro verified and top-rated
seller platform, and dedicating my life to this and being full-time
freelancing employee now. So how are we going to structure this first topic
we will talk about is, why is fiber the best
platform for all levels? I honestly believe it is the
best freelancing platform. There are many other
platforms out there, even bigger ones actually. But none of the platforms
have given me the amount of work and quick success
that fiber can offer. And we will, we will
discuss why actually fiber is so easy to start
and also so easy to grow. To a large business. You might even need employees because your workload might get so high that you cannot do all the work
basically for every client, that context, you need to
outsource some of the work. So we will be covering how actually you can reach
this level of success, then how to find
profitable niches? Or sorry, there's a
small spelling mistake, I've just seen it. But anyways, fiber is, has so many sellers nowadays, although there's
tons of opportunity, there are also
thousands of sellers. So it may seem like everything
is already been offered. So this is why you
need to differentiate yourself and focus
on a specific niche. And this may seem hard at first. I will be talking about
some easy strategies and some easy research
methods that you can do to find profitable
niches with opportunity. Then we will talk about how to multiply the chances of success. Not every seller on fiber
is successful at all. Actually, a small
percentage is successful. This is why it's important to educate yourself as you
are doing right now. So congratulations on
how to actually start successfully because it's
important that your success, successful since the beginning
of your fiber trajectory. As this will tell
the fiber algorithm that you are
relevant and that it should show your
gig to customers. Because yeah, basically
the top, top sellers, when you type in a keyword on, when a client types in a keyword or service they
are looking for on fiber. The top five centers
are going to get 70% of the work of the orders. So we need to ensure you are the top five or at least top ten to multiply your
chances of success. And also some other strategies
we will be covering. Then Fiber gig, SEO, SEO, search engine optimization. Very few sellers, even top rated and top
ranked sellers with thousands of reviews and huge businesses on fiber are
actually not doing this. I know this because I'm also
a cell SEO specialists. So this has also helped me be successful on Fiverr because not many
sellers, actually, very small percentage, are actually doing the right SEO on fiber to increase
the chances of being ranked for many more keyboards. Then Fiber gig image, I'm going to teach you a
freeway and actually the best way in which you can
create your image. Some sellers actually offer Fiber gig image creation so they will design
an image for you. But yeah, I'm going
to show you how you can do it for free, super-fast, and way better than
any center out there as you know best,
what do you want? And then some fiber precautions. Because fiber takes security and also our conversations
very seriously. So you need to do
certain things, right, to avoid getting banned. Because yeah, if you get a band, you will not be allowed on
the Fiverr platform forever. So it's important to be
safe to do things right? I will explain the basic norms that you need to follow because some may not be so clear or some maybe
a little bit vague. But it's important to
keep them in mind to avoid your account
from getting close. So this is going
to be the content. It's going to be a
total masterclass. I'm going to teach
you how you can actually either
start a side hustle. It can be a side hustle
or a side income, or it can actually be your main income and
your work, okay? It's going to apply for any of those situations you
are going to decide. So yeah, welcome. And I'm very excited to
teach you. Thank you.
2. Best freelancing platform ?: Okay, So as I explained, I'm going to start by
talking about why I think fiber is the best
platform out there. By far. Their competitors are
not even close to fiber. Although some other
competitors like Freelancer.com work on Upwork, et cetera, have
many more clients. They have millions and
millions of clients. Fiber is actually very intuitive and we're going to see the bullet points
that I outlined here. And I'm going to be
explaining them one by one. So the first reason that
makes fiber so attractive, and it's actually
the only platform, the only big platform
that works in this way is that clients actually
will be finding you. Okay, so we're going
to have a look here quickly at fiber. So I searched for
website developer. Customers would go on to fiber.com and they would
serve on this search bar, whatever they might need. This case, I'm going to do three examples with
website developer. So this is what
clients would see. Maybe you're not familiar or
you are familiar with fiber. But basically, these
are called gigs. And each of these
images with texts, it's like an ad basically, and it belongs to
a seller. Okay? So this person, for example, this sellers saying it will do remarkable responsive
web development. This I will develop
a premium website. And by the way, this
is top-rated seller. This is what I meant. This is what I have. You need to complete at
least 100 orders and time with a minimum 4.7 rating. Yeah, it's something you will get to insert at some point. So each of these are
gigs and clients. We just need to, for example, go into this game and see
the packages they offer. The seller, for example, has 11 orders and cubes. Very nice. And this
helps a lot. Obviously. Andrea, you have the
different packages. Okay? I'm going to be talking about the following videos
about pricing strategies. And also, if you should have three packages
or only one package, which is the option. The two options are
fiber gives you. The seller basically
explains what you will get, how many days it will take, how many revisions
you are allowed. And customers can either purchase here or
contact the center, which is the most common thing that actually customers do. So in that way they can
explain their needs better and you can give
them a custom quote. So instead of choosing
these fixed packages, the needs of the client
might be different. And yet you just need to give them a custom quote for them. This is five, okay? And it's super nice because
you as a freelancer, you do not need to waste hours and hours of your
day searching for clients. Instead, clients
will come to you, okay, So for example, also blog writing, let's
say just a random example. So these are blog writers. They are just waiting here for
customers to contact them. And I can guarantee they're getting hundreds of
messages every month. Of brands are people that
need their services. And yet these, these
sellers are getting 70% basically of the
work for this keyword. But as you can see
there many, many pages. And as you can expect, these sellers on pages 5678, etcetera, are not
getting any orders. Apple, for this keyword, okay? Maybe for other keywords
they are getting sales. And this is also a
strategy we will talk about during the SEO class. And now I'm going
to show you two of the biggest platforms out
there for freelancers. The biggest one is
Freelancer.com. And this is how it works. Going to very quickly go
over it so that you can see the big difference
that this makes. Customers would need
to go and search, for example, for
website developer. And this is how it
would appear, okay? So basically, if you are a company that needs
website developers, you are going to post
basically an ad like this. Instead of searching
for freelancers, you just post your needs and then freelancers need
to go and contact you. So this has two disadvantages
for you as a freelancer. First of all, it works
as a bid strategy, as you can see here,
33 beds, a 103 bits. This means that for you
to apply for this job, you need to pay a certain
amount of tickets, which at first you will
get some for free, but then you're going to start. Two, Yeah, Basically you will know not have any bits left, so you'll need to
pay for these bits. First of all, it's going
to cost you money to apply for jobs that you have not even secured and you don't have any guarantee that they will
hire you because every, every job has many, many applicants. So
that's the first thing. The second thing is that it's very unlikely for you
to get the job because normally you are
competing against maybe 304050 or even
more other freelancers that have applied to this job. And that obviously they're
going to beat you in price. There will always be
someone willing to offer the services for a
lower price use. So yeah, it's very like nonsense getting
to this price war. Same thing happens
with upwork.com, one of the biggest freelancing
platforms out there. Although I recommend you to have a profile and each
of them, of course, I have a profile
and fiber which is my main profile and my
main source of income. Right now as I'm a
freelancer on the platform. But I also have profiles
on freelancer on Upwork because why not get some
orders from time to time? But it's not nearly as good
as fibrous on upwork.com. It's very, very similar
as you can see, right? Website developer. Okay, yes. So these are
basically freelancers because this is another
way of searching for work on Upwork. Keep in mind, we are
acting as a client, which is on this platform. And it's very, very similar to Freelancer.com
in the sense that you also need to place
bids right now they don't appear because I don't
have any bids or anything. But yeah, you need to place bets on the
platform to get the, to apply for a certain jumps. So let's go back
to the PowerPoint. Then. The second factor
that makes fiber so attractive is the
opportunity to run ads. This is not exclusive to fiber. Many other Freelancer
freelancing platforms out there allow you to run ads to increase your
exposure or your visibility. But fiber is extremely
efficient with this. And I've started experimenting, promoted gigs for
like 60 days now. Although I'm running other
ads on my main gigs, because I have
many gigs and this is also something
we will talk about. How many gigs Are you allowed, how many you should
have, et cetera. But basically for you to see, I've spent on ads in
the last 60 days, $14, but I've gotten three
orders worth a $167. Okay. These three orders, I
would've never been able to get them because clients found
these through other ways, which are not organic
ways but paid ways. Fiber runs your ad for you. You don't have control over where they show it
or how they show it, but as you can
see, they're very, very effective with it. And yeah, 41 clicks,
three orders. So it's amazing you
spend $40 and you get almost $200 worth of
gaze, extra gigs. Okay, so I plan on
running more ads. This is a new feature. Fiber has recently added, 2022. Yeah, it's working
very, very well for me. I'm going to show you
also how you can run them to get your first clients. The third reason why I
think fibers so good is the opportunity to offer
many different services. We're going to go
back again to fibers. So let's, for example, going into this profile, we're going to go into this
random teacher profile. As you can see, this, the seller is offering
five types of services. Not only one, they have, She has their main gig, which is clearly this one as she has over a thousand reviews. This is clearly a teacher that is winning a lot
of money on fiber. And then she also has
some pro verified. This is also something
that I have. It's not easy to
get, but as you are, as you grow on the platform,
if you show fiber, you're actually a professional inside and outside
of the platform, you can get this. And she also offers some LinkedIn SEO
optimization, etcetera. So she offers five
different services, and this is not the maximum. You can offer many more. The fourth reason why
I think fibers so good is the growth it's having. Okay, so obviously if you can anticipate which platforms
are going to grow the most and which
freelancing platforms are going to dominate
the industry. It's better if you're early
on them because you will be, your profile will be
much better optimized. We will have more reviews. You will have a track
record experience on the platform, et cetera. And this is exactly what is
happening to fiber right now. It's not the biggest platform, but it's growing so fast. Obviously not as fast as maybe freelancing startups
that are growing faster, but are not nearly
as big as fiber, but amongst the top dogs, fiber is actually
achieving a crazy growth. And my prediction is it will be easily top three
or even top one, the following one to two years. The fifth reason,
reasons, sorry, is the customers have a great experience on
the platform, okay? Customers can just search for, let's say, blog SEO now. And yeah, as easy as it gets, they will find so many
options to choose from. They can scroll through
the fiber images to see, to quickly see what this
center has to offer. Some sellers also have
videos, as you can see. They have reviews,
so it's really, really easy for customers to
pick and to contact sellers. The chat works great. The platform runs fast and you might think this is not important
to us as center, but it's very important because customers have a good
time or the platform. Customers spend hours
on the platform and it increases your
chances of success. Then the last reason why think fibers is the best platform is that not only individuals are
searching on the platform, also companies are actually
starting to see fiber is a very serious platform with highly talented individuals
offering their services. So sometimes companies
don't want to hire a full-time
website developer. For instance, if they just need a couple of websites to be developed or a certain
project for a few months. Sorry. So they will, they do is they
hire freelancers and fiber is being a great
option nowadays for companies because they
had keeps them safe. They know their work
will be done grade. Their payment is secure as
fiber acts as an intermediary. And I'm starting to get many, many messages and orders from actually big companies and
not all the individuals.
3. How to find profitable Niches on FIVERR: Okay, So we're now moving on to the second
step of this class, which is how to find profitable
niches to sell them. So, as I explained, fiber has thousands of
sellers on the platform, and each day, thousands
and thousands of new sellers come
into the platform. So it's important for
you to not focus on the big high demand services, let's say, because basically you will be lost in the pages. Okay, let's do an example again with website
development as it's very easy to follow and one of the biggest things
available on firearm. So if customers search
for website development, they have 30 thousand almost 31 thousand
services available. You think that 30
thousand services available are
getting orders? No. One's getting orders. Are these ones on
the first page? The ones in the last pages are probably not
getting any orders. So what do you need to do? Let's say you're a
website developer, is think of what you
can actually offer. That is website development, but not as broad as
website development. So one strategy to find profitable niches is using the
outer complete from fiber. So what fibers is
going to suggest here as services
are actually thinks customers are searching
for that have obviously less demand as the broad phrase,
website development. Because it's like
the parent phrase. Obviously, the more
specific you get, the lower demand, also
lower competition, which is what we are aiming for. So PHP Website
development, Let's say. This is also very,
very saturated, 3,130 thousand, it only
dropped by a few hundreds. Let's say e-commerce
website developer. This has even more
services available. So what do you need
to do is play around a bit and try to find. So e-commerce website,
let's say online store. And let's see if we
can actually find something with less
services available. Because that's the strategy, okay here, 22 thousand
and services available. So we dropped by ten k already. This is what you
actually need to do. Find things that are not super
saturated, as you can see, even though 22 thousand
services are available, the sellers here are
not big sellers. This seller has five reviews and it's appearing the
first organically, this 188 and fibers choice. So it's not much as you can see, we have narrowed the search and now sellers appearing here are not as big and
you can actually penetrate the
category much better. So let's say your
website developer, what you will want to do
is have several gigs. So not only one gig, but create several gigs. So let's say one for website
upside developer or Shopify. Website developer, Shopify, you can have one gig for this one, which is less saturated than the broad term
website developer, then website
developer, dentists, let's say for dentists
that want to contact you. And this has even
weight less demand. Obviously, This person will
design and build dentist, doctor or a health care
website, hospital website, etc. So this is what you
need to do, okay? You have several gigs that are
more specific so that you, first of all appear more as a professional for that
certain services. Service. Companies don't want people that are able to do everything. They want a specialists
in a certain topic. So it's important that you
have several gigs because you will see your more
professional in those areas. Then you have, for
example, one for dentists, Shopify, etc. This is the main point. I'm getting too. Fiber has
different levels of seller. So as a new center, you will obviously
be a new seller, then you will be level one
seller once you have achieved, I can't remember
anymore but like 50 orders are more and more than a
thousand dollars or $500. And the platform, then
you go on to level two, and then you are
top-rated seller. Okay? So when you start
as a new seller, fiber only allows you to have
like three or five gigs. But then when you
move on to level one, they increase the gigs. You can have two level to even more and top-rated
seller even more. So at first, when
you're a new seller, utilize the maximum amount of gigs that fiber lets you use. And this will do two things. First of all, it will make you see which gig is
performing better, for which gig you
can more messages. And this helps you validate
that idea and maybe focus a little bit
more of that gig to try to draw that gig, have more reviews on that gate faster
than the other gigs. And the second reason
is to basically have, as I call it, more
real estate on fiber. Because if you
have several gigs, you will appear
more times and have greater exposure even if it's for the same the same service. So for example, a website
developer dentist, you can have one gig for this. And then you can have
another another gig for website developer
health care. Although it's very similar, as you can see, the
results are not the same. So yeah, you never know how customers are
going to search for you. So just increase your exposure to the maximum that fiber labs. And yeah, basically, this is the strategy of how to
find a profitable niches. First of all, utilize the
autocomplete on fiber, but also try to study
your competition, going to different
teacher profiles. This teacher is new. They are only offering 11 gig. Let's go to website developer, which is the broad, for
example, this person. They're offering two gigs. So this is also another
strategy this seller has. Instead of having many gigs, they have decided
they wanted to focus on two gigs to a mountain. Maximum amount of reviews
on each of those gates. If they had more gigs than the reviews
would be more spread. But as they are a top
rated seller, yeah. I mean, this gives you enough visibility to not
need to have many gigs. But as a new seller,
I do recommend having as many gigs as
possible and increasing your exposure to increase
the amount of orders and money you can earn on the
platform since day one. Then when you pass onto
level one, level two, top-rated seller, which will be faster than you think in
less than a year? Probably. You can start maybe. Yeah, deleting the
gigs that are not working as well and focusing on certain gigs so that you can mount more reviews
on those gigs. And as you can see, as you can see, reviews are a huge thing for the algorithm. Here organically for website
developer, it would be very, very hard to be ranked if
you had very few reviews. This one also has several
reviews and fibrous choice, more than a 100 reviews. Four hundred and one hundred. This 111 but they were
studio this also helps. Yeah. Just need to play around
scout for liquor territories. It might take you a few hours to find certain niche that you're good at and
that you can offer. But it's something
that once you do, it's easy to create more gigs. Let's say you have detected
there is opportunity for a website
developer health care, which by the way, I think
there is based on the results. Very few reviews. And actually there are
many healthcare businesses out there needing a
website developer. But yeah, it might
not be your thing. I understand. Not everybody
has a website developer. This is just an example, but play around with this. And once you detect a niche with the opportunity
like this one, then you should also
create one for doctors, hospitals, et cetera, because
it's going to be related. So thank you, and let's
go into the next class.
4. Multiply Chances of Success: Okay guys, so now we're
going to talk about how to multiply the chances of
success on the platform. There are several ways of, as I explained briefly already,
maximizing your exposure. With this obviously maximizing the chances of being
found by clients, being contacted by customers
and getting orders. Obviously, you're not going to get an order for every
customer that context to you. Obviously, this is going to depend on the service you offer. In my case, and in most cases, you can expect to
close deals with about 60% of the clients
that actually contact you. But the, as I said, this depends on how
competitive your niche is. This is why I also recommend going into not very competitive. Categories are
subcategories. In this way. You will not be competing with so many sellers because
customers wouldn't normally do, is they contact several sellers
at the same time, okay? So first thing you
can do to increase the chances of success on the platform is respond quickly. This may seem obvious, but it's one of the most
important aspects on fiber. As I said, customers
will generally contact five to ten sellers to get different prices and see
how the market behaves. And the fastest reply and the quickest replying sellers increase their chances
significantly. And not only this, but it also helps with
the fiber algorithm. But we're not going to go
into detail with this. We will go into detail
with the fiber algorithm and the fiber SEO
class coming up next. Next thing you can
actually do to maximize the chances
of success, as I said, is halving the amount of the max amount of gigs
that fiber allows you. In case you don't know at each one of these
is called a gig. That's how fiber calls them. And yes, I said there are several levels of
sellers on the platform. And depending on what
level of seller you are, you can have a certain
amount of gigs. Try to always use the
maximum amount of gigs. So for example, it's going
to this random seller. The seller is only
using three gigs. And I can guarantee he
is a top rated centers, so he could have many more
gigs if he wished to. For example, this gig is, I can see is fairly new, only five reviews and these
ones almost 300 and over 300. So obviously the seller has been selling on the platform
for a long time. But he has focused mainly
on these two gigs. And now he opened a third gate, which is smart from him, maybe slightly late, but I'm not going to go
into detail with that. Let's look at another example. So this is website development. This is a program to find, let's see, four gigs, okay. This is slightly different
because as you can see, the starting price for
his gigs are fairly high. More than a €1500, etc. So yeah, he's maybe focusing
the efforts on certain gigs. As you can see, this
is his main gig, which is something I also
recommend you to do, is have several gigs, but also have your main gig. And I mean main gig because it's the one with the most amount of reviews and probably the one he has been using for
the most amount of time. So you have your main gig, which is the gig in
which you want to amount the maximum amount
of reviews possible. So every time you get an
order that is kind of vague, you don't know in which gig you should place
that order into. Tried to amount to focus
it on your main gates. So this way you can have more reviews on a gig
and defend yourself against new competition
that may come into the platform in the
following months or years after you started selling on it. And then he also has
some other side gigs. Why not? You can get orders from those
side gigs, then it's good. Rising talent, for example, these sellers that have the Rising Talent badge
or all new sellers, rising talent, defined by fiber means rising talent with the hypertension recommended
by fiber editors. So let's, for example,
see this seller. New seller, obviously
no reviews, only one gig, but at least he got the rising talent batch. Let's look at
another new center. Let's see if any new sellers
aren't doing things right. This one, she at
least has three gigs. This is smartphone
her she doesn't have review reviews on
any of the gigs. Only reviews as a
buyer, not as a seller. But it's smart.
She's doing what I'm recommending actually right now, you should do, which is open the maximum amount of gigs possible. This is basically a
quick and easy way of multiplying with chances
of success since day one. So when you open a fiber
account and decide in which subcategory you are
going to be selling in. Write down a few gigs that
you will actually open. From three to five gigs. Obviously, it's
better if they are related in some way because
sometimes you might even have two or
three gigs appear on the first page for
a certain keyword. So obviously
increases the chances of success even more
because you are occupying more space and not letting competitors
occupy that space. So thank you. And let's go on to
the next class.
5. Fiverr Gig SEO - Rank Higher: Okay guys, so we are now going
to talk about fiber SEO, which means search
engine optimization. In case you don't
know what SEO means. Basically, to appear on the
first results on Google, Amazon, fiber, whatever, you
need a certain strategy. Because at the end of the day, Google as a search engine, but fiber is also
a search engine. When customers type in a certain phrase or service
they are looking for, fiber will try to return
the results it thinks are most accurate or most relevant to that customer to improve customer
experience obviously, and to get sales. So what you need
to do is to think as an algorithm in terms of what does the algorithm
want to hear? What does the
algorithm one to read from my gig so that my, my Fiber gig is shown
to more people. So this is done with
keyword strategy. I'm going to show you. Well first let's go
into a random profile. For example. This one. Let's see. So the first thing you
want to do to increase your chances of being found by customers is to have a
description on your profile. When you create a fiber profile, fiber will allow you
to have a description, include keywords that are
relevant to your gigs. So this seller, he
is a web developer, so he puts it there. He is also an SEO expert
because he's basic law firm, WordPress, design,
perfect website, etc. So actually he could do
it a little bit better. If I were him, I would
include more keywords here in the description to increase the chances of
letting the algorithm know what your relevant for
it because everything counts. Then you have a
longer description in which you can also
include keywords. However, the most relevant keywords you want to
include them here. So let's say your website
developer or you are a, let's say you make
diets for people. You want to offer a gig way. Customers will contact
you and you design a diet or a gym
program for them, then you will want to include
those exact keywords here, Jim programs, diabetes, etc. Then in the
description, it's also nice to include some keywords. Then you have another room for keywords, which
is the skills. This is super important because basically it's almost unlimited. You can input as many
skills as you need. This seller has
actually included some nice skills
which are keywords, obviously also because
they are going to be customers searching
for WordPress, website design,
web hosting, etc. But as fiber gives you the
chance to include more skills, why not do it? I would fill this out to the maximum skills I can think that are
obviously relevant. If you're offering
a gym programs, don't say you're offering a blog entries because
it has nothing to do. Everything has to do
with what you offer. But it's basically a nice
area to also input keywords. Then certifications, they
don't count as much for SEO, but it's always nice to
include certifications. Normally, fiber
will not actually ask you to send them
the certificates. So you can also include
some certificates that maybe you don't have
or that you do have, but you don't have these
certificates for them. And then I'm going
to teach you how I write my fiber listings. Sorry, here. This is dummy text. It has nothing to do, but the structure is the same. Okay? What I like to do
an a fiber listing, I mean this by fiber listing. So this about this gig. That's the gig description. It's individual to every gate. So this seller has just
written down what he offers, but it's not very SEO optimized. So I'm going to teach
you how I do that. What I like to do is include
emojis, first of all, because they draw attention
and it makes the customer, yeah, less bored while reading. And here in the top texts. So basically here, I want to
include the title obviously. So if you're a
website developer, you can just include Website
Development Services to skyrocket your sales, for example, or whatever
you can think of. Then I like to have
a question to make the reader intrigued and want
to continue reading more. So for example, if
I'm a blog writer. I will say, Do you
know customers spend only two minutes per
blog they visit? And then you can actually make the customer intrigued to read the answer of your question
and then you can actually say what solution you can offer. So we offer professional blog writing solutions to keep
your reader engaged. For example, then I like to have clear bullet points because it makes the reader less bored. What do you get this down the bullet points with
actually these emojis, you can just Google emojis
and copy and paste them. And then I also like to include a section
why I'm the best for you and actually
highlight your prose. Then I like to close
it with a benefit from a best selling blog to skyrocket
your sales, for example. And then very importantly, if you have not completed the maximum amount of
characters allowed, which I recommend you to actually leave
some characters left, because we are going to include
this section right here, which I can guarantee
not even maybe 0.5 per cent of sellers
are doing this. And it helps tremendously with search engine optimization. And I will just write this literally search terms
dot, double dot. And then I will write some
keywords that I have not had space to include them in my title of my gig
or my description, or if they are very
relevant keywords, I will repeat them here. If I am, if I know
several languages, for example, I know
Spanish and English, then I will also include
keywords in English and Spanish, everything because when
customers search on fiber, on the search bar, fiber takes
into account everything. Obviously the title
counts the most. So you want to include the most relevant keywords in your title, but everything counts, okay? Even the category in
which you are in, you need to be sure you're in the right category
because it will count. So just research what your
competitors are doing. Preferably what
competitors that have high star reviews because they will probably be
more experience on the platform and check what categories they
are selling in. Then one last trick
I like to do, which also not even
1% of sellers do, is you must know on fiber, the review rate is very high. So about 70 to 80% of customers that buy from you
will actually write a review. I, I always like to ask my customers if they can
please write a review. But even if you don't ask, around 70% of customers do leave a reuse
or it's very nice. And what do you actually can do is respond to these reviews. As you can see, the seller is responding publicly
to these reviews. This is something you
always need to do, but you need to include
also keywords here. So this seller has responded, my experience working
with Elisa was ecstatic. Thank you so much for
your great support. Do you think this helps fiber algorithm know what
this seller is offering? Not at all, because it has not even one keyword
related to website, WordPress development or
whatever the center is doing. So what I'd like to do is
actually think the seller. So something like this phrase. But then also include service. Service description,
thought, WordPress, website development
for instance. And this is a nother chance you get to actually
include keywords for the fiber algorithm that not many sellers
aren't doing. As I said, less than 1%
of sellers are doing. Then. Also one thing that counts a lot to the
fiber algorithm, it's not relating to keywords. So we have finished with
the keyword strategy, but it's responding on time. So the faster you
respond to customers, the higher fiber will rack you on their website
because they like fast replying sellers on the platform to increase the
customer experience. So try to download the fiber
app on your mobile phone. It will help tremendously in increasing your response rate. And please respond as quickly as possible to the first
message of the customer. It doesn't matter if followup messages you don't
respond to less than an hour. But the first message
when a customer contexts you for the
very first time, try to respond immediately
or at least as soon as possible to the followup messages
during the conversation. It doesn't count. Fiber only takes into account
how fast you respond to the first message
when a customer first open some inquiry
about your gig. So this has been fibers
search engine optimization. It has been a quick summary, but this is all you
can do to maximize your search engine
optimization results on fiber, as it's a search engine, as I said, like Google. So try these tips. If you are a existing
fiber seller, do implement these steps. If you're a new seller, start out doing things right. Having a fully optimized
Fiber gig. And thank you.
6. BEST TRICKS FOR FREELANCERS: Okay guys, so I'm
going to give you some tips and tricks that
I have learned on the way. As I will explain in a minute during my freelance carrier. These have been tips and
tricks that I applied to my older course regarding
freelance business in general. Totally apply to this class. So here you go. Enjoy. Okay, so I'm now going
to give a brief list of tips and tricks
that have allowed me to reach success faster. And also some of them have actually been running
them on the way. I didn't start by doing them. Obviously, I've learned them
on the way and by doing extensive research regarding all these
freelance platforms that I've already talked
about, including fiber. Of course, this
applies to fiber and to all of the top
freelancing platforms. So the first tip is
obviously very basic. And everybody knows it yet where people get very
few people do it. And it's actually to
accumulate reviews fast. When you start as a
freelancer and you're new, you won't have any
reviews because you haven't done any jobs, any orders for customers. So what many freelancers do? You can consider if you
want to do this yourself, is they get family members
or friends to place a fictitious order so they can actually write
a review for them. And I'm telling you
this because you need to know what your
competition is doing. And you need to decide for
yourself if you want to do it. I won't recommend it
or say I'm against it. It's something that many
people do and it actually helps to get those first order. So trying to at least get two or three reviews
of the first week, then second tip is actually having a broad portfolio, Sorry. So let's say you're a
graphic designer or do you can do is
go to some pages. I can't remember
the name exactly because I'm very graphic
designer myself. But if you Google portfolio
for graphic designers, there are multiple
websites because many, many graphic designers
actually have sent them to myself when
I want to order it. In which you can post a portfolio of the work
you've done before. So you can, if you've
done, for example, images or as a hobby or for
yourself or for other brands. You can post them there
in the portfolio. And every time a new
customer comes to you and asks for
examples of your work, you can send them this link
to your portfolio directly. And this doesn't only apply
to graphic designers, it applies to anyone. If you're checking CVs, you can send him a portfolio
of the CVs you've checked. If you're optimizing
websites as well, it applies to anything. Third tip, and this
is very specific to Fiverr platform is
having orders in cubed. So orders and q is the term fiber gifts to whenever you have an order
pending with the client. So let's say a customer
or a client found you, they already paid you, but you didn't deliver
the order yet. You're still working
on this project. So what I recommend you
to do is even after you finished working on
this certain project. So again, let's say, let's put the example of a graphic designer because
it's the easiest one. If you're a graphic designer. And you were asked
to do five images and you're already paid
for those five images. Send them to the
client in the chatbox. Don't deliver the order officially independent
freelancing platform. So don't close the project. The customer will be
happy and he won't care because she already
got what he paid for it, which is five images so you
can send them in the chat. But having orders and q
is something that will tremendously help the algorithm. Notice that people value you and that people actually
queue up to work with you is something that counts a lot for
search engine optimization. It's a trick that all the
most veteran fiber sellers are actually blink and
not even all of them. And I highly recommend
you do this, try it out when you
get your first orders. Fourth tip may sound obvious, but it also counts a lot for search engine
optimization and for where your profile is
going to rank inside the platform and
it's replying fast. Every freelance platform, once freelancers that are actually involved with the work, they don't want
someone who opened the account three years
ago and now forgot it. And yeah, if a client right, same, you won't see it. They want actually
people involved. And that takes this work
very seriously as it is. So refined fast. It's actually a metric that will make you rank higher
on these platforms. And of course, what
I recommend you to do as nowadays everybody. A smartphone than load the app for the
freelancing platforms. So don't only have it
on your computer desk, also downloaded on your phone, and you will be able to
reply much faster than many other freelancers
who don't have this app downloaded
on your phone. And you will start to rank
higher and higher and higher plus the
fastest reply and sellers Normally get the sales because clients don't want to
speak with 20 freelancers, the ones who reply the fastest. We'll start the
conversation with them and the customer
will answer them, explain their doubts,
and increased tremendously the
chances of getting that client for yourself. Then the fifth step is implementing search
engine optimisation. I've got another class that
goes extensively into that. So I'm not going to go
into depth with this, but search engine
optimization is key if you want your
profile to rank higher. And there are many things
you can do for this, such as including keywords in your titles, descriptions,
including skills, replying fast, as I said, having orders in queue, having multiple images or even videos if the
platform allows you. And yeah, these are all things that will make
your profile stand out and will be considered by the algorithm as a better
profile than the rest. And in turn, it will
rank you higher. Then the second to last step is actually being present
in multiple platforms. So of course, when you start this journey that this business, you may not have time
to open every platform. It's actually better to
focus on one platform to try to accumulate
reviews for that platform, tried to accumulate orders, customers reviews, it's like a flywheel and grow your
business insight that platform. But once it's grown to a
certain point of maturity, so let's say six
months after starting. So let's say you
started with fiber, then open other accounts and
other freelancing platforms. Just Upwork, Freelancer
working, et cetera. All of the class forums we already mentioned
in this class. What this will do is
it will diversify your risk of easily in case something happens with
any of these platforms. Because unfortunately,
it's very, very common to get your account suspended sometimes
for banning I mean, for for certain rules
that you didn't even break on purpose was accidentally
or Yeah, For example, the customer sends you their e-mail and you can't
do anything about it, but the platform bands
you because yeah, evils cannot be shared between customers and
freelancers are many, many horror stories
that I've heard and I've also been banned for
several platforms myself. So yeah, being present
in several platforms, such as five or six platforms is going to be the best to
diversify your risk, but also to increase your sales. Obviously, you may have
one main platform, which is the one that
works best for you. But then you can
get extra sales in other platforms which will
always be welcomed, of course. Then the last step, and this applies
to when you have reached a certain
level of success. Let's say after a year of
freelancing insight platforms. And I already
explained being inside a freelance platform the best way and cheapest
way to start, because you are going
to benefit from the huge traffic of customers and companies that come
into these platforms. Because these
platforms will make, will spend millions of marketing just to
bring traffic in. The best way to start is
to be at least platforms. But when you draw enough, you can actually consider
having your own website. I don't recommend it
at the beginning. But when you are an experienced or semi
experienced freelancer, opening and a
website is amazing. It also diversifies risk even more because now you're in
charge of this website, you can be kicked out. It's not my cutting six
freelance or platforms where you can actually be kicked
out of six of them. Theoretically, it's not
likely, but it could happen. Having your own website
will prevent this, and it will also
get your customers. It will also see
more professional. So it's going to serve also as a portfolio and as a brand,
personal brand image. When customers contacting
you through these platforms, you can also send
them your own website and you will look
like a professional. So yeah, these have been my
tips and tricks that I've implemented myself and that have worked and I
can back them up. So I hope you can
also implement them.
7. TIPS & TRICKS -Buyer Requests: Okay guys, welcome
to a new class. This is an update I
decided to do as fiber has implemented a new
functionality which is very useful for new sellers, especially because
the main struggle I see with new silos, which also happened to me, is that it's very difficult
to get your first customers. So what I recommend
you to do firstly, is get some reviews. So maybe get some friends
or family members to buy from your gig
and write a review. And once you have some reviews, you can also do this trick right here on your fiber dashboard. You go to more and you
go to buyer requests. And this is going to take
you to this section. With this section does, I've already experimented a nice sent seven
offers as you can see. So bio requests is a section where actually buyers will write
what they need. So instead of coming to
your particular gig, which is the normal way
in which fiber operates. In here, actually,
customers will write out what they need. This is sort of similar to how Upwork and other big
freelancing platform works. It's great to see fiber actually implementing
both methods. The traditional gigs,
which as I explained, I love and are super effective, biggest customers come to you. But also this section of
bio requests where you can see buyers yet explaining their needs and it's very
useful to get your first job. So what do you want to do is, for example, search
graphic design. I think you're a
graphic designer. Here, customers. So for example, this one. What I've noticed is that
the search bar is not great. It's not very
accurate, but still view try with four
or five searches. So this customer is
explained their needs. This customer is looking for a good developer who's
a Christian, whatever. So sorry. So you would go on
click Send offer and you would just explain what you can offer to him
and for what price are normally would I do
with this section is I don't give a an
accurate price as I really don't know what
this customer needs, although He's
explaining it here. It's not clear. I always like to have a conversation
with the client first. What I do is I send an offer
for a very high price, so for example, $500 or Euros. And I just explained this is just a test number because fiber forces me to
basically input a number. But please tell me your
needs and I will create a new offer for
you, a new budget. Basically, I just input a really high number just in case the customer
decides to accept that offer that
we're sending right now because it's the
only way to contact the customer that he had
that I basically don't have to do a huge task
for five years. So it's a safe way. So this is one great way to get your first orders on Fiverr and start
accumulating reviews, started accumulating
orders on Q, etc.. And another way is actually going to
Facebook groups, posting on your
Linkedin profile, also posting on Twitter and
any social media basically. But for me, the ones which
have worked best have been LinkedIn and
Facebook groups. So you can go to Facebook
groups related to freelancing or Facebook groups
related to graphic design. And if you're a graphic designer or translation
groups or whatever, depends on what you offer. Yeah, just post a
link to your gig there and offer basically at the beginning I
recommend you to offer low prices to start
accumulating some reviews. But as I, as we
discussed already, when you actually become a
level one, level two cellar, et cetera, I recommend
you to raise your prices. And they are not getting to a price war with other sellers, but actually differentiating
yourself based on quality. So I hope you like this
tip and thank you.
8. SOLO FREELANCER VS AGENCY: Hello everyone and welcome
to this new class. So one of the things I value
a lot about freelancing platforms is the exposure and the benefits
you get with them. So I have been talking about the classic comparison
between freelancing versus setting up a digital
marketing agency or a design agency or whatever it might be that
you're going to offer. So I've also covered this in other courses I have
related to freelancing, but I think it's also very important to cover
it in this class. So here we go. Okay,
so a question, I get asked a lot and I see there's a lot of
debate around it, is if it's better
to do freelancing or to actually start a
digital marketing agency. They are similar because
freelancers can offer, what are agencies
offer and vice versa. It's actually almost the
same type of offering. The only difference is that a digital marketing agency will need to have their
own website, et cetera. And it's more targeted towards being a company with
several employees, etc. And instead, freelancers tend to advertisers cells on freelancing platforms
that already exist. And they typically start
as one only person. So there are several things to actually take into account. And I want you to actually
think previously you set your goals so you're aware of your own
situation because this is going to actually affect
the decision you make. It might be actually
better for you to start a digital
marketing agency. So the first aspect to have into account is
traffic and expulsion. So freelancing can
be started free, basically for free, because
you're going to leverage the traffic that all these freelancing platforms
that we will talk. We will mention
afterwards like fiber, Upwork, Freelancer.com,
where Canada, etc. These massive companies
have thousands of users or companies getting into their websites and
searching for freelancers. It might be a graphic designer, it might be a, an advertising
expert, whatever it is. You're just going
to have to list yourself on these platforms. And you're going to be
able to benefit from the free traffic and exposure
these companies bring. These companies will
always charge you a fee based on your
services you offer. It's rarely a monthly fee
or it's actually more. They take a commission out of your work in exchange for all the traffic
they bring, right? They spent millions on advertising just to bring
companies into the website. And you can benefit from the
free traffic and exposure. In contrast, if you start a
digital marketing agency, the, the way to actually do it is to
create your own website. And the problem, I
don't know if he actually created a website, but if you have,
I can guarantee. It's really not easy to get
traffic into your website. Most of the time, you're going
to have to run Google ads, Facebook ads, etc, to get
traffic into your website. And actually, it's
also harder to convince clients to buy from you because
they don't know you. It's just a random website. It's just one more
digital marketing agency Out of the many other agencies
that exist out there. So in this first aspect,
traffic and exposure, I definitely give it to freelancing than
selling a company. So when you start your
freelancing adventure, you actually start listing your services in one of these
platforms that I mentioned. It's going to be
almost impossible to actually sell your company. I know some people actually sell their accounts because
other people are willing to buy freelance accounts because they have reviews
and a track record. But actually, selling a digital
marketing agency is going to be much easier and
it's a proper business, it's a proper company. You set it up as a company. So yeah, this one, I gave it to digital
marketing agency. Then. Which one is the
easiest to start? Well, this one I can
tell you right away, I give it to freelancing. Basically because
of the traffic and exposure aspect
that I explained. But also because
you don't need to hire a web developer
to grade your website. You don't need to hire
employees right away. You can just start offering
things you know how to offer. Instead of actually having
to create a website, having to run paid advertising, and trying to bring
traffic into your website. Convert them into customers. So the easiest to start is
definitely freelancing, because most of the times
customers will come to you instead of you having
to go to the customers, which is the case with
digital marketing agencies, in which business owners
tend to write emails, too many prospects leads, so they will go
into, for example, let's say your digital
marketing agency offers advertising
services for dentists. Well, what are
these agencies do? Is they will go and write
hundreds of dentists, dentists clinics
around the area world even and try to sell them. There are services. And instead, if
you're a freelance on a platform that has
already a huge traffic, companies will
actually come to you and requests for quotes. Start speaking to you and have them explain how
you can actually help them. So it's easier to start
a freelance business. Which one is cheaper? Definitely also
freelancing because yeah, you basically don't have to run paid advertising
if you don't want to. Although you can, and we
will be talking about this. You actually can run paid advertising if
you are freelancing. And it's a way to
actually start and also scale and grow
your business. And Yana digital
marketing agency, you will have to
develop a website. So it's already
started with a cost. The scalability. This one is one kind of depends on your business
because a freelance business, I will say we will discuss, can actually be scaled into a proper business in which you actually need to
hire employees, etc. Once your workload
is really high, and you've got tons of reviews, terms of social proof. You have many costs. Companies requesting quotes. But also digital marketing
agencies can be really scaled. Because if you're successful in one country and you actually build the brand name and start getting Google
reviews, etc. You can expand to
several other countries. If you actually managed to build yourself a name in that
niche you're operating in. But this one, I see it as a drug because it depends
which one is seen, as, seen as more professional. Actually, this one also depends because really serious
freelance profile with reviews and with
a portfolio of work which will be explaining
how to have to set up, sorry, can be seen as
really professional. Digital marketing
agency for sure, can be seen as
really professional. And there are many
digital marketing agencies which have grown into multi-million
dollar businesses. So they definitely
are a serious thing. And actually, big companies trust these types of agencies. So it's not a clear winner. And hiring employees
can be done, of course, as both. If you're a freelancer, you can actually also outsource work to
other freelancers, for example, although
this might be bit tricky, because you don't want
sometimes other freelancers to know you're actually outsourcing your own freelance work
for my freelance platform, because then they might actually
reject that and say, no, I'm going to start my
own freelance platform, freelance business and
that same platform, and they can be kept
pure competition. However, if you are a
digital marketing agency, you can just approach
them with the truth, Hey, we're looking for
this position for our digital marketing agency and we want to fulfill
this position. Are you interested in this one? I have to give it to a
digital marketing agency. But in general,
in a broad sense, I do recommend for
beginners starting a 100% as a freelancer, a digital marketing agency
is more costly to start. It's more difficult to get
customers and you're going to invest more money and time
in getting the customers. So I do recommend
starting as a freelancer. And then if you
want in the future, once you get accustomed to this, you can also create a
digital marketing agency. They are complimentary, they
are not mutually exclusive. But yeah, the clear
winner is freelancing, in my opinion and it has worked
tremendously well for me. So I do recommend
everyone to check it out.
9. Avoid getting BANNED on Fiverr: Okay guys, so now we are going to move on to fiber precautions. As I explained at the
beginning of the course, I will give you some
tips and tricks to avoid having your
fiber account closed. Basically because it happens
to many new sellers that they do mistakes that
fiber penalizes heavily. They get their accounts
suspended forever. The opportunity of their
lifetime just gotten out. So first thing you must avoid on fiber is trying to get clients
outside of the platform. So fiber charges a 20%
commission on every order, which is quite high. But you shouldn't try
to avoid this fee. Because first of all, the more orders you get
through the Fiverr platform, the higher ranked you
will be on the platform. So you will get, you will be able
to earn more money even though fiber
charges at 20%. Commission. And fiber also monitors
every conversation. So it could happen that if you try to give a customer
your email address, your phone number, you
might get suspended. So yeah, try to really
avoid this at all costs. Second thing you need to know is that there
is an option of fiber for you to disable
temporarily your gigs. So let's say you go on
holidays, for instance, for a week and you don't want customers to contact you,
reaching out to you, etc, because you might not be able to respond
to them on time, this will hurt your
profile, et cetera, or you might not want to get orders because
you're on holidays. So there is an option for
you to say holiday mode. So in case you
anticipate you will not be able to respond
quickly to requests. I recommend you to activate this option because otherwise, if customers contact you and
you don't reply fast or you don't deliver the
orders on time, it will greatly
hurt your profile. Those are the two most important
things to keep in mind. The rest is just
basically as I explained, delivering orders on time, replying quickly, trying
to deliver quality work. Of course, you don't
always have to be the cheapest seller on fiber. There will always
be someone willing to do the work for less
amount of money than you. But if you offer a higher
quantity than them, then you can justify your higher prices based
on higher-quality, which is what I
always recommend. I never get into price wars with other sellers and try to
cut the price is down. They lower the price. I lower my price.
No, I never do this. I have a price. I'm not the cheapest, I'm not the most expensive. If you want quality
work, then hire me. If you want to other type of
work, hire another seller. This is my philosophy and it's something that
has worked for me. So I do recommend
you to also not tried to compete on
prices that much. Maybe yes, at the beginning of your fiber
trajectory because it's smart to the lower your prices to increase the amount
of orders you get, and in turn increase the
amount of reviews you get. And this will basically
accelerate the process much more. So at the beginning, it
might be smart to actually have lower prices and what do you intend to
have in the future? But as a mid to
long-term strategy, avoid getting into
price wars and yeah, just avoid being the
cheapest option out there. So, yeah, this has
to be the class. I'm going to now give
a brief conclusion. So thank you.
10. CLASS PROJECT Trim: Okay, everyone, So now that
you have learned how to SEO, optimized a fiber
profile and any Fiber gig as a class project. I'm going to ask you to
open up your fiber account. Maybe wait until the end of this class so that you
have all the knowledge. But yet, with the knowledge that you have
learned up till now, you can perfectly open up your account and at
least create one gig. And I'm going to ask you to write your Fiber
gig description. So this section, the one I
taught you how to optimize, and please post either a link or a screenshot of this section. In the class project section, what I will be doing is I'll
be reviewing individually, each and one of your gigs. And I will let you
know if I think it's correctly optimized or not. I will give you some hints and tips on how you
can better do it. So if you're thinking of
opening up a fiber account, yeah, I can I can assist you for free and help you for free. Letting you know if it's
correctly optimized, as well as more tips and tricks if you want to
get in touch with me. So thank you and
welcome to the next.
11. Conclusion: Okay, so we have now
reached an end of this masterclass and how to start selling on fiber
and become, yeah, From a new seller to a
top rated Pro verified, successful seller on the
platform and you can totally make a living
out of this platform. I myself am able to make a living if I wished to
out of this platform. But I also like to
teach classes like I'm doing right now
and do other stuff. But yeah, you can totally make a living just from
this platform. I know also many sellers
that are making a living. So yeah. And also as a side hustle, it's a grade idea. So if you're thinking of
maybe starting a side hustle, you are not sure what to start. You want some side income. And also you want
to be free from location because this
is also the beauty of this work that you
don't need to be at a certain location or go to an office or have a boss, etc. You just manage your own time,
you manage your schedule. You can work from Asia, from Europe, America,
doesn't matter. And also you get customers
from all around the world. So if you're, for example, in India or in some countries
with poorer economies, you are going to be
performing services for people in the
US, Germany, France, et cetera, which
half a higher budget because their economies
are way better. So they will be happily paying
you a good wage per hour, which in your country
might be extremely good. So I recommend everyone
opens up a fiber account and starts at least offering some service to
see what happens. And I will be here, I'll be posting more classes, so please follow me to stay
updated about freelancing. I also post about personal
finance, Amazon, etc. So thank you guys and big hug.
Javi Lopez ✪, Entrepreneur and Finance Nerd
