Monday, January 20, 2014

Making $500 a month on Fiverr - A case study


Ok, let's talk about a Fiverr. More specifically how to "sell traffic".

Fiverr is a place where people pay to get services for $5. The seller actually gets $4 of that (minus paypal fees) and can cash out the 4$ 2 weeks after a job is completed. $4 may not seem much but the biggest value I find with fiverr is that it's a good way to get new clients. They buy a couple gigs for $5 and if you do a good job some will start paying you directly and cutting out the middleman(fiverr). So even if Fiverr went away I am still in business. Or you can just stick to doing fiverr gigs.

You can sell whatever(legal) service you want for $5 but remember that you really don't want to be spending very much time on each gig. I try and keep it to 15 minutes of actual work per gig. But when you make a new one it will take a bit of time before you streamline it so don't be discouraged if it takes longer at first.

So here is a great method for making Fiverr cash:

Step 1: Earn traffic by having your computer autosurf websites 
Step 2: Sell this traffic on Fiverr 
Step 3: Profit

Seems simple enough but I will explain things that have taken me a long time to learn and I have not seen talked about anywhere.

Step 1: Earning traffic. Autosurf sites allow you to login and have you computer automatically surf other peoples sites. You get credits for sites surfed. You can use those credits to get traffic on your own sites(or your fiverr customers). There are hundreds of these sites but only a few good ones. It is usually not a 1:1 ratio, that way the autosurf site has extra credits leftover that they sell.

You can pretty much set it and forget it (though it's good to check on it once a day because sometimes it will get stuck.) You can run it while you sleep or run it on a spare machine or run it on a VM like I do. If you want to expand from there you just need more IP addresses. I used to run 4 virtual machines at a time each with their own IP and could pump out enough credits to get people thousands of views daily. If I got too many sales I would just buy a few credits and was still making a nice profit.

The best site out the is Hitleap. It counts credits by "minute" so you can send people to your site for 5 seconds up to 60. Depending on what you need.
Non Referral Link: http://hitleap.com

Step 2: Selling the traffic. After earning (or buying) a bunch of credits you need to decide how you are going to sell the traffic. Just selling tons of traffic is not really that popular in Fiverr, so it's all in how you package it. For example you could sell Youtube views. Put in the youtube link into Hitleap and send traffic to it. Or you could sell Soundcloud plays. Or Instagram views. Someone would rather have more Youtube views, or "Blog Visits" than just plain traffic. Find a way to sell it to them. It helps if whatever site you are sending traffic to has a public "counter" like youtube.

The easiest sell if for sites that reward you for having more views etc. Part of youtube rankings have to do with how fast they are getting views. So it can help them get more legitimate views. People mostly understand they are not "real" visits but they want to get on the "popular videos" list and things like that. Also people like having bragging rights "Dude my picture got 800 views!".

Keep in mind it's never a 1 to 1 ratio. Youtube for example likes to wait a bit before showing all of the views and they don't really count every single one. So test it before you make a fiverr gig.

Step 3: Profit. You have to wait a bit to get your fiverr money but you can get some customers to buy a better deal directly through paypal and you can get your money right away(I have a paypal debit card so that's nice). It's against Fiverr rules to do this technically but I just hit them up on Youtube or Soundcloud or whatever site and see if they are interested.


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