Fiverr – I have to admit to secretly loving Fiverr.com.
Fiverr is a site where everything on the site is sold for $5. Now, before you jump on me from a great height, I am not into slave labour. I am into outsourcing fiddly little things that are a pain in the backside – providing it is a fiddly little thing then Fiverr is perfect.
However if it is a bigger more complex project and I need to outsource then I do visit oDesk and other freelancing sites.
Some of the things bloggers can outsource on Fiverr.com include:
Let’s look at the graphics option.
Last weekend I wrote a sequel to the ebook I am writing with a co-author. My writing partner is mad busy at the moment and it drives me nuts.
So, instead of dwelling on the chapter he hasn’t wrote a word on since September, I thought I would just get on and do it. I wrote the ebook and then I got stumped – it didn’t have a cover. My usual graphics maven is sick at the moment and I didn’t like to ask her… so I popped over to Fiverr and 3 hours later a very good cover was in my inbox.
Perfect – if it was useless it was just five bucks. If I want another cover I can go and book the guy direct at normal rates or try another provider. Although I wouldn’t get banned for using the provider multiple times, if they provide what I require I prefer to do business with them direct at normal rates.
More Than “Just Bloggy Stuff”
But it’s not just little graphics like ebooks, headers and buttons that can be outsourced. I read a post about using Slideshare to link to good posts on your blog.
The idea is simple; take a good blog post and turn it into a PowerPoint presentation. Upload it to Slideshare and then share the presentation across your social platforms.
I found a chap on Fiverr who took 4 blog posts and created them into slides. He uploaded the slides to 5 different slidesharing sites. It seemed an interesting strategy and I am sure it works fab for others, I just didn’t like it.
I tried it on multiple types of blogs – business, personal, etc., and after a day of looking at the results, I thought – hmmm, this isn’t for me.
That experiment cost me a five bucks which is still not very much in Pound Sterling or Euros. How much would it have cost me in time to work out whether this was a viable tactic for blogging? At the time of booking I didn’t even have a Slideshare account!
Adding Words to Your Visuals
If you share a lot of video on your blog, adding the transcription of the video can be done easily with Fiverr. You can also have someone create a PDF that has the same branding as your blog and offer the transcribed video PDF as a free download.
This is an area that I am looking into, as I think if you have video you should have a transcript so that the search engines have an idea of what you are talking about.
I have seen excellent video intros created and offers of audio transcription, even WordPress installs! It’s a very vibrant, fun place to be.
Social media is a thriving category over on fiverr.com and I have steered well clear of it. You can buy Twitter followers, articles and Facebook likes, tweets of your links to ten trillion followers… Again this isn’t what I like to use the site for so I tend to stay out of the social media section.
I think Fiverr is a fab place to make new contacts and find people who can do the things you don’t like to do (in my case ebook covers).
It’s also great for trying out low cost experiments, but there is a darker side of the site where it appears even links are for sale. 
Be sensible and use it wisely or you will be digging yourself out of Google’s sandbox for years to come.
What are your thoughts? Have you had good results? What can you recommend?
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