Experience using Fiverr? share it here
Hi,
In all my projects, I've been the only one working on them. Which made progress very dependent on my mood/availability.
I thought I could use some help and hire Gigs for very specific jobs.
I starting hiring the writing of 2 blog posts. Then the development of the layout of a screen (without any functionality). The last service I hired was designing the DarkMode of an existing, LightMode screen.
It's the first time I do this and the results are mixed.
On one hand I like the feeling of knowing that my project is moving forward even when I'm not working on it.
On the other, it's hard for me to describe exactly what I want.
What's your experience? What have you learned? Do you do it? Did you try it and stopped doing it? Would you consider it?
Share your thoughts/comments/experiences/advice here.
It can benefit many of us. Thank you
Hi,
I'm using fiverr for a lot of services like:
Logo, Designs, video explainer, a bit marketing, and trying out content writing.
I think the price is really good for bootstrap/side projects but it takes sometime alot of revisions and requires a lot of effort and explaination.
I would say 70% success rate and actually wanted results but because prices are so cheap it's attractive.
It sounds similar to my experience. With the design Gig I hired it took like 7 revisions or so, and sometimes corrections were "obvious" things, please don't use dark on top of dark, because it cannot be seen.
The prices are cheap yes, but I wanted to save time. I'm not so sure about how much time I'm saving. This is my first time though, so it's naive to think it will work wonders on the first try.
And one more thing. I discovered something new from this way of working. I kept on checking my email more often that before. I felt that I had to answer as quickly as possible after receiving an answer from the freelancers. It's a mental load I didn't have before.
For how long have you been doing it @stolenng? Are these things I am describing things you went through? How did you get better at working with freelancers?
Thank you for sharing your experience. I really appreciate it.
Well,
I'm a person that available almost 24/7 😅
So I don't really feel the load of answering.
Before ordering I contact the seller in private and validate he can do the job,
After submitting the order and the requirements I don't touch fiverr until I'm getting new response or deadline seems close and no progress.
I've been using fiverr for almost 2-3 years,
You can check out sekker.io my product,
The logo, video explainer, app design( I kept improving it) is from there.
Currently I ordered gig of articles for my product which is not going that well... But I don't waste time on this, I wrote to the seller I'm not happy with the progress and I continue with my life/work :)
I have used it quite a bit. Things that worked well with Fiverr:
Things that didn't work well:
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[1] https://remembertheapi.com/products/unix-linux-command-cheat-sheet-black-mugs
[2] https://remembertheapi.com/products/git-cheat-sheet-black-mugs
Interesting. Thank you for sharing the examples and the types of work you hired.
You seem quite satisfied. I'm still not convinced. I believe that I need to keep on refining the type of work I wire as well as the way I communicate what I expect.
Are you still using Fiverr?
I am still using it. However, I have to clarify that it may be hit-and-miss and it works best for a specific kind of work that is clearly defined, clearly scoped, and does not have much creativity involved. In the past, I tried to get some artwork done on there and it was not good enough at the end of the day. In some cases "artists" plagiarised it. However, if it turns out to be no good you don't lose much money. You can ask for a refund if it's truly bad.
Fiverr definitely is a bargain bin of the freelancing world, but you can find some good-for-the-price people there if you are able to navigate the marketplace and adjust your expectations.
I have been using Fiverr for 5yesrs now. In short, if you need something quick and cheap Fiverr is the place. But if you need something that's professional then you should look somewhere else. Only hard thing is to find the real good gig there are so many low-quality/cheap gigs on Fiver right now.
I'm using Fiverr and Upwork all the time!
Fiverr is great for ghostwriting, graphics, quick designs, proofreading, etc.
We use Upwork at FeedHive to find contractors.
Both great platforms, but takes a bit of work/practice to spot the great consultants.
Simon, I've had great success hiring for front end developers on Upwork. But I'm struggling to find good UX/UI designers.
How/where did you find those folks for FeedHive? The app UI screenshots on your marketing page looks
really nice.
Fiverr is hit or miss for me. I use it on occasion for ideation, but I've never really gotten something that was exceptional from the sellers there.
Paying for work on logo design, I would expect to hire 3-4 people and pick from the top designs provided and work with them from there to get something close to what you want.
Paying for content writing is an extremely mixed bag. You'll get non-native English speakers that write horribly more times than not. There are also a lot of sellers that plagiarise from other sources or that use content spinners that copy content from somewhere and make it slightly different to bypass plagiarism checkers.
I would personally use something like Upwork to hire freelancers to do work for you. It'll cost you more, but you get better quality results.
You get what you pay for in the end.
I was also thinking about the hire-many-for-the-same-job strategy.
A weak point on my side is that I'm not a native English speaker, and generally, I don't have experience with content writing, so it's hard for me to tell whether the content is good.
For example, I hired 2 content writing jobs. One is a native English speaker. The other is not.
In the native English speaker one I felt that the article was better, but I cannot say that it was great. I ended up accepting both deliveries without revisions because I didn't know how to ask for "a better" piece...
Thanks for sharing you're thoughts @KyleL
For not being a native English speaker, you provide very well-crafted responses! I wouldn't have known you weren't a native speaker.
Hi, I'm using fiver for design and content writing.
For the first time, I hired several Gigs for a small job. After that, I choose the best sellers and work with them for next time.
Sounds about right. I did this for a writing job, but since I don't have experience with writing I didn't know how good the result was 😅
I guess I need to keep on trying.
Thank you for your comment @RomanAgabekov