Hi freelancers, if you are looking to create a gig on Fiverr to get work and make a living, then I must tell you that it is possible to make a living by working on Fiverr, but before you run to create your gig, I humbly advise that you take your time to read the following.
freelancing on Fiverr can be very lucrative if you find the right niche to freelance, there are tons of people on Fiverr who are making a full-time salary just working on Fiverr. With the right the opportunity to make money on Fiverr is endless, but with the wrong gig, you would be left fuming and might believe that freelancing on Fiverr might not be for you. Most often people spend a lot of time and energy to set up a gig and wait for people to contact them on Fiverr but they would often wait months without someone contacting them, this often makes them assume that freelancing is not for them, but actually freelancing I for everyone, all you need is to find gigs that have low competition and a high turnover and you are going to be successful so let us take a look at highly competitive gigs that I advise against creating when starting out on Fiverr and the reason behind it.
- Blog writing
Let us begin with a bang, you might be wondering why blog writing is the first on our list, well it is not an error that it is the first gig on this list. Don’t get me wrong blog writing is a very lucrative gig to set up on Fiverr, there are a lot of people making thousands of dollars on the platform writing blog articles but there are also thousands of people on the platform who earn next to nothing on the platform writing blog articles. Let me explain why creating a blog writing gig on Fiverr currently is a bad idea. As of the time that I am writing this article, there are over 25000 blog writing services on the Fiverr platform, this means as a new blog writer on the platform, you are going to compete with all these people for the attention of prospective buyers, now among these 25000 blog writers on the platform, you have among them sellers who are top rated, pro, level two and level one. Within this sea of expert writers, it would be very difficult for you to be located by a buyer who needs the services of a blog writer. It would be wiser to pick gigs that do not have a high number of sellers.
2. Logo Designing
The second gig that I would advise against setting up if you are starting out on Fiverr as a seller is logo designing.
It is a very lucrative gig that many people have made a lot of money from but guess how many logo designing gigs are on Fiverr?
If you said something close to 170000 then you are correct. Remember that the number of gigs that can go on the first page on the Fiverr platform is less than 50, so imagine the number of pages that logo designing gigs would occupy on the platform. Imagine if your gig is ranked as 150000 out of the 170000 gigs on the platform, nobody would discover your gig.
3. Virtual Assistant
The third gig on our list is virtual assistant while scrolling through the platform, I realized that there are over 29000 gigs on virtual assistants, and with a large number of people having gigs in this field, it would be very difficult to stand out from the rest. I would like to say that it is worth noticing that virtual assistant is a field that is booming, many social media influencers need virtual assistants to publish articles or posts on their social media handles, so they would be chasing virtual assistants here and there. You would say that it is good news that people are interested in the services of virtual assistants but with some virtual assistants with tons of five-star ratings on the platform charging peanuts, what would motivate a buyer to hire you a newbie on the platform with no ratings? Most buyers often assume that if you do not have any ratings on the platform, then that means that you are inexperienced, so if you are charging $10 to do a job and you are a newbie and another freelancer who has let us assume 10 five star ratings is also charging $10 for the same job, then logically the buyer would choose the seller with more ratings over you.
4.Business card designing
The number of people that have gigs in this sector is over 19000.
This gig entails designing business cards for businessmen men or women, a lot of people have made a career out of designing business cards on Fiverr, and there are business card designers on Fiverr who have over 500 five-star ratings. On Fiverr and just like every major marketplace, the early bird catches the worm, so many people would prefer well-established sellers with a lot of Five-star ratings on the site than a newbie, and most of the well-established business card designers on the platform are charging next to nothing on the platform ( $5). I sincerely doubt that if you are a well-established business card designer who is used to making money somewhere else, you would be able to bring yourself to take such a small amount when starting out.
5.Thumbnail designing
A thumbnail is a small image that is used to represent a video or an image, it is the image you see on YouTube before a video starts playing. The more beautiful and spectacular a thumbnail is the higher the chances that people would click on it and watch the video that the thumbnail represents. Creating a beautiful thumbnail is an art and because many video creators cannot do it well, they prefer to hire people to design it for them. I strongly believe that thumbnail designing on Fiverr would have been a great gig to create but unfortunately there are over 15000 thumbnail designing gigs on Fiverr, so if you starting out as a thumbnail designer on Fiverr it would be very difficult to get a lot of clients.
Before you started reading this article if you were looking to create any of the above gigs, I would apologize for discouraging you, I would say that there are other gigs that have low competition and are highly lucrative, as time goes on I will be writing a lot on these low-quality gigs and also show you how to start them. In other not to miss out on any of our premium and well researched articles, I suggest you follow us on our social media handles. I would also advise that the above suggestions are just my opinion.
