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Amazon Mechanical Turk  got the ball rolling and the copycat syndrome kicked in with others wanting to cash in on the latest craze. Along comes Fiverr with a new and improved twist to the Microtasking idea. As with every other popular idea, Fiverr has plenty of copycats as well.

Who wants to make money Microtasking? Who knows what Microtasking is? I suppose I better catch up the slackers on what Microtasking is before I start rambling about how to make money Microtasking.

Simply put, Microtasking is outsourcing small projects. Microtasks are usually projects that take little time but can interrupt the productivity of the main project thus outsourcing becomes a desirable solution. Microtasks can be anything from data entry to link building to video creation and editing to article writing. The variety of Microtasks or Gigs as Fiverr calls them is astounding.

So, how can someone make money Microtasking? First of all, there are two sides to the Microtasking industry, actually three sides if you count the Microtasking agency such as Fiverr. There is the person doing the tasks and the person having the tasks done. There is money to be made on both sides of the Microtasking industry. I don’t recommend trying to become a Microtasking agency, as the market is saturated with them and since Fiverr is at the top of the list, most of the other Microtasking agencies are struggling to even get noticed let alone make a profit. Where you want to be in this little labor triangle is in the middle either getting the work done or doing the work.

Make Money Microtasking

If you have some skills, talents, or unique ideas, then you will probably have something to offer as a worker and be able to make money microtasking. As mentioned before, Fiverr is the number one site when it comes to Microtasking, and at the bottom of this post you can find a substantial list of other Microtask sites you can look into. Fair warning, it is common for scammers to create professional looking sites that offer users opportunities, and when it comes time to pay the users, the money never comes. There are plenty of legitimate sites out there, I am just saying, I have not tested all of them and do not guarantee any of them. Fiverr is your best bet as it is well established and has great reviews.

When you browse the Gigs and Gig requests on Fiverr you will get an idea of the vast variety of things people will do and want done for just $5. Sure, $5 does not sound like much and that is because it is not. The key is quantity. If you want to make good money on Fiverr you need a few things.

Unique – Your Gig needs to stand out and be unique but it also has to be useful. Just because someone else is getting a bunch of orders with a certain Gig or Task does not mean that you should try to duplicate their Gig. There is plenty of that going on already and your duplicate Gig (even if it is reworded with a unique title and description) will just be lost in the sea of other similar Gigs.

Quality – Your work has to be top notch, high quality work. I know it is only $5 but if you do bad work, you will get bad reviews and bad news spreads faster than good news. Your adventures in Microtasking will be short lived if you do poor work.

Volume – If you are going to make enough money to make your work time worth while, you need volume. You need to perform hundred or even thousands of tasks. That means you don’t want to create Gigs that are going to take you more time to do than what you think your time is worth. Note: Fiverr is going to take a $1 commission from every $5 task you do which means you will be getting paid $4 per task. Yes, Fiverr does offer some price variations allowing add-ons that can increase the cost of your task, but Fiverr still gets their commission.

If you are willing to settle for $8 per hour, then your tasks should not take you any longer than 30 minutes to complete. Some times to get a client (buyer) you have to take one for the team. This means that from time to time you may have to put in more time, much more time than you would like to get your little $4 fee. The hook is that you do great work and gain a customer that respects you and recommends you to others.

More Volume

Working for $8 per hour or less is not going to make you rich, in fact it probably won’t even pay the bills. So you need more tools in your Microtasking toll box. You need more volume and less time. Your tool is templates. Yep, you need to create Gigs or Tasks that you can build templates for, allowing you to maximize your productivity. The best example I can provide would be the famous “Intro Video” Gig seen so often on Fiverr. What this consists of is creating a quality 30 or 40 second video with great graphics and great sound with some text. If you are a video editor then you know that the program you use to create this video allows you to open the video template and simply edit the text. It’s a template that once finished only takes a few minutes at most to modify your customers text and your done. Once the ground work is done, you can get paid $4 over and over for just a few minutes of work. Templates are your key to maximizing volume and minimizing time.

To make money microtasking you need to offer something (product or service) of quality that other people want or need and you need to streamline the process with templates to maximize your earnings versus time spent working.

Make Money Outsourcing

The second side of the Microtasking industry is having Gigs, Tasks, or Projects done for you via outsourcing. How can I make money paying someone to do something for me? Well, every business in the world does it. That means you need to have some sort of business, product, service or otherwise means for making money. You hire others to do certain tasks for you that in turn increases productivity and/or profit.

There’s a Gig For That!

Let’s say you have a website that offers a product or service but sales are slow or even nonexistent. Why are sales low? If you do not know the answer to that, it is probable that you could hire someone for a few dollars ($5 to be exact from Fiverr) to assess your site and give you a detailed and professional review of what changes you could make. If you know the reason sales are low such as not enough traffic, there’s a Gig for that to.

Need some SEO? There’s a Gig for that. Need a new logo? There’s a Gig for that. Need more content on your site? There’s a Gig for that. On Fiverr you will find a Gig for just about anything, and if you can’t find one that fits your needs, just use the handy “Request Gigs” feature.

If you want more information and details about making money microtasking, you are just going to have to wait until I finish my extended ebook. I will link to it from here when it is finished and I will also include it in my products and services section of the site. I had planned to have it finished by now, but the amount of information and resources I have decided to include is just ridiculous, so it is taking longer than I wanted. I will be restricting the number of copies for the first release to just 100 per state (United States – 50 states- 5000 copies). I know I will be able to limit the overall quantity to 5000, but restricting by state will most likely mean that I will have to issue some refunds because I am pretty sure my distributer does not have state by state restrictions.

If you would like to be notified of the release of my ebook, just use the Contact form and include “ebook release” in the message box.

Happy Microtasking!

Fiverr and Fiverr alternatives.

Note: I do not guarantee the reliability or safety of any of the sites listed below. P.S. Some of these sites come and go with the night which means that eventually some of these links will lead to dead sites.

•    Fiverr – The place for people to share things they’re willing to do for $5
•    Fittytown | Digital Marketplace | The town where everything is $50 | Home
•    tenyt – What will you do for $10? | Displaying most recent twigs |
•    GigMe5 | Home
•    JustaFive.com | Home
•    Fourerr.com | The $4 Online Marketplace
•    UpHype – Get your message out
•    TenBux – Has some bad reviews
•    Zeerk.com – Where people make money from freelancing services!
•    gigbucks | Micro job freelancer marketplace
•    TwentyVille | Digital Marketplace | The town where everything is 20 dollars | Home
•    tenrr – Your meeting place to buy & sell jobs for $10 and under!
•    Online outsourcing | Service marketplace | Find a freelancer – Task Army
•    Earn even. Spend even – Evengigs.com
•    Hire a Writer – Write Swap – The Content Marketplace
•    ”No Commission Micro Job Marketplace”
•    The real-time marketplace for one-time jobs | Workables
•    Fiverr Alternative | www.outsourcerr.com
•    Jobs for 10 – Online Micro Jobs Site | Small Micro Work | 5, 10, 20 Dollar Jobs Marketplace
•    Telegigz….Gigz through Telecommunication Best Site for Micro Jobs – Telegigz
•    HomeGiggers – Working from home has never been more fun!
•    Loicu.com – The place things work for eight dollars.
•    Twenty Fiverr | www.goferr.com
•    The UK’s #1 £5 Service Exchange – It’s Only A Fiver
•    A Lazy Lobster | Home
•    eNetJob.com – What can you do for 3$ to 50$ ? | The #1 Online Marketplace
•    Dollar3 | Outsource jobs for $5, $3, $6, $9, $12 and $15
•    Gigtask – Outsource jobs online for just $5 – $100
•    Fivesquids – Things people do for a fiver. What can you do for £5?
•    Jobs for 10 – Online Micro Jobs Site | Small Micro Work | 5, 10, 20 Dollar Jobs Marketplace
•    Hundoville | Digital Marketplace | The town where everything is 100 dollars | Home
•    MiniPloy – The Micro Job Marketplace
•    Gigszie.com – What are you willing to do for $5 – $100
•    Gigdollars – A Place where Outsourcers & Freelancers come together :: A TeknoRhino Concept Group, L.L.C. Website
•    Earnerr.Com – A Great Place For People To Share Things They Will Do For $5
•    Micro Jobs Portal | Buy Sell Market Place
•    GIGsLAND – Freelancers Marketplace to buy and sell things for $5-$50
•    Skillarmy.com – Provide your internet skills with full open communication!
•    Website Marketing HQ | Home
•    ttenner.com – Things people do for money
•    Micro Jobs Fiverr Marketplace – Just a Few Bux
•    7Richer.com
•    feverfive.com – Easy Way To Make Money Online |Business Services From $5 | Home
•    Fixedlabor | Colorado’s Local Services Network | Home
•    FORa20.com – What could YOU buy/sell for $20?
•    PeopleStox – The World’s Largest Experience Marketplace
•    ScriptsListing Marketplace | Buy/Sell Anything For $5 to $100 | Webmaster Marketplace | Five Dollar Jobs | Different From Fiverr
•    Sevenstew.com – Micro Jobs | Micro Outsourcing | MicroSourcing starting at $7 per job
•    IMGiGz.com – Micro Job Site For Internet Marketers
•    MultiTaskr.com | The Freelancer MarketPlace. Gigs from $5 to $100 – MultiTaskr.com
•    Fivers World – Where $5 Pays off | The Fiverr dollar Marketplace
•    Flyper – The place where you can make some $$
•    MiniMartJobs – Gigs From Freelancers Offering Various Services – Minimartjobs.com

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