Fiverr Reviews: SCAM or Legit?

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What is Fiverr?

Fiverr is a marketplace for freelancers and employers/outsourcers for business. For example if a business owner has no budget to hire employees since it’s in the beginning stage of business then that business needs to go to this marketplace platform. If a freelancer needs to earn extra money in the amount of U.S.$5.00 or more, then that freelancer goes to this marketplace. In other words, in simple definition Fiverr is the middle man for all this business transactions.

Both business owner and freelancer meet and match here and they are protected both for fiverr that is making sure that the business owner gets a high-quality work for example a business logo and freelancers who work hard and deliver precise work to the employer or business owner gets paid on time. Both business owner and freelancers have power to rate the quality of work delivered and by helping out the freelancer land more work or job to do, the employer can rate his work with perfect score thus helping out the freelancer. In time the freelancer can become a business owner too that can employ other freelancers and grant them jobs or works to do for a pay. It’s in this cycle that Fiverr is progressing and becoming huge in expanding itself all over the world.

Company Behind

The company behind is Fiverr International Ltd. based in Tel Aviv, Israel and founded by Micha Kaufman and Shai Wininger on February 1, 2010. It’s a public company listed as FVRR in the New York Stock Exchange(NYSE). The languages they used are English, Spanish, French, Dutch and Portuguese.

Technical Specifications
They got their domain name registered on year 2009, the year prior their foundation of their company, from GoDaddy, Inc. They’re not using any domain whois anonymity so they are displaying clearly their company name and organization for everyone to know, they are a transparent company since they also are selling stocks. They are using protection services from DDOS attacks offered by Cloud Flare, Inc.

Features

According to their website, a freelancer and an employer, are both guaranteed for quality payment on time and a high-quality and precised work, respectively. There will be hourly rate for the freelancer but in real time, employers can see upfront the prices displayed in transparency. The website is ready to accommodate both outsourcer – the employer or business owner and the freelancer on their website in twenty four hours and seven days a week. My kind of business I should say.

Categories of Work

From the homepage, both freelancers and business owner will know the category their work can be accepted into and these are the following, namely: Graphics and Design covers like logo conceptualization along with the logo design, Digital Marketing everything that a new business needs to promote their website and get leads and sales from it, Writing and Translation allows employers to have their websites appear in different languages to their prospects and target market even if website owners don’t speak that language, video and animation allows you to market on videos and allows the employer to receive quality work of animation, music and audio covers musical scoring for your websites and even videos and also voice over artists to get a work from the employers, programming and technology allows freelancers who knows how to program in different languages and even come up with an android or iphone version of the website, business covers everything about the business aspect of the website, business planning, business execution and perhaps even feasibility studies and business budgeting, and different industries covers a business when your work cannot be categorized by the given categories you may hire in this category.

Fiverr Pro

The marketing platform offers everyone the ability to upgrade as pro for the business owner and for the freelancers, where they can meet and match in a separate section and have access to professional work and professional freelancing respectively. For the business owner, simply if you love your business and company you desire professional work delivered into it beyond what five dollars can deliver. For the freelancers, you also need additional income and more professional work to do that is if you have exceeded quality testing and pre-qualification that is required of being a Fiverr Pro freelancer.

Making Money

The way I see it , you can make money as a freelancer by doing jobs on what your skill set can accomplish according to the requirements of the employer, refer people to the program, buy stocks, and save money as an employer and you outsource it to freelancers. Since you will not pay salaries, fringe benefits or even employee’s insurances not to mention an office space and whatever they need, you can get likely the cheapest of work delivered in time that you demand.

PROS and CONS:

PROS:

– I give this website two thumbs up since it offers jobs to freelancers and also quality work to employers

CONS:

– competition is very high

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