5 Best Services on Fiverr to Jump Start Your Business
By: Casey Botticello
Tags: Productivity, Investing, Advice, Business, Startup

5 Best Services on Fiverr to Jump Start Your Business

While Fiverr is an amazing place to find just about anything you need as an entrepreneur, here are a 5 services that are especially easy to find, affordable, and applicable to most businesses:

1. Logo Design

Sample Logo Designs | Abhaysingh Portfolio

More than ever, companies find themselves racing against consumers’ shortened attention spans. As a result, they have turned their focus to creating newer, more memorable logos. No company can spend an unlimited amount of time convincing potential customers that their products are great. A logo, on the other hand, can quickly grab viewers’ attention and communicate a company’s core values uniquely. More and more, consumers are judging businesses by their appearance as much as by what they do.

With this new marketing model, businesses of all sizes must spend more resources creating original ideas. Major businesses will shell out millions on a logo designer to craft their perfect image, but most small companies don’t have endless amounts to spend.

Fiverr allows buyers to have high quality logo samples created, quickly. Within a day or two, for $5–75, buyers can have a variety of sample logos created. You simply describe the logo style you are trying to achieve, provide the company name and general information, and typically, provide a list of logos that encompass the aesthetic that best represents your company. This same quality of logo could easily cost you $1,000+ if you work directly with a local logo designer or a graphic artist that bills by the hour.

2. Website Design

Website Design | Dayton Ohio Website Design

In today’s global marketplace, it’s not enough to just have a digital presence. To capitalize on opportunity and captivate real, live, human readers, an optimized, functional, interactive website is a must. Unfortunately, the Internet is swarming with poor website designs that miss both the technical and content mark. Worse yet, clients and developers alike continuously contribute to the current outbreak of design delinquency in equal measure.

Fiverr makes ordering a sleek and user friendly website a breeze. Website creation can be modeled after websites you already like or be created from scratch. In my experience, while you can get a website for $100-$300, websites with custom features tend to cost $500-$750. This same quality of website could easily cost you $10,000+ if you work directly with a local website designer.

3. Infographics

Example of Infographic | Source: ED Tech

Infographics have been gaining popularity and become widely used among businesses and organizations in both digital and print. They are a clear, effective and artistic way of presenting information without losing the attention of the viewer. In this fast paced, modern age, people are inundated with information every day and attention spans are decreasing by the second. Unfathomable amounts of data is stored online and organized for analyzing and reporting purposes.

It can be difficult for people to navigate through countless lines of numbers and statistics whether it be online or in an excel sheet. Infographics are used as a powerful tool to allow people to easily digest information through the use of visual data, charts, and statistics. With the proper use of color, proportion, and negative space, information can be transformed into memorable, attention-grabbing and even persuasive graphics.

Fiverr is full of graphic designers who are looking to supplement their income by designing infographics. In my experience, quality infographics range from $20–140 but unless you really have an unusual request, I’ve had most of mine created for $20–40.

4. Search Engine Optimization SEO

Search Engien Optimization (SEO) | Source: Detroit Digital Vinyl

Search engine optimization or SEO in short, is a set of rules that can be followed by website (or blog) owners to optimize their websites for search engines and thus improve their search engine rankings.

SEO is one of the most cost effective forms of marketing because you are engaging someone once they have actually made the action of going to Google and typing in something related to a product or service you are offering. When you receive traffic from your efforts on these types of search terms the users are already interested in what you have to offer, your job is just to convince them you are the right partner. Once you start ranking well for terms, you receive the benefit of consistent traffic that the particular search term provides each and every month so your flow of potential customers continues. Very few marketing channels can say the same thing.

SEO is hard to figure out for those not familiar with internet marketers. You could pay thousands of dollars a month through an established firm and receive a minimal boost in website traffic, keyword ranking, or user engagement. Packages on Fiverr vary more widely than most services offered on the platform, but based on my experience $50-$100 can provide you a targeted boost for a specific page or keyword and definitely impact your google ranking. SEO, however, is usually best achieved through long term strategies. These ongoing services offered through Fiverr typically cost anywhere from $100–$500 per month. These usually come with specific money back guarantees though, such as ranking first in google for a relatively competitive search phrase, or manual creation of backlinks to your site on a daily basis.

5. Virtual Assistant

Virtual Assistant | Source: Acelerartech

Startups and small businesses face another unique challenge: cash flow. As an entrepreneur or small business owner, even if you are on board with getting help, you often don’t have the time, space or resources available to hire that additional employee you desperately need. That’s why so many successful business people have turned their attention to virtual assistants (VA’s). VA’s not only save you time and money, but they are also an affordable and experienced investment in the growth of your company.

Startups and small businesses use VA’s for things like bookkeeping, social media, design, web development, email management, marketing administration and so much more.

In my experience, good virtual assistants can be found for as little as $75–150 per week. While this may not sound cheap, compared to the cost of a traditional employee, it is negligible, considering the amount of work they do. One of my long time personal assistants completes work that would probably require a standard full-time employee, for the low cost of $100 per week. This includes, data entry, research, social media management, and graphic design. While it make take some time to find a reliable virtual assistant, they can be a major boost to any business.

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