Archives for March 2013

I recently presented on 5 Ways I’ve Outsourced Work to Fiverr at the Austin Internet Marketing Meetup.

There were a few dozen folks that came out for the lunchtime meetup and we had a great conversation about using Fiverr as buyers and sellers.

The five ways I discussed outsourcing to Fiverr were for Kindle stuff, videos, voiceovers, music, and cartoons.

Kindle stuff

I got my kindle book, Extra Money Answer, formatted from Word from a Fiverr gig, as well as the cover for the book.

There were some people willing to format for a flat $5, but I went with somebody who charged by the word count and ended up paying $20 for the formatting job.

I was very pleased with it, as it uploaded without an issue to Amazon.

I got the cover and all of the other projects I’ll mention below for $5.

Videos

I’ve gotten a lot of videos through Fiverr for a variety of events and sites. One that I got recently was to spread the word about the upcoming Affiliate Summit East 2013 in Philadelphia.

In addition to getting a video where I wanted to feature the homepage of the Affiliate Summit site, I also used Fiverr for the original music that plays.

Last year, I got a number of videos from Fiverr to promote Affiliate Summit East 2012, including one where a lady rants about why she won’t be going to the conference.

Voiceovers

There are lots of options for getting voiceovers created, too, and I’ve used these for podcast introductions, as well as to narrate short videos.

A recent voiceover I got was for a promo for my Extra Money Answer book. I created the video myself with Video Scribe software.

Music

I’ve purchased a variety of songs on Fiverr, such as the song used in the Affiliate Summit East 2013 video above, and intro music for podcasts.

You can hear a custom country song from Fiverr as the opening to a recent episode of the Affiliate Thing podcast.

Cartoons

Fiverr has tons of artists that can create cartoon avatars and all sorts of other items you could use for your company.

I got a Manga avatar recently – Manga is a Japanese genre of cartoons.

I’ve also gotten caricatures and other cartoon renderings.

In addition to being useful for avatars in social media, you could also use this sort of thing for branding on a site, business cards, etc.

One thing to bear in mind when ordering from Fiverr is that you should check out the seller’s ratings to be sure they’ve got satisfied customers.

Also, take a look at how many pending orders they have, because this can impact how quick your purchase will be delivered.

Affiliate marketing is a fairly young industry, but it already has a couple or three generations of people working in it since the origins on the adult side in the 90’s.

I had a chance to chat with a bunch of the potential future affiliate marketers yesterday at a career event at my local middle school.

The kids came through for a couple hours to learn about a wide variety of careers, including medicine, journalism, computer engineering, aviation, banking, law enforcement, photography, education, science, military, and oil and gas exploration.

And then there was me to chat them up about affiliate marketing.

I showed them an example of a Dallas Cowboys fan site that promotes the Fanatics affiliate program, and they were wide-eyed at the opportunity of doing something like that at their age.

That’s where I had a leg up on the other people there. I was selling these kids on getting into this now – not in 8 or 10 or more years.

I shared with them how I wished this was around when I was a kid, so I could have worked from home, instead of washing dishes for minimum wage. They liked that, a lot.

Many of them grabbed a copy of the January 2013 issue of FeedFront magazine to learn more about this mythical stuff.

And I printed out the “How Affiliate Marketing Works” graphic chart from Rae Hoffman to help them get a better grasp of things.

It was a really neat experience to see how excited these middle schoolers were about what I had to say.

So beware to all of you existing affiliate marketers. There are a bunch of new, hungry affiliates on the way.

I will be presenting a webinar called Traffic Sources That Could Help Grow Your Business on Wednesday, March 20, 2013 from 2:00 PM to 2:30 PM EDT.

I will share how I found traffic sources that helped grow my business and how they could help grow your small business, too.

This is the latest in a series of webinars from Viewbix.