If you ask Google, what are the top money making methods online, you will find tons of articles about making money with joint ventures, solo ads, email marketing, consultation services, selling digital products, eCommerce, Blogging (ex: on BlogSpot) etc.
However, soon or later, you will ultimately find out that most of them are advanced for beginners to start making some money online.
What if I told you there are other easy ways to make quick money online without giving lots of efforts at your end?
It just takes a few hours per day to implement and anybody who has the passion, desire to make money online can do this.
And what if I told you there are also pretty easy methods to make money on Internet called Micro jobs that you aren’t necessary to invest any money?
That’s damn cool, right?
Yup.
That’s what you’re going to learn in this article.
It is filled with a lot of information about making money with micro jobs.
What You Will Learn:
So, are you ready to start making your first $100 as a micro job employer? Let’s start this guide to making money using micro jobs.
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How to Make Money With Micro Jobs
What are Micro Jobs?
Basically, a micro job is a temporary, task-type job. You can also specify a micro job as a 'gig offer' too.
You are not abiding on the service and in most times the service is a one-time task. Depending on the service, you may also offer add-ons, upgrades and revisions too.
How does it work?
The process of a micro job or a gig is really simple.
How it Works
In a nutshell, a Micro job is a one-time gig that does not have contracts, conditions, and ongoing service repairs.
As every business type have advantages and disadvantages, if you are going to work as a micro worker, you should know what benefits and dis-benefits you’d receive.
Advantages of Micro Jobs
Disadvantages of Micro Jobs
As an independent worker, you are going to make decisions yourself. Which in sometimes for some people might be confusing and overwhelming.
This could be a serious problem which could eventually push you over giving up your micro job essentially talking yourself common excuses like these.
Common Excuses
I am not to depress or underrate your confidence. I showed you the truth most other people hesitate to tell you.
98% of people who are going to make money online either fail or give up even before they have given a significant concentration toward their job. Essentially they don't take it seriously.
The ones who never give up will go through the different stages successfully and finally reach the sustainability and profitability.
Making money with any micro job isn't that really hard. In fact, what you really need are the concentration, dedication, good selling strategy and the consistency.
However, after reading this article, you will learn what you want to structure in order to make money online with micro jobs.
Best Micro Jobs Websites to Make Money
Having a desire and a skill is not enough to make money as a micro worker. There must be a platform which eases the process. Or in other words, a place for you and buyers to negotiate, process transactions and providing services.
In general, a micro job platform will,
A good micro job website will provide every possible facility and opportunity for you to provide services easily. However, there are also some things you should know about micro job websites.
So, now you have a little bit knowledge about micro job marketplaces. Therefore, I thought this is the best time for you to provide some popular micro job websites which are also known as freelance marketplaces.
Top Micro Job Marketplaces
The #1 micro job marketplace in the world with over three million listed services ranging from $5 to $500.
You can find job categories from graphics & design to hiring a virtual assistant. So, there are a lot of opportunities for you to make money with Fiverr.
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One of the popular micro-outsourcing networks for SEO offers. As the name express itself, you could find micro jobs related to SEO such as link building, On-page & off-page optimization online jobs.
Although SEOClerks is famous for SEO related gig jobs, you could other categories as well. However, only a few gig jobs. So, you have more opportunities to stand out in SEOClerks and make quick cash online.
The gig pricing starts from $1.
That is ridiculous, right?
However, you can still find a few gigs pricing starting from $999 as well.
One of my favorite places to get simple tasks such as designing a logo, make a flyer done. Envato Studio is previously known as “Freelance Switch” under “MicroLancer” owned by Envato, Inc. Now they have rebranded the outsourcing network’s name as “Envato Studio”.
The quality of service is guaranteed. Therefore, if you’re a professional programmer, website developer, app designer, theme designer, I highly suggest you check out Envato Studio.
MicroJob categories are ranging from Audio to Logo Design & Branding.
Pricing is also very decent in both micro workers & customer's point of view.
Another professional online outsourcing website.
You can find a variety of micro employment categories ranging from Civil Engineering to Hospitality.
If you want to take micro jobs that don't involve the Internet, then Gig might be your best choice.
What is the best micro gigs website to get started making money online?
This is actually depending upon you. However, I knew many of you might ask this question. That’s why I thought to share my opinion on this.
If you’re new to make money online, get started with Fiverr. It’s a crowdsourcing site with lots of buyers.
Fiverr helps new micro workers to get started. So, you can get your first few sales quickly, if you do your homework right.
Honestly, I have worked in Fiverr a way back in 2012. It is very easy to set up your Fiverr gig and get your first few sales.
Top Fiverr Gigs
I would recommend you to take a few time to look around what’s hot and what’s trending on Fiverr.
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In fact, if you analyze all the gigs in Fiverr, you would find out that you can provide any legitimate service on Fiverr.
Here are a few gigs that are working pretty well in Fiverr.
Many small businessmen prefer to get these tasks done in Fiverr.
Why?
Because they are very cheap and many services’ TAT (Turn Around Time) and the number of revisions are pretty good as a buyer's perspective.
If the buyer wants the task done quickly, he can pay a few bucks more and get the service done as quickly as possible.
Some services such as explainer videos cost $1,000+ in other networks and online service portals. However, in Fiverr buyers can get the same results without spending too much.
I know many of you don’t have programming and/or designing skills.
I too didn’t have those skills when I first started freelancing in Fiverr a few years ago. However, I was able to make a few bucks.
Ideal Micro Gig Ideas for Newbies
If you’re confused from where you should start, then here are a few gig ideas.
Picture Quote Design
Do you believe I have already spent over $100 for designing picture quotes for my blogs, social media promotions?
In the run of buying picture quote designs, I have found that Photoshop editing and graphic designing are their passions. They love it!
You don’t have to be a Photoshop geek to offer a picture quote design gig on Fiverr. You can use an online quote making App to design attractive quotes in minutes.
There are many online graphic designing tools. Crello, Canva, Pixteller, Stencil and Artboard Studio are some of them.
PDF Submission
Sharing PDF files online, really? Can you make money sharing other’s file online?
Yes, you can.
Already, a very people are killing it on Fiverr and have got 1,000+ sales.
The pricing for this PDF submission gig starts from $5. However, he could make up to $50 per a gig.
Pretty cool, right?
Virtual Assistant
Even though many businesses hire virtual assistants on UpWork and Freelancer, virtual assistant service is getting popular day by day.
For example, some webmasters and SEOs would want to get contact details such as email address and phone numbers of bloggers in a niche.
It a time-consuming task. Would you think they will hire a someone on virtual assistant websites for a month or hire a micro worker just for this task?
Yes, they might hire a someone for this task only.
I am not sure if she bought this car through her freelancing job. However, I could see that she makes much more than $40 per day.
Data Scraping Services
If you’re familiar with software such as ScrapeBox, you can provide a service on Fiverr on data scraping. It’s very trending and many Internet marketers are searching services like this.
Translation
Fiverr has an exclusive job category dedicated to Translation gigs. Translation is very crucial in Internet marketing.
If you know two or more language in really well, you can start a Fiverr gig on the translation like this one.
Audio & Video Transcription
Another awesome Fiverr gig you can start to make money online. As the popularity of video marketing and podcasting, transcription services have become more popular and its pricing getting higher.
Voice Recording
Not everybody has the skill of voice recording. That’s why internet marketers, video marketers and local business hire professional voice over recorders.
If you’re passionate about it, you can make a lot more like her.
These are my personal recommendation for you to get started on Fiverr.
There are more awesome gigs on Fiverr. Go to Fiverr and look every category to find what others are doing.
Don’t laugh if you found gigs like this.
I am laughing… 🙂
I don’t know what can be expressed using 5 words about love. Maybe “I love you NAME”
You see, it’s all about passion and desire.
Find what’s your desire, and you get a good gig idea for Fiverr.
Tips to Make More Money on Micro Jobs
(Especially on Fiverr)
Like every other online business model, to start making money and make more money, you have to follow some steps.
Here are a few of them that I would follow if I start all over again.
bonus tips
- 1Build your own website (Using WordPress, Blogger or Tumblr) and offer your custom services with discounted prices for customers. If you use WordPress, utilize Thrive Architect to build attractive web pages.
- 2Collect Customers contact details (ex: build an email list of customers) using a contacts management tool like GetResponse or Gist. So, you can follow up them later for more business opportunities.
- 3Use Payoneer to open a Virtual US checking bank account for free to receive money fast from companies like Fiverr.
Apart from above, there are more key factors that impact for your Fiverr earnings. To make money on Fiverr, you should also be aware of them.
Conclusion on making money with Micro Jobs
If you new to Internet marketing or make money online, micro jobs is a perfect choice for you.
If you are struggling to make money through other money making schemes such as video marketing, and blogging on BlogSpot check out a few micro gigs. Your experience could be used for selling services in micro job websites.
If you are not sure you can make money online, I recommend creating a gig on a crowdsourcing site like Fiverr.
Making money online with micro jobs is all about turning your passion and desire into a service.
Once you have got the experience and you’re sure you can go to the next level, I recommend using a next level freelancing network such as UpWork and Freelancer. Check out these freelancing jobs to find out what’re working on these networks too.
So, now you know everything about making money with micro job websites.
Don’t procrastinate. Use your time productively. Take action right now!
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Thank you. As someone trying to step into freelancing this really comprehensive and it is freeeee.
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Thanks Samuditha for inspiring comment. I too wish all the best for you as well. 🙂
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