Friday, January 8, 2016

Selling Your Skill on 'Fiverr'

10:38 PM



      Fiverr came up with the concept of a marketplace that would provide a two sided platform for people to buy and sell a variety of digital services typically offered by freelance contractors. Services offered on the site include writing, translation, graphic design, video editing and programming. Fiverr’s services start at $5, which is what the company’s name is based on and can go up to thousands of dollars with Gig Extras. Each service offered is called a "Gig".
         Fiverr facilitates the buying and selling of "Gigs" or micro-jobs online. Gigs range from "get a well-designed business card", "a career consultant will create an eye-catching resume design", "help with HTML, JavaScript, CSS, and JQuery", to "I will be your personal assistant or virtual assistant" and "I will have Harold the Puppet make a birthday video.

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