Well, my friend… Please make a coffee, sit down and relax while you read this, as I think you will agree it’s a great story…
As you know one of my passions is promoting people’s, blogs and business, especially sites like fiverr. Every time when a new star is born I enjoy the moment like a child. Not long ago a new site arrived in the beautiful island of Ireland:
Quidsin.ie.
It is a 100% Irish fiverr clone. The owner of the site, Colin, contacted me for advice. Don’t ask me why, sometimes I have a good feeling in regard to a site and it’s owner. This time I really had that feeling – and something more, now I have good friend in Ireland and I begin to know a little about this little country
That’s why I feel double joy as I did not know anout any other Irish sites like this. I met Colin on facebook, we talked a lot, and I have a good feeling about this but have no idea what will come next in this amazing story.
Let me share with you a little from our communication so you will have an idea of what it’s like for an owner starting off, and maybe you’ll learn from Colin’s questions
Hi Cristian,
So I have had some work done on my site today - I’ve added a facebook like button and like box – few more on the way but I am almost ready to do the first soft launch to friends & facebook etc – and then start properly promoting it. I have some questions I would appreciate your thoughts on:
I have 20 gigs on the site. I feel it is not enough. First impressions are everything and I want someone to have lots to browse and explore but I feel there should be more to leave a good impression and not leave them feeling like the site has only started. What do you think? I am going to get some friends to add more gigs, but I need many more asap – What would you suggest? How can we reach people who can put gigs on straight away? Preferably people who already understand fiverr sites. Is it possible through fiverrway twitter & facebook etc at all?
Some other questions:
- Apart from using facebook and twitter, what are the other main ways I should be trying to promote my site at the start? I’m going to email some Irish bloggers and see if they might write an article on me
- How important is it for me to get backlinks etc? People tell me I should be looking into “Hubs and lenses” - hubpages.com andsquidoo.com – what do you think?
- What submission services etc should I use? Can you help me with this? Obviously none of the automatic ones – I have no interest in the spam type stuff – I want my site to grow organically. I need to get into Irish Directories I think.
- Am I really going to get much trafic via search engines? What should I aim for? What about keyword analysis?
- How does the “Affiilates” system work?
- I need to start writing a lot of more on the blog – can you give me some examples of the type of articles I should be writing?
Hope you’ve had a great weekend!
Thanks
Colin.
And our joint venture starts until one amazing day, but I was very embarrassed because of an unexpected thing. You see, when I promote a site and it’s, I focus on new users and good quality sellers. Sometimes it is very hard to find good people. One my friends from Romania Nykfony – he learned from me how to promote people, blogs and business using my style. He was and is a very good student. I’m very grateful because good people are hard to find!
NikFiverr
So I was amazed when Nik call me and said please help me because he had an open order and he was also in the process of moving and travelling, and he had no idea what to do.
I said no problem, put your life in order, and let me handle it for you. There was a moment with too many orders and if you believe me or not I found in my email the SAME buyer ordered from me to do the same thing, to promote the same site. However my own promotion was LATE, because I don’t see the order in my email, totally my mistake. As you can imagine, it was a double crisis. I said to myself, come on, I will do something, was not about money, anyway I use to refund any buyer who was not happy, but this was about Nik, and his feedback.
So my own integrity was down and more… I just sent an email to the buyer to apologise. In 99% from cases, people are angry – it may only be $5, but they have the right to be as every $1 counts. But sometimes life is full of surprises… I was almost expecting the buyer to be upset and angry, but when finally I received a reply, it was almost too good to be true!
Here is the message
Hi Christian
Colin Fitzpatrick (Colly Fitz) is my ex-student so I know I can trust you to do a good job. Thank you for doing this for me.
In the future I would also like you to promote specific products on my website which I sell through clickbank and you could as an affiliate receive 75% commission from clickbank for the sale of each product. https://www.clickbank.com/xxxxxxx
Kind regards
Xavier
And his feed back after all:
That’s why I said ONCE QuidsIn.ie – too good to be true. TWICE. Then I was curious about Xavier and Colin and the Irish community. And if you are an owner of a fiverr clone, this you will understand: I like good reviews. Every time when I start promoting I try to get a picture of the owner in my mind, basically I want to know and understand his vision, life, style and more…
Why I’m so curious??? Because I want to BRAND a style and try to increase my knowledge about people and their vision, especially in this amazing niche. And every time I learn something new and for this I’m very grateful as it is not possible to know in other way…
But let’s go back to my second reason to say ”too good to be true” – but yes, indeed, GOOD and TRUE!!!
I then found an extraordinary review done by Xavier for Colin. Exactly this kind of review you need. I don’t know what do you think but I’m upset reading and watching bad and cold testimonials. Like xerox copy, without feeling, without value to the people….if you want without friendship between two men.
I will insert here a little part of Xavier’s review :
Xavier
Colly’s Dream
Colly’s vision is representative of the great Irishmen and women who inhabit the four corners of the globe and who have contributed with their sweat and blood to every society they have made themselves a part of. The only difference this time is Colly is an Irishman who is not jumping ship. He is staying home to help his fellow countrymen rise again from the ashes of this economic disaster.
The service provided by Colly’s site is fully integrated into Facebook & Twitter, and as payment goes through PayPal it is completely secure.
The beauty of this scheme is the ease with which anyone can set up their own business at no cost to advertise their own particular expertise and benefit from the repeat business that this will generate in a community which is already set to expand naturally and organically.
“Quids In” is an Irish expression for “To come into money” – or “to get some money via luck or chance” – Colin tells me. That was a very happy day for me, because all of this happened in the same day, and I hope this story will be a good opportunity for you to think for better improvement.
You can read it all at ”Quids In” For Colin Fitzpatrick on Xavier’s hubpages.
Thank you
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Christian – who has written 124 posts on FIVERR WAY.
Dad, author and internet marketer
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Colly,
Nice site mate! Looks very good. I like the name. Its different, unique and makes for an excellent branding.
I suggest you visit this site often and interact with other owners of fiverr clones so you can benefit from their ideas. I have done this and thanks to Christian, two of my sites will be in the top 10 Fiverr clones, next time he comes up with the top 25 list.
I started my own clone not because I wanted to get rich(although nothing wrong in that), but for people like myself who’s accounts have been shut down by Fiverr Israel for mysterious reasons. So I said why not have a Fiverr USA where the whole world will have the freedom to buy or sell gigs without being shut down by Fiverr. (Not for buying too many gigs! for crying out loud).
So, for what ever reason you started the gig site. I wish you luck my friend. My only advice to you, is not be arrogant like Fiverr and kick people off. Give them warning, let them know which part of the TOS was violated. Dont be arrogant like fiverr and say, we are blocking your account because you have violated the tos. Its very much like a police officer giving you a ticket and telling you that we are giving you this ticket because of your violation and hands you the dept of motor vehicle book.
When some one messes with a person’s rice bowl, they must, in this case Fiverr must stop acting like a money lender or tax collector in their culture, be more civil and tell them here is the violation and this what we are doing or what it will take to get your account back online.
If Fiverr does not give up their arrogance, as Lord Jesus said, meek shall inherit the Earth,
customers and gig posters will move away from Fiverr to join us and “come into money” so to speak.
Sean
Slow down Sean, Collin doesn’t know all story…however, yes you are one of my favorites, one owner with 3 sites??? Must be very difficult to handle 3 sites… I don’t know if you will be or not on the top, from now on fiverrway top will be only for sites with at least 100K Alexa rank. Thank you. Christian
I know Christian, I will try to live up to your high standards. For now, I feel like a fool trying to promote 3 gig sites…. I should listen to you and focus on just one and sell the others.