Using Fiverr for advertising a business

[lpnva]

Hello

I am looking at different ways to advertise using Fiverr... Is their anyone here that has has used these service and what was your results?

[davepilgrim]

As well as fiverr I also dabbled with a similar site called onedollarr. I figured if I stuck with sellers who had lots of positive reviews I'd see decent results, but it turns out people are just dumb and will give a good review even when the service delivered is shockingly bad! So I don't bother with those sites now.

[lpnva]

Thanks Dave  for your feedback and your experience using both of these services. If you don't mind could you share the type of services you received? 

[davepilgrim]

It was quite some time ago so it's a bit hazy, but mostly ordering traffic. I do remember one particular gig quite well... I'd set up a new Twitter account and someone was offering to get hundreds of REAL followers really fast, with the emphasis on REAL. I read all the testimonials and everyone seemed really pleased with the results, so I ordered something like 1,000 followers. Problem was, nearly every one of those 'followers' were clearly fake accounts with zero tweets.

 

The result - that Twitter account was rendered useless and I was furious. I know I had not lost any real money to speak of, but the fact that someone would clearly lie outright about them being genuine followers really angered me and I never ordered another gig after that.

 

I suppose different services like graphic design might be more reliable, but I don't know...

[Darren Olander]

I would be skeptical about purchasing advertising on Fiverr, but for other actual services I've had a good experience... I've had a couple videos made there which turned out great and it was much cheaper than I could have gotten them anywhere else.

[Michael Harris]

I have used fiver several times and I must agree with what others have said here. Now there is a bright spot to fiver when it comes to simple webpage building.

I have been very happy and impressed with the quality of work in fiver. I needed a fan page built rather quickly and they did an awesome job.

Things like this you might come out ok. As far as traffic, you might as well send me that money, lol. 

[lpnva]

Thanks everyone for all this information.... Greatly Appreciate  it

[beakerbunsen]

There are some really good seller's among the plenty of bad, but you have to really dig to find them

 

I had to test over 30 blog writing gigs there before I found that "one" who has been amazing for me ever since.

 

My advice is to just jump in and start ordering gigs to see for yourself, read through the comments, and stuff like that.

[incomeskills]

My experience has been about the same. Most of the traffic I got through fivver was extremely poor quality or bot traffic.

 

The only real traffic I received was via someone posting to their twitter following. I think I got 7 or 8 hits. Not a great value for $5!