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Five Dollar Gigs

Thursday, July 22nd, 2010

Have you recently noticed sites like Fiverr and Fiver Gigs ? These are a new bunch of sites where people can buy or sell services at just $5.  This is a good news for both buyers as well as sellers in this economy affected by global recession. You can start your home based business without much investment!

Buyers who are looking for outrsourcing some gigs or jobs to be done on the Internet, but can not shell out much money – especially for jobs which does require some skills, or for jobs which may be boring to do – this place is just great.  You can find people who are willing to do boring tasks like social bookmarking, directory submission, manual article submission, blog commenting .. all for just a fiver.  You can also get some skilled people working for you for just $5 – for example to set up wordpress blogs, or to create fanpages on Facebook and get some followers for you too.  The opportunities are numerous – all you need to do is search in the database of people who are willing to do the jobs for you for a fiver.  You can also get some funny and bizzare things done for a fiver – like giving prank calls to some one you know or to make your girlfriend or boyfriend jealou, or making a cartoon of yourself  ..

And these fiver gigs platforms pose great opportunities for sellers too.  If you are unemployed or underemployed, and if you have some unique skills, you can start selling your skills as fiver gigs on these sites.  All you need to do is be creative so that your gigs can get some attention.

There is a built-in feedback mechanism in these sites, so the buyers can leave a feedback after buying services. So it is very hard for scammers to succeed in such sites. If you can deliver good quality work at $5, you will have lots of buyers and if you can do your job efficiently, you would be able to make lot of money in this home based business – You have to remember it is the smal drops that make big oceans.