Fiverr & Upwork Can you make money?

[loukeyzee]

Hey BHW,
I realize the work you put in is the result you get (at least the majority of the time).
I'm going to be traveling to Europe for a couple months, would like to go often.
Anyways, my question is there potential still on these freelance websites? I do Wordpress Websites, I'm pretty good & my support game is strong. Is it possible to get consistent gigs on these websites?

If not, any alternatives? (mod edit: not outside of the freelancer sections)

Hope to get some intelligent insights...

Thank You

 

[SeshProfesh]

I have a friend that is currently living from upwork ( $800ish a month), but I think it all comes down to how good are you at your craft and how you market your skills.
It's completely possible in my opinion if you do it right.

 

[awesomewebsites]

I have a friend that is currently living from upwork ( $800ish a month)

It is very risky thing to do.

OP, you can make good money for sure but do not rely completely on these.

 

[johnmutske]

I'm currently doing about $250/month on Fiverr.
A few years ago, I did $1k/month on Upwork.

So yeah, it's possible, depending on what you've got to offer.

 

[Marlon Brando]

Thing is I made 4$ on Fiverr once about two years ago from a customer. No one ever needed my services again. UpWork? Disaster, no one hires me. Freelancer is obviously oversaturated now to make even 1$ out of it...

Trying to make some money on the side as my wage is currently a mere 900$ per month and I work full time. So I feel what you're saying man, it's a though world...

 

[MAG WEB DESIGNS]

Not a fan of UPWORK. any service that forces you to sign up to even look at anybody is a shill.

fiverr.com is an experiment for me at this time. Broken system I've found and not even showing the ad I made currently.

 

[FinestCPA]

I can tell you about upwork: you really can earn good money there. But you should be a good specialist. There you can find 50$/per hour and even more..(have seen 100$/per hour) So, depends on you!

 

[loukeyzee]

is there a way of working with someone who gives you sites to design? and they pay you piece work?

 

[Sxtann]

People buy anything from Fiver, it's just something that people fuck around on so even drawing a terrible cartoon will get you a few $ every so often

 

[hitndrun]

I did my first website back in the day on freelancer.com and I still work with that guy today. I have had him on every project for last 20 years. We have built some big systems together now. I wouldn't under estimate the power of good relationships that you can find on there. It's been very profitable for both of us.

 

[loukeyzee]

great to hear that. im on the journey...

 

[IG Professor]

Fiverr & Upwork are great places to start making money online - However you should come up with a clear plan to those networks to take your customers outside of the platform. because when you are working on those platforms, they are not your customers - they're the platform customers. so if the platform will shut down your account one day for any reason - you will still have your customers in hand.
Build a healthy business relationship with your customers so they will always prefer to come to you first. always provide more then what you got paid for.