$140,000 Making Up Slogans on Fiverr

Tom O'MalleyFreelance Web Designer $140,000 revenue from Fiverr gigs
Published May 15, 2023 by Niall Doherty

Check this gig on Fiverr: I will create a perfect slogan or tagline

The seller has over 8500 reviews and apparently “15,000 happy clients.”

The basic gig price is $100.

$100 x 15k = $1.5 million earned, right?

Not quite.

I did a little digging and found a 2015 blog post written by the seller, Tom O’Malley…

How I Mastered Fiverr

Tom wrote that post after completing his 10,000th order on Fiverr, and he revealed his income halfway through…

As of today, I’ve raked in a total of $65,427 from my Fiverr efforts. It may sound like a lot but it’s a slow climb and spread out over half a decade, isn’t really a game changer. I consider it pizza money plus some. I’m tracking to earn $2,900 in October which is on-par with the past few months. Perhaps it’s a bit more than pizza money after all…

Definitely more than pizza money but far from $1.5 million.

Tom eventually increased his gig prices. He ended up earning “nearly $140,000” from Fiverr over the years – peaking at about $3000/month – and stopped selling on there in 2022.

Nowadays he’s focused on freelance web design

He writes…

I’m a lifelong side-hustler incapable of finding happiness in a day job. I may not be filthy rich, but I earn about $12,000 per month in extra income on my own terms 

[…] My freelance business has grown substantially. Being let go from my job due to the pandemic slowdown certainly expedited my plan to make web design my full-time gig. I now run Vertical Fold; a one-man creative agency in a cozy little office space down the street from our house.

Tom shares some good tips for…

Succeeding on FiverrFinding your first freelance clients



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