What No Sales?
July 23rd, 2010 | 
Author: What No Sales?
Just recently I put on a birthday sale where I thought at least a few people would take me up on my offer, but low and behold not one single taker on over 1,200 visitors to the post that I put out last week.
And I made it real simple.
- 1. I had a contact form so everyone could ask away
- 2. had descriptions of all the products I was putting on sale
- 3. reduced the prices by almost 50%
- 4. and included the by now buttons
and low and behold still no takers.
Since I didn’t get any takers it got me to thinking if I was doing anything wrong. And to be truthfully honest with you I didn’t think there was anything wrong with that.
So I joined www.Fiverr.com and placed one gig and got one sale. Now granted, I only got $5.00 bucks for doing a custom twitter background, but a sale none the less.
Now don’t get me wrong I had a wonderful time creating the twitter background and I gained a new customer and a referral from that.
But it almost made me believe that you have to practically give away the farm in order to make any money. Now I know some designers and developers that are getting twice what I charge and they are in the same boat as I am, we’re just not making any money.
What gives?
What do I have too do to make any money from my services.
Can you help me solve my problem?
Hopelessly confused.
Tim
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Fiverr is very cool. I used it often to get tweets out to large amounts of people at a time. Just make sure you look at the feedback and rating of the seller. I have also had great success (sometimes better than Fiverr) with UpHype.com. This one’s is all about “Hype” and is more focussed on marketing efforts to promote your message, business or product? UpHype jobs are called “Hypes”. Hypes range from promoting your message to a user’s 100,000 Twitter followers to writing an article or press release for your blog. http://uphype.com. Plus it has a fun design like fiverr.
Thanks Gail for your comment.
And thank you for the quick link to UpHype.com I will definitely check it out.
it may be just the thing we need as struggling artists to get our message
out to the crowd that needs us most.
Thanks a bunch
Tim