Life as an Entrepreneur or YouTuber is as challenging as it is interesting. It is even more interesting than the line between both camps has become blurred, such that the term ‘YouTube-preneurs ’ has been coined and is becoming more frequently used.
A truckload of mental and physical effort is required of these classes of individuals, as their respective playing fields are saturated, and achieving distinction is necessary for amassing a sizeable customer base or fan base. Thankfully, the process has been made easier by the services of freelancers, who can be found with ease on online platforms like Fiverr.
It is easy to conclude that many entrepreneurs, YouTubers, and YouTube-preneurs have at least heard of Fiverr before. A sizeable number actively scout for freelancers on this platform to handle tasks ranging from content creation to graphic designing. While a good approach is key, the best approaches will now be examined.
Identification of Best Delegable Tasks
In case you missed it, you do not have to eyeball everything. As an entrepreneur or a YouTuber, there are many important things to fully focus on and no time to waste at all.
For full context, an entrepreneur is typically burdened with organizing and coordinating human labor and capital, while a YouTuber or a YouTube-preneur would be fully invested in planning, executing, editing, and publicizing visual content. Sometimes, some of these tasks take much longer to complete than others, which invariably slows down the whole work process. This should not be the case.
Fiverr is a platform on which a diverse set of freelancers with an equally diverse skillset operate. It is thus easy for an entrepreneur or a YouTuber to get lost in the mix and possibly assign less burdensome tasks in place of the ones which may be handled faster with an external perspective.
To make the most of Fiverr, entrepreneurs and YouTubers must sit back and identify the tasks that are best delegable to freelancers. These tasks may be selected based on being repetitive, time-consuming, or negligible.
Careful Scrutinization Of Ideal Freelancers
While it is important to put your money where your mouth is to get the best results, reconnaissance in this context is unquestionably imperative. Fiverr, like every other online platform, must be carefully traversed, and entrepreneurs must apply tact while searching for the right freelancers to assign tasks to.
Every freelancer or service provider on Fiverr, otherwise known as a seller, has a profile. These profiles contain information on ratings, reviews, and feedback scores, which are accessible to buyers. Bearing in mind the need to achieve distinction via quality output, entrepreneurs and YouTubers must take their time to look through as many profiles as possible and evaluate them.
It is also important to ensure that the tasks typically worked on by the freelancers in view largely or wholly adhere to those envisioned by the entrepreneurs and YouTubers. Ideally, multiple options must be taken into consideration and narrowed down until trusted options are arrived at.
Effective Communication with Freelancers
Having arrived at a trusted set of options to fully commence work with, effective communication must follow. Entrepreneurs and YouTubers must ensure that they open their Fiverr accounts with an appropriate, professional username in order to convey their brand better and be taken more seriously by freelancers.
While buyers can directly click the Order button without taking a step further, entrepreneurs and YouTubers should endeavor to click on Contact Me and send a private message to prospective freelancers in order to paint a clearer picture of a gig and determine if indeed a seller is cut out for it. Beyond this quest for clarity, this practice can help parties on both ends to sow the seeds for a long-term professional relationship.
Entrepreneurs and YouTubers should endeavor to specify their wants and the time frame within which the deliverable would be expected. A professional, polite tone must be maintained while communicating with freelancers, and questions in the form of clarifications sought must be responded to as promptly as possible.
Entrepreneurs and YouTubers must also refrain from making unrealistic demands of the freelancers.
Proper Budgeting
Beyond Fiverr, many buyers have the infamy of presenting unrealistically low budgets to freelancers and other service providers, in expectation of high-quality output. This was made worse by the previous base price of Fiverr’s gigs, which was five dollars.
By implication, freelancers on the platform are generally more conscious of receiving payment proportional to the effort and time devoted to gigs. This is something that entrepreneurs and YouTubers must bear in mind when identifying delegable tasks and assessing budgets.
The full value of gigs should thus be ascertained.When working with a pool of trusted freelancers, proper budgeting is also an effective way of determining the standard amount charged for similar tasks on the platform.
Effective Use of Fiverr’s Features
Fiverr’s Terms of Service must be read and fully understood before the commencement of any activity by a user on the platform. Ignorance of Fiverr’s rules can be detrimental for entrepreneurs and YouTubers.
Entrepreneurs and YouTubers can also engage with other Fiverr users on the Fiverr Forum. This is an effective way to learn more about the platform if one has not been around for long.
CONCLUSION
Clearly, the approaches examined above cannot be adopted in isolation. They are thus better viewed as a systemic means to an end, which is having an effective working relationship with freelancers who deliver high-quality deliverables. For swift communication on the go, both the application and the website must be used.
