Micro Jobs - Trends in Micro Payment Websites

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Recently, in the last few years there has been a significant increase in the purchase of professional micro jobs services online from websites offering these services. These new websites offer a wide range of consulting activities, such as SEO, graphics, back link services, video testimonials, personal assisting, eBooks and many other micro jobs.

While companies are used to paying high fees for these type of services in the past, this growing trend towards outsourcing micro jobs can put the company or person in need of such services directly in contact with the person talented to complete the task at hand. You are basically by passing their employers and going directly to the person with the talent, thus lowering prices by eliminating the big middle man, the employer. You still have to deal, with the little middle man, the gig websites themselves. But even with their 20% fee that most of them charge. the savings are huge when compared to the old way of purchasing such micro services.

Fiverr is the giant in the micro jobs industry and allows users to buy and sell gigs for five dollars. While they are the largest one shouldn't count the competition out. While these new sites are significantly smaller, they bring different things to the table like allowing users to buy or sell micro jobs for more then five dollars. But this can also be detrimental to the seller, gigs not priced according to market competition will just sit there gathering dust. Freelancers who sell on these sites have to make sure when posting a micro job at a higher price point that you check out the competition on a few micro job sites to ensure that the job you posted for $20.00 cant be found on on another for $5.00 bucks. If this happens you will not make any sales so checking out the competition is imperative.

Remember this rule of thumb, if you price higher then five dollars, make sure you are adding value that can not be found on other sites and make sure you point out the value in your micro job posting. Boast about it, don't be shy!

Food for thought, posting your jobs on sites like these is not enough and there is no guarantee of success when a new comer. You are competing with sellers who have many good ratings which means people trust them. To overcome this you would then need to promote your postings. This is a very important step that most people forget to implement. You can start advertising on forums, social networks and even on pay per click search engines. Many have had success with pay per click by driving targeted traffic to you micro jobs postings. Try focusing on long tail keywords which convert better.

There are some making over $500 a day. So post your jobs, have fun and make some money too. Just remember, one site is not enough, most successful freelancers sellers post across 5 to 10 websites. The rule of thumb is the more the merrier. And don't forget to make yourself stand out.

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