What's up? What's up, Nick Loper here. Welcome to this side hustle show because people out there will pay for your skills.

You just got to find them. One person who's done an excellent job of finding those people over the last nine months or so is Georgia Austin from wizardofcontent.com.

She took her skill of writing and despite a crowded world of other writers out there did over half a million dollars worth of work through the Fiverr platform last year,

including $90,000 the month before rerecorded. Stick around in this one to hear Georgia's best practices for getting started on Fiverr, how she manages this huge order volume and how she's transitioning to a standalone agency at wizardofcontent.

Notes and links to all the resources mentioned along with the full text summary of our call are at side hustle nation.com slash Georgia.

While you're there, I put together a big list of 101 service business ideas that you could potentially offer to get those creative juices flowing. Again, you can download that for free at side hustle nation.com slash Georgia. Ready? Let's do it.

I wasn't necessarily thinking anything would come of this Fiverr account, but I made it and I uploaded my first. I think it was just one gig at the time. It was a website content gig.

And to my surprise, I got my first order within two days. So that was an amazing thing to happen. I wasn't expecting it. You know, I kind of expected it to take, you know, at least a week to get my first order or I wasn't even expecting to get one at all.

And then, you know, I just kept getting orders and kept getting orders. I did that for about one or two months.

And then I got offered a full time position as a marketing manager in New York, funnily enough, the same day as I got accepted to Fiverr Pro.

And obviously me being me at the time, I was thinking, oh, you know, it's going to be more secure and, you know, maybe I'll have better career opportunities if I take this full time position. So that's what I did. And then I did that for another, you know, eight, nine months.

And then the company sadly, you know, broke down a bit because of the pandemic or had a bit of a rough ride at the time. I think they're okay now, which is good. But then I decided to turn my Fiverr Pro back on again. And it literally just blew off. I was not expecting it at all when March came around. My revenue was tripping and tripping every month.

And with that was sort of content was born. So quite the journey sounds like it. I want to pause and go back to this initial Fiverr gig, a website content gig.

There are hundreds, probably thousands of other freelance writers on this platform. How did you set up this gig to get eyeballs to get exposure to get

anybody paying attention to you to get an order within just a couple days?

So one thing I did do, which I actually took this tip from Alex Pizzuno. I'm sure anyone who knows Fiverr knows Alex. I know you had no Alex as far also. She gave a piece of advice for

you to get your friends and family to purchase your gig. So obviously other prospective buyers are really going to put trust in people who have

a few five star reviews. So something that I knew would be really important to gain that immediate trust. So what I did is I did some example work or, you know,

practice pieces for my friends and family. And I on my two gigs that I had at the time. I had five. I made sure I got five reviews on each gig. So that really was, I think, the stepping stone for me to be able to get

more orders and from real buyers. So if anyone's going to create a Fiverr account, I highly recommend that you do this strategy. And it doesn't have to be a fake order. And I know that

Fiverr, the internal team there, they're actually getting quite hot on this. They know that people are doing this. So

they obviously want every transaction to be as legitimate as possible, you know, only be legitimate transactions. So I would definitely recommend that you do

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