Ep. 3196 - STORY: Google Employee Makes $100,000 Using Fiverr
Side Hustle School
Chris Guillebeau / Onward Project
4.8 • 3.3K Ratings
🗓️ 1 October 2025
⏱️ 9 minutes
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Summary
In just one year, this Google product manager earned an extra $100,000 by providing marketing services on Fiverr.com. Learn his tips to hack the platform for yourself!
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| 0:00.0 | You know that customer reviews can have an enormous impact on your business. And you probably know this as a customer as well. When you go shopping for something, don't you look at the reviews? You might even filter them by star rating. You might see what people like, what they don't like. So if you want to have good reviews, if you want to have great reviews, it really helps to automate your process. And that's something our longtime partner, ShipStation, can help with. |
| 0:21.5 | They can grow with you. |
| 0:22.6 | They can help you deliver five-star customer experience with industry-leading scalable |
| 0:26.7 | features. |
| 0:27.7 | Wow your customers and get rave reviews with cheaper, faster, and better shipping. |
| 0:31.8 | Upgrade to ShipStation today to get a 60-day free trial at Shipstation.com. |
| 0:35.8 | Just use Code Hustle. |
| 0:36.8 | There's no credit card or contract required. |
| 0:39.4 | You can cancel any time. Shipstation.com code hustle. |
| 0:46.0 | Lemonada. |
| 0:50.7 | Google employee makes $100,000 using Fiverr. |
| 0:59.1 | This is a pretty fun story. |
| 1:00.9 | We don't usually talk about gig economy stories. |
| 1:03.7 | I don't usually recommend you going on Fiber and doing this for your full-time business. |
| 1:08.6 | It's a great way to experiment. |
| 1:10.2 | If you've never side hustled before, if you've never offered any kind of service and you want to get used to the idea of like working for clients and pricing your offer, writing copy and such, it's great for that. It's also great for searching for services, for finding service providers. But I don't usually recommend that Fiverr is your best bet just because you're not going to |
| 1:28.3 | make a lot of money. It's a very low cost market for the most part. And then, of course, along come the |
| 1:33.4 | exceptions. This Google product manager earned an extra $100,000 by providing marketing services on |
| 1:39.2 | Fiverr.com. We're going to subtitle this. Learn his tips to hack the platform for yourself. I'm always inspired |
| 1:45.6 | by somebody who comes along and just says, okay, this is how normally the advice works, but I'm |
| 1:50.1 | going to show you a different way of doing it. As a nonconformist, I respect that. And so when I hear |
| 1:55.6 | that a guy has profited so much using what is normally a starter platform or a basic kind of platform. Naturally, I'm |
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