Successful Fiverr business: How real people make thousands a month – Grow from Acorns + CNBC

Jessica Herring has brought in more than $90,000 editing videosIn 2019, Jessica Herring, 36 and based in Florida, started her Fiverr account to serve her Twitch community of gamers. An avid video gamer herself, she discovered her friends needed graphics like the ones she’d made for streaming on the site, so she built a Fiverr profile and started to offer her services.Herring had also dabbled in video editing, so when Twitch began offering users the ability to put trailers on their channels, she jumped on the opportunity to edit them, creating a video editing service on her profile as well.At the time, Herring was just figuring out how to make a living. Having long been a stay-at-home mom, she wasn’t initially sure how to support herself and her son. “I found myself in a predicament where, here I am, in my 30s, and I don’t have a college diploma, I have little work experience,” she previously told Grow.She worked as a teacher’s aide, but as demand for her services on the site grew, Herring realized she could lean into Fiverr full-time. By September 2020, when she was let go from her aide position, “I literally made about six times that…
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