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Introduction

I ran across an interesting site note too long ago called Fiverr. Now this isn’t anything exactly new, as the site and many sites like it have been around for awhile, I just hadn’t spent any time on them until now.

The premise of Fiverr is to allow anyone to offer a ‘gig’ and complete a specific task in exchange for $5. The variety of tasks is rather overwhelming, some serious and some silly. So that got me thinking. What would happen if we tried to build an entire website from scratch and promote it only using Fiverr? Yes, again I realize that there may be sites better suited to this particular task but I ran across Fiverr first, so that is who we will use for our experiment.

Our goal is to create a website in a reasonable niche with a reasonable domain name and spend $100 on Fiverr to make it all happen. I will obtain the domain name and hosting on my own but will otherwise use Fiverr exclusively and you can follow along and see how we do!

As we build our new site, I will provide links to the individuals offering the gigs we use but not the specific gigs themselves. The reason is many of the gigs are only around for a limited time or available for a limited number of people and I don’t want to end up with numerous deadlinks. By linking to the people you’ll be able to see all of their open gigs and contact them if you so desire.

So let’s get started!

Introduction (your reading that now)
Domain Name and Hosting
CMS Selection
Content
SEO and Site Design
Promotion
Monetization
Reporting

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