Where to Find Vendors
The easiest sites to find vendors on to use for arbitrage are the fixed price sites. The best of these include (but are not limited to):
Fiverr.com is a site where freelancers offer their services for $5. Here’s a look at the Fiverr website:
To use Fiverr, follow these steps:
- Create an account. You will need an email, a username and a password.
- Find the category of service you want to buy. For social media services, hover over “Digital Marketing” on the right and select “Social Media Marketing”.
- Click on “Filter gigs by Rating”. Look for the service you want to provide your clients, and providers who have “Top-rated Seller” next to their name.
- If you don’t see a top-rated seller who is offering what you need, click on individual contractors’ listings to see their satisfaction rating and how long they have been on Fiverr, as well as their queue and delivery times.
- When you click “Order now”, you will be taken to PayPal to complete the transaction. You can activate “DamnQuickPay” so you can skip this step in the future - ever time you click “order now” Paypal will automatically send $5 to Fiverr.
GigBucks.com is a very similar site with most offerings at $5 or $10 (although the pricing does go all the way up to $50.) Here’s a look at the GigBucks website:
To use GigBucks, follow these steps:
- Create an account. You will need an email, a username and a password.
- Find the category of service you want to buy. For social media services, select “Social Marketing” on the left.
- Click on “Filter by Rating”. Look for the service you want to provide your clients, and providers who have “Level 3, verified account” next to their name.
- If you don’t see a level 3 provider with a verified account offering what you need, click on individual contractors’ listings to see their satisfaction rating, feedback, delivery estimate and how long they have been on GigBucks.
- When you click “Order now”, you have the option of paying using PayPal or Payza.
Zeerk.com is another site offering services for $2 - $100. Here’s a look at the Zeerk website:
To use Zeerk, follow these steps:
- Create an account. You will need an email, and a username; they will email you a verification and a password (which you should change as soon as you log in for the first time.
- Find the category of service you want to buy. For social media services, select “Social Marketing” on the right.
- Click on “Filter by Rating”. Look for the service you want to provide your clients.
- Click on individual contractors’ listings to see their seller rating, feedback, queue, delivery estimate and how long they have been on Zeerk.
- When you click “Purchase now”, you have the option of paying using PayPal.
TaskArmy is another outsourcing site with prices from $5 and up. It’s search function is very easy to use as you can designate specific platforms. Here’s a look at the site:
To use TaskArmy, follow these steps:
- Create an account. You will need an email, a username and a password.
- Find the category of service you want to buy. You can browse categories on the right, or use the search function for “Facebook” or “Twitter”.
- Click on various marketers to see their feedback, deliverables, associated services, and contact details.
- You can contact marketers for additional information.
- When you click “Order now”, you have the option of paying using PayPal.
Some other sites you may find useful include:
Dollar3 lets you outsource jobs for amounts ranging from $3 - $90, but otherwise is almost identical to Fiverr and GigMe5. Follow the Fiverr steps to use the site.
JustAFive is yet another Fiverr clone site that has offerings priced at $5, $10, and $20. Follow the Fiverr steps above to create an account and buy services.
Tenrr is a GigBucks style site, with work provided at prices ranging from $1 to $10. Follow the steps above for GigBucks to sign up and start outsourcing!
Fourerr has been around for years now and has established a name as one of the more trusted Fiverr clones. As the name makes clear, Fourerr is the $4 alternative to Fiverr.
SEOClerks is a very niche version of a Fiverr marketplace geared specifically towards SEO-based services. Jobs on SEOClerks range between $5 and $40. Like the rest of our list, they charge a 20% commission rate.
All of these sites also allow you to post jobs and ask for responses, so if you need a customized package to match what you are offering you clients, just post the request and watch providers fall all over themselves to fulfill it.
Other sites where you can get things done cheaply include the freelance marketplaces and classifieds like Craigslist, UpWork, etc. However, it is usually a bad idea to post a job you are outsourcing on the same site you yourself received the job from, so keep that in mind!
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