If you really want to make money online with micro job sites you’ll need to master some basic principles. Here we’ll share the ones which we have found to be successful.

1. Decide what to sell. Before deciding what to sell think about what we call the effort/price ratio. Just as the name suggests, the unique price on Fourerr.com is set at $4, $.80 for Fourerr.com and PayPal and $3.2 for you. If you spend too much time creating and tweaking gigs, you’ll never be able to make real money online. Keeping price constant, you want to keep your effort or time spent on each gig at a minimum.

For example, a lot of people are struggling to make money on Fiverr.com because they are spending too much time writing a song, designing a logo or producing a movie for $4. Because you have limited time in a day, if you spend an hour working for $4 then the maximum amount of money you’ll make online with Fiverr is $4 an hour.

In order to really make money online you must sell things which can be prepared and delivered much quicker than an hour. 10 minutes is much more like it. Even if it take a few hours to write a report, you will be able to sell that report over and over again without any additional work.

2. How to write your title ad? The title is the most important part of your ad, however, it does not have to be long or excessively descriptive. It’s role is strictly to grab your attention. Keep your title limited to the main idea of your gig and that’s it! Do not write any more details in the title.

It’s not the title that makes people buy the ad but the contents of the ad, so try to be exact and to the point. The title should make people want to click and look at the content inside.

3. Use an appropriate picture for your ad. The picture is important and must match what you have to sell. For example, if you are selling a report about Twitter, put a picture that includes a blue bird Twitter. This will attract people to buy your gig because its visual guidance about what you have to sell i.e. something about Twitter. Do not overload color, try to use bright colors but not excessively and make your picture look professional.

4. How to make it easy for people to know you. Although you have a limited number of ads you can make, it is easy to edit them if you do not receive the appropriate number of views. However, you should appear only once in recently made gigs in order to keep people’s’ attention. If you are able to quickly deliver quality work, your gigs will become featured on the first page and everybody will know you and you’ll be able to make real money online.

5. How to keep your rating positive. The quality of your work and how quickly you deliver your work are the most important factors to quickly getting a nice rating and making money online at Fourerr.com. However, keep in mind that if you receive a bad feed back, don’t be disappointed, you are always able to increase your rating with new quality gigs.

6. How to make everything simple. If you are super busy with new gig orders and you can’t keep up with demand, try outsourcing your time to sites like Elance, for example, and hire an assistant for a few hours. It’s simple to hire somebody for a small amount of money, $10 for example could help you complete all of your orders. This will allow you to semi-automate your work and you will be able to make even more real money online.