Well, as probably also for some of you guys here, my income has been very low lately and I reached the point where I need to do something immediate to keep the lights on.
So I created a emergency WordPress fix service on Fiverr, because right now I need a way to turn my experience into quick work.
https://www.fiverr.com/s/1q8Gkz6
Any ideas how to improve it, or other ideas of some income boost? 
I think freelancing is really saturated nowadays with lots of developers, and we probably need to spend some money on advertisement to get noticed by clients. Did you ever try promoting your gigs using Fiverr Ads?
Nope, as I did not use Fiverr until now, I check on this. From what I see, all major platforms are giving 0 returns if you simply list something and don’t pay them for promotional services
Yes It feels like all these platforms have become “pay to get noticed.” Maybe the better approach is to build our own recurring client base instead of depending on these platforms.
For quick, keep-the-lights-on work:
I think long-term it’s still better to sell products:
I wrote you a msg on Slack
I’m in the same situation. For now, I’ve only managed to get two websites for my sister, so I guess that doesn’t really count, but at least it helps.
I use Freelancer.com, there are a lot of WordPress jobs posted there every day.
As for choosing a niche, I’m not really sure what to recommend. Personally, I’m trying to create a Product Designer for WordPress, never dared doing this before AI but now is much easier, and then expand into WooCommerce. If that works out, I’ll adapt more of my WordPress plugins for specific WooCommerce cases.
That said, I do different work than you. I’m more visually focused than data-driven.
On another part of the property, I planted an orchard with about 150 fruit trees, around 160 linear meters of raspberries and blackberries, plus 100 meters of cultivated blueberries. Right now, I’m working on building a carp fishing pond. I have a piece of land in the countryside that used to be nothing but bushes, but it’s been transformed, it also helps me with my health issues and go trough this shity times. It’ll take some time before I can harvest the fruits of all this work. 
Hang in there! Things will get better!
Thanks for the ideas, appreciated! I have to improve my Fiverr profile and also look into carp fishing :))
Jokes aside, rough times… and probably even harder times ahead.
Yes, I’ve been through this before.. it will get better stay focused, all we need is to survive this period, those who remains will shape the web!
Hi there, WPBay community!
Sorry to meddle in your space. I know music is an entirely different ecosystem but I guess we have things in common, like seeing our Envato earnings drop to about 1/8th of what they once were. Not really blaming anyone, technological tsunamis happened and the market shifted big time in the last years. I see the consequences daily both with colleagues and with dev friends, programmers and web designers.
About Upwork and Fiverr: I worked through Upwork about 10 years ago (everything audio-related) and I was lucky enough to connect with a few clients that I still work with till today. As for Fiverr, I opened an account when I saw the black clouds in the horizon and got 0 GIGS there. The saturation is insane and the prices are nuts, like people willing to work for 25 bucks for almost a week.
Same with Upwork, I said, “hey, let’s shape up this profile again”, and what I found is a FIERCE fees raise, complex or timeconsuming gigs for 15 bucks and a system where you have to pay for the connects (tokens for postulations).
It shattered my motivation. I went back to teaching Sound Design at the university, kept a few fair paying customers and still trying to get used to a tighter livelihood.
I still believe that you guys, code and web experts, have a brighter horizon. For us things are darker, I think. AI is kicking much harder and subscritions already educated the customers to pay dimes or even nothing for music and sound assets.
Sorry for all the doom and gloom, but today is a special day, since tomorrow half of what was an already decimated income, vanishes.
Best of luck with your future endeavors wish everyone the best!
You are welcome here!
Really sorry to hear how hard it hit the audio side… Wishing you the best also and feel free to stay around here with us!
Also, what you wrote makes perfect sense to me. Envato changed, Elements subscriptions changed customer expectations and now AI is pushing even harder…
I don’t think this is doom and gloom, it’s just reality. Many of us here are trying to figure out the next step too…
We live in weird times.