Cole Fox and Blake McCammon started ProtoHack to provide code-free hackathons for non-technical entrepreneurs. What’s a code-free hackathon? It’s an event that provides the non-technical community with the tools, knowledge and connections they need to bring their business ideas to life and visually communicate them through prototyping.
A small company with big ideas and a limited budget, ProtoHack turned to Fiverr for creative support.
Cole and I started ProtoHack in March of 2014, and we are still the company’s only employees. We are currently in 15 cities in 5 countries and will soon be in 18 cities and 7 countries. With that kind of growth and only two employees, outsourcing became an imperative.
We were creating a podcast series featuring non-technical company founders, but neither of us had experience editing podcasts. I’d known about Fiverr for a while. Fiverr had supported our hackathons in New York and San Francisco, offering breakout sessions on Fiverr services and how entrepreneurs can help jumpstart their businesses for a fraction of the cost. So I looked to see where we could benefit from using Fiverr Gigs® for our company. Our experience has been terrific.
We’ve used mainly voiceover and podcast editing Gigs. I liked that they were very hands off for me and the quality was exceptional. I didn’t need to worry about going back and forth with someone about the quality of their edits or the voiceover. They worked with me on different aspects of getting the right intro music, and I’m very pleased with the results.
They were also extremely responsive, so responsive in fact that it took me much longer to get back to them while they were very quick and detailed in everything they offered. I now have a long-term relationship with our podcast editor – and all of it is done over Fiverr. Perfect!
Getting all this work done professionally would easily have cost us about $100 an episode, about $5,600 a year. With Fiverr we’re able to do it for about 10 percent of that price, a huge savings. As a small business with a small budget, we’re doing everything we can to save money without sacrificing quality, so the impact of Fiverr has been huge for us.
If you’re thinking about using Fiverr for your business, check the seller ratings and reviews. These are really great guides for how good each Fiver seller is. Also look at samples of past projects if available. These will give you a sense of what each seller is capable of delivering.
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