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Kristen Pettersen is a singer-songwriter but to pay the bill she's had to tap into her other skill of writing press releases I love writing and I love words and it comes easy for me so she turned a fiver a micro services website where goods and services can be exchanged in five dollar increments I offer 150 words for five dollars and if they want more words for instance 300 they can pay to fibers that's no chump change in two years of selling on Fiverr petterson has made over seven thousand dollars that fun money might go towards you know something important but fiber isn't just a marketplace for professional skills from unusual happy birthday messages happy they do you two cute kids toys to the weird and wonderful there seems to be a seller and presumably a buyer for just about everything we saw a huge opportunity in this new services economy I think that people in today's economy are are starting to think outside the 925 box and are looking for ways to monetize their skills listing on Fiverr is free but the company takes twenty percent of the sellers profit fifteen percent were sellers already few fiber as their primary source of income in less than three years of operation fibers seen more than 1 million goods and services go on sale for more than 200 countries and according to CEO Micah Kaufman it's the global digital nature of the site that sets it apart from taskrabbit alanson other competition hey you ever wanted it Christopher Walken impression this is the site for you leaving them number I implore you in San Francisco I'm Kara Tsuboi cnet.com for CBS News you