Is there really a chance for newbies?

[musekull]

Hey! I have been using this platform for half a year now and I realized that it’s impossible to get a single order here if you don’t have friends who are ready to pay for your “promotion”… If you look at the most popular gigs in their category, you will notice that they came to the platform 3-4+ years ago. That is, the newcomers have practically no chances. And in fact … even if I made an order I would not order from a person with a reputation of 0, it is better to order from a professional who has confirmed his skills. And by the way, I followed all the tips I found on the forum, it doesn’t help … as far as I understand, I can’t get orders for the categories that are already there. It is necessary to invent something completely new, original… So here is my question: is it possible to get the first order if I have no friends who can help me?

[knight_design]

I’ve been active on fiverr for the last 2 months and I was able to get about 25 orders. I got my first orders from buyer requests. Old customers usually come back and order again. So I think it is possible to get orders without any friends

[visualstudios]

I started a bit over 2 years ago, and I got to Top Rated in about a year. No people I know personally ever bought a single gig from me, all organic leads on Fiverr.

It’s possible. You have to provide a good service, in demand, and stand out from the competition. That’s all there is to it.

Now, if you plan on offering, for example, background removal services, or data entry/personal assistant, it will be very difficult, since it’s near impossible to stand out. But even in those fields, you just have to go at it with personality. Be different.

[musekull]

I’ve been active on fiverr for the last 2 months and I was able to get about 25 orders. I got my first orders from buyer requests. Old customers usually come back and order again. So I think it is possible to get orders without any friends

Wow/ If not difficult, can you please tell in more detail? What is your gig about? Thanks for the response btw)

[musekull]

I started a bit over 2 years ago, and I got to Top Rated in about a year. No people I know personally ever bought a single gig from me, all organic leads on Fiverr.

It’s possible. You have to provide a good service, in demand, and stand out from the competition. That’s all there is to it.

Now, if you plan on offering, for example, background removal services, or data entry/personal assistant, it will be very difficult, since it’s near impossible to stand out. But even in those fields, you just have to go at it with personality. Be different.

I’m trying so hard but nothing happens. 0 orders for the last 6 months, although i spend a lot of time on Fiverr everyday checking buyers requests and other stuff. And i think it’s a bit different in translation field (i provide English-Russian/Ukrainian and vice versa translation), as there are thousands of such gigs… and only a few are on the top.

[visualstudios]

I’m trying so hard but nothing happens. 0 orders for the last 6 months, although i spend a lot of time on Fiverr everyday checking buyers requests and other stuff. And i think it’s a bit different in translation field (i provide English-Russian/Ukrainian and vice versa translation), as there are thousands of such gigs… and only a few are on the top.

Translation is a bad field to be in. It’s pretty much fixed price (from the lowest paid translator to the highest paid translation, the difference won’t be 1000x the price, unlike other areas such as design), and it doesn’t really matter who you go with as long as they are competent. You can’t stand out easily in a field like that.

If you are a voice actor, you just need someone to fall in love with your voice, and then reviews don’t matter. If you are a musician, you just need someone to really enjoy your music, and then reviews don’t matter.

If you are a translator… it doesn’t work like that. It’s just the nature of certain fields.

[bumblepixco]

Wow/ If not difficult, can you please tell in more detail? What is your gig about? Thanks for the response btw)

You need to reply to buyers request daily. and to get those try to be more online.

Also, I see your gig tags are very big.

Big tags are often not effective. Try some single words.

Here is the tag for a top seller serving the same service as yours. Just don’t copy it and try to make yours.

Also try not to change tags to often, that may cause some negative effects too. But since you already don’t have any orders, Nothing to loose 😜

[radennorfiqri]

Unfortunately, as @visualstudios stated, translation service is a challenge for new sellers to stand out. In what way your translation is something different from others? It’s hard to find niche in this area.

The only solution I could think of is to get buyers from someone you know or in your social media circles. Sharing your gigs in social media is one of the approach, well at least it may able to increase your gig’s impression to stand out a bit. Don’t really take my words on that.

Once you got your first order/review, it should be smooth sailing from there.

[visualstudios]

Unfortunately, as @visualstudios stated, translation service is a challenge for new sellers to stand out. In what way your translation is something different from others? It’s hard to find niche in this area.

The only solution I could think of is to get buyers from someone you know or in your social media circles. Sharing your gigs in social media is one of the approach, well at least it may able to increase your gig’s impression to stand out a bit. Don’t really take my words on that.

Once you got your first order/review, it should be smooth sailing from there.

Or you could try to stand out with something out of the box to get attention. Make a video for the gig reading obscure russian poetry and then an english translation of it, while dressed in full clown attire. Idk, experiment with crazy. You never know.

[bumblepixco]

Or you could try to stand out with something out of the box to get attention. Make a video for the gig reading obscure russian poetry and then an english translation of it, while dressed in full clown attire. Idk, experiment with crazy. You never know.

Ya, that’s something cool, make something cool so that buyers can’t resist your gig offer.

[visualstudios]

Ya, that’s something cool, make something cool so that buyers can’t resist your gig offer.

It’s not even a matter of resisting the offer itself. The offer in translation services should be pretty standard and consistent across all (serious and skilled) sellers.

What you want is to grab their attention so they click on you - since the first they click will probably get the order, provided they all show similar samples, which they should in translation.

[musekull]

Unfortunately, as @visualstudios stated, translation service is a challenge for new sellers to stand out. In what way your translation is something different from others? It’s hard to find niche in this area.

The only solution I could think of is to get buyers from someone you know or in your social media circles. Sharing your gigs in social media is one of the approach, well at least it may able to increase your gig’s impression to stand out a bit. Don’t really take my words on that.

Once you got your first order/review, it should be smooth sailing from there.

Yeah and that’s what my post about… in my field it is hardly possible to get an order since translation is a translation… there is nothing special or original about it. You are transforming some linguistic units into others trying to find the best equivalent in the target language. But I can’t do anything else… that’s why think in my field you need some friends. But the problem is that I do not have friends to help me.

[visualstudios]

Yeah and that’s what my post about… in my field it is hardly possible to get an order since translation is a translation… there is nothing special or original about it. You are transforming some linguistic units into others trying to find the best equivalent in the target language. But I can’t do anything else… that’s why think in my field you need some friends. But the problem is that I do not have friends to help me.

Just try what I said. If you can’t make it better, at least make it weird. Weird always works better than boring.

[musekull]

Just try what I said. If you can’t make it better, at least make it weird. Weird always works better than boring.

Ok, thanks y’all for helping. I’ll try my best.)

[tammyfoster2001]

Hello,
I am fairly new on here and haven’t been able to get a even one order. I have read many posts and tried everything that I can think of to get at least an order. I have been reading a lot about buyers request but I never even see anything under buyers request. I guess my question is why can’t I see them? Any help would be appreciated, thank you.

[alyonagrapie]

I would also suggest trying to break the one gig you currently have into several more specific gigs. One for plain and simple translation, one for transcription, one for creating subtitles, one for proofreading , etc, since you offer all of those services anyways and they are pretty different.

Your profile also says you have years of freelancing experience, is there a chance some of your regulars from the past would agree to do you a favor and make an order through fiverr when they need something done?

I am also new-ish here and trying to make it in a competitive field. Started selling 5-6 weeks ago. I can’t say orders are pouring in, but I completed about 20 so far, 2 of them were from buyers requests and the rest from custom offers and direct orders, mostly from the same returning customers.

That’s more than I expected and I assume many struggle with different experience, but it is not impossible to get orders when you have no or very little reviews. I think getting your first couple orders is pure luck (paired with quality bids on BRs, of course), but from then on you can win people over with your skills.

[heyfellow1]

I don’t really think so. I got 30 orders in my first month. I was a bit lucky, not really a competitive market. Although now there’s competition. I can never emphasise this enough. If your in a very competitive market, consider picking your niche. For example, instead of saying, I will edit any video, say I will edit your fortnite video (Just an example). This works as although people will search less for that niche, there will be less competition thus granting you a chance.

[musekull]

I would also suggest trying to break the one gig you currently have into several more specific gigs. One for plain and simple translation, one for transcription, one for creating subtitles, one for proofreading , etc, since you offer all of those services anyways and they are pretty different.

Your profile also says you have years of freelancing experience, is there a chance some of your regulars from the past would agree to do you a favor and make an order through fiverr when they need something done?

I am also new-ish here and trying to make it in a competitive field. Started selling 5-6 weeks ago. I can’t say orders are pouring in, but I completed about 20 so far, 2 of them were from buyers requests and the rest from custom offers and direct orders, mostly from the same returning customers.

That’s more than I expected and I assume many struggle with different experience, but it is not impossible to get orders when you have no or very little reviews. I think getting your first couple orders is pure luck (paired with quality bids on BRs, of course), but from then on you can win people over with your skills.

Yeah, i had been working on Upwork for some time as well. Unfortunately i lost my acc and i can’t contact any of my clients. So i decided to try Fiverr.

[shibiyas]

I am a 3 month old seller. Now conquered Level 1 within 70 days. Smart working seller has always chances.

[Guest ellkasimi]

Stand out from the crowd, BE DIFFERENT!