Greetings! History Post-Grad Student and Researcher here!

[thestowmartian]

Hello Everyone,

I am the Stowmartian, a former history undergraduate and current postgraduate, with a specialism in research Sports History and Culture. I love conducting primary research on the British Newspaper Archive (BNA) digital newspaper archive - a task which has been repeated ad infinitum for the past four years. As the BNA is a pay-per-view service, I decided that I wanted to provide my services as a research assistant for anyone who is interested in any area of interest in the past, for a reasonable price!

If anybody is interested in obtaining my services as a research assistant with access to an archive of over 43 MILLON PAGES, click this link here!

Thank you all for taking the time to read my introductory post, feel free to provide any advice or tips that you may have for me, or my gig.

Yours faithfully,

TheStowmartian.

[vickiespencer]

 

 Hello,

Welcome to the Fiverr Forum. I have not looked at your gigs, but I want to caution you that many researchers have been asked by students to do their work for them. That is against Fiverr's TOS and will get you a warning at the least and it could cause you to lose your account all together. 

 

 

Here are some tips put together by Fiverr Forum’s Senior Sellers. 😎 🤓 🥸 🤠 🧐

1. Do not stay online, 24/7. It would be best if you had your sleep to be productive.
2. Do not post your gigs all over social media. It is SPAM, and besides, your friends and relatives are not your target buyers.
3. Do not offer unlimited revisions. Buyers can keep asking for revisions over and over, and you’ll have no choice but to do them.
4. Use Buyer Requests ONLY if you can do a great job fulfilling the buyer’s requirements.
5. When making offers on Buyer Requests do not use copied and pasted offers. Each Buyer Request is unique and needs a different answer.
6. Make sure your profile is perfect. Spell everything correctly and use proper English grammar.
7. Make sure your gig images are different from any other seller, and make sure they are eye-catching.
8. Never copy another seller’s gig mages or wording.
9. Do not do homework for students. This will cause you to lose your gig and maybe even your account.
10. Be patient
11. Offer fair pricing for your products
12. Offer quality products.
13. Always be kind to Buyers (even the ones that tick you off).
14. Seek to improve your product quality over time.
15. Pay attention to what your Seller competitors are doing and learn from them (asking this question is a step in that direction).
16. Be honest. 
17. Expect failures, disappointments, and cancellations but also expect successful events as well.

 

 

[thestowmartian]

2 minutes ago, vickiespencer said:

 

 

 Hello,

Welcome to the Fiverr Forum. I have not looked at your gigs, but I want to caution you that many researchers have been asked by students to do their work for them. That is against Fiverr's TOS and will get you a warning at the least and it could cause you to lose your account all together. 

 

 

Here are some tips put together by Fiverr Forum’s Senior Sellers. 😎 🤓 🥸 🤠 🧐

1. Do not stay online, 24/7. It would be best if you had your sleep to be productive.
2. Do not post your gigs all over social media. It is SPAM, and besides, your friends and relatives are not your target buyers.
3. Do not offer unlimited revisions. Buyers can keep asking for revisions over and over, and you’ll have no choice but to do them.
4. Use Buyer Requests ONLY if you can do a great job fulfilling the buyer’s requirements.
5. When making offers on Buyer Requests do not use copied and pasted offers. Each Buyer Request is unique and needs a different answer.
6. Make sure your profile is perfect. Spell everything correctly and use proper English grammar.
7. Make sure your gig images are different from any other seller, and make sure they are eye-catching.
8. Never copy another seller’s gig mages or wording.
9. Do not do homework for students. This will cause you to lose your gig and maybe even your account.
10. Be patient
11. Offer fair pricing for your products
12. Offer quality products.
13. Always be kind to Buyers (even the ones that tick you off).
14. Seek to improve your product quality over time.
15. Pay attention to what your Seller competitors are doing and learn from them (asking this question is a step in that direction).
16. Be honest. 
17. Expect failures, disappointments, and cancellations but also expect successful events as well.

 

 Dear Vickiespencer,

I would not be doing "the work" for the clients, just providing them some relevant newspaper articles related to their subject. It is common, especially in academia, for researchers to provide information for others that they wouldn't otherwise be able to access (due to location, or not being able to afford a subscription to an online service." all I would do is provide extracts verbatim, with full referencing. Newspaper extracts are useless without interpretation, and as stated in my gig, I am not going to do historical interpretation. 

Yours,
The Stowmartian

[uchihashahin01]

HEllo, welcome to the community, you have a great skill,,, Best of luck for your days ahead

[vickiespencer]

1 hour ago, thestowmartian said:

I would not be doing "the work" for the clients,

Nevertheless, Fiverr may not see it that way. I would avoid doing any kind of work for students. In just the past two weeks two sellers have been on the Fiverr Forum offering services that you described and both of them lost their accounts. Be very careful about having anything in your gig write ups referring to academic work. 

Edit: I just looked at your gig and it appears the wording is fine. The other two sellers that lost their accounts has definite references to doing academic research and instead there were other gigs offering the service and they could too.