Do you know the benefits of being active on fiverr?

[shopify_expertj]

Hi, hope you are all doing well. Most of the successful freelancers suggest that being active on the platform hit up your chance to getting knocked by buyers. How do you see that thing? Is that really work for you? Are you agreed with the comment ?

[smashradio]

No. Most of the successful freelancers are trying to tell new sellers that this isn't necessarily true. 

Yes, being online when you're really online, responding to messages quickly and so on is essential. 

I don't want to get knocked by buyers. I want to get paid by buyers. I'm not a boxer. 

The myth that you have to be online and active 24/7 to get orders is false. 

If you have downtime on Fiverr, it's better spent learning new stuff, optimizing your gig, planning and strategizing, or do something nice with family and friends. 

Staying sane is paramount to your success because a happy seller is a better seller. 

Sure, if people have a short deadline they might filter sellers based on online status, so being online when that happens makes sense, but only if you're actually infront of your computer, ready to work. 

So stop worrying so much about your online status and "being active". 99% of the people who tell you to "be active on Fiverr" aren't active on Fiverr: they are constantly refreshing pages or, even worse, using auto-refreshers to cheat the system. 

That's not the way to get success on Fiverr. 

When you look at the sellers giving advice: how many Top Rated Sellers have you seen that gives you this advice? And remember, we got to where we're at doing something right. 

I'm active on Fiverr when I have a reason to be active: answering messages, responding to questions, delivering work, strategizing, working on my gigs and so on. 

Here's some more on the topic: 

[olyasr]

Everyone tells you to be "Active" on Fiverr, What they mean by "Being active"?! )) They will never explain what they mean - they can only tell you "Stay online as long as you can" 😀 And, honestly, 99% of advises doesn't really work

[catwriter]

3 minutes ago, olyasr said:

Everyone tells you to be "Active" on Fiverr,

Not everyone. Far from it.

3 minutes ago, olyasr said:

And, honestly, 99% of advises doesn't really work

Because it's endlessly parroted by people with zero experience and zero sales hoping that posting on the forum will magically bring them orders.

[sarmin_khatun21]

Yes, Being online this is play an important role in our gig .Because When the buyers will apply the filter like

Online sellers Then your Gig will be shown in the first page or others page. There are very chance to get Order

if you  active in online

Thank you 💖💖💖

[olyasr]

10 minutes ago, catwriter said:

Not everyone. Far from it.

Because it's endlessly parroted by people with zero experience and zero sales hoping that posting on the forum will magically bring them orders.

Yes, I wasn't really correct about everyone, you are right, but too many people recommend it - I even saw a topic, where someone shared a link to the tool, that helps to stay online 24 hours. The problem is that many new buyers don't understand how Fiverr works and they try to find some help here, but they only get tips, that can lead to blocking

[angela43]

Why can't we have Fiverr representative on this platform to show us the best answer? I just feel we're just guessing and someone else may read this thread and still not get the help they need.

At a time I messaged Fiverr support and they said my Gig should be active for at least 8hrs. I dont think we can be active 24/7 but try and stay active as much as you can. Your effort will be rewarded.

[sumonsarkar24]

Fiverr effective for seller and buyers.But many unknown things we get help from community forum.this why important 

[j6nyc6]

3 hours ago, shopify_expertj said:

thanks

If you hover over the small heart on the bottom right corner of someone's post, you'll see a little gold trophy. The trophy is equivalent to saying "thank you" so you wouldn't have to constantly spam "thank you" replies to people on your own post.

[enunciator]

On 8/29/2021 at 2:42 PM, shopify_expertj said:

Most of the successful freelancers suggest that being active on the platform hit up your chance to getting knocked by buyers.

The wording of that sentence lends itself to an entirely different meaning...  😬🤰

And citations please?

From my observations, the freelancers who extol the virtues of long hours of "activity" or "being online" are generally new, desperate, misguided, and far from successful. 

[mariashtelle1]

5 hours ago, angela43 said:

At a time I messaged Fiverr support and they said my Gig should be active for at least 8hrs

I would be curious to see that email where fiverr support said that it’s necessary to “stay active”. 

[angela43]

12 hours ago, mariashtelle1 said:

I would be curious to see that email where fiverr support said that it’s necessary to “stay active”. 

Here it  is :

The First screenshot said they will not show gigs that are not active. Notice the green indicator on our profile shows that we're active .

I wasn't satisfied with the email that said they will not show gigs that are not active. So I decided to message support today and I made her understand what staying active is, See the Screenshot below.

Benefit of staying online: "There is an option for the buyers to look for gigs from all sellers, or just from those being online at the moment. As long as you are online, your Gigs will be shown using that filter. The system is automatically recognizing who is online and here is how.

To show online on Fiverr you must be present and actively using the site for more than 25 minutes, otherwise, just having the page open won't show your gigs in an online search, because you won't be recognized as being online".

 

 

[angela43]

12 hours ago, mariashtelle1 said:

I would be curious to see that email where fiverr support said that it’s necessary to “stay active”. 

The first was Nov 2020, The Second is today 

[mariashtelle1]

5 minutes ago, angela43 said:

The First screenshot said they will not show gigs that are not active. Notice the green indicator on our profile shows that we're active

Those screenshots actually just proves my point that you don’t have to stay “active”. 
min not even sure why we are using “stay active” because in English it means something different. 
 

Forst screenshot: on fiverr “active” is not equal to “online”. Green dot shows “online” status. 
“Active” status is shown when your gig is published. If you went on OOO or paused your gigs then and only then your gig changes “active” status to a different one. You can check if your gig “active” or not through the help center. 
 

Second screenshot: CS rep clearly says that there is no point of staying logged in online etc unless you have something to do in the website. 
 

[angela43]

8 minutes ago, mariashtelle1 said:

Those screenshots actually just proves my point that you don’t have to stay “active”. 
min not even sure why we are using “stay active” because in English it means something different. 
 

Forst screenshot: on fiverr “active” is not equal to “online”. Green dot shows “online” status. 
“Active” status is shown when your gig is published. If you went on OOO or paused your gigs then and only then your gig changes “active” status to a different one. You can check if your gig “active” or not through the help center. 
 

Second screenshot: CS rep clearly says that there is no point of staying logged in online etc unless you have something to do in the website. 
 

If there is no point staying online, then when a buyer uses the filter to find only those who are online, and your gig doesn't appear, how then do you get order especially since it's downtime?

Edited August 30, 2021 by angela43

[angela43]

6 minutes ago, mariashtelle1 said:

Those screenshots actually just proves my point that you don’t have to stay “active”. 
min not even sure why we are using “stay active” because in English it means something different. 
 

Forst screenshot: on fiverr “active” is not equal to “online”. Green dot shows “online” status. 
“Active” status is shown when your gig is published. If you went on OOO or paused your gigs then and only then your gig changes “active” status to a different one. You can check if your gig “active” or not through the help center. 
 

Second screenshot: CS rep clearly says that there is no point of staying logged in online etc unless you have something to do in the website. 
 

I just feel the second point of staying online carries more weight than the first point of no point staying online.

[mariashtelle1]

10 minutes ago, angela43 said:

I just feel the second point of staying online carries more weight than the first point of no point staying online.

To some degree. But it depends what you are chasing there. A lot of successful sellers don’t “stay online” in a hope that one day one the clients will put a filter there for online sellers. 
Those filters actually not very intuitive for use and I’m sure not that many buyers are using them. 
On top of that I personally feel that clients who use that filter will be a trouble clients, demanding a lot, not planning, rush jobs and that’s not what I want to be working with. Which of course can be different for other sellers but relying on a filter or an algorithm is a pretty bad strategy for building a business. 

[mehedi_shawon]

Active fiverr for respons buyer knock as soon as possible. But activeness increase sell that's not true.

[theratypist]

17 hours ago, angela43 said:

At a time I messaged Fiverr support and they said my Gig should be active for at least 8hrs. I dont think we can be active 24/7 but try and stay active as much as you can. Your effort will be rewarded.

Based on the screenshots, I don't see CS saying to a gig should be active for at least 8 hours?

I guess to settle the talk on this if its worth staying active for as long as you can then why not give it a shot. And differentiate the sales you make from a day you have been away from the computer the whole time. But like CS has said you would have to be actively using the site for more than 25 minutes to be shown as online. That would probably only work if you have Fiverr open and you are constantly browsing through the site. 

16 minutes ago, angela43 said:

If there is no point staying online, then when a buyer uses the filter to find only those who are online, and your gig doesn't appear, how then do you get order especially since it's downtime?

I feel like there are more buyers who aren't in a rush and not using this filter. But it may be an approach to consider checking, if you want to maximize all potential sales. I mean everything is worth a shot until you find out what works best for you right.

[enunciator]

This is already common knowledge. IF one stays online, they may be listed if a buyer specifically activates a filter and searches for sellers who've been on recently. It's not worth shackling oneself to their phone or computer for this minuscule "benefit."

Take a quick peek at all the desperate sellers who spend dozen(s) of hours "appearing active" each and every day (whether legitimately or through the use of rule breaking auto-refreshers) and surmise how they are doing doing? The answer is pretty obvious.

A minute spent passively and fruitlessly "appearing online" is a minute taken away from potentially doing something more productive and actually impactful. 

Edited August 30, 2021 by enunciator

[mrwebbazz]

Point of my view and from my little experience I can say, Every buyer filter online seller to placing their Order. Online seller has more posibility to get more order than offline seller. And this is the benefit of being active on Fiverr.

[catwriter]

3 hours ago, angela43 said:

If there is no point staying online, then when a buyer uses the filter to find only those who are online, and your gig doesn't appear, how then do you get order especially since it's downtime?

I get almost all of my orders when I'm offline. While my buyers are happy when I deliver fast, many of them tell me to take as much time as I need because they care about quality a lot more than they care about the speed.

Sure, those who are looking for sellers who are currently online because they need something done yesterday won't order from me...and I prefer it that way.

2 minutes ago, mrwebbazz said:

Every buyer filter online seller to placing their Order

No, not every buyer. Only those who need something done urgently.

[vickiespencer]

On 8/30/2021 at 1:53 PM, mrwebbazz said:

Every buyer filter online seller to placing their Order.

Nope, they do not. I am a part time buyer. I never have filtered for an online seller. I filter for experience level. Then I look and the number of reviews and the review score. 

On 8/30/2021 at 1:53 PM, mrwebbazz said:

Online seller has more posibility to get more order than offline seller.

Like @catwriterI too get orders while I sleep. I also have found that the buyers who filter for sellers that are online typically want work returned within hours. For some reason these buyers have only contacted me later in the evening when I am about to sign off for the night. So I usually turn them down. I am not losing my precious sleep for them. 

[newsmike]

On 8/29/2021 at 2:42 PM, shopify_expertj said:

Most of the successful freelancers suggest that being active on the platform hit up your chance to getting knocked by buyers.

No. Absolutely the opposite. Most successful sellers have stated many, many, many times that staying online is rubbish. Please stop spreading false nonsense on the forum. Also. please learn what the word "knock" means because you have no idea.

[newsmike]

22 hours ago, angela43 said:

Why can't we have Fiverr representative on this platform to show us the best answer?

You have had that. @mjensen415a fiverr employee (admin) has posted that this is nonsense along with hundreds of similar posts from experienced sellers. But you keep ignoring all that and parroting the same nonense. 

Edited August 30, 2021 by newsmike