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New sellers, how to get sales, make money and live a fabulous life. (Secret revealed)


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The most common thread on the forum goes roughly like this. "I just made my fiber profile, where is my money? Pray for me."  There is a real secret, one that will make you money if you really commit to it, and that secret is...

Come up with something that people really want to buy, become good at that, I mean really good at it, not like the thousands of "digital marketing experts" here begging for help, although they are amusing. You can come up with something simple, and as long as people want or need it, and you can competently offer it, you are golden. 

After all, someone is a billionaire for the following idea:  Go get em. 

 

 

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Hey @newsmike !

I think you are spot on, this is definitely a big part of it.

Would you like to expand upon this concept so that people can understand a bit better?

Maybe offer some actionable tips?

(they don't have to be fiverr specific)

I really think you have a lot to offer, you are experienced and you have achieved so much on this platform.

 

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(I've never had a corn dog in my life. I think that had to be said BUT)

I think it's all a different approach. While I can't quite call myself super successful just yet - I've always done just fine with my writing - and the reason why (in my head) is simple: I did not start writing because I wanted  $$$. I realized that I COULD get $$$ with my writing because people enjoyed it - but writing has been part of my life since I was a child (including cringy poems about... frogs.) 

A lot of people seem to have the question of 'what's easiest to sell' - and I believe that's where the problem lies. Instead of selling something they already know how to do, they want to sort of 'switch' to a new field (or learn something new.) Of course someone who's been hooked on making websites since they were pre-teens is going to do better! 

(my point is that I definitely agree with...the point. Sorry, I'm functioning on heaps of cold medicine, might not be as profound as I'd thought I would be.)

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28 minutes ago, frank_d said:

Would you like to expand upon this concept so that people can understand and maybe offer some actionable tips?

Thanks for the kind words Frank. My advice seems so basic to me, that I feel like it shouldn't even need to be explained to the folks I was jabbing there, but among the basics in real life business would be:

1. Don't start a business until you know what you want to sell, you know what is already being offered by successful people in that field, and you are sure you can offer comparable or superior versions of that service.  If you are doing any less, you are really not running a business, you are panhandling, hoping someone feels sorry for you and tosses you a quarter.

2. Don't lie.  This starts with the fake profile picture, and extends to the rampant abuse of the word "expert."  Imagine a doctor about to do surgery, posting to WedMD, "Just checking, is the aorta the big thingy, or the medium thingy?" We see clueless sellers here every day, claiming to be "experts" yet revealing by their very questions, that they can barely heat up ramen without the fire department showing up. And don't get me started on lies about English proficiency. Just sayin...

3. Understand that this is a business, not your grandmother's house. By that I mean, only you and your family think you are special.  I don't buy insurance from someone because they are needy, want money, or think they are entitled to sell it, etc... I look for a professional who can get it over with perfectly with no BS.  The sense of entitlement here is amazing. Tons of threads from people who feel as if, "I have shown up, stolen some gig descriptions, lied about my qualifications in broken English, and waited 2 days...but I am not getting any sales."  They then proceed to ask in the forum (genuinely puzzled) why they are getting no sales. The lack of self awareness is stunning. 

See what I mean when I say these are so basic that it is hard to expand them?  Be actually good at what you claim to be good at. Don't lie, and be prepared to enter a competitive marketplace full of people who are already masters at what you intend to sell.  I think there are 2 camps, those that are already working hard at doing these things, and those who never will, because they are here as a lark, for the quick buck and couldn't care less about developing skills and running a business. 

 

 

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7 minutes ago, newsmike said:

My advice seems so basic to me, that I feel like it shouldn't even need to be explained to the folks I was jabbing there

That's completely understandable, I feel the same way every time I try to break something down.

It's called "the curse of knowledge". A cognitive bias that makes us assume that what we know is common knowledge.

 

Let me assure you, it's not.

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48 minutes ago, newsmike said:

They then proceed to ask in the forum (genuinely puzzled) why they are getting no sales. The lack of self awareness is stunning. 

It's not so stunning if you remember that they see other sellers, often from their own country, who did the same (stolen profile pic and gig descriptions, calling themselves experts even though they only have a very vague idea how to do something...), and are getting sales. Or at least it looks as if they're getting sales.

With some of them it's as if... How to explain this... It's as if they just copy the words they've seen on profiles that look successful and pay zero attention to the meaning of those words and whether they apply to them or not; as if they're thinking "oh, having this exact description makes buyers give sellers money, so I should copy it and then I'll get money, too". As if a profile pic/a gig description/a gig image are some kind of a talisman that brings money to the person using it.

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27 minutes ago, catwriter said:

It's as if they just copy the words they've seen on profiles that look successful

The true irony lies in the fact that Fiverr 3.0 actually punishes copying descriptions/faqs/tags/etc

So it creates a never ending loop of people failing right from the get go, then feeling frustrated, then coming to the forum to ask for "expert's opinion".

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