Among my clients!!

[shanta570]

How much time it takes to approve companies as important clients i worked with(among my clients section) in profile.I added few clients about a week ago.All are pending.

Edited October 26, 2022 by shanta570

[vickieito]

17 minutes ago, shanta570 said:

How much time it takes to approve companies as important clients i worked with(among my clients section) in profile.I added few clients about a week ago.All are pending.

I had to request to add three clients. One client was approved within a week. The other two have been pending since August. I think it depends on how busy the team is that reviews the clients. My success manager said not to worry as long as it still says 'pending' (because that means they haven't denied it).

[shohagsheqder]

How it works ?

[vickieito]

2 minutes ago, shohagsheqder said:

How it works ?

Hi @shohagsheqder, when you qualify for this, it will show up on your seller profile page. Get permission from your client to add them first, then you can add them as a top client. You can add a brief description of the work you did for them.

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If they are already a part of Fiverr's dropdown list, they will be added immediately to your profile. Otherwise, the top clients will go into pending status until Fiverr approves them:

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[donnovan86]

1 hour ago, vickieito said:

I had to request to add three clients. One client was approved within a week. The other two have been pending since August. I think it depends on how busy the team is that reviews the clients. My success manager said not to worry as long as it still says 'pending' (because that means they haven't denied it).

I haven't received this feature yet.

That being said, I am not sure how Fiverr checks these clients, because I saw $5 or $10 writers claiming they worked with Samsung, Logitech, Netflix, Starbucks, etc. 

 

So I am pretty sure this system is manipulated as well. 

[vickieito]

3 minutes ago, donnovan86 said:

I am not sure how Fiverr checks these clients

It's an automatic approval if you say you work for a big name company (so no check done there). The approvals that are done manually are the small business that aren't in Fiverr's database.

Edited October 26, 2022 by vickieito

[dev_rittick]

mine take 3 to 5 month

[markp]

1 hour ago, donnovan86 said:

I haven't received this feature yet.

That being said, I am not sure how Fiverr checks these clients, because I saw $5 or $10 writers claiming they worked with Samsung, Logitech, Netflix, Starbucks, etc. 

 I dont know about other sellers but  it took a very, very long time. It got to the point I was just going to delete the list as i thought it was not approved and  "something" was asked which I think was related to this. if people are adding companies like to this to 5$ gigs though you are probably right. its like the people who put every language possible next to their name and don't speak any of them.

[donnovan86]

1 hour ago, vickieito said:

It's an automatic approval if you say you work for a big name company (so no check done there). The approvals that are done manually are the small business that aren't in Fiverr's database.

This explains why people lie and choose big companies. Especially for writers, I saw tons of very cheap sellers that claim they worked for Microsoft, Google, etc. 

[williambryan392]

Oh jeez this is sooooo open to abuse. I thought Fiverr was actually doing a reference check with the company or finding a profile like LinkedIn at least to check.

[donnovan86]

3 hours ago, williambryan392 said:

Oh jeez this is sooooo open to abuse. I thought Fiverr was actually doing a reference check with the company or finding a profile like LinkedIn at least to check.

I don't know in other categories.. But when it comes to writing, I saw a ton of very very cheap sellers with grammar mistakes in their gigs claiming they wrote for corporations. I highly doubt that. But as you said, prone to abuse 100%.

[sunboatrecords]

In my category, people list huge companies and write “I have submitted some mixes to them” or “I have songs on Spotify” or “Once I drove by their offices”. (The last one is a joke).

For real projects and companies, it takes a loooong time to get approved. Even for us, premium seller plus members! 🥳

If you submit an entry for a huge company from the list, it gets auto-approved. Imagine if Fiverr staff members started bombarding Microsoft and Amazon with e-mails for thousands and thousands of claims.

I imagine that they have a poor guy in the basement who handles all the requests. Whenever a new one comes, he yells hysterically: “leave me alooone!”.

And @shanta570, to answer your question: my manager managed to get through to whoever does this twice. The first entry was approved after a month and the second after a week. Now we have already been waiting for a month for the last 3 entries.

Edited October 26, 2022 by sunboatrecords

[vickieito]

4 hours ago, donnovan86 said:

This explains why people lie and choose big companies.

4 hours ago, williambryan392 said:

Oh jeez this is sooooo open to abuse.

I agree! The way it's set up, it's encouraged to add a big name company (and your are even instructed on the form to use a big name company). Adding in a smaller client isn't really encouraged, and like @dev_rittick and @sunboatrecords mentioned, it can take a long time, even 3-5 months for an approval. Adding in big name clients helps to make Fiverr look more credible, too (which is why I believe those are automatic approvals).

[sunboatrecords]

1 minute ago, vickieito said:

 Adding in big name clients helps to make Fiverr look more credible, too (which is why I believe those are automatic approvals).

Yet, it has backfired so much.

Go browse the Audio Editing category. Half of the sellers list Spotify, Amazon, iTunes as their clients.

This is a complete LIE! Among my clients is for clients that you have worked with, not for services that you have some minor involvement with.

My cat can submit a song to Spotify (well, with some help). That does not make her a credible audio engineer!

[catwriter]

19 minutes ago, sunboatrecords said:

Go browse the Audio Editing category. Half of the sellers list Spotify, Amazon, iTunes as their clients.

Look at the Writing category, there are so many of them who claim to have worked for Medium (well, they might have published something there...anyone can do that, it doesn't mean they've worked for the company itself). The same goes for Amazon.

And "digital marketers" have all apparently worked for Facebook, Twitter, and so on.

At least we know, if we want to hire someone, who to avoid.

[shanta570]

Thanks to all who tried to clear my question's answer. 

After reading all of your comments i am totally hopeless about this topic.Lol

[vickieito]

57 minutes ago, sunboatrecords said:

My cat can submit a song to Spotify (well, with some help). That does not make her a credible audio engineer!

With Fiverr's push for "impressive" profiles, that would be an impressive profile to see ...a cat with Spotify as a Top Client! 😂

14 minutes ago, shanta570 said:

Thanks to all who tried to clear my question's answer. 

After reading all of your comments i am totally hopeless about this topic.Lol

As long as you submitted your top clients, it's just a waiting game right now!

[markp]

I thought they were going to contact businesses as well and before listing anything I went through each business and drew up a list of what was done and when and one business added content about me to the site. I wonder if people have misunderstood what this is for or are intentionally abusing it. I guess its a combination of both.

 

[donnovan86]

32 minutes ago, markp said:

I wonder if people have misunderstood what this is for or are intentionally abusing it.

Clearly people are abusing it. Fiverr allowed them to choose businesses from an ever-growing list and they found it a lot easier to do that, while also creating a fiction in their buyer's mind that they are highly qualified. So there are plenty of abusers like this in the writing section where I am active.. I can only assume it's a site-wide issue. But when someone that asks for $5 or $10 for their gig says they worked with Netflix, Starbucks and Microsoft as their main clients, that's fishy as hell man.

 

[markp]

4 minutes ago, donnovan86 said:

Clearly people are abusing it. Fiverr allowed them to choose businesses from an ever-growing list and they found it a lot easier to do that, while also creating a fiction in their buyer's mind that they are highly qualified. So there are plenty of abusers like this in the writing section where I am active.. I can only assume it's a site-wide issue. But when someone that asks for $5 or $10 for their gig says they worked with Netflix, Starbucks and Microsoft as their main clients, that's fishy as hell man.

Maybe they thought that writing an article in Starbucks while using a laptop with windows on it and watching netflix qualified, or maybe they are just abusing the system. I can state categorically that one of the businesses you have listed above would not in any shape or form outsource written content

[donnovan86]

22 minutes ago, markp said:

Maybe they thought that writing an article in Starbucks while using a laptop with windows on it and watching netflix qualified, or maybe they are just abusing the system.

It's just system manipulation at its finest. And they know very well what they are doing. But it works for them I guess. A buyer should be able to figure out on their own that no one with such pedigree/referrals would charge $5 or $10. 

[williambryan392]

 

Years ago there was an issue with sellers selling Amazon reviews.

Amazon wasn't happy with this and sued over a 1000 of them, or tried to. I'm not sure how it ended up but it was a big deal at the time.

I know it's different but I think (big) companies wouldn't be happy if they saw that sellers were claiming to have worked there when they hadn't.

I also see a lot of sellers listing Fiverr as a company they've worked for on their profile because they have a gig on Fiverr.

Similarly, if you check out Glassdoor so many of Fiverrs reviews are from Fiverr sellers (it's meant for Fiverr employees, not freelancers with gigs). 

This whole thing is a blend of ignorance, stupidity and willful deceit on the part of (some) Fiverr sellers.

[williambryan392]

8 hours ago, markp said:

Starbucks

They gave me a voucher because I provided feedback once on a sandwich product I ate.

The voucher has a financial value.

It was in return for a service I provided to Starbucks.

I am now a product / sandwich specialist at Starbucks.

And Starbucks is therefore now a paying client of mine.

 

[catwriter]

6 hours ago, williambryan392 said:

They gave me a voucher because I provided feedback once on a sandwich product I ate.

The voucher has a financial value.

It was in return for a service I provided to Starbucks.

I am now a product / sandwich specialist at Starbucks.

And Starbucks is therefore now a paying client of mine.

 

And they gave me a voucher because I filled out a survey on their website.

That voucher, too, had financial value.

So Starbucks is now a paying client of mine, too!

[strategist_ceo]

23 hours ago, donnovan86 said:

So I am pretty sure this system is manipulated as well. 

Small companies were contacted tho, one of my listed companies was contacted.