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Do you track your sales activity? How do you know the number of customers coming from Fiverr forum?

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I love the third advice. Steer away from anything you’re not sure you’re able to do. You’ll end up wasting much time and then getting a negative review.

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Sometimes buyers mention that they saw me on the forum and etc. But there’s no other way to know, really. James is right though, posting on the forum isn’t really a valid marketing strategy.

Which makes it funny when the copy-pasters do their thing…

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It’d be nice if Fiverr had some actual traffic analytics we could see versus the joke they’ve given us, but judging from my own experience I know that the biggest factor for recruiting new clients is the work that I do outside of Fiverr. If I go a few days without being busy in my social media marketing web, my sales start to diminish.

Also, the reality is that only a tiny fraction of all Fiverr users ever visit the forum, and the vast majority of those who do visit the forum are sellers talking to other sellers about sales. You get it? They’re not here to shop.

A quick Google search says that Fiverr averages about 1,000,000 transactions every month. Now certainly there are some people making multiple purchases on Fiverr, but if we take a really conservative estimate and say that these 1,000,000 monthly purchases were made by a total of 250,000 people - where are they? How many active voices do you see on this forum?

There’s the regular peanut gallery like myself, @emmaki, and others, but what about the rest? Sure, there’s you, and the other people on this thread, but how many regular users do you really think are participating here? 100? 300? Would you call it 500? Let’s be really generous toward the forum and say that there are 1,000 active users who are REALLY engaged in what’s happening. That means that .004% of all Fiverr users are reading the forum.

And how many of those 1,000 people do you think are reading every post and trolling the comment section to find new, exciting, and innovative sellers? If we’re really generous, then we can say that 25% of all forum users are seeing what you’re writing. That means that of the 1,000 imaginary people who are really excited, totally engaged, and absolutely enthusiastic about combing the forum to find the seller they love to meet, at best you can expect 250 of them to contact you.

Are you getting 250 new client messages every month? I’m totally invested in the Fiverr forum and I’ve authored several posts that have been more-or-less permanently stickied at the top of major forum categories. I try to participate in nearly every worthwhile discussion that turns up. And let me tell you, I’m not getting 250 new client messages every month. Not even close.

But, that’s neither here nor there. Let’s keep going with our numbers game. Look at your best-selling gig. What’s your conversion ratio? I’ll be REALLY generous and say that your hypothetical best seller has a conversion ratio of 15%. This means that of the 250 new client messages you should be getting every month as a result of activity on the forum, you can expect 15% of them to convert into paying clients, or 37.5 orders of at least $5.

And that’s ONLY as a result of activity on the forum, and not even getting into clients that Fiverr brings to you as a result of their sales portal and external marketing efforts. And that’s still not counting any external marketing and sales strategies that you’re doing for yourself.

And I’m telling you, that as well-positioned and relatively known as I am in this forum, I am NOT getting anything near the numbers I’m describing. So all of that is to say, believe me when I tell you that being active on the forum DOES NOT equate to more and bigger sales.

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