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I think it is much harder to start new. It feels like you are benefiting from having an established account. If you have 1-2 (10) bad reviews, that can be balanced by hundreds of 5-star reviews. If you are new, it will take years until you build up credibility, (=work for cheap) IF you are getting new orders.

I am also confused, I've been promoting my gigs since it became available. There were never any issues. All my stats are maxed out, 5.0 gig rating, and meet every metric possible as a level 2 seller. I have not made any modifications to my gigs recently, apart from changing some tags. No recently cancelled gigs, no unhappy customers. Yet, all of a sudden, all my gigs became Not promotable (Unqualified). Customer service is unable, or unwilling to tell me what metric I do not meet, and refers me to canned "How to write a gig" articles. I would appreciate any meaningful responses. If my gigs were great for 12 years, not sure what changed from Fiverr's end. If there are new requirements, it would be helpful to communicate the change, so I can play by the rules. It's been like this for about 2 weeks now.

Well written, exactly my thoughts. It takes time to break the $100 barrier, and it gets better soon! HOWEVER. My personal experience is once I got well in to the thousands, my orders started to drop, my past 2 years were terrible, back to well below a thousand. It hurts like hell.

World Domination 41% It’s amazing to see how buyers nationalities correlate to internet penetration in the given country. What I am missing is most of Afrika, Far-east 'stan-s. It’s a fun treasure hunt, and you can’t really influence it! (Though now I think about it, if you’d target a few facebook groups in those countries…🙂)