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I forgot about the thumbs up button. Such memories! Yes, I wasn't happy with the mod feature, but at least buyers can extend the gig if they have to. What I did not like with the mod button was that it kept the same deadline, so if you delivered one day early and the buyer requested a modification, you only had one day left, but now Fiverr fixed it.

Cool gigs. I like your 3D artwork.

I looked at your gigs and you have no videos. Gigs with videos get more exposure, so add some videos to all your gigs. This will help.

@donnovan86 Thank you so much!!!

Yes me too, but back in 2013, it was less competitive. Now, sigh!!!

@webdevelopers90That's awesome. Which gig was number 1?

I am not sure how long many of the Fiverr sellers and buyers have been on Fiverr, but I joined in 2011. Fiverr was a much different place back then: All gigs were 5 dollars each, no more! Fiverr actually featured gigs on the home page each week. One morning, I woke up and found 37 sales because Fiverr had just featured my gig and they were all 3 day gigs!!! Yes, it was nice to make 37 sales in one night, but for a 3-day deadline, I was working hard. I had to call in sick, but it was worth it. Then, those sales kept coming all week and I had to move my deadline to 10 days and then 17 days for a while. As I lived in New York and right before Fiverr was about to release V2, they sent a photographer to my house to take a photo of me as they were photographing sellers from the NY area and as you can see from my attached photo, my daughter and I (she is now big) were on the top of the Programming and Tech category and that lasted for an entire 12 months, so for a full year, when a buyer was looking for web development or other programming, they saw us. My daughter would probably disown me today if she knew I posted this LOL Back then, Fiverr did not have all the cool categories they have now. There were no AI services, no podcast intros, no singers for your music and nobody to fix your WordPress site if it went down. There were no analytics for sellers, no promoted gigs, and no seller plus service. Yeah, Fiverr was a much different place 10 years ago and it is cool to see how they have evolved into a multi-successful company. They started the gig economy! When did you join Fiverr and do you also have these nostalgic memories?

@Alex.M Thank you very much and no, it is not you LOL, but which tab are you referring to?

On Chrome, Fiverr is playing a voice and highlighting everything in yellow. Driving me crazy. This is only happening with Fiverr and no other website in Chrome. It happens everywhere on Fiverr and reads everything it highlights in the messaging area and my gig orders. I looked at my Chrome extensions and found nothing, but again, as mentioned, it only happens with Fiverr. Does anyone know how to turn this off?

Agreed with @losantomusic I look for singers, guitarists, bass players, horn players and more. I tend to hire Fiverr sellers who go right into it and do not have those long pauses in the beginning. I skip the musicians who have intros. Those people lose my business from the start. You can talk after if you'd like, but not before we heard your audio samples. As mentioned by @losantomusic above, do not talk, have words showing in the first 5 seconds, have a splash screen, etc. Just a video of you singing from the first second with music and without.

I hope this helps another seller who may have experienced this. For a few months, I found that sometimes, my new buyer's messages disappear from my inbox, due to the limited number of messages that display in one time. It does not really disappear. It just falls off the number of messages waiting for me to read or answer. I receive a lot of messages from new, existing, and return buyers and they push down the new unanswered messages. Sometimes it takes 30 minutes to respond to messages. I can check my email to see when they come in, but then the emails from existing buyers also crowd my gmail. This may be my fault, but as a TRS, I do my best to keep response rate at 100% and freak out when I see it anything lower. The inbox has the unread filter, but if you accidentally read a message from a buyer and forgot to respond, so it would be nice if there was an Unanswered filter in addition to the the Unread filter. One way I finally solved this issue and now no longer have this issue is to use IFTTT (If this then that) to catch my Fiverr inbox messages and put them into a Google Spreadsheet. I then use the Data->Data Cleanup->Remove Duplicates menu item to read all the emails. If anyone has an IFTTT account and wants the applet to put your Fiverr inbox messages from buyers into Google Sheets, let me know. I check this spreadsheet twice a day and then delete the row once I answered the email. Bruce