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Ah yes, the male performance ones. I've had my fair share of those viagra scripts. I was the go-to voice for a major clinic that did ED treatment in Norway. A few years back, they replaced me with AI (Norwegian TTS voices sounds like a llama being strangled) but they quickly realized their mistake and asked me to come back. By then, I had doubled my rates, and they were stuck with amateurs or TTS. 🙃 I'm also the voice for SoRoTo in Norway, so I know my buckets, cement mixers, and heavy-duty conveyor belts. That's just pure evil. I like it. I'm a bit of a film nerd myself. I know my way around a projector room in a pinch.

Someone sent me this: "The overuse of the term and it being thrown around so casually, is a symptom of something called AI-washing. It's when companies create a fake buzz and mislead investors by providing manipulative information about the capabilities, limitations or risks of their AI products". – Coldfusion TV/Youtube

You can read more about your success score, how it works and how to improve it here: Success score – Fiverr Help Center

Yes, I know, but I felt particularly kind that evening.

Ah. We have to think differently here on Fiverr. It's a... unique average. 🙂

Yeah, they work for me but nothing's perfect. I try to keep elements within an invisible border so they show up on all devices, but you never know when Fiverr might change the aspect ratio in one place but not in others. No, you won’t “lose points” with the algorithm for editing your gig. If the edit improves your gig, you might even gain some points. Changing images/videos might take your gig out of rotation for a bit (minutes to hours at worst in my experience) but I’ve never had that happen to me, and I edit my gigs often. Most of those myths—like always stay online, don’t edit your gig, delete the gig and start over—come from people who haven’t had much success on Fiverr because they underperform, so they make up excuses and reasons why their terrible gigs, offering the same thing as 40,000 other sellers, aren’t at the top of page one. The keys to success on Fiverr, in my experience after a decade on the platform, many of those years as a Fiverr Pro and Top Rated seller, are: Be skilled at what you do Don’t claim to be skilled at something you’re not Remember that you're acting as both support and a pro for hire Always deliver on time Under-promise and over-deliver Make sure you know and understand what the buyer needs before beginning the work. Ask questions. Be detailed and specific in your gig description, FAQs and custom offers, so the buyers know what they're getting. Avoid negative surprises when you can Make the process simple for your buyers Keep buyers informed about progress and respond quickly to any concerns or questions Deliver top-quality work Under-promise and over-deliver Gradually increase your rates as you rise the ranks (but never start at the bottom, so don't charge 5 bucks) Don't offer unlimited revisions. Read and understand the terms and community guidelines before you do anything. Re-read them often. That’s really the core of it in my experience. There's more to it than that, of course, like having something to offer that people actually wanna buy, but if you follow that list you should be on the right path.

I have to disagree, because it’s the average Joes (and by average, I mean Fiverr-average, not world-average.) who are just skilled enough to copy and paste something that resembles a professional introduction (at first glance), bragging about their expert skills. What happens when people buy from them and end up with junk? They become one of the 200,000 customers who've already ditched Fiverr. You cracked it.

You can practically taste the empowerment.

No, I can't, but it does say to contact support of you have issues, so that's what you should do. 🙂

I can't tell you what to do, I can only point you in the right direction. In your case, that would be to do some research to figure out what type of service you're good at, what's in demand, and has less competition. If you're just doing what everyone else is doing, you probably won't succeed. You have to get the basics right first, then you can work on improving everything else. So figure out what you want to do, how you're going to do it, and why.

It might be a good idea to contact the relevant team and suggest that they revise the email's wording to include a reason and align with what Fiverr staff communicates on the forum. This could save the support team time, enhance transparency, and it would likely reduce the number of forum posts that receive the standard reply, "raise a ticket with support," from us or the community team.

Did you read the e-mail you got?

As a new seller you can only initiate a video call from inside an order page. That means you need to have an active order with the buyer before you can do so, so you did the right thing by explaining this to your buyer. I get that this complicates things if the potential buyer wishes to have a Zoom call before they order, but rules are rules. You could set up a trial order with the buyer for five bucks and use that order to hold the video call, if they're willing to do so. The buyer could also use a screen recording app to record a video of their screen (you could do the same if you have to show them something) and you can send those video files as attachments in the chat. Avoid Loom though, I've seen buyers get warnings for that before. Otherwise, your only option is inbox messages, unless you're a leveled seller with an average selling price of $50 or above, a Fiverr Pro seller or if you're dealing with a Fiverr Select buyer. Fiverr does not look kindly upon regular sellers trying to communicate outside the platform, so again, you did the right thing, and you just have to explain to the buyer in a polite way that those are the rules. I hope this helps! 🙂

The video guidelines clearly state that your video can't be longer than 1:15, so that might be the issue. I recommend reading through the guidelines here and make sure your video follows them before trying again: Adding a video to your Gig – Fiverr Help Center

Try using 1650x1110 px. That resolution works well for me. But unfortunately, Fiverr uses different aspect rations across the site (the website is like a patchwork at this point) so you just have to try with different sizes and styles until you find one that looks ok across the site. You're not the first person to have this problem. If all else fails, you could always reach out to support and see if they have some updated advice on gig thumbnails.

It could be a bug, so try using a different browser and clear your cache, then try to republish your gig. If that doesn't work, you can always raise a ticket with support.

As a new seller you can only initiate a video call from inside an order page. That means you need to have an active order with the buyer before you can do so. I get that this complicates things if the potential buyer wishes to have a Zoom call before they order. You could set up a trial order with the buyer for five bucks and use that order to hold the video call, but it would still require the buyer to pay for your time (not that I think that's a bad thing, but they might). Other than that, your only option of communicating is through the inbox. You have to be a leveled seller with an average selling price of $50 or above, a Fiverr Pro seller or deal with a Fiverr Select buyer to initiate a Zoom call from the regular inbox without an order. Fiverr does not look kindly upon regular sellers trying to communicate outside the platform, so I would strongly advice against doing it any other way. I hope this helps! 🙂

There are 31,000 other sellers in the category "Product Image Editing." If you went into a mall with 31,000 clothing stores, would you think it's a great idea to open up another clothing store? The problem might simply be that you've made gigs in a category with thousands of other sellers offering the exact same thing as you do. You're competing with all of them.

We can't check that for you on the forum. You have to raise a ticket with support and explain the situation to them. Keep in mind that the first response you get will often be automatic. If it doesn't make sense, reply to the ticket again and it will get bumped to a human (in my experience). If your account is restricted, you're not eligible to sell on Fiverr unless you get unrestricted by Fiverr.

My Spock has to disagree with your Spock. He would say logic dictates that the situation will deteriorate. One only needs to observe Generation Z and extrapolate their potential future leadership skills to understand this.

You will be empowered. And you're going to like it.

Thank you so much for your kind words. I feel empowered, now.

Ok, so today I'm not gonna rant about being forcibly empowered by AI or about Fiverr (ok, a bit about Fiverr). As we say in Norway, I have a hen to pluck (our way of saying bone to pick, for some strange Norwegian reason) and today, my hen is logins. So here I was, going about my workday. I headed down to my studio to record a voiceover, sat down, and booted up my Surface. Then I realized that I hadn't uploaded the script to OneDrive, meaning I had to download it from Fiverr. After typing in my paranoidly long and difficult password manager password that I use so I don't have to remember passwords, I hit the Fiverr login and get prompted for two-step verification, because, clearly, logging in yesterday from the exact same device and browser was just a rehearsal. Meh. Left my phone upstairs, didn't I? So I decided to get a one-time code via email. See where this is going? So I go to Outlook, only to be prompted for two-step verification there, too. This time, I actually have no choice: I have to get up and find my phone to enter the two numbers on the Surface screen into a box in the Outlook app, even though I'm logging into Microsoft services daily from this network (and I used Outlook on my Surface in the same freakin' browser yesterday!). But okay. I get my phone, input the darn numbers, only to be told I'm too late, and have to try again. I do, and I finally get into my inbox after 10 minutes back and forth with this nonsense. I copy the one-time code from Fiverr, and finally get in to download the script. I try to open the script, but for some reason, the buyer put it in an Excel file. Why, you ask? Because clearly, someone out there hates me, and now I'm being prompted to log in to OneDrive so I can open the file in an app I've installed locally with an account I just used on the same device to get the one-time code for Fiverr. Microsoft truly thrives on user torment. People talk about how going password-free, using a password manager, and having two-step verification will make us safer (and it's probably true). But this is getting to the point of it qualifying for security through obscurity. And all that, just to read a 7-second script. (Yes, the title was generated with the help of ChatGPT and inspired by V for Vendetta).

I got no less than two popups mentioning AI from Fiverr today. I don't even bother reading them at this point. If I see the word "AI" I'm out.