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Here's how I think of it: If I have too much work, increasing my rates will make some regular buyers move on. But if those buyers are sending too much work my way, it has several consequences: It will affect the quality of your output, thereby your buyer satisfaction rate It will affect your mental health It will affect your family and loved ones It will affect the clients who are willing to pay a premium for your services Part of my goal is to send a few of those regular buyers on their way. By letting a few of them go, you make room for new, higher-paying clients, which means you should earn more while working less. So yes, some regular clients will disappear, and that's perfectly fine. It should be your goal. It can be scary and sad to lose clients. Some of my all-time top buyers don't work with me anymore because I raised my rates. And I'm okay with that because I now work with new regular clients who don't mind paying my going rate. I've tripled my earnings using this method, but I work less than I used to, not more. The increases should be incremental. We live in weird times with record inflation and an increased cost of living. It's fair to increase your rate to match the added costs. Too much demand is a luxury. What happens when the supply is unchanged while demand is growing? Prices go up.

I'm not your brother. If you want advice, I suggest you look through the forum. It has plenty of guides, helpful posts and hundreds of answers to the same question you posted.

I wouldn't say it's "perfect". Some shoddy editing here and there, and it doesn't appear to have been made by a professional. With that said, it's not bad. Adding a voice-over like @joyh97 suggested will make it more engaging. A side-note: offering unlimited revisions is not smart. It makes you look unprofessional (no real professional will work for free) and it makes you appear desperate for orders.

If you extend the order after it's gone late, that alone won't affect your stats. But as @joyh97 pointed out, it may affect the customers review of you, and that will affect your buyer satisfaction rate. No one likes late deliveries, even if they appear to be understanding. If you're frequently running late, do what she suggested and increase your delivery time. I also love her advice about increasing your prices. This is the way I do it, too. If I have more work on my plate than I'm comfortable with, I'll increase my rates a bit.

You regret having to pay for someone else's work? That's a strange mentality to have. If you need stock photos and so on for your gigs, you can sign up for Envato Elements. It's 29 per month if you pay monthly or 14 per month if you pay for a whole year. Then you can download the assets there as many times as you want (download once per project) and the good news is, you can keep using the assets (for the project you licensed it for) even if you stop paying for your subscription.

Haha - I see! Perhaps it's time to upgrade your browser of choice and your 23 year-old truck (even though I can understand why that would be difficult. The truck, I mean). I don't think it's much of a learning curve anymore. I've gone from Chrome to Edge to Vivaldi to Brave and it's been very smooth sailing. Most browsers these days have a great export/import feature to move bookmarks, passwords and such, so that helps a lot! Brave is my browser of choice, and I wouldn't have it any other way. No other browser protects my privacy like Brave does and the built-in adblocker is something I couldn't live without. I remember back in the Chrome days, when I had to re-install, update and try different Adblockers to remove ads on Youtube. After a week, I had to do it again. In the end, Youtube just stopped working if I used any adblockers. With Brave, it just works. No ads, Ever. And I don't have to install some third-party extension to do it. I mean.. Just look at these stats since I started using Brave: It's faster as well because of the privacy features.

Fiverr is an international marketplace. You can work on Fiverr from anywhere. You'll have no issue working on Fiverr while in India. I'm Norwegian, but I live in Spain. I also travel a lot and I've never experienced any issues. The only thing I noticed is that Fiverr can require you to go through some extra confirmations if you're logging in from a new device or IP, just to make sure it's you. I always recommend activating two-factor authentication for added security, especially when you're out travelling. On public WiFi, many folks will recommend that you use a VPN to protect yourself, but using a VPN can create some issues when using Fiverr. This isn't because you're not allowed to use a VPN (I've asked support and they confirmed this), but because Fiverr has measures in place to detect fraud. When you use a VPN, you're basically sharing an IP with thousands of other people – and some of them might be a seller on Fiverr. If Fiverr sees multiple accounts logging in from the same IP, this can trigger an automatic system that will make the website unavailable for you while Fiverr checks out the activity. Besides, you don't really need a VPN to encrypt your traffic on public WiFi, because all HTTPS traffic is encrypted already, directly in your browser. If you see the padlock symbol in the address bar, your traffic is encrypted already. All you do when using a VPN is hiding which websites you're visiting from your ISP or network provider, but at the same time, you're just giving that info to the VPN company instead. So many lies about how VPN works out there, and what it can do. So avoid using VPN if you can. 🙂

I like that you're taking this to the forum, Mark, because It's been an issue of some debate and discussion on the forum lately....But... Cleaning up the mess of stolen gig descriptions, gig thumbnails, templates and logos sold on the platform will be an impossible task, unless you require these thieves to actually invest money into their business. As soon as they have to pay for something, I'm willing to bet that 99% of them run in the other direction before even opening a gig. It's the reason why they steal in the first place: to avoid having to do things properly. Paywall!

A lot of sellers on the platform could benefit from learning more about what the Quran says about lying. I hope your gig becomes a best seller and that you'll pay particular attention to 16:92, 4:107, 2:9, 2:10, 9:77, 40:28, 29:3, and 5:119. My favorite is Surah An-Nisa 107: Do not advocate for those who wrong themselves. Surely Allah does not like those who are deceitful, sinful.

Thumbnails/profile picture: Too much text. Try to use less text and focus on the most important parts of your service. Having a bunch of text in your thumbnails make it difficult to read, especially on mobile. Thumbnails should be clean and tell the buyer what you're about right away. Using a picture with a hijab and sunglasses doesn't inspire a lot of trust. I'm not saying that you shouldn't wear a hijab, but combined with the sunglasses it's impossible to see your face. Showing your face can help create trust and show the buyer that you're a real person. Trust is key! 🙂 Gig description: You're claiming to be a fluent English speaker on your profile, but your gig descriptions and profile descriptions are full of errors that a fluent person would never make. Lying to your buyers will not make you successful. Always be honest about your skills. I hope this helps! 🙂

You need to look at the reasons why people aren't visiting your gig or sending you messages. If you don't get clicks, look into your gig title, thumbnail and pricing. If you get clicks but no orders/messages, look into improving your gig description and/or packages. You need to find out why first. Then you can start working on the how. 🙂

Why use Firefox? There are tons of other, better browsers out there. If you want privacy, Brave is an excellent option built on Chromium. Microsoft Edge is also built on Chromium, and has some nice privacy features if you decide to entrust your data with Microsoft. Chrome is the all-rounder but privacy and RAM usage sucks. Firefox? It uses a different engine from all the popular browsers out there, so you'll naturally come across problems because the web is mostly designed around the big boy on the market: the Chromium engine.

Your forum badges, levels and ranks have absolutely no effect on your success or position on the Fiverr marketplace.

What have you done so far to succeed? Do you have a proper business plan, the skills to back it up, and a strategy for marketing and building trust on Fiverr? I noticed you call yourself a professional writer (an extra-professional!) on your profile, yet your gig and profile descriptions are clearly not written by a fluent English speaker. Even so, you claim to be fluent on your profile. Lying to sellers won't make you successful.

If something prevented your gig from being published (i.e. quality requirements, skill verification and so on) you'd get a notice about it. I suspect this might be a cache problem. Try clearing your browser cache or see if you can publish your gig in a different browser. If that doesn't work, contact Customer Support and I'm sure they can help you with getting your gig off the ground. To save time, remember to mention the steps you have tried to solve this on your own, otherwise they will just tell you to do the same: clear your cache or try a different browser. 🙂 You can create a ticket with Support here: https://www.fiverr.com/support_tickets/new I hope this helps! 🙂

Indeed a nightmare buyer. I rarely have this type of buyer, simply because I don't charge five bucks. By making them invest a considerable amount in their order, the buyer is more likely to take the time to get it done right. It doesn't make you immune, but it helps. “There are two kinds of idiots - those who don't take action because they have received a threat, and those who think they are taking action because they have issued a threat.” ― Paulo Coelho, The Devil and Miss Prym Clients with a history of cancelations is certainly a red flag. But then again, I tend to support the buyers on this one. If a buyer comes to me after having a negative experience on Fiverr (it does happen) I do my best to make their experience with me the best possible one. I don't mind high expectations, because I also expect the best of myself. But the keyword here is high expectations. Not unrealistic expectations. I often get buyers who have ordered a translation or voice-over from some amateur here on Fiverr, and they're naturally disappointed about the whole thing. Then they decide that "Hey, it might be worth it to pay a bit more for quality and try out this Top Rated Seller here!". I'm gonna make damn sure they still think so when they download their delivery. That's a Scopoflayer. Threatening to give you a bad review is not ok. Customer Support – here I come. Threats also qualify the buyer for my Toxic Spider Monster badge. The ones asking for more before closing the order are Scopoflayers. Good lord. Yes. This is another classic example of the Scopoflayer. A very common specimen. I have one word: Lawyer. That's a direct violation of the terms, and in most countries, of copyright law, since the terms clearly state that the rights are only transferred to the buyer after payment. Which is why I always make sure my buyers know that they can come to me any time for help/included revisions/additional work if they need so, even after the order is completed. I don't care if I have to make a revision today or tomorrow: if it's included I'll happily do it for them. If the work is outside the scope of the original order, they have to pay for my time. Yep. This harkens back to unrealistic expectations. These can be very annoying. Good choice. Sorry to hear that! I wish you the best of luck on your quest to The Upside Down.

But Depp made it eternal.

Not as expected at all. This is shoddy work.

This is what I get if I open the message buyer box in a brief. Does that not end up in the inbox? And if it does, will that create a new conversation, giving access to the inbox, or will it only do that if the buyer replies? Or is it a separate inbox inside the brief?

Same. Back when the feature was launched I ranted about it. @frank_d said the team behind "Briefs" learned their lesson. Apparntly, they didn't get enough homework. D Minus.

Cool! I hope the winners will be well-deserving! Personally, I'm already living the dream in the Canary Islands, so I think I'll stay right here. 😄

Fiverr has tightened their requirements for quality as of late. If your gigs got denied, you're most likely not offering something Fiverr needs at the moment, or you're violating the terms. Without knowing more about the gig you were trying to set up (title, description and so on) it's difficult to say what the reason might be. But I can say for sure that Fiverr is denying more and more gigs, because they are moving away from low-quality services.

There's a technique for that! Simply drink 0,5L/a pint (or a mega pint, as Johnny Depp would call it) before each meal. It fills you up, reducing your calorie intake AND it hydrates you, all at once. All it takes is a 5-second-chug before every meal. That's 1,5 - 2 liters per day. Easy. 😄

Yes, but if I told you who he was, I would have to shoot you with my umbrella. In fact, that's not too far from the truth. I don't wear a tie at home, but other than that, I'm the kind of guy who's on a first name-basis with my tailor.

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