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Living alone clearly changes things up. In my house, I would have to have at least 6 robots. We have a big house and a baby, so that obviously adds to the workload. Your garbage situation sounds very nice, though! I envy you. Dishes: you have to put the it in the machine and take it out again. Floors - I'd need six Roombas just to vacuum and they would run constantly. Did I mention we also have three cats? Laundry - Duh! But you have to sort it, put it inside the machine, put detergent in it, then take it out, dry it (or put it in the drier) and then fold it and put it back into your closet. Garbage: That adds up to 8,6 hours per year spent on garbage. So if you spend five minutes a week on the Roomba (4,3 hours per year), 10 minutes on dishes per week (8,6 hours per year), 10 minutes on laundry (8,6 hours per year) and 10 minutes on garbage (8,6 hours per year), you're spending 30 hours on chores around the house per year. So it adds up. Lol

Per week for a familiy of three, eating four meals per day. One of us being a baby. I don't think 3 hours per week doing dishes is that unrealistic. Maybe madmoiselle could time herself doing dishes, to see how we would compare? 😄

I travel a lot and I usually stay at rather fancy hotels, since I'm a sucker for that type of luxury. You sure do feel important when working from a large chair surrounded by chandeliers and expensive golden furniture. If you're tired of your apartment, that can certainly be great for your mental health. But I prefer to work from home or the hotel room, to be honest. I get easily distracted. When it comes to having a housekeeper, I don't view it as a luxury. I view it as a sensible thing to do. The pleasure of watching someone else clean my house is one thing, but I'm actually getting more time to work, meaning I earn money from having the housekeeper here. Next step: A butler!

I bet you're thinking, "good lord! The man is a slob!" right about now. Hold your horses. Let me explain. How much time do you spend cleaning and on chores around the house per week? Let's draw up some examples: Cleaning floors: 30 minutes Dusting: 10 minutes Dishes: 3 hours Changing bed sheets: 10 minutes Carrying our garbage: 15 minutes Doing laundry: 15 minutes Sweeping: 10 minutes Cleaning toilets: 10 minutes That adds up to 4,5 hours per week. (I rounded it down from 4,6 for simplicity). Your mileage may vary depending on the size of your home and family, how much of a slob you are and other things. My point is: we spend a considerable amount of time per week doing chores around the house. Let's add those 4,5 hours together to see how many hours we spend per year. 4,5 x 52 = 234 hours. That's almost ten full days. Or roughly 2.7% of a year. Now let's see what you can earn if you work 234 hours more per year. Let's say you earn, on average, 25 USD per work hour. By cleaning, you've lost out on 5850 USD in revenue per year. But hey – you schlump of a couch-potato sluggard Mr Smash – you might say. If you don't clean, someone else has to do it. That's what my housekeeper...*cough*... I mean cleaning and laundry attendant... is for. Let's say this service costs you 40 USD per week. That's 2080 USD per year. That means you've earned 3770 USD per year by not cleaning your own house. So I don't. And if you earn more per hour worked than the cost of a Cleaning and laundry attendant, you shouldn't, either. Even if you earn the same as their salary, at least you don't have to clean. I don't know why I felt like writing all of this. The idea just popped into my head today while sipping on my drink, eating a steak dinner and watching my housekeeper do her thing: I no longer have to excuse my laziness. I can simply say it makes perfect financial sense. And it would be the truth*. * For my secret method of never cleaning yourself to work, steak dinner may or may not ruin the math. Your mileage may vary depending on how many asterisks you need behind "truth" for this to work.

Review-swapping is a thing. And it's not ok. I've even seen some top youtubers do it to make "30 days on Fiverr" videos. I'm happy to see Fiverr taking action against this sort of cheating.

I have thought about it, yes! I believe becoming an expert in this field requires decades of experience. The competition is fierce in the intelligence business, but I see Fiverr has not yet entered into this untapped resource. I will surely make market research optimize gig ranking day by day up up up so you can congratulate me. 😄 As a journalist and editor-in-chief of my very own newspaper, I know all to well how opinions can color coverage. I've made it a point to always provide fact based information. But even when you provide pure facts without opinionated wording, the stories themselves can also affect bias. The stories we choose to write about matters just as much as the words we put down. That's one of the reasons why I started reading the newspapers on the other side: to find story ideas that weren't affected by my own bias. I'm a personal conservative liberalist. I apply conservative values to my own life, yet I'm not religious at all, and I'm a firm believer in personal responsibility and freedom to live your way as you see fit, as long as you don't stand in the way of other people's liberty to do the same. Whenever I see something that would make me angry or have some sort of emotional reaction, I'll always check all sides of the story I can get my hands on. I wish more people did that. Herd conformity and lack of perspective are not only counterproductive; it's dangerous. Echo-chambers will do that to you.

Good lord. Nothing is more annoying than spending 30 minutes chatting about a project, just to get the "Could you do it for..."-message. That's why I always get started with the price-talk as soon as possible. I hate to waste time.

Exactly. This is why I love Fiverr. In and out. There's far less time spent on fluff, like meetings, phone calls and e-mail-threads as long as the Eiffel Tower.

Thanks man! Haven't seen Frank for a couple of days, and a couple of posts of mine have been in the abyss for two days - haha. If you see him, feel free to mention it 😄

You already posted about this. Why post the same thing twice?

I sometimes give fixed discounts to clients with ongoing projects. I also send out discount coupons now and then as a way to market my services. But I also see some problems with doing this: by lowering your rate for regular clients, you open yourself up to them expecting even more of a discount. By being firm about your rates all the time, you encourage a bit more respect for your time. But I'm not against discounts to good clients. But I think it should be used sparingly and only to reward loyalty.

Yeah, these buyers don't have a budget. They just want the best bargain. I get that most people come here for bargains, but come on. In my industry (voiceovers), you can easily charge 1500 bucks for a 20-second voice-over on regional tv. Yet they come to Fiverr and buy literally the same product (same quality, same experience, maybe even the same voice-over talent) for 200 bucks instead. The other day, I had a discussion where I defended this pricing model to some "industry top-hats" who like their elitist position and love to trash-talk Fiverr. I explained that I can charge less because Fiverr takes care of the marketing, CRM and I never have to audition for jobs. It's usually <*Order placed* *Record* *Order delivered*>. No directed sessions with corporate schmucks. No waiting on hold while CEOs have their foot massage before they can listen in on the recording sessions. Simply put: I can do more recording, less of all the other stuff, and I get paid for every word I record instead of auditioning for ten roles to get one. So yeah. You are already getting one hell of a bargain as it is. But they don't know that. Or perhaps they don't care. I know it's similar for a lot of industries.

I can certainly see how this can be frustrating. With a cancellation right away, you likely have a very bad order completion rate at this point, and it can make it very difficult to get any new orders. Do you have any customers/clients outside of Fiverr? If so, you could bring them over to the platform. This only helps if you have existing clients who are willing to move their business with you to Fiverr, though. Getting a few orders completed in combination with time passing, should fix your order completion rate. You had a bad start for sure. This shows how important it is to avoid cancellations, especially in the beginning. You say you got an order two days ago. But you chose to cancel it after just two days? In the future, you should try to communicate with your buyer about the requirements for as long as possible. If you still can't get through to the buyer after a week or two, I recommend getting in touch with support. They will usually help you cancel the order without hitting your order completion rate at that point. In the meantime, keep working on your gigs, profile and business. Best of luck!

"Upbringing is a talent that very few have." Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson, famous Norwegian writer in the 1800s. I'll respond with something like this: Ok - let's carve this out to make sure I have fully understood your request. You want me to write X amount of words for X USD. Since my rate is XX, that means you want me to write XX number of words for free. Unfortunately, I can't take on pro bono projects at this time, due to high demand. You're welcome to reach out again if/when the budget is aligned with my rates. In the meantime, I'd be more than happy to write X% of your content, based on the percentage of my rate you wish to pay. I wouldn't have set my rates like I have, unless I thought it was "reasonable". If the client disagrees, I don't want them as my client. Update on the original post: The buyer came back after an hour or so. He told me he understood, and that he was happy to increase his budget to fit my rate. He was bold enough to ask for some free background music with his order. I obliged and gave him a royalty-free track in my production library. I also recorded two versions for the guy (I usually do). 10 minutes after delivering, I had a shining five-star review and the buyer even sent me a message thanking be, pointing out the great quality I talked about earlier, and said he would come back for more in the future. So it does help to stick to your rates! If I hadn't I could have ended up with a difficult buyer who continued to ask for free work. Instead, I probably have a repeat buyer who knows that I deliver top-notch stuff - but not for free.

I would reach out to support before I mention the company name. Position and company type should be ok. But mentioning the name could have implications for your account, so before you do anything, make sure you've cleared it with support. That way, you should be safe.

I loved the video!

Haha. As a buyer and seller I can certainly attest to it being Wild Wild West out there. Yeah I have plenty of buyers who tried other sellers to cut costs, but then end up paying them + me because they couldn't do it right.

I always like to check the bias. Even if it's from the side I agree with on any particular matter, because I don't want to be in an echo chamber. I enjoy reading the other side's opinions or coverage. Usually, the truth is somewhere in the middle.

The title is an abbreviated version of a conversation I just had with a potential buyer. I think it becomes almost funny when buyers try to haggle. The conversation (again, abbreviated) went on: Buyer: "I will check out other sellers too, but I wanted to order from you because you have good quality". Me: "If you want 50% of the quality, I can recommend using one of the gigs that cost 50% as much. That's half price, half quality." Do you guys have examples of buyers trying to haggle that ended up giving you a laugh?

Ok, so here's the thing. You have to be really careful when doing this. If you get found out, you risk being labeled as a pervert. That could hinder you in your effort to collect poop down the line. First of all, you need a good disguise. You build a hidden room under the dedicated excrement-gathering-toilet. This is where you place the sophisticated Excrelector 2000 TM. Now, you just have to wait. If you wish to hasten the process, ask the subject if he wants gum. Provide him with Feen-a-Mint. After collecting the stool in your Excrelector 2000 TM - you need to carefully wrap it in the Stool-O-Bag Pro Intelligent Edition. This will allow for sufficient cooling during transport. It's really not that complicated, when you think about it.

Being active on the forum has nothing to do with your success on Fiverr. This myth have been debunked multiple times, by several top and pro sellers, and even Fiverr itself! Please stop spreading these lies. It's not helpful. To the OP: I recommend that you always take a close look at the seller profile of people giving advice on the forum, before you take them seriously. A lot of bad advice on here. Make sure the sellers you take advice from are actually successful on the platform.

"Your expected impression and clicks"... So you make a gig, you're on the platform for a few days, and then you expect success to just come by itself? That's not how business works. Here are some tips on how the Fiverr "ranking" system works: Here is a post I wrote yesterday, about making your profile look more trustworthy and credible on Fiverr, even if you have no reviews yet: Best of luck! 🙂

Not sure what praising God in Arabic has to do with business on Fiverr. I think "praise be to the seller that managed to turn a stupid and mostly useless functionality into her own advantage" would be more suitable. After all, it's @vickieito who did this. Not God. I have kept them on, just so I can reject them and offer my reason: "I don't work with this language", in the hopes that Fiverr staff will notice and fix this crap. 😁

Haha, I'll ask my mom! That's true. If you fart too much, it gets boring having to retake again and again! Trust me, you don't want to let SBDs go in the booth. It becomes musky in there as it is. This is why I don't let anyone rent my studio, even though I could probably make a fortune from it. 🤣