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How so? If I spend four days researching, writing, re-writing, and proofing a high-quality long-form article on a difficult subject, how is that less time and effort, compared to a video edited with some transitions from stock photo that took an hour to collect? I'm not saying all projects is like this, and it's just an example. Each project is different, so I'm just curious as to how you reached that conclusion?

You can. I charge less than many other sellers in my niche, yet I am (and I don't mean to brag) one of the more professional sellers in the categories I sell in. But it can affect perceptions. It can make you look less professional. So that's something to keep in mind when you price your services. That's a fair point. I'm a good example of this. I work in the Norwegian market, but since I live in Spain, I can maintain a lower price point. This is true in all markets; you can outsource to low-cost-countries and save money. Then again, you have to consider things like language barriers, cultural differences that can affect the sellers understanding of your audience and so on. This in turn, can affect turnaround-times due to revisions or spending time explaining concepts to the seller. Time is money, so if you factor in the two added hours you spent explaining something to a seller that would be basic common sense in your own country, you've probably paid a similar price in terms of worth. My point being: Yes, you can get high quality at low cost. But it might take more time and effort to get it, identify which sellers are the right ones for you, and work around issues that might arise during the project.

Even so, you should never sell anything for five bucks. Not even if it's your first day. But charging 200 might be a bit much. Depends on the service. I just ordered a video for 60 from a seller with just one review. But they had a nice portfolio, great gig description, and clearly know what they are doing. So you can get nice orders, even if you're a new seller. But you need to take great care of your gig first and have the expertise to back it up already. You can create a gig video and showcase content from your portfolio in that video. 🙂 Exactly. The cheapskates of this world are usually rude and not very fun to work with. So if they don't like my prices, I'm happy to send them on their merry way. Tactical! I like it!

OR... Did you not do good?

The first thing I see is "5$" repeated over and over again. Cheap = low quality. Most buyers are looking for a blend between quality and value for money. You're also inviting bad buyers to order your gigs with that pricing. Here's some advice I wrote today about increasing your gig prices: You offer unlimited revisions. That's a big no-no for any professional. It means you don't respect yourself, your time or your business. Why would you ever work for free? You offer lifetime support. Again, a big no-no. First of all, what does this support includes? How are you planning on delivering that support? And again: why would you ever work for free? You offer "money back guarantee". That means I can order from you, and then get my money back. Again, you would have been working for free. To add insult to injury, your account would quickly disappear from search results and be doomed to Fiverr Hell if you end up getting multiple cancellations. And the only way to give the money back to a buyer, is by cancelling the order. There are typos and grammar issues in your gig descriptions. To me, that's a big red flag. It tells me that you don't care about your own business. So why should you care enough about mine when I order from you? I get that you're a brand new seller and you want to offer super cheap services to get your first reviews. But the result of all of this, is that you come across as unprofessional, since a professional designer worth their salt, would never offer these things, and certainly not for five dollars.

What can I say. I'm a philanthropist. 🤑

I guess it depends on what you think is good. I don't know - maybe you're just a scary good judge of talent - but usually, you can't have something good and cheap at the same time. Maybe it's good for the price, but if you compare it to something that costs three times as much, you'll likely begin to see the difference. I'm working on a video project these days. I've set aside 1000 bucks for it. It's just a gig video, but I want it to be good. There are sellers charging 9000 bucks for a video, sellers charging 300, and sellers charging 50. The difference in quality is obvious, especially from 50 to 300. After that, you begin to get diminishing returns, unless you need something with a custom camera crew on-site. The editing skills of the cheaper sellers might appear good at first glance, but then you begin to notice the little things, like the camera man reflected in a window in the cheap stock videos they use, or the color grading being offputting when viewing several clips together. You start to notice that they use the same transitions over and over. And just a couple of hours ago, I found a seller who has based an entire gig on a stolen tv commercial for a Norwegian supermarket chain. The gig sold this commercial for five bucks. It looked good as hell - because it was a million dollar production done by a professional crew, and not the seller. So you do risk issues when picking cheaper sellers. One of them being that your risk buying something that wasn't theirs to sell in the first place.

Aaaw, that means a lot! 🤩 I forgive you in my awesomenessesesesss. 😄

Hahaha. Yes, indeed. 😆 Good lord. I needed a good laugh.

It depends entirely on your budget and willingness to vet your sellers. If you have a respectable budget, you can find a lot of true professionals on Fiverr. On the other hand, if you're only willing to pay pocket change, you'll find the lowest quality you can think of as well. Fiverr has professionals who have been working for companies like Google, Pfizer, Microsoft, Apple and Coca Cola. Fiverr also has teens in their pajamas, thinking they are "experts" in digital marketing, yet they never seem to get any sales. So it's really up to you. The danger would be if you hire cheap sellers with no track record for success. You risk getting low-quality work that may reflect poorly on you down the line. If you're outsourcing to Fiverr, you can get great value for your budget, but if you're one of the Scrooge McDucks of the world, you're more likely to receive exactly what you deserve: nothing good.

Have you been thinking about raising your gig price, but you’re afraid of losing buyers? Here are some good reasons to up your game with a price increase. Earn more from fewer clients If your Fiverr dashboard is filled with small orders for five bucks, you’re probably doing something wrong. Charging five dollars for anything is madness if you’re a professional. It doesn’t matter what you do. Five bucks aren’t even worth the time it takes to thank the buyer for their order. Besides, having tons of orders means you never have time to give your buyers proper attention. It might sound counterintuitive, but you should strive to get fewer orders. That way, you can deliver your best work every time and charge more for it! One order netting you 50 bucks for an hour of work is better than 5 dollars for 30 minutes. Remember: communicating with and understanding each order, chatting with buyers and responding to their requests is also work. Less drama! My favorite reason to increase your rates. Are you struggling with bad buyers who seem to have lost their manners? Demanding ignoramuses who didn’t read your gig description? Then this is for you: High-paying buyers have a tendency to be easier to work with! Offer five-dollar gigs, and you’ll get the worst buyers Fiverr has to offer. If you’ve ever read Donald Duck, you know who Scrooge McDuck is. And you wouldn’t want to work with him, right?! Buyers who know what they want and have the budget to back it up will usually never purchase the cheapest gigs. They are looking for a great blend of quality and value for money. And since they aren’t paying “pennies” for some unprofessional gig, they are more likely to take their time, research your gig, and have a chat with you before ordering. Adulting is expensive A lot of sellers on Fiverr constantly worry about money. After all, we need food on the table. Raising your prices makes it easier to pay the bills each month (if you’re good at what you do, of course). Less stress benefits your health and clients since nothing can bring you out of the zone like a big pile of unpaid bills. You should also save money as a buffer. Ideally, it would be best to have savings that could last you for a year or more. If you only earn what you need right now, you’re doing it wrong.

The forum is full of resources for you to learn from. You need only look. Here's a good place to start:

I feel your pain. I once had a voice over client who did the same. Stupid instructions when not put into context. If you don't cancel it, you have to deliver it. There's no good solution to this, I'm afraid. You risk getting a negative review if you deliver (most likely, you will get one by the looks of it!) and if you cancel, your cancellation stats will take a hit. BUT... You did explain to the buyer in your inbox that you didn't want to take this job. You clearly stated so, from the looks of it. So, if I were you, I'd reach out to support, explain the situation, and that the buyer is passive agressive and makes you feel very uncomfortable. Support can cancel the order for you without it affecting your stats. They don't always do so, but it's worth a shot! It's your best option at the moment, in my opinion. No matter what, you should block the buyer as soon as your order is cancelled.

Are you asking about your "live portfolio" (that's the one below your gig image that shows recent projects you've delivered) or the Project Portfolio (that's the portfolio some sellers have at their profile and below the gig description). If you're asking about the "Project portfolio", here's what the Fiverr help center has to say: Project Portfolio The Project Portfolio is the place where our Top Rated Sellers and Pro Sellers can showcase their talent to the Fiverr community. In short: it's only available to Top Rated and Pro sellers.

A PDF is not an image. You should know this, since you're marketing yourself as "Best Photo Editor and Graphics Designer". A PDF usually comes in the A4 document size, however, other sizes can be used. It depends on the project. I'm not sure about the size limitations for uploaded PDFs.

You claim to be: If that's true, you should be able to market your own gig.

Adding to this, I'd say that if we are to go by pure numbers, Han Chinese are the biggest ethnic group in the world. Going by your logic, we should avoid using them, since they are in fact a majority. And like I said: not everything revolves around the US nor their demographics. I'm a white, nordic male, living in Spain. I'm in a minority here in Spain. Maybe I should demand "representation" from Fiverr? More nordic people from Spain to the front page marketing material!

First of all: Fiverr is an international platform. It's not even american. It's based in Israel. A country built by the people who know all too well what real racism looks like. Secondly, not everything revolves around the US. That applies to demographics as well. Thirdly, I think you're looking very hard to find something "racist" in this. This woke stuff needs to end. Who cares if they are using black, white or asian people? They are human beings. The group I've seen care about "race" the most, are the people screaming "racism" at every oppurtunity. Instead of looking for "racism" where there are none, how about we stand together and fight real racism instead? We could start by looking closely at the groups of people perpetuating the idea that race matters in the first place.

Toss "Briefs" out with the Buyer requests.

I know that used to be an issue, but I haven't had that issue for a few years.

You have a big heart.

Simply report the message as spam and move on. It's against the terms on Fiverr. Reporting a message as spam constitutes a response in the Fiverr system, meaning your response rate/time won't suffer.

Yes, there is an ideal way of handling it. Simply report the message as spam and/or report the seller profile if you're particlularly pissed off at the spammers. These "sellers" have absolutely no success nor willingness to take the time necessary to learn how to do business. They prefer to spend their time spamming more successful sellers, hoping for work or to learn the fast ways to rank their gig on Fiverr. I have no time for such simpletons. They have 0 work ethic, and I'm not about to waste my time responding to such requests. However, I'm more than willing to help Fiverr in stopping them from continuing their charade. Problem: Bubble headed "sellers" who don't respect your time or the rules. Solution:

Happy to be of help! To your question: I've actually had this happen to me as well. Sometimes, a project will be more complicated, requiring additional work due to unique requirements. I prefer to solve that using my gig FAQ. The chance of your buyer reading this before reaching out is very low. But you can put limitations on your gig offering by adding something like "Please contact me before making an order! All projects are unique and different." You could also limit the amount of work that goes into each page with a bulletpoint list of what's included, like: Up to 10 images on each page Up to 500 words on each page And so on. Then explain further in your FAQ that all projects are different, meaning your pricing will vary depending on the requirements of the buyer. When the buyer asks you "why 500? It's 300 on your gig page", you can say "Yes, but...." and show them your FAQ/refer to your gig description. Hope that helps! 🙂

I don't know how anyone would manage to get five gigs denied without bothering to learn the rules of the game. Anyway: this is not something we can help you with here on the forum. You need to reach out to customer support if you think it was done by mistake. You can create a ticket here: https://www.fiverr.com/support_tickets/ I also suggest that you take a closer look at the terms on Fiverr. Here they are: https://www.fiverr.com/terms_of_service/