newsmike

That is outstsnding. I'm glad to see that you like to use other fiverr sellers for fun stuff. A few years ago we were discussing in the forum how to get people to pay attention to the terms of our gigs, like when people ask for revisions that are not included, etc... There was a seller at the time on fiverr named Miss Dixie, who was a drag queen making custom videos. Whenever I confirmed an order, I would send the usual big block of text outlining the terms of the gig, and it had a link that said. "If you don't care to read through all the gig's terms, click here to have it all explained by a friendly drag queen." 1589867117_MisssDixie-NewsMike.mp4

The forum is awash with threads from new users who cannot get orders and are seeking advice. The responses offering advice usually range from those who just copy/paste the same few obvious tips, such as "make a nice gig", to SEO tips, and often the dreaded "stay online always" bunk. It strikes me that the common thread between those asking for advice and the ones usually answering it (with the exception of a few experienced sellers who make a tireless attempt to help) is.... poor English skills. Yes. Poor English skills. I am not trying to offend, but if you look at the threads saying that they cannot get sales, and the army of responses, you will see that English is a problem to varying degrees in almost all of them. From the messages that are essentially gibberish to the ones with small tells, such as "please response me" and endless problems with calling people "dear", etc... I am not suggesting that you need perfect grammar, but I am saying that you need to be fluent to the point that the buyers feel comfortabele in your ability to understand in the most common situations. So, while gramatically incorrect, it is perfectly acceptable to say "I never got your response," it falls completely flat when you say, "OK Dear, you never response me." And, there are hundreds of these little tells. So it seems that in a global marketlace, where one can buy services from any one of thousands of sellers, why would someone not gravitate toward a seller with which they can easily communicate? If your competitor has that advantage, you will probably not succeed. I think we often start analyzing their woes and offer the same advice about checking gig images and descriptions, while maybe, out of politeness, we don't tell them that the most likely issue preventing sales is, poor English skills. It may be unfair, but human nature is to favor people who seem to be on the same page, and language is all you have on this platform to sell yourself. So English classes to the point of fluency is an investment that will probably help you make the sales you desire.

Amazing that you continue to spread this false information.

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I agree with you there. That's annoying.

I sort of understand, but honestly, this is about doing business, and if someone is trying to be polite, but misses the mark, who cares? It is about getting paid. Now if they are rude that's different. You can order my gig and call me Sunshine if you want. Money, money money.

I have, and I find your theory of cancelling orders with poor quality work in order to sanitize the reviews completely dishonest.

Thank you, glad to have you here. Good luck. Let us know how we can help.

Absolutely. I am thinking of posting a test "mother of all bad advice" post to see how many Condos I get.

I think it brings up the question whether we should spend time even trying to help new sellers, who are like bots when it comes to copy/paste bad advice, then high fiving each other for doing so. All while ignoring the good advice we give. It seems futile. Costco.

Yeah, but watch how quickly some one will post "stay online always". 😀

I unerstand, but we have corrected them dozens of times in the forum. It appears that they don't read the comments, just post and like, thinking that they get sales that way.

And very wrong at the same time. Every country seems to have it's particular issues with English.

I think you are confused. A "knock" is when someone pounds their fist on your door. Do you mean "message?"

Great article, but you missed the key point for me, which is that it is misrepresenting yourself. If a seller uses an auto-refresher to appear online when they are not, they are dishonest. Just as dishonest as someone who lies about their qualifications, or steals other people's work.

Pobably more sellers is the problem. How about $29/month to sell on fiverr? Lots more business.

Yeah, some people unreasonably expect to be paid back when you borrow money from them. Too bad they didn't explain the terms before you took the loan...oh wait they did.

I'll bet they weren't pretending.

So yes, you are still talking about dishonestly sanitizing the reviews to hide poor work. Still quite dishonest. Why not preach doing quality work from the beginning , instead of "tricks" to hide behind when they deliver bad work? Please read carefully.

Yeah, Kronos was kind of unpleasant. Kronos was the son of Ouranos, who turned out to be a cruel and unjust leader who was particularly awful to his wife and Kronos’s mother, Gaia. So, it didn’t take much for his mother to convince him of a cunning yet gruesome plan. A plan that led to Kronos castrating his father with the swing of a scythe! Understandably, you don’t come away from an event like that unscathed and a rather traumatised Kronos was indeed worried that he would live out the same fate as his father. So, to ensure his children never had the chance to overpower him he swallowed them as soon as they were born! Castration, baby eating, it’s easy to see why Kronos is one of the worst Greek gods in mythology. https://www.definitelygreece.com/worst-greek-gods/

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Which didn't work. Brilliant advice.

So your advice is to repeat what has not worked initially? You do not get "rank" from your gig, you get "rank" from the profitability of you gig.