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Same, and as a business expense, it's a deductible, it's not a Netflix subscription, although the webinars are nice, and full of suspense, of course 😉

It might be beneficial to sellers who look at their "data", and want to apply the 20:80 rule. IF 80% of your business comes from Business Buyers, it might actually save you time, nerves, and trouble to list your Gig only in Business, for example. They might also "reward" Gigs that are exclusively listed in Business by promoting them more to Business Buyers than Gigs listed in both categories, that would make sense, at least. Ah, dang, the Contacts page doesn't have Business Buyer displayed as a tag. A filter for that would be helpful to see if it might be a good idea and worth a try, perhaps, or not, definitely not. 🙂

If you really want to quit, that's fine, but if you quit seeing it too emotional and ask yourself not why not to quit, but why to quit, it might help. As you say your own marketing is better than theirs, that's awesome. Then ditch all Gigs that aren't really worth it, that cause trouble, or edit your Gigs so that they'll cause no or little trouble and will be worth it, and so that mostly people who are willing to pay what makes sense for you, will message in the first place (apart from the unavoidable spammers, of course). Set up Quick Responses, and only check your Fiverr browser tab once within 24 hours to reply to everything at once/click Spam the spam button, or when you get a notification about something that might seem worth it. Try that for a while before quitting completely. Changing your attitude, approach, set up might make Fiverr work for you again, in a different way. But quitting is fine, if you think you're not getting anything from it, there are enough people who'll happily pick up your customers. Good luck in any case, on or off Fiverr.

Maybe they have a coder who is a Hieron fan and you found a Fiverr Easter egg or ratherHalloween egg? 😉 https://thenewarchives.fandom.com/wiki/Days_of_the_week

I have both Fiverr and Fiverr Business grey labels on all three of my active Gigs, not or, hovering over them shows the same Gig URL for both, when I click the tags, the page they link to has the same layout as well. Maybe the Fiverr Business tag will just show for Business buyers and have a different layout or something. Or those are just "informational tags" for buyers or even the Fiverr level evaluation team, without a real function, but as they do link to the Gig when clicked, they might lead non-business buyers to the normal Gig layout page, and Business buyers to the Business layout page. Hm, well, we'll see, I guess, doesn't look quite finished yet.

I think it's very well possible, I've had that "regional rotation" thought a few times, too, looked like more than coincidence. Of course, it might still be coincidence, or could be something else, like a buyer recommended you to people from their country that they know, or the review of someone from that country appeared higher in your feedbacks maybe.

I'd disagree with this. Maybe I've read too often about how to interpret employer's references, and maybe it differs from country to country, and the buyer might also just have written it without thinking much about it, however, to me, this says "Communication was good (but the rest not)." It's like when a former employer writes "He was always punctual. We wish him well on his future endeavors." What they don't write, but imply, is 'but that's the only good thing we can say about him, you better don't hire him. You're welcome.' On Fiverr, I can very well imagine that a buyer might leave such feedback without implying anything, but what I don't know is how many people might yet read it like that. I'd still generally agree with Vickie's "just move on", her and strategist_ceo's "respond (positively)" to that review, and Andy's "answer the why and remedy it", though. What does "ever since"/"since then" actually mean, half a year, a month, a week?

Hello there. I think it depends mostly on which categories it's about, how related those different categories are, how credible it is that you can do all of what you offer well, and on the buyer type you want to appeal to. Are they related somewhat? Good. Not at all? Mh, can work, but might be iffy, and I think everything really needs to be and look extra-polished and perfect then, or you need a really good story for the why. Personally, if buying, I tend to go for specialists rather than Jacks and Janes of all trades, and I think most if not all of my "relevant" customers, too. I'd also rather recommend someone who seems to be in it with their all. Keep in mind that whether you are "able to deliver, in any given instance, with a high level of buyer satisfaction" (completely possible, don't get me wrong) is not really relevant if you are still looking to get your first orders, what counts is what people looking for a seller think when they look at your Gig assortment (the more feedback for your Gigs you'll have, the easier it should be to get an order for a not super related Gig, too, so maybe start with not too much variety, and expand later if you want; however, if you're aiming high and want to reach TRS level eventually, my hunch is that it's easier being a specialist). Definitely agree with Vickie's take regarding repeat clients, they are especially important on a platform that works like Fiverr does, and if you want to focus on something, repeat clients are a good bet. You can also pause Gigs, so you could create what you'd like to have, and have different Gig combinations displayed at any one point, to see if it seems to make a difference in orders. The problem with that is that it's often hard to pin down something on a specific thing one does, and that it takes time to get really meaningful results with A/B(/C...) testing. Generally, for most people, my advice would be to focus on "their one thing" for the start, and see how it goes. But if you don't really have a "one thing", well, maybe do your "several things". Generally, for people who actually know what they are doing, one of my advices would also be "you do you", after all.

Incredible (Almost. Of course, by now, I've come to expect no less than miracles.), exactly what I'd have written, had I not been busy, stinging word for stinging word. I'm deeply touched and owe you a caffeinated drink of your choice, should I ever spot you somewhere that offers such manna from heaven (and where else should I). Thank you so much, Tommy. I'm still busy, alas. Is that available as a Gig or song? I might buy it, unless it would cut into my espresso budget too much.

I'm blocking people who send spam messages through the app all the time, the app just has "Block" right away, no "Spam" or "Report" button. I always send a quick QR that I have saved for spammers first, to make sure that my response rate doesn't suffer, before I block them. In your and similar cases, that QR could be something like "I'm sorry, but I can't help you with this." If I'm working on my laptop, I'll rather use Spam/Report for plain spam, but if it's someone who actually might want to or would order, but I don't want to work with them and think they might yet place a direct order, despite making that clear, I'll use the app's Block function, as Spam/Report button seem a bit "off-topic" to me in such cases. Granted, if you said "no" multiple times, and they keep messaging, it becomes spam, though, but for similar cases, maybe keep the app in mind.

I wonder whether all buyers have this option now, or if it's a limited beta, like many new seller features tend to be. I haven't got that notification yet, a buyer recently resorted to the good old revision request feature instead. Ah, no, sorry, my bad, they used that button to ask a question, not to prolong the review time, haha. Well, anyhow, if they haven't yet, maybe they should consider keeping such features exclusive to paid Business Buyer accounts (those, typically, should also be the ones who might really not be able to review/have staff review the deliveries over the quoted weekend), just like some features are only available for Seller Plus accounts.

Not bad, not bad. I'd work on the header, for psychological reasons, but that should be nice for the Basic Gig. For the Standard Gig, you could include use of the sandwich tactic and hide the last part somewhere in the middle, and for the Premium add a little espresso something to the sandwich tactic, maybe extra proofreading to make sure the names and designations are right, and it doesn't say cousin if it should have said sister. Oh, and don't forget to add the subscription feature to the Gig

They replace you with a 🤖 and take 100%. Seriously, though, and not just regarding your Fiverr account, if you want to prepare for your eventual demise, and make it easier for the person(s) who'd inherit your wordly possessions and assets to get everything that's rightfully yours, as smoothly and quickly as possible, do leave all the info they'll need, and make sure that you also set up all the necessary paper stuff that's needed in your country to get a certificate of death and inheritance. It's hard enough to have to deal with the death of a beloved person, and I applaud anyone who thinks (and acts) in advance, to not add more mundane and aggravating things to that burden than inevitable. If you're thinking of bequeathing your account to someone to use it instead of you, that's not going to happen, as it's a personal account, it dies with you, in that regard. For team accounts, which would be able to keep running mostly as usual, it might make sense for the account holder to talk to support to see if it's possible to leave a list of other team members with them, who could step up, but unless the heir(s) happens to be among the remaining team members, this would seem so complicated, all in all, that my guess is, no, account would get closed, remaining team members need to open a new account. If any team account holder is going to ask support, I hope they'll share their intel, would be interesting to know.

Generally, other than things I know won't be needed ever again 111%, I keep everything, and shove "done, probably never need to look at it again" files into zip folders within my client folders at the end of the year. The ones I will or might have to refer to again in the nearer future, remain in their client folder. Depending on how many files per client, I move them to a "2022(or whatever the past year was)" folder within the client folder. I have many regular clients, and searching things by client/project is more useful than by year(/month), for me, than making years (/months) my main structure. I do have yearly zip folders, too, with things that likely are one-off jobs, once a year jobs, etc., and definitely won't be needed as "reference material", to not end up with a folder structure with thousands of client folders, though. I've had a client with a worst case scenario a while ago, coming back quite a while after order completion, as their laptop had died, and they didn't have any backups, and it was a whole book... I have no idea how long Fiverr will keep the files, so I feel safer keeping them myself. I have considered writing up a delivery message template in which I remind customers to download and backup their files, as I'll only keep them for x time and don't know for how long they'll be able to re-download them from Fiverr. However, I've had/have clients who aren't well organized, and ask me for this or that file again, or how we did it there, and, in sum, for me, it's the better (quicker) solution to keep everything myself, within my own system of ordering. Between zip folders and erasing unneeded "file multiples" (temporary versions, duplicate downloads, etc.) on the go, I don't really have storage issues, external drives being big and cheap enough now. If you wouldn't be using external drives anyway, else, and want to digital nomad it with just the tiniest computer possible, and no additional baggage, I guess it would make sense to add something about not storing files for more than x time, and customers responsible for keeping their own files and having to provide them in case they'll be relevant for future work to the delivery messages (shrug, and go "told ya", if neither customer nor Fiverr then come up with a file that you'd need again at some point). Me, I('d) have external backup drives for private stuff like photos, music, things I don't want in the cloud, and such, anyway, so I just get big enough drives for my backup system (don't forget the rule of 3, and keep one drive at a relative's or friend's house, and swap the backup drives out regularly, while we're at it, people, remember that the guy who'll steal your laptop might fancy your external drive, as well, and fire and water aren't picky, either ;)), and am done. If I had loads of massive and unzippable files to store that even drives in the TB range would hiss at, I'd decide on a "storage time" that would make sense/be the best compromise, and save a pre-written "file storage reminder" QR to add to my delivery messages. Just in case anyone needs this addendum, and fears that it will sound harsh to a customer if you apparently don't want to store their precious files for all eternity and beyond: That reminder could focus on data security (your scheduled safe disposal of old files), or customers being able to access their files at any point (what will they do if you're not on Fiverr any more next time they come back and need an old file?) instead of storage space. You don't have to write it like "Store your files yourself, I don't have that many TBs left." 😉

So... does this prove that it's saving time/laziness or that they don't know how to write hello, I mean, it could also be a typo of 'Hlo', so both is possible. ... And how about this? Saving time/laziness – then why not go all the way and write "Snd m rdr pls" (anyone used to getting spam here, would be perfectly able to understand it, after all ;))... And why the effort of using the shift key, or did they copy-paste that as templates that someone did in Word where the first letter auto-changed to upper case? Mystery over mystery.

Hi. Editing your Gig might only have an impact for TRS level evaluation, as the other leveling evaluations aren't manual but just depend on raw stats. That is, assuming that you didn't do any edits that would break Fiverr's ToS/get you a warning, of course. Once you're thinking you might get promoted to TRS, I'd recommend doing any editing well enough in advance of the evaluation date, so you'll have enough time to discover potential typos and such, or things that maybe looked better in your mind than they do on the actual Gig page.

I hope you also got the hy ones, at least, else, your collection is lacking even with the hlo one. 😄

Yes, getting this, too, very often. I think the real mystery is why you just got it for the the first time. ラッキー!* 😉 * Lucky (you)!

How about coding something to make weekends exempt to both the 3 days for review as well as for sellers' delivery times? I perfectly understand that some buyers would rather fully enjoy their weekends, and not keep the 3-day review period in mind when timing their ordering, so, if an order gets delivered, for example, between Friday noon and Monday morning, the 3-day review period could be auto-extended until Wednesday. And for sellers, an option to choose if they work on weekends or not (or even with fine-tuning to just declare Sunday as the weekend but not Saturday), and if not, their Gigs would automatically be paused on weekends, without having to activate out of office mode, but with the same effects, and if someone orders a Gig with a delivery time that includes a weekend, those 2 days would automatically be added to the delivery time - of course, there'd need to be some automatic note for the buyers, before they order, so they'd be aware that if they order a 24-hour Gig on Friday or Saturday evening (seller time), it would be due Monday evening, not Saturday or Sunday evening, and also for longer delivery times, it should say something like "9 work days, due date: ..."

I don't know where you are and how your tax situation is, but if you pay any, you should be able to offset it as a business expense, which might make it sound less expensive. Just something to keep in mind, as I never see it brought up when this topic appears. I love the Buyer Insights feature very much, by the way, and I'd agree with everyone who says, at least try it out for a month and see if it's worth it to you or not.

The "last six months of the year"? 😯 That's half the freaking year! 😉 Anyway, since it's October now... my most imminent and practical goals are earning more, spending less, and following the now seemingly monthly recommendation letters from the gas company to study the ways of the Inuit, become an ascetic, and lower my room temperatures by yet another degree Celsius. More fun goals are beating my own record of number of consecutively studied days that my kanji app pretty successfully entices me with, enjoying November to the fullest (while still keeping the room temperatures to the absolute minimum ;)), actually playing that board game I bought months ago to play with a friend, and collecting more rewards in my LifeRPG app. Yeah, yay for playing, games, and gamification, more needed than ever in a darkening world... 🙂

Not having spent more time with people who aren't there any more to spend time with. That's about it. Everything else is transport.

Some things to contemplate: If you've heard about it, it's not a secret. If you've heard about it, Fiverr staff also have. If they hadn't heard of it, or thought of the possibility until now, which is ultra-doubtful, they'd have now. You're aware that your posting on Fiverr's official forum, right? An alternative idea to "secrets" might be trying to be effective yourself, instead of relying on effective "secrets" that can get you banned. Not using such "secrets" is better for your peace of mind. And Buyers love effective sellers.

Yes, but I'm still surprised that they added this specific feature to the basic plan, which I thought would be more like a gentle transition into a P2P era and your very basic P2P fee. But apart from that, I thought I wrote it between the lines 🙂 but in clear text, there are premium plan features that I'd rather give up than that one, so, yeah, like this, I agree that there should be a little more oomph between the plans (but for me, the Insights would've worked for that). However, for many people, the SM option might be the decisive factor, and it's possibly the biggest cost factor anyway, so it makes sense to think that's enough oomph from Fiverr's side.

Me either. What I did get once, though, was a message that went something like "We noticed that your delivery is late, you can cancel, but we recommend contacting the seller" (not that exact wording, it's been a while, but that was the gist of it). The order was already in "Very Late Status", when that message came. I think the 12 hours message for sellers isn't too much of a concern, it wouldn't really be possible to offer 24 hour Gigs if you never want to get into the 12-hour zone, there's time zones, and you need to sleep every now and then, after all, and Fiverr certainly wants sellers to offer 24-hour Gigs or Extras. And buyers who order 24-hour Gigs probably wouldn't be phased by the 12 hours message IF they got it, either. If I order a 24-hour Gig, the seller obviously has 24 hours, not 12 hours to get it done. So, yes, I agree that it's something Fiverr wants to help sellers with (yes, yes, I know, by extension, also buyers and themselves, but that's synergy, we all need it!;)) But, yeah, just as a cautionary addition, don't be afraid of the 12-hour notice, but better never let an order get "very late", as the buyer might get a message and decide they'd rather like to simply cancel one-sidedly, if they already get the option, and you won't only be stuck with a cancellation but also the 1* "Order cancelled, Seller didn't deliver on time" automated feedback.