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Take a look at IFTT, there are a few Fiverr applets. I have one that's by Fiverr, so it should be safe to use. It adds orders to your Google calendar, but unfortunately, it only says "x ordered (gig name) for (amount) on Fiverr", not even the due date. But maybe it helps you at least a bit if you can see those orders in your weekly or monthly calendar view. And perhaps there are new applets, it's been a while that I checked.

Sooooo much spam lately. Just had a guy tell me he can do "my project" in 4 days. Don't ask me why 4 days, when he doesn't even know what I want done, probably someone told him that 4 days is the ideal length for people to not think they'll get a Google translation and at the same time won't bail because they don't want to wait too long. And don't ask me why those governments or gurus or Ytrs, or whoever sends them all, doesn't tell them the difference between Gigs and BRs. I'm glad the Spam/Report buttons are just virtual, else I'd have broken them by now, like my right shift key... 😔 ETA: Ha! "Fixed" it. Thank the kami-sama for washi tape. Hopefully, now, I won't get the # all the time, when I want the ' ... Yay!

Thank you, it would be great to hear if it worked well for you or not, if you'll remember and want to spare a few moments to update us on your success (fingers crossed). Hello. Yes, I'd suggest brushing up your English and reading basic things first, like Fiverr's Help Center, and forum topics in the "Tips for Sellers" category. And books about how to sell whatever it is that you want to sell, maybe in your local library, or online articles on such topics. I'd also recommend asking more specific questions, and to make your own topic for this, as it's off-topic here, maybe try in the "Improve my Gig" category, but even there, you'll need to be a bit more specific, this is a forum, not a 1:1 coaching course. I'd also invest a tiny bit more time into typing complete words, like "hello" and "you" instead of "u", especially when you're trying to get anyone to buy anything from you. Good luck.

Guilty, no, no, no, don't go searching any guilt in there. Risky? Maybe, who knows what that sneaky algorithm is up to. I guess I'd even lean to yes, because... I don't think the block button's purpose is to avoid saying no, sorry, no match, but to block people who harass you and such. And spammers. It's pretty much all I do with the block button, block spammers all day long, two dozen a day or so, recently, or at least it feels like it, I should start a list... If you have to block so many potential customers, maybe take a quiet hour and ponder if you may be able to keep them from coming to you in the first place through changes in your Gigs, and/or set up a quick response for the most common scenarios, with the perfect balance of politeness and firmness, that you can (adapt to the occasion and) send instead of blocking them, ideally early on, as soon as you realize that it's not going to be, so you can save time there and spend it on the customers you want to work with.

Maybe check Grammarly's terms, for "Individual Subscribers", for instance, it says: I don't think that "for your own personal purposes" covers Fiverr Gigs, but I don't use Grammarly for any services I offer, so I haven't looked deeper into it. Your Gig issue may well have been the "Academic", etc., but anything that's against 3rd party terms, is automatically against Fiverr's terms, so, if you want to use Grammarly to offer services, probably better do your research first.

I was just about to edit a Gig and discovered this - the "PLUS" thingie might mean it's an additional option for Seller+ only, I guess, so if you can't find it and aren't in the Seller+ program yet, no worries, nothing wrong with your edit page then. You, who got this option, do you think it will be helpful? What are you going to put in, "cheap"? 😉 I'm not sure yet in how far it might help me; while I surely get irrelevant messages sometimes, I think they'll be hard to filter out by using this feature, without keeping away relevant messages at the same time, but I'll give it some thought, it surely could be useful if it works well, and you find the right words, and might save you time and boost your conversion rate. At the moment, I fear that a feature to filter out messages by criteria like "first line of first message/s of new person may not contain "Hy", "Hoi", "mam", ... would be more useful spam is really terrible lately, while even an actual buyer person who doesn't quite want to buy what you offer, but generally wants to buy, might lead to business, now, or eventually, or you might be able to send them on to the right category or seller, at least, and help keeping them on Fiverr. But I like the idea and option of negative keywords, so I'll be pondering which 5 tags to try out one of these days.

I'm not sure how you clearing your cache and cookies would have enabled your buyer to place an order, but I'm no tech person. Hopefully your next lead will be able to order. Did it work for your "-1" issue?

If you had unavailable mode on before, check both desktop and app, to make sure it's deactivated on both, I've had it happen that I deactivated unavailable mode on the one, but it apparently hadn't updated on the other one. I'd also check the number of "Allowed orders in queue", and if any of your Gigs happen to be paused, even if you're sure you didn't set a number for that or ever paused a Gig, just to be safe. If none of that helps, I guess a support ticket is the way to go. About this bit: Depending on where you're taking this from, it might just be you looking at a rather unhappy design/coding/symbol choice on Fiverr's part; it's pretty clear when you have several orders, but if you currently have just 1, and that one in revision, too, the dash might be confusing. "Active Orders: 8", or "Active Orders: 1", in your case, would be better, the 1 being the one in revision, as it's still active until completed.

Slightly off-topic, but then again not - unless they changed it, it seems buyers can also leave private feedback after a cancellation; or at least, that's what a buyer told me after a mutual cancellation, where he didn't need the service, after all, and I hadn't started with the work yet. He'd said he left good feedback, so I'm guessing it must have been a private review. But it's been quite a while, and my only cancellation as a buyer myself was a 'seller never delivered/reacted' scenario, so it wasn't a "standard cancellation", but led to that automatic public 1*-review by Fiverr on your behalf, and I can't remember if I was asked to leave a private review, maybe someone who had to cancel a Gig as a buyer more recently can confirm, or not.

My experience unfortunately matches that of smashradio rather than if vickieito. Almost all briefs I got were either Telegram scam spam, or totally irrelevant for my Gigs, i.e. for things I don't offer by a long shot, and the very few that were relevant, weren't that relevant, after all, like ridiculous budget, or super vague (and most probably the Telegram scam in disguise). I hope the current Buyer Request redesign took the data they gathered from the Briefs rejection questionnaires into account, so that the whole ordeal will not just have been wasted time for many sellers.

This reminds me of a used shop decoration item, a light display with "NO FEAR" written on it, I bought at an auction years ago, to put up in the kitchen (it's still there, but the socket stopped working at some point, I'll need to put on my electrician's hat, one of these days...), as a glowing reminder. Life is too short to be afraid of this or that all the time, and usually, being afraid doesn't really help with anything, either (putting aside things that your common sense, instinct, intuition, or knowledge about things like gravity will tell you to be afraid of, to keep you from doing really stupid stuff). I don't frequent places that want to sell me fries as an upsell, if anything I go places that sell the fries as the main attraction, but I dread going to the now only remaining stationary shop around, since they require their staff to try and upsell me copper-coloured markers or some similar must-have, whenever I buy a basic like paper, or stamps or something. It's super cringey, awkward, and I can't but pity them, and pitying someone or being pitied is no nice feeling in my book (even if there are people who seem to enjoy it, I don't, at all). I do, however, see a big difference between trying to "upsell" something that people actually need/should really have vs. trying to push something on them that they don't really need or want, and, personally, would only call the latter "upselling". Discussing additional payment because of "difference in original agreement and new request" issues doesn't quite hit the "upselling" box for me either, if a customer requests something new, that's not me trying to upsell, but me reacting with an offer to a new request. But that might be just different interpretations of semantics, it's an interesting discussion, in any case, reading different sellers stance on such things is one of the things that draw me back to the forum, despite everything.

I think I've seen a slight increase in direct orders, but just a slight one (it doesn't really make too much sense to order directly vs asking for a custom offer in my niche/with my Gigs, and the overwhelming majority of my orders happens through custom offers), which, I guess, may be owed to a trust perk of the TRS badge. I don't have the data to back it up, though, so I might be wrong. Apart from that, along the lines of what others already wrote, and mainly, yeah, I do highly manual and customised work, all by myself (no matter how many hundreds of new sellers ask me in usually extremely broken English to let them do my work for little money... yeah, as if...), so it's not as if I could just accept order surges anyway. With a high number of (semi-) regular customers by now, sometimes, I even have to say no to/lose a job I'd really like to do for a new person, because some people need their job done right now, or preferably the day before yesterday. If you have highly scalable Gigs, you probably see bigger effects from the badge, it's partly a self-propelling system in some ways, as we know, the more and the faster you deliver, the... Surge or no surge, I can only recommend aspiring to and getting one, in any case 😉 It's a shiny badge, and nice to have, for sure! ✨

Congos, congress, congarats, congrats, and congratulations! I'm sure you've worked hard enough for it, enjoy your joy. And the Swedish food. Well, I may be a bit late for the last bit, unless you're having a very late lunch today, as I just did (espresso, no sugar, of course ;)), but anyway. 🙂

Some do, some don't. I've no idea how common it is, but I got some nice original artwork. I have to say that I spend a lot of time before I decide on a Gig/seller, though, maybe that works in my favour.

Huh, my card says, I have to collect ten bought-a-coffee badges for the one-on-the-house rank. 🧐 Congrats, Rookie... nope, Apprentice (at the time of me writing, probably outdated at the time of you reading :)).

Never, so far. But like Annie, I sometimes mention the buyer fee - not that it's my job, as it's in the ToS, which they should have read, but, you know..., if I have the feeling it might be a stumbling stone, like the buyer is pretty new, or generally doesn't seem to have a good idea of how Fiverr works. The best reaction probably would be, "Sure, gladly, let's swap Fiverr fees, I'll take your 5.5% buyer fee, and you my 20% seller fee, let me update the offer." (If you don't want to work with them anymore now anyway, it's best to withdraw the original offer quickly, as they might accept it post-haste; if they'd accept the new offer, they may be a bit stingy, but have a sense of humour and be a good sport, after all, but, well, they might also just be more vengeful than stingy, and plotting a revenge feedback, you never know, that's why Fiverr is so much fun, innit. ;))

Of course it's sketchy to use VPN to hide your location in order to get orders from people who'd not hire you if you didn't use VPN, but what I'm saying is that not everyone with bad grammar uses a VPN/isn't from the country they say they are from/is sketchy. Did you ever, for example, read YT comments in your native language that were certainly written by your countrypeople? It tends to make me doubt our school system, young people these days ;), or humankind as a whole. 😅 Of course, bad grammar, whether cheating about one's whereabouts or origin or not, can and should be a hard pass for some tasks, but not necessarily for all. I know, by the way, some very smart and studied people, hailing from my own country, with dubious grammar 😄. They apparently managed to skirt it somehow at school and uni, probably their talents in maths or IT, or such, were enough to balance it out. And then there are immigrants, who may have bad grammar but are not cheating with VPN. (They might be still cheating if they pretend to have grown up with (English), but that's another discussion.) Anyway, a wonderful weekend to anyone, no matter their grammar fu! ⛅

From your similar post in another topic, I'm guessing that "attritive" means "attractive", but I still have no clue what a "gig Tummel" is? Maybe someone might gain something from your post, if you'd explain what a Tummel is, how to make an attractive one, why 18h, and not 17 or 19, and how exactly they are supposed to be active for 18 hours.

No, it would be indulging your inner collector, like paying an insensible amount of money on eBay for a Yu-Gi-Oh card that you really really want in your collection.

Today, I'm in your all red club too (if you're still in yourself). I'm pretty sure it's the first time I've seen red for all three values (not sure I've ever seen all green, as in Vickie's screen shot, either, I'm not really monitoring it, but it feels as I've only ever seen a mix of red and green before). Must be the hot summer, not even the algorithm wants to work and sips on iced coffees and binges shows instead of sending traffic our way 😉

Yeah, thanks, I thought it probably was a typo, but since one also can ETA (edit to add) to posts, and I might have missed any ads having been added or un-added... 😀 it could have been either. Private message with ad explains it and makes this thread a little 😉 less confusing. I can't be of any help about the replesment, though, in return, sorry, but replesment (replenishment/replacement, in case some of the provided accounts won't work?) or not, I'd recommend to not buy any hot accounts. 😉 (I know you won't anyway, of course.)

So now we have 2 yes, 2 no, 1 vague but with ethics reminder, and 1 satirical yes. And one of the people who replied "yes" <3ed my "No.", funny thread. What now, will OP count the yes/no replies at a certain date, and act according to the majority vote, instead of studying those and any platforms' terms of service and Fiverr's, and then deciding based on that information? Will the satirical yes be counted as a yes? Will the vague reply with ethics reminder be considered? And what with the sudden "ad(?d) in your original post" twist? Will we ever find out? Such a hi-tension thread.

One of the hitherto unsung seller+ benefits - conversion rate per Gig (and that is smart enough to not count spam, is my guess). If you have the choice but are still on the fence, "advanced analytics" are nice.

No.

It could be any of the things mentioned above, it could be pure happenstance, an unlucky combination of any factors. If I'd only have new customers all the time, it could probably be traced down to external factors like general economic situation or my Gigs needing updating. But the funny thing is that sometimes, even no regulars need anything for a while, and then again, everyone comes at once, new people and regulars alike. The only reliable thing is that nothing is reliable. However, if you have the time at the moment, do see if you can upgrade a Gig or even can come up with something new, especially if there is any new "trend" in your niche.