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I remember browsing through the other thread, but hadn't really connected them before your comment, I just noticed both posts as the "not sure if OP is serious or being funny" kind, and saw this one as funny enough to engage in the sea of the usual forum fare. Going back to read, yeah, well, dunno, I'm pretty sure I've seen similar threads before, where people rant about being just one order or % away from leveling up or down or something. Seems hard to police, unless people outright ask to be helped out with their "just one order" "just three messages", and people who really just want to vent, certainly will feel nannied if they may not post such things if they do not have a hidden agenda? And where to draw the line? What if I just read a post by Mr. Mooch, and thought, "hey, human experience, squeezed into a note? He's here to help? Fair prices and even fairer services? And who knows, maybe he'd even add a coffee tip as a bonus? Yesss!", there I go and buy, and missed that he also posted a rant about needing one more order for whatever reason a day ago (as improbable as it is in this special case that I'd miss one of his posts, of course) - or even saw that rant (which he would never post, of course, we're still in this overly long "what if" sentence), too, but still decided I want to buy from him? Isn't that my personal decision? However, yes, I see the dilemma, and it would be sad if "it" "became a thing" because people notice that it might be a successful tactic, or some Guru starts preaching it on YT. It's not exactly the kind of content this forum needs more of. Maybe discuss it with your M badge colleagues and whatever staff has a say in forum matters if you feel it's important enough to set rules. I'd feel with the people who'd have to message sellers, including those with no hidden agenda to tell them, "Sorry, you might not have a hidden agenda with this, however, you're not allowed to rant about needing just one more order in the Ranting Pot, because...", in any case. M life, hard life, innit.

Let us know if you'll receive serious enquiries by same-level sellers who sell in a different category, and thus would be able to move in together with you without risking your accounts, or if by lower-level sellers in the same category who just want to talk your top secret Pro and TRS tips out of you, while making you pay for your espressos on your one and only date, and then slink away to become your competition or sell your secrets in books and courses. 😉 All the best to anyone who is looking to end their singleness, wherever, in any case!

The correlation beats me, unless there are dating sites out there that ask for your Fiverr level 😀 (which may exist, though, or maybe open one, who knows, maybe you can make a fortune), but well done, and reaching one goal is better than reaching no goal - congrats on the one and good luck with the other! 🍀

Mike is most certainly right there. If you completely rely on Fiverr and are really afraid of losing your regular customers if you raise your prices, another option would be to raise prices and insist on the new prices when new people message, but give "grandfathered" prices via custom offers or Fiverr's what are they called, Coupons, I think, to your, or some, regular customers (for now; you can still decide whether you can or want to keep it that way further down the line, when you see if you get orders from new people for your new prices). That's not an unusual business practice at all, and as it's your business, you're free to conduct it any way you like. (How I wish I'd been on or even known about a certain platform early enough to take advantage of a "life-time offer" they had when they started out, and could have profited from that grandfathered pricing all along, but that's life.) I'm also sure that for many among us, it would already help to insist on their current Gig prices, versus making cheaper custom offers, so many might be able to counteract inflation at least a little by that, and it should be easier to point at existing prices than telling people about a price raise even for people who are uncomfortable with price discussions or who have anxiety of any kind. Just type up a few nice quick responses in your downtime, in a relaxed situation, that you can use for typical "person asks for a lower price" scenarios that you encounter.

It's alive and kicking, as usual. It also sends its regards, and says you should do anything you can do to get sales, deliver great work, awe your customers with great service, keep them coming back, keep all your stats in top condition, don't take too much time off, keep honing your skills, attend Fiverr webinars to learn new stuff, use any features Fiverr gives you, and keep an eye on @frank_d's threads, specifically those with numbers in the titles.

I've developed an allergy against irrelevant phrases like "best price", and "I need you to do".

Late to the party, but as it's in my notifications for some reason, congrats on the tip - and even more so on your username, actually. I'm amazed it's allowed, and obviously should have picked a better one myself. Do you have any fun username story to share, if you still look at the forum or thread? I can imagine there must be some.

Of course, I can't edit my post from above any more to add the map (the edit settings are a bit harsh, doesn't matter that much for comments, but for opening posts, it does, opening posters should be allowed to edit to add to their opening posts, it's kept me from posting some topics which only really make sense if you can add to them, but never mind), so here's mine now. Still no Iceland, Greenland, and it seems to stay about the same since quite a while now. Maybe a new feature, give a coupon to buyers from/promote your Gigs to specific countries that are yet missing on your map could be popular with sellers who want to fill their map 😉.

Hm, I'm on the app and can't find it there... I also can't remember what it was when I last commented on a World Domination thread, but will edit to add later from my laptop. However, I have a related question - does anyone know for sure if a country disappears from your list if a buyer's account gets closed or permanently suspended, or does your Domination Map get affected when buyer's IPs change for long enough that Fiverr displays a different flag for them? Like the buyer moves permanently from A to B, and your map has no or -1 order under A, and 1 or +1 under B? A while ago, I could've sworn I had a country I didn't have any more when I took a look at my map last time. But I may have only dreamt it was there or something.

Stat Trek? There's a Fiverr series? 🥰 Where can I watch it, Netflix? Sorry, I know it was a typo, but don't you wish it wasn't! Why doesn't anyone make a series based on gig economy platforms, could be so much fun, and there should be many people who'd watch. Stat Trek, Clone Gig Wars, Stranger Buyers, so many possibilities... They could source quite a few ideas for episodes on the forum, and probably even a few people who'd be happy to be in it. And then we'd finally have a new recurring forum question, too, "Do you get more orders if you're in Stat Trek?". Oops, sorry, OP, quite off-topic, so let me add... While it's probably not a hidden requirement, I'll claim that a good sense of humour will immensely help you stay in the Gig platform environment, without going crazy, and thus help you on your journey towards TRS, as you can't become one, if you quit before you do 😉

Feel free to message me. I'll send you a screenshot then, would feel weird posting it here somehow, even if you're asking for it, but you can post it yourself then, if you want to 😉

I think this is a good idea, so I'll follow @crownmediaa's format (I've also used this format in a topic I once posted to end all the "Can I have multiple accounts? Can I log into more than one device with my account?" etc. questions. Naturally, it didn't work, though, even if the format was genius ;)) My take: Forum activity ❌ (Won't hurt, but won't be a decisive factor. There are TRSs who never post on the forum, right? So.) Gig price ❌✔️ (If an ssm recently told someone the minimum price must be $10, it certainly makes sense to take that seriously, but it might depend on what you sell in your $5 Gig. I don't think they will not give you the badge if everything else is great, just because you have a $5 entry Gig that offers a little something and might onboard new buyers who'd else be too timid to buy.) Type of gig(s) offered✔️ Seller/gig professionalism ✔️ The performance/number of other sellers in your category ✔️ Timely delivery ✔️ Value for money delivery ❔ (not sure; they can only evaluate this if they can judge the quality of the deliveries, so it depends on whether they have people who (can) do that, and it would be a staff-/time-intensive thing, unless they have something else to go by for that criterion if it does exist, for example, the private reviews, where customers may write things like "too expensive for the price", or "satisfied with value for money") High rated reviews ✔️ (it's called "Top Rated Seller"!) Glad to read that! 😇 Maybe it also sums up things nicely - they are very choosy in all regards, as they have to be, because if everyone is a TRS, no one is. Some things I miss on that "hidden factors" list, albeit it's hardly hidden, as Fiverr info and forum readers should be able to attest: standing out excellent customer service relevancy/currentness/"in the editorial focus"ness onboarding skills returning/regular customers ____________________ PS I only shared my top secrets with you because you used the 🤩 emoji, and tagged me as one among other "Popular Top Rated Sellers", I was never the popular kid. I also only endeavoured to become a TRS because back when I joined, they called them "The Fiverr Rock Stars" on the requirements' info page, and I immediately recognized my only chance of becoming a rock star in this life. 😉 Let me add "Rock Star material" to the hidden factors list 😉 PPS Those "😉" things indicate that I'm joking, perhaps, but in any case, that you shouldn't take me any more seriously than I do.

Sounds like the learning by doing approach, and as long as the outcome is fine, and buyers are getting what they pay for, I don't see a real problem with it, everyone needs to start at some point. The question of have you been a liar, depends on the specifics, from my point of view. If your Gig, or you, don't claim to be working in that field for x years, or have some non-existent university grade posted on your profile, or anything like that, a buyer shouldn't, and probably most also won't expect that you have, if they come here and buy from a seller without such credentials on their profile. They can see all kinds of profiles, with or without such things, and decide whether to contact/buy from someone with or without. And many come here, exactly because they want to buy from someone who does a good job but isn't out of their budget comfort zone, and are absolutely fine buying from someone who does not have a university degree in this and twenty years of experience in that, and if you don't deliver anything less than excellent, that should be enough for many people who do buy from a seller with a profile/Gigs like yours. You also do sound as if you may not know, but pretty much know, after all, if that makes sense, while I think those "liars" some people talk about, are mostly people who either exactly know that they do deliver subpar work, or absolutely lack the ability to know it, and the self-reflection, and the skills to quickly learn what they don't know. I sometimes get people who ask if I can do things that aren't advertised in my Gigs, or if I have experience with a specific niche, or a specific tool they use, or so, at times even things that don't have anything whatsoever to do with my Gigs. Sometimes, I decline, even if I know I can do it well or well enough. Sometimes, if I'm reasonably sure I can do it, and want to do it, I'll tell it like it is, that I have no, or little, or some experience with X, but that I don't think it will be a problem. I'm not pushy at all, and will often tell them something like "if you're looking for someone who's specialized in X, maybe see if you can find someone first, you still can come back, if you can't". If the person wants to hire me for the job then, great; if not, also great. How would you feel about your profile, Gigs, communication, work and deliveries, if you weren't you but a buyer, would you call that Vickie person a liar? Tsumari, as long as your Gigs and profile don't lie, and you don't lie to customers in communication, and they get what they bought, and an excellent result, even if you spend many many (unpaid) hours on something that someone with more experience may have done in fifteen minutes, I don't see an issue, and don't see the lie.

Typically, about that. Because, typically, there really isn't any good reason for a video chat for me, but good reasons against it. There's hardly anything ever that a video chat would make easier versus communication in writing, and I'd lose time. But that completely depends on what you offer, and your and your customers' requirements, workflow, communication style, and factors like that. From my point of view, that's something that each seller has to decide for themselves, according to their Gigs and circumstances, or even on case-by-case basis.

2016, too. In one word...? Hm, in my native language, it would be one word, in English... I hope kind of one word is okay, too... time-efficient. The Fiverr forum, however, is anything but. 😅 As for autopilot, yeah, no. But it is time-efficient, and, specifically, it saves me from a lot of the things I hate most, like paperwork, writing applications/proposals/pitches/whatever other platforms may call it, sending CVs, chasing customers. 💚 Fiverr. The % of time I can spend on actual work, which I don't mind or often even love, is very high, and the % of trappings is low. Time-wise, if there was no spam, it would be pretty much as perfect as it can get.

That's a good question. We'll probably need to request a webinar with Fiverr staff to cover this important topic. Perhaps green smoothies/avocado toasts are acceptable instead. Or maybe the resident coffeexpert @damooch916 has some valuable advice. Or you could keep posting it in one or two of the forum's question sections until you collected a representative sample of seller opinions and lean on that.

The reaction emoji choice needs 😬,😰, 😅, or similar. Maybe 😬 would be best, could also be used for dangerous tips that people shouldn't follow if they don't want to get banned, and such. I want a coat 😔 but we could have a debate then about that, I've heard that debates are a popular club activity. Right, okay then, I withdraw the 🐢 ... on the other ✋... it has an emoji, while the capybara ... hasn't, real pity. So, I guess the mascot issue needs to go on the debate list, too, or we can have a poll with a useful topic, for a change 😉 Too much time, yes. My excuse is a late lunch break and it being Friday, and it's nice and dry outside. Going back in to work now, though. 🗓️🕛

Gosh, while that post count bubble is worrying in itself, I never clicked that box or would have thought you even can click it, but I knew in any case that my simple "Yes." to Will's topic of whether we spend too much time on the forum was the simple truth. I've had several breaks, because I do get fed up with some things regularly, but I always gravitated back, so far. Perhaps, Fiverr not sending out mails about things you'll only find out about on here, and this quagmire of forum overload and white noise is by (forum attendance) design, after all... You just want to check for anything important, quickly, but can't, really, or just want to like a post, have to log in for that, and to not drown in the mire of redundant threads, see your notifications, and before you notice, you've spent far too much time yet again 😅 Reminds me of the Elementary series, where that, err, internet information collecting collective makes Holmes (later Watson too, one or two times, I think), umm, wear funny hats and stuff, that could be fun! And we could have a turtle mascot. Or just coffee, and that "eat coffee for lunch" Fiverr ad poster as a banner. Would be a bit troublesome to meet in person to eat real coffee, though, if that's what clubs are for, no wonder they are about meeting only people from your more or less immediate surroundings then. In any case, if an in flesh meeting place, I suggest a Diogenes Club style club then, so the eremite and not communicative in person freelancers among us can sit in their armchairs in community but in silence and chat digitally in one room, while the social butterflies can merge, mingle, and vividly discuss with facial expressions and using hands and feet instead of emoji. To be fair, travel expenses are a thing, after all, that club location would need to rotate, so at least one person per sitting could attend without going bankrupt. Oh. I'm spending too much time here, again.

I actually thought that "seller plus" was the start of a pay-walling operation, and that we were looking at an additional "seller basic", which you have to join (maybe after one free month, to see if it's for you), and that "seller plus" would stay as the "standard", a pay wall linked to a by invite only wall (which it is, and which I think a very good idea, as I'm not so sure that just money would solve the issues) and a "seller premium" too. Seller plus/standard could have things that most sellers would want and use, like more than, say, 3 Gigs that would come with "seller basic", additional analytics and data, etc., and premium could have things like the personal ssm. Are you really sure you want to lose the additional insights right in your chat box, though... ☕

Well, creating clubs for specific countries sounds inclusive to me, too, and it did sound as if some more lounge-y things were planned, a few times, and it definitely had been asked for by the community, but it's good to know that in any case, thank you!

Ah, I'd actually been hoping that the club idea would be more like the Lounge was, a bit more elaborate, for people to talk based on other common grounds than locality. I've got local people around me already, after all, haha. But I understand the idea, of course. So, still nothing in sight for a forum experience with less white noise, other than just mingling with people from your own country? After all this time? (Spot the quote!) Or is there?

👍 Cool beans. I bet there'll be good free ☕ day and night then, too.

I can definitely see this helping sellers to save a lot of time and nerves, both for themselves and enquiring persons, as well, so, ultimately, it should be beneficial for both sides.

I don't know about the US, but it's a big country, and I know that we, a much smaller country, have many people with bad grammar. I know what you're saying, of course, but not all of them might be cheating with their location, or disappear after a VPN check. 😉 But yes, there certainly are many using VPN to pretend being in/from specific countries.

I've done one, when registering with my neo bank, but yes, I hated it. For a similar thing, I had that option "in the comfort of your own home", or could walk to my local post office, and have them verify my identity, via my ID and seeing me in person, guess what, I chose the walk and the wait. It's more than enough if companies have photos of my ID laying around in the internet for my tastes, but we won't get around it if we want to play, and they decide it's the thing to do. I'll survive it, I'll still hate it, though. 🙃