rachelbostwick

I get around that by being the best at what I do and the loveliest person to work with. 😉 I am mostly kidding, but in all serious, I don't compete on price. My clients know they can hire someone else for cheaper. If someone doesn't like my prices I literally tell them they can go on Fiverr and find someone cheaper. They hire me because I do a good job, make their lives easier, and make the process enjoyable. I am friends with and fans of my clients.

I use my personal website this way. People can find me through Google, personal recommendations, my business card, etc, and when they are interested enough to buy, they are directed to Fiverr from every link on my site. What is their motive to register? It's the only place I sell my services. I like it here.

I bet that is AMAZING

I design books. It makes me really happy. 🙂

I can try to be angrier if it helps 🤣 Rawr 🦁

For the record, I meant to type "I'm NOT angry about it." This is why I am not a proofreader.

That I agree with. The second service fee has kept me from tipping when I ordered small projects from other sellers. That's just silly. One service fee per order would be better. I'm angry about it, I just agree that people might see more tips that way.

The funniest part about that is there *is* such a button in the inbox area. Just not in orders where we actually need it XD

Also I don't think there's specifically a rule for this, but the Fiverr Experience forum is completely overrun with people creating posts to celebrate their 57th order, their third 5 dollar tip, etc, followed by thirty people saying congratulations instead of using the emoji, running up all of their message totals and reputation scores. Only like 10% of the entire forum is readable or useful information at this point.

I totally get where you are coming from, but this post is not directed at you. You haven't been around the forum much yet so you haven't experienced what this is about. It is directed at thousands of people who have no marketable skills yet and aren't interested in learning any, lie about their abilities, slap up a couple of gigs that are plagiarised from other sellers, then come and ask why they aren't getting orders. Then they are telling each other to stay online twentyfour-seven- literally, twentyfour-seven, via bots or autoclickers or delegating page refreshing to their spouse, it's a running joke - because they think keeping their online status green will make buyers take their crappy bait. It's not directed at anyone who would come to the forum asking for reasonable advice and then actually take that advice and do something about it. I sincerely appreciate your willingness to help new people learn, and to grow as a new person yourself, but just know that this post is not about you. It's about people who are being misled into thinking FIverr is an ATM and when told otherwise aren't interested in doing the hard things it takes to actually make a business work. Here's my post written on the same subject but in a different way: It's a bit of a problem, and those of us who really like working on Fiverr are actually trying to help some of the newbies. Some of them do listen, but it's not easy.

Tipping was a feature requested over and over and over again, not only by sellers, but by buyers, too. Before we had the tipping feature buyers frequently asked sellers how they could give them more money. Sellers had to set up custom gigs for tipping and then you had to do a new delivery and it was messy. It's silly to say that because something is only customary in some parts of the world that it should be removed. The wording could maybe be improved, maybe, to let people know it's totally optional. Personally, I never *expect* a tip and I set my prices high enough that when customers don't leave tips I'm perfectly happy, and still glad they worked with me and happy to work with them again. For the record when I buy on Fiverr, I usually don't tip, because I know it's optional and buyers should already be setting their prices high and I usually have a tight budget to begin with. When I eat at a restaurant I tip a lot. Different environments. I know how badly the waitress needs their tip - so I figure that in when I set my budget for my food. BUT I've had customers be so happy with my work that the double the amount of money they are paying me. No way in hell would I want that ability to be taken away. Maybe the solution would be for sellers to be able to turn this feature off if they didn't want it. If you're a buyer who dislikes it, just disregard it. Sellers know it's 100% optional. If anybody ever tries to make you feel bad for not tipping, report them.

The badge itself, probably not, but it tells customers that your clients like you enough to order again, which gives them confidence to buy from you. By impressing your customers so much that they order again.

On desktop, at your top menu, click on "analytics" and then the option for "repeat business" will show up. I did finally get my badge 🙂

You are advertising for proofreading services but your gig descriptions and bio are riddled with typos and grammar problems. You're trying to sell a skill you don't have, and your buyers can see that. That is why you are not at the top of the results. Marketing your gig, trying to keyword optimize - those might get people to look at your gig, but they aren't going to buy it because you are not very good at it yet. You need to pick a skill - definitely not proofreading or editing - and get better at it than all your competition. Find something you love to do so much that you can spend all day doing it until you are better than anyone else. OR find a skill that is hard to learn but once you learn it not many others know it, so people will want to pay you.

We all start with zero reviews, so it's definitely possible, but I'm not going to downplay the challenge of getting those first few. When I see someone new i like to order a small gig from them just to help them get started. Here's a little tip from me - when I launch a new gig for myself, I like to do a limited time launch offer, like offering my middle package for the price of a basic high for the first five customers. I let them know it's a new gig so they know there are no reviews for that reason, but make them an offer they can't refuse! And of course.make sure your work samples are so good that they know they have nothing to lose.

OK, I'll be the guy to point out that only one of those groups does this Idk I swear someone recently made a post thanking Jesus for their recent order 😉

Yes. Mostly to see things that my kids and friends want to show me there. If i needed more work, I would make a Tik Tok book trailer gig. Hint hint to anyone with those skills who is reading this.

Oh man. I could tell right away what direction it was going but that was AWESOME. Thanks for sharing it.

I checked my VIDs who are not Business and I do have the option for them I learned something new today from @seven_sign - here are the specific categories where it's allowed no matter who the buyer is. I bet astrologists were really happy to get this feature. Fiverr Help and Education Center: Video Call availability Sellers with Fiverr Business and VID buyers can initiate a video call, before or after placing an order, from the inbox or Order page. PRO sellers can initiate a video call after placing an order from the Order page only. All other sellers, with a Gig in one of the sub-categories below, can initiate a video call after placing an order from the Order page only: App Design Architecture & Interior Design Astrology & Psychics Book & eBook Writing Business Consulting Cooking Lessons Craft Lessons Customer Care Dance Lessons Financial Consulting Fitness Lessons Game development Gaming Industrial & Product Design Legal Consulting Life Coaching Marketing Strategy Mobile Apps Online Coding Lessons Online Language Lessons Online Lessons Online Music Lessons Scriptwriting Songwriters QA & Review Web Programming Website Design WordPress

oh, @samus_x, you're so thoughtful, dear.

There's some chance that it's the phone number thing. It was probably autoreported. I've seen people report spammers, have their accounts restricted because of the exact issue they reported, and have it resolved in their favor. They'll look over your messages and probably decide you weren't at fault. Don't panic. Clearly the message they sent you doesn't reflect that, but Fiverr isn't always the best at making sure you get the right error message at the right time. When I had a customer do a scammer chargeback which Fiverr refunded me for immediately, I still got an automated lecture about delivering on time so customers don't cancel on me. Fingers crossed for you.

That's very kind, thank you ❤️ I don't write for pay, I'm a graphic designer. But I do love to write. Your comment made my day 😁

⬇️ 🙃 What I am trying to say is this: you don't rank your gig. If you make your gigs appealing and unique, if you create them to meet the needs that customers have that no one else is meeting, if you treat your customers very well and deliver top quality services, your gig will rank itself for you.

You have a good attitude and I respect that.

I had a thousand reviews with five total negatives spread out over my six year career and stayed a solid, happy level two for years. TRS is a great bonus but it's definitely not a given. I had permanently given up on getting it. I didn't even remember that it was St. Level's 'Day when I woke up to yellow fireworks. I wish it for you, but you should not expect it. You will get tired and angry waiting for it. Or you will get a great early surprise and be very happy! but-! probably not. It's also not needed. I had plenty of work as a level two.