rachelbostwick

Good job! But just to warn you, it took me years to get a top rated seller badge and most people never get one at all. Be very happy that you have achieved so much! But do not expect to be promoted. If you ever do it will be a happy surprise.

Complete side note I meant to tell you the other day, I think having a gig for writing visual novels is a GENIUS level idea. I really want to build one someday. I'm totally going to learn how to use the building software and then find a good artist so we can BUILD A TEAM.

I love that! I don't even know what a durian is for! XD Of course you are totally right and even for artistic folks it's not so cut and dry as "offer something different," is it? When I first started with Fiverr I was trying things like "comic book style business cards" - they were very cool but very few people are looking for anything like that. I sold maybe two gigs of those. But most of the people coming to the forum crying about not getting any orders have the same three crappy gigs of background removal, logo design, and selling things that aren't even allowed like mass email lists. There are still niches that can be broken into if you're ready to do excellent work. There are 32,000 video editing gigs - but only 615 book trailer gigs. (Book trailers was how I got started on Fiverr.) There are 21,000 "proofreading" gigs but only 2000 "beta reader" gigs and only 650 "novel editing" gigs. And of course once you have reviews for things that aren't as popular, you can make gigs for really popular things and they still sell. I have a generic book cover gig that gets sales, I have no idea why. {I have it paused right now because it's kind of boring to me, but I have to unpause it for regular customers sometimes, and then I sometimes leave it up for a few weeks) There are 21,000 generic book cover gigs, no reason you should be able to find mine. 11,000 Fantasy book covers, mine's on page one, no idea why. But of course you have to build up to that by doing the harder things that less people want to do.

...this is going to drive me bananas.

Thanks @smashradio. I wasn't sure if i was being too pompous but if the Maestro approves it must be all right 😉

Imagine Fiverr is not a website but a huge, colorful open air market in the heart of Dhaka. Everybody can make a table. And millions of people come through the market, so anybody can make money at this market. You don't even have to rent a space, you just have to bring a table and show up. Now because the market is sooo big, some people think that if you can manage to get a spot at the outside edges of the market, where people enter from, that this is the way to get buyers. So they are constantly moving their table around to try and get the outside spots. They go to the meetings and they complain that all the old people have the outside spots and it isn't fair. So imagine a new seller comes to the market and he sets up his table. And because he is brand new, one of the old folks lets him have a spot right next to their table. Their table is very popular so he thinks he will surely get sales today. He sets up his table, just an old crappy card table. And he gets three ugly plastic milk crates and sits it on top of the table. One has moldy mangoes, one has dried figs that look pretty good, and the other one has counterfeit iPhones. They really look like iPhones, solid boxes and everything, but when you turn them on, they're actually 8gb zunes. And the old seller, he has a nice sturdy table, and he spreads out a beautiful table cloth, and he arranges fresh fruit and some lovely hand-embroidered napkins his mother made for him. And all throughout the day people stop by and they buy his fruit, which is pretty cheap, and a few of them buy his napkins. Nobody buys the moldy mangoes for some reason. And the next day the old seller doesn't let the new seller have a spot next to him anymore, because he doesn't like how moldy mangoes smell. The new seller, he gets very angry, and he wants to know why he can't have a good spot again. He heard that fruit was the best thing to sell, and he is 100% sure that people want to buy iphones. And he needs this money, it isn't fair. He stomps through the market and deep in the heart of the market he finds someone who isn't anywhere near the edges of the market, but they have a line around their table that leads all the way to the edges of the market. When he asks that seller how they got such a good line they don't know. So he asks one of the people in line. "Oh, the first time I came here I spent an hour wandering around trying to find this exact booth. I heard they had the best panipuri in New Market. And it's true. It's so good I come here every time." Do you see the problem? Stop worrying about your place in the search engine. Ranking your gig is not going to get you money. Make your gigs beautiful, sell something you are very good at, make yourself unique. Don't think, "how can I jump to first in line?" Think "how can I be so unique that the line comes to me?"

I work until I can't keep my eyes open anymore 😆 But my work is the thing that feels most comfortable to me. I like to play video games, read and write stories, and listen to music, too. But it's sort of like I have to make myself do those things. Work is the default. I think about this a lot. My dad was diagnosed with narcolepsy in his early fifties. He takes adderall to keep him awake during the day for his government job and then horrific night time medicine to try and help him sleep at nighttime and it barely works. I tend to be most able to focus on my work between like ten and three at night. It also feels good to me to take a 45 minute nap most afternoons. I'm glad to be able to work on my own schedule rather than trying to shoehorn myself into an office job.

I'm talking about receiving files from my customers. My.typical customer does not know how to use a zip file.

Just ONCE to make an order and have them not leave half of it behind on the shelf

The delivery screen attachments are slightly less annoying than the seller side. It wouldn't be so bad to download this way. The seller side is a hot mess with a "see more" that unfolds to show more images, but the bottom row of the unfolding can never quite be clicked on and then one has to go to the gallery view to download. It's a yuuuuuuge pain. I can't show a screenshot of the seller side without invading my customer's privacy but hopefully some other people understand.

Iiii thought that too. I'm just going to pretend it still means that. XD Good point. I don't think I've ever had a delivery that was more than one file in order to check.

I wish the order screen had the ability to download all requirement attachments at once as a zip. This feature is available in the inbox, but not on the order screen. A lot of my orders have attachments of 25-40 files so it would save me a lot of time. Thanks.

The story could go either way, of course, but those visuals are deeelicious. Love to see Trinity again. Really can't wait to see what they come up with.

Whaaaaaat I didn't know they were making one!! That's awesome!

Thank you, Maestro. Couldn't have said it better myself. Diligence, persistence, a scientific mindset, autodidacticism, and over the top courtesy, those are my particular secrets.

There are over three thousand people selling feminine logos on Fiverr. Unfortunately it's a highly competitive market with sellers of all skill levels. It's very hard to stand out among 3,000+ other sellers. Your gigs are lovely and I think you should keep them up, but you should also look for other areas of graphic design that might have less sellers. Try to find that sweet spot of something you like to do that there is a high demand for. Good luck!

I unashamedly love Taylor Swift, especially right around the Speak Now era. This makes my husband so angry and I Don't Care. 😆 I do love The Killers and Coldplay, too.

My taste is pretty varied, and a little weird tbh, but probably most heavy on the indie pop. I keep playlists by the year. So each year as I discover a new song I love, I'll add it to the playlist for that year, and that year's playlist is what I listen to most of the time. When the year starts winding down, I'll start to build next year's, so there is a little overlap sometimes. What's nice about that is if I want to remember how I felt during a certain year, I can pull up that playlist and it takes me back. I also have special playlists for certain writing projects or certain moods I want to capture. Here are three of my favorites. These are songs I like so much that I abuse them by listening to them over and over and over. There's a reason I can't work without headphones. I'm sorry, I know I should have only picked one but I love all of these so. darn. much. Florence + The Machine - Hunger - YouTube Jacob's Song || Brother Isaiah - YouTube The Rocket Summer - 200,000 (official) - YouTube

To be perfectly honest, I find the thought of someone giving me one-on-one advice about my business intimidating and even a little overwhelming. I'm so used to figuring things out for myself.

Now I'm super curious because a lot of you fine businesspeople are talking about it. I'm all on for the idea of investing $30/month in my business if it is worth it. But when I read about Seller Plus i didn't see anything that sounded like it would benefit me personally. I already have enough orders that i usually end up going out of office for half the month. My customers love me. I probably wouldn't use the coupons because my customers only need.me when they finish their books, and my regulars almost always come straight to me as soon as they need me. I can't think of a use case where the coupons would be of benefit. I'm already a TRS, though keenly aware that such things are ephemeral. I *would* like to be Fiverr pro for my children's book formatting, but I don't see any path to that through Seller Plus - just a few things that I want to work on personally before I consider myself worthy. So given all that, is there something I am missing? Even if it's just one good benefit, I'd be willing to look into it. Or if maybe the point is that joining up would show me what I am missing, in the sense that I have blind spots and maybe a fresh pair of eyes would help me see them, then maybe i should consider that?

Did you try using a different picture for your gig image? The error is saying there's something wrong with your image.

I was only teasing, I'm sure you have lots of great tips 🙂 Your gigs look great. Truthfully, I just don't see it as a problem. There are lots of things I think should be improved on Fiverr, but I don't see this as one of them. Fiverr takes 20% of all the money that is sent to me, and I think that's fine. Any solution is just a rebalancing to try to make sure the seller gets a little more of it, and I appreciate that, but I don't think it's necessary.

It doesn't have to be, until people run into problems and then complain about them instead of investigating and learning. Know what I mean? I don't make a habit of memorizing the terms of service, but if something confuses me or I don't know the answer to something, I will go and consult them instead of going to the forum to yell and demand or quit. That's not directed at you, btw, I understand you were just curious about people's opinions. But it's definitely a regular occurrence. I am fine with jumping right into things and failing all over the place, but I don't blame other people when that approach means I have to go find things out later because of it.

Ahh here it is. I also don't see the point in having limits to prevent fraud as long as there is a flat 20% taken out, but there might be something I haven't thought of yet. Fiverr Help and Education Center: How much can I tip? The minimum amount is $5. For orders below $25, the tip can be up to $25. For orders above $25, the tip can be up to 100% of the price of the order. Note: These limitations are in place to prevent fraud.

Speak for yourself 😉 They did - they take 20% and it's solved 😉 You're right about that. It would hurt newbies more than most people, but there would also be regular buyers who would be working with regular sellers and have a regular practice of scamming Fiverr. They definitely do. I don't remember what the exact formula is right now. On higher orders it's limited to 100% and on lower orders there is a flat cap. I've had more than one customer that wanted to tip me more than 100% on a high order and not be able to do it.