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Maybe the weird style and heavy thesaurus usage runs in the family. Probably genetic.

Why do you insist on not stopping, then? You have zero credibility. What you say is baloney 90% of the time. You are not successful. You are a joke in the forums. Like, what's the point?

Best advice I've gotten while being a freelancer... hmm... probably: "Never sleep entirely in the nude. There can be a fire, and you end up outside, all naked. While the firemen put it out."

Oh boy, do I have news for you...

Those are two pretty good markets. Quality > quantity, my friend. Not great, not terrible. Although, my world domination could fall to 2 or 3 countries and would make next to no difference. The volume (and the money) is very concentrated on a couple of them, the rest is just filler.

You became a Top Rated Seller with only 20 comments on the forum? Preposterous! What is this blasphemy? (Congratulations, well done! Keep at it!)

Switch your main image. It shows nothing of the product, just your picture and some text? When offering any kind of design service, your first gig image should be a display of the best work you're offering in that gig.

The better option is the one you can do best. Can you create a great video for your gig? Great. Can you create a great image? Great. Better to have nothing than to have a bad video or image though.

No. There's absolutely no benefit to using the forums. Mind you, I'm not talking only about getting orders. I'm actually saying that there's no benefit whatsoever for you to be in the forum. Not in orders, not in anything else. You won't learn anything here. You're wasting your time. Note - for some select few it's advantageous to be on the forums. Those few are the people who know how to read, write, distinguish truth from BS, think and act on new information. That means that for the vast majority of people on the forums, they serve no purpose whatsoever. They will never learn. They don't want to learn. They aren't able to learn. For a lot of people here, the forums serve the same purpose as me attending a class on advanced quantum mechanics. I would get NOTHING out of it. I wouldn't understand anything that is being said. Not because it has no value, but because I don't know enough to extract any value from it. I would just be wasting mine (and everyone else's) time.

Interesting question that I thought about in the past. I run a team (more than one people involved in the decision making and the work itself), but the Fiverr account is under a single name (because it has to be). If that person dies, what happens to the rest of the people who work on the account? Can we transfer it to a different name? Is everyone's Fiverr career over because the account owner dies?

The gig placement on search changes all the time for everyone. There are times where I get tons of contacts in one day, and then I can go days without any contacts. Having multiple gigs helps smooth things out, as well as having other freelance work in other platforms or direct clients. There may be nothing wrong with your gig, it's just the way the rotation works. If there's nothing to improve in the gig, just wait it out and eventually you'll get hits again.

Google is not a source. And anybody can google something and come up with different results. Do you have data on what the actual services that sell the best are, or not? If you do, please share, as that would be interesting. If you don't, just say you don't, don't go search something on google just to be able to respond to a question you don't really know the answer to.

Can you please provide a source for that data?

Did you read what I said? Nobody cares about your forum ranking. It serves no purpose. Why would reply to every question in the forum? Surely you don't have a good answer to everything, nobody does. You're spamming, that's it.

Worse, they keep advising buyer requests and sharing the gig on social media. So, not only having a crappy store open 24 hours a day, but going around shoving fliers for their store on everyone's face constantly.

This is the only good advice so far. Fiverr is a storefront. Do you have a good display?

Your forum level is irrelevant for your business. The forum seems filled with people just trying to post as much as possible to increase their rank, like that would help them make more sales. It doesn't.

Not sure I get what you mean. The point of Fiverr is precisely having no proposals. I don't want to bid on projects, ever. I want the clients to come to me, just like running a shop. If I wanted to bid on projects, I would be doing it outside of platforms, and I would certainly not pay 20% of earnings for the privilege. I'm also not sure what you mean by "bigger platforms". Fiverr is in all likelihood the biggest platform right now, at least in terms of market cap.

That has nothing to do with it. If anything, sellers from cheaper countries can pay MORE. If you make $2000 a month and live in the US, you will basically need all that money just to survive, and won't be able to pay zilch. In India, you can probably pay $1000 in fees and still live well on $1000 a month. Since Fiverr is location independent, a seller from anywhere in the world can make the same money. So it pays off much more to be a seller on Fiverr if you are from a low income country. I'm doing quite well here because I'm from Portugal (average wage around 12k a year, so my performance can easily land me in the upper middle class, top 10-20% of the population, easy). If I was from the US, I wouldn't be happy with the numbers, at all. I would need to be making 6 figures a year to be where I am now, compared to the people around me. If I was in India, I'd be rich. Money is relative. In some places you can make 1k a month and be poor, in others you can make 1k a month and be on the same level as doctors, lawyers, etc. All that matters is how much the fee is in relation to how much you're making. Country of origin is irrelevant. If you're making zero (just starting out) ANY fixed value will be a detriment, regardless of where you're from. People simply won't pay before they see the money come in. I would never pay to work. Makes no sense, and sounds like a scam. Oh, and obviously they are keeping the 20% commission. We're talking about 20% commission PLUS a monthly fee just to have an account.

The only problem I see there is that it will completely dry up in terms of newcomers. If I had to pay $250 per month in the beginning, I would never have joined Fiverr. Now that I've seen how much I can make, it's a different story, of course. Now it's an investment. But I need to see it to believe it. I never believed you could make money on Fiverr until I saw the money in my PayPal account. It's just the way it is, the internet is filled with promises that rarely pan out.

The thing is Fiverr has a tendency for this already. Not only they take 20% on a non sliding scale (as opposed to other platforms that scale down when the value goes way up), they tack a % based fee on top of that for the client to pay (fee that is totally invisible to the seller). I don't like their mo.

Great analogy. But it doesn't necessarily have to be like that. I see two options: If they charge a flat fee, that's way more interesting the more money you are making / expect to make, since it will be effectively cheaper for you. This would drive pretty much all meksells from the platform, but potentially stop some good people starting out from getting a chance, since the barrier of entry would be too high for them. If they charge a %, then the more you make the more expensive it gets and oh my god, please don't go this route, this is horrible. Let's see what happens.

Ah, that makes sense then. I just got a bit bummed by seeing “Seller plus is getting an upgrade”! and then coming here and there’s nothing new lol

Nice features, but what do you mean by upgrade? I’ve had all that for over a month now. Is it just being announced now?

You didn’t read them. She literally said not to thank her. You think posting on the forums “thank you” makes you look good, or brings you orders, but showing that you can’t even read (which is what you did here) has the opposite effect. Now you look like a meksell that will never go anywhere, congratulations.