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Nothing guarantees quality deliverables quite like sleep deprivation.

How can one stay online always? Never sleeping? Or breaking the platform rules by using an auto-refresh tool?

Good news for you.

So, some advice (not advices) about stuff (not stuffs). Make sure you're honest about your language fluency. If you've used AI to write your descriptions or use it for your translation work, you have to say so (I think). Maybe you are fluent in English, but "advices" and "stuffs"...? One of your gigs offers "Fastest deliver ever". Just give your clients a real turnaround time they can work with. Offering unlimited revisions doesn't inspire confidence. If you're as good as you say you are, you won't need to make unlimited revisions. And you don't want clients coming back time and again for changes, which they can if you offer unlimited revisions. I'd be careful about giving people the expectation that their Youtube content will go viral with one of your thumbnails. You could merge your two background removal gigs into one. There are so many sellers offering this service. Adding another unnecessary gig is just clogging things up. Those are some of the basic improvements I would make, especially if I were claiming to be from a "Group of MultiGeniuses".

You're talking into the void, Mike. Why listen to successful humans when you've got Grammarly and ChatGPT?

I was dismayed when I saw the three additional questions that have been added to the order requirements, so I changed mine. One is an absolute must: Add your script file. They can't proceed without doing that. The second one is not a requirement but says "I know you might be sick of reading and answering questions and just want to order your VO - I get it! But if you have a spare minute, please look at my FAQs lower down on my gig page after ordering. Some useful info there." I don't like the other new questions. Sneaky.

You could set up an auto-reply for when you're asleep or away for a few hours. I wouldn't recommend it being on all the time as I find personalised replies are always better, but it could help with the clients in different time zones. If they really want your service they'll a few hours.

Buyer Request was phased out recently and has been replaced with Buyer Briefs. Any buyer who posts a brief now gets matched with specific sellers. There's no open job board for this.

Well, I'm at least glad that you got your money back. If you do decide to start your gigs again, I would make revisions the same across the board as a starter. Don't give anyone potentially looking to rip you off anything to go on. You can always offer more revisions to customers when they contact your or order.

Freelancing is a game of numbers, at least in my experience. I trained as a theatre actor in London, I'm carving out a career as a voiceover actor and I've been writing screenplays and scripts for maybe five years - badly. Now I've improved enough that I'm sending my writing work out, guess what - nothing, zilch, maybe an actual rejection notice if I'm lucky! Unanswered voiceover auditions piling up. But the yes's come too, the jobs come, the right people come. If I contact 50 production companies and only one gets back to me, that one is a win and forget the 49 "losses". If the creative freelancer life is what you want, you have to ride out some shi**y periods and accept that most of us do not hit the ground running. So indulge in a good sulk for a day, maybe two, but then get back at it. If you can't do that you'll suffer as a freelancer.

Sorry this has happened to you. I hope you find a resolution. What I will say is that in your description it does say "offer unlimited product selections and revisions". If the client spotted this before or after being asked to pay for additional revision they could have used this to their advantage to cancel the order. I don't know for sure, I'm just seller and having nothing to do with customer service.

Sellers when we finally get an official response.

I watched Goodfellas again last night. I've easily seen it 100 times and it never, ever gets old. "I'm gonna go get the papers, get the papers."

Read the Fiverr Terms of Service and search the forum. There are hundreds of posts asking how to get orders .

This does smell a bit scammy, but I would wait until you get their response to you telling them you only work on Fiverr. Some new buyers really don't know how the platform works or the rules we need to follow. If they continue to ask for external contact details, let them go.

https://www.fiverr.com/support/articles/360010561178-Seller-Taxes

OK, thanks. I did hear a while back that Linkedin were looking to develop a direct booking system.

When you say orders, was this through arranging contracts over Linkedin? I heard there might be a gig style booking system in the works, but is there already some kind of booking I'm not aware of?

I've been in auditions for jobs the past days that have real budgets. Sure, I have to audition, that's part and parcel of an acting/voice acting career, but the projects are there and the money is there. And I've been encouraged by a couple of recent clients who said they have no interest in replacing their go-to talents with AI, no matter how good that gets.

Even a friendly prompt for buyers to let them know they're on their last included revision might help. Too often, revisions come through in small bits, a word to change here and there. A prompt would make buyers more concise with the changes and have them send them all at once instead of requesting multiple tiny edits. But I think many buyers would go to direct message and ask for another revision to bypass having to pay more. And that would leave it in our hands again. Stick to our guns and charge the additional fee, or work for free to avoid a disgruntled private review. I have plenty of experience with fantastic buyers who are aware of what they've ordered and don't need pushing to pay extra for more revisions. They request the additional extra themselves. But I have more experience with the opposite, and I've lost hundreds, maybe thousands of dollars in free revisions and unpaid usage rights over the years just because I didn't want the hassle or the bad review that would damage me. That's my fault, and I'm working harder to create better opportunities and professional relationships. Now is the time to cast the net wider and double down. Recession doesn't scare me. The world has always been off its rocker and my freelance fridge has been well stocked for at least 10 years. I've felt a certain sense of loyalty to Fiverr because of what my SMs have been able to do for me and because of being involved in other things on the platform. I felt I was a valued professional. And I am just a loyal person, professionally and privately. That sense of loyalty stopped me from expressing dissatisfaction about how things work here. But I'm not satisfied. Not with the review system, the rating system or the pressure I feel to undercut myself and my peers and an industry in order to succeed on this platform. But at the end of the day, this is a global marketplace and gig economy. Fiverr doesn't really owe me anything, I'm not a victim, and I have a choice, sell here or not. Particular changes would help us all and bring more revenue to the platform, but when you have hundreds of thousands of gigs the revenue is coming anyway. And it's Fiverr, it's cheap, that's why so many buyers come here.

The private review is anyway far too vague. As far as I can remember, it's something like 'how can we improve your Fiverr experience' - this could mean anything, but only has 3 questions relating to the work they've received. How relevant the works was for their project, etc. They might have had a great experience with the seller, but for they're not happy for other reasons, or they didn't use the work in the end. I've had this before. The buyer was very happy with the voiceover, but they didn't use it in the end. If any of this is reflected in the private review, the seller is punished anyway, regardless. And Fiverr won't use it to improve the seller because we're not allowed details about the review. Bonkers.

Of course you can only add companies if you've worked with them. If you add a company dishonestly, you will lose these feature. You can add your best clients if they are on the list, then you have to add your invoice for the company or your order link. You need to find that.

If you've never worked with any of these companies then you cannot add them to your profile and your account alone. You need proof of work, either the link to the Fiverr order or an official invoice for the work you did for the company.

Exactly. However, when Amazon gets a bad review from a grumpy buyer it doesn't tank Amazon.

I wouldn't be comfortable asking or being asked. And it's one thing after another. You set OOO so you could have a holiday, don't do that; you didn't send out coupons, do that; your gig promotion limit is too low, your gig price is too high, ask former buyers for private reviews, don't ask other buyers for any reviews. I think I'm going to return to the strategy that served me so well here for so long: Not giving a monkeys about the variables. Just doing my best to be a professional that serves clients well.