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I agree with all this. I would add: Don't try to convince people using too many interesting or flattering words about your own work. Let the pictures talk for themselves. Try to make specific gigs. Don't use a gig to "do any graphic design work". One thing per gig. Remember that you can have many gigs. All the pictures you use in the gigs seem like a template, and they don't give us the feeling that you have actually done many projects. They all include either a "John Doe" name or your own name. If you can't use a real previous project you did, create another name, a fictitious company name or something to have variety. Your profile picture on Fiverr is cropped. That doesn't look professional. Try get a picture with high quality that fits the size and shape. I hope this helps you redirect your profile to get clients 🙂

Is anyone working like this? Do you know someone who is currently doing it? I work on voice overs, now my girlfriend wants to work on it too. Customer Service said we can use the same account. But I would like to know if someone else is currently doing it.

Thank you! I needed to read this! I'm currently studying for a diploma on professional voice over in Latin America and I'm afraid to mention publicly that I work on Fiverr for this exact reason. I actually left my full time job for this because I do earn more now, and it's all thanks to Fiverr! (well, sure, I've been practicing and improving myself but you get the point). Thank you again, sir!

It allows you to create a custom offer for your services. You set the kind of service (by selecting the reference gig), the description of the job, the price, the delivery date, the revisions, the extras... etc. It is like creating a custom gig for that client and it will be used only one time. Your buyer can accept it directly in Inbox. This option is used when we offer a personalized order for a client that has specific needs, different from your normal offer in the public gig. Or maybe when we want to offer a special price for that client, or to include an extra service.

If they give you the option, it costs 1% of the amount you are requesting. As Zack said, you either see it (in the Earnings section) or not.

I'm glad I did it a few months back. I took the decision after I had the worst experience with a problematic buyer. I was scared that I could lose clients: I thought they hired me because of my price. In deed, some of them never came back after I raised the price. But some of them stayed. And I started seeing my orders going up again about two weeks after the change. Many new buyers included. Now I have worked with much less problematic clients. Actually, I have hardly had any bad experience since then. I took this decision about 3 years after I started freelancing, and it was an AWESOME decision!

A bit off topic... what does TRS stand for?

I don’t know what to do, but Fiverr should really do something to prevent buyers to be able to get work done for free just by saying “I didn’t like it”, because how can someone tell you otherwise?? how can someome prove that’s wrong?! I think that’s the biggest flaw here. For some buyers, Fiverr is a place where you can get free things. And we shouldn’t undermine it just because “it doesn’t happen to everyone” or because “that’s common everywhere”. Maybe there could be a feature like this: If a buyer wants to cancel the order because they didn’t like it, they would only get 50% refund but ONLY IF they provide an extensive and detailed information about why they didn’t like it and how it wasn’t what the project needed (and promise they won’t use it at all). And a staff member should revise that explanation to decide whether it is acceptable. If it is, they get the 50% back but never 100%. If it’s not acceptable, they don’t get a refund. And they should keep a record of how many times buyers do this, so they can get warnings, or their account deleted or something. Exactly as the sellers. Extra comments for the buyers: they should take the responsibility to carefully check the seller’s gig’s description, samples, and bio. They should know they have to choose someone they believe it’s gong to fulfill their requirements.