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First, I calmed down before I had an aneurysm. Then I watched Game of Thrones. How everyone deals with stress is different. The main thing is to keep an eye on your blood pressure. Otherwise, welcome to the wild ride of uncertainty that never ever stops. 😉

But you can withdraw to PayPal and connect PayPal with Revolut. - Or at least you used to be able to do that. I would prefer to be able to withdraw my Fiverr earnings directly to Revolut or Skrill. However, Payoneer seems to have a bit of a monopoly on several freelance marketplaces. 😦

I’m sorry, but this simply can’t be correct. If you use FB or Google to login to Fiverr, you login via a security token. Your Google or FB username or password is not the same as your Fiverr password and should not be treated as such. If when Fiverr directs users to a login area, there is no button to click to login via FB or Google, users will not be able to enter their FB or Google details manually. In this case, can you confirm whether such buttons are present? If not, FB & Google users may be exempt from ID checks (at least for the time being). Alternatively, it could be that someone has overlooked the need to add FB & Google support, in which case this should be reported to Fiverr asap.

Please keep us updated with how things work out. 🙂

The cheek! Consider yourself banished from all of my wicked headmistress fantasies. You want detention? Two can play at that game! 🙂

Prior to starting freelancing, I lived as a dog for 6-weeks in a shelter for strays. Every day when people came to look for a new furry best friend, I’d bound at my pen gates in different ways and experiment making different barking sounds. I did whatever I could to get anyone’s attention in the hope of being adopted. Sadly, my efforts didn’t work. No one in their right mind would ever adopt a naked adult man from an animal welfare charity. The thing is, I knew that going in. What I wanted to test, was whether I was prepared for the rejection, the starvation, and the mad howl of hundred of other people all around me all wanting the same thing. In my case, I was wanted by the FBI so I didn’t really have a choice. You do. That said, if you do continue down your new career path, I can give you some practical advice: Prior to commencing freelancing, make someone you trust promise to intervene if you ever get too addicted to Netflix Prepare to be treated sub-humanly from time to time Ready yourself for the fact that you will suffer recurring dashed hopes and disappointment Never tell people you work from home on your computer. They will only start coming to you in droves whenever their phones or computers freeze Don’t be Mr. Nice Guy. When someone asks you for samples, says they have had bad experiences in the past, or says, “I’ve got regular work for you,” run Don’t price yourself at $5. You’ll just end up feeling as emotionally dead inside as a Walking Dead extra Prepare to wait months for things to get started, then prepare to to start losing your hair as things slow down for months Stop eating bread and pasta immediately When you lose track of the days, get ready for the day you will lose track of years Other than that, enjoy! 🙂

You’d be the only one. 😉

I beg to differ. Voice chat results in dire kinds of buyers attempting to lock buyers into accepting rock-bottom rates of pay. If you want voice contact with buyers, create a paid consultation gig.

Wait a second? You’re saying that getting sales on Fiverr isn’t magic or something everyone should be entitled to? - That’s mind blowing.

Yep - this really irritates me. I want to offer zero revisions and I dont want clients to mistakenly think they are entitled to them. Unfortunately Fiverr seems unable or unwilling to allow me this “grace”. However, they need to really change their messages. Look at what shows up when a buyer goes to click “Accept”: It is a wonder that anyone clicks Accept when they see this! Why does it say this on a gig that doesn’t and never has offered revisions? However, even if this situation is a bit more Sh#t Happens! than Get Sh#t Done, I think there are ways to handle it. I tend not to get the serial revision requesters but that is likely down to my categories. However, I do believe that if one firmly establishes their value initially that it is easier and more effective to refuse these. On the few occasions it has happened, I handled it in a similar way to handling someone asking for discounts. As for CS cancellations - I haven’t had that happen so I dunno, it just seems extremely odd. I do like the way you handle those to a point, I just don’t think it is making you money - although you are providing the world with a charitable service, namely educating people. Well, since kicking the needy budget cretins aside who seem to have evolved to take other peoples time for granted, I’ve had my most successful freelance year to date. - And when I do wave off a $10-$20 buyer on Fiverr, its usually because I am opting to take on an order which requires zero client communication on what is now my main writing platform. You’re playing the long game. - Be someones best buddy and they will hopefully keep on ordering long into the future. I play the short, diversify everywhere and target the best and easiest revenue stream game. - Is there a $30 order I can take off-Fiverr today right now without any fiddling? If yes, that gets my priority. - Bye bye Mr. Be as Vague as Possible in my Fiverr inbox. Meanwhile, my regulars on Fiverr (all of whom either messaged me with a full brief or ordered directly initially), keep on placing orders for more content without need of constant communication. It flows, it works fine for me, and my way of doing things helps increase income whilst also severing reliance on Fiverr. (And it reduces the unholy amount of time which I still need to spend on Fiverr related admin). In this case, please don’t worry about my personal finances. They are very, healthy thank you. 🙂

Now, my response was friendly and clear as well as establishing the fact that I value myself correctly. It had a little humor, but was also quite straight to the point - what you are offering is not enough, period. This has resulted in a series of projects with this client and will total 250k words by the end, all at my going rate with a small discount that I offered after the first 50,000 words. If I had just said “No” to the client, that would have been the end of it. If I had accepted that rate, I would be absolutely miserable working on this while having to send away higher paying clients. Moreover, the client is exceptionally happy with the work and the overall experience. Now, this situation is just one of many similar cases where the initial contact with the client was what others would call negative. Some clients do not order with me because my price is higher than their budget - that’s ok. They go away disappointed because they cannot work with me - some even come back weeks or months later having saved up the required amount! So there you have it, dealing with “bad buyers” is not so bad usually. How you handle them can dramatically change things for both of you. Try it out next time and see how it goes. If you disagree or can take nothing else from this whole post, just go read the Valuing Yourself Properly section again. I fully agree. Sadly, my biggest gripe is not being able to set a fixed number of revisions or stop buyers hitting the revision button 1, 2, 5, 10 times just because they can. - Being able to do that gives them the power. This is actually why I decline to work with most buyers. Everything you say is sound. It just can’t be practically applied to a system which can see buyers physically hit the revision button however many times they like, and get fully delivered orders canceled by CS on request. From my own experience, saying no more and closing even potentially problem orders down at the message stage, has boosted my productivity and earnings considerably. This is perhaps not the kind of customer service Fiverr wants. However, as far as ongoing workflow and new orders go, limiting your services also makes them scarcer and increases demand. (At least in my opinion). By modus operandi when faced with messages like: Is to say a simple: “No, sorry.” In cases where that buyer may then place an order, (and they often do) it is because they have found one or more sellers willing to take on their request. Sadly, they have had deliveries returned to them which are simply unusable. The next time I hear from them, they are, therefore, pleading for help rather than trying to make me beg for work. I see this as my way of helping people learn for themselves that super cheap often also means super nasty. As a result, they grow as individuals, learn how to invest in their own business, and increase their chances of entrepreneurial success in the long-term. (Though I am a wee bit evil in this regard.) All that said, if I could set up a gig where buyers could only hit the revision button however many times I say they can and not have orders canceled unless I fail to deliver, I would likely bring my way of communicating with buyers more in line with yours. 🙂

Like others say, just say no. Be prepared, though, for an evil review, even if you say no as politely as possible.

This is awesome and it sounds like you are definitely going about this in the right way. I wish you every success I can. Thank you. I do actually need a sail boat if you have one going? It’s actually quite scary how much you realize you waste when budgeting everything, I recently realized that my last guilty pleasure of having coffee and a local pastry every morning in town was costing me $1,000 per year! Since then I’ve also dropped coffee altogether and alcohol went out the window in January. More recently, I’ve figured that if I start fishing again, I could halve my food costs. I’m just too much of a foody to go full monk.

Those people are not writers. Most of them are on the dole. They only have Macbooks because they begged their mums to get them one for Christmas. Watch them closely and you will see that none display true freelancing behavior such as chin and eye rubbing, or excessive coffee consumption. Eventually, they end up working at Starbucks. In fact, they probably do already and are just on a coffee break.

At present, my total home comforts amount to 1 x dining room chair, 1 x kitchen worktop (currently doubling as a desk) and one God awful sofa bed. By October, I’ll have this down to 1 x lightweight secure backpack holding 2 x changes of clothes and a Chihuahua in a carry case. - All ready for the big off to true digital nomading. I’m not poor. Just striving to have 2-years of basic income and an extra emergency fund ready for the big off. Last month, I even managed to get my electricity and water bill down to 22 euros by substituting morning showers for embarrassing, pale skinned awkward morning swims. All I really need now is a beard and I will be in ultimate hobo territory. 🙂

Yeah, and then we get fracked. I went to People Per Hour, submitted one hourly, the ones people search for, the finks disapproved it. They set the standards impossibly high! Hey, I have an idea, instead of 4.8, why not 5.0? Instead of 90% completion rate, why not 100%? Come on, people! Let’s raise the standards! 20% commission? Let’s give Fiverr 50%! Better yet, let’s give them 100%. Let’s all work for Fiverr, they need the money, we don’t. Or maybe Fiverr should charge a membership. Want to be TRS? $100 a month. Not enough? $500 then. I am really sorry for what has happened to you @fastcopywriter. One thing to think about, though. Why not now experiment with increasing prices on some of the gigs where you get your most demanding buyers? This way, you could (potentially) reduce the number of people leaving poor reviews, whilst also doubling your income and in this way, offset the inconvenience of the 14-day clearance period. In either case, I hope something works out for you.

I think everyone is very aware of how happy you are with the new changes.

Oh, this means that I can write the book that I wanted to have finished by May/June this year! In this case, if December is slow, look out in January for my disturbing on so many levels tome, ‘Natutal Psychopaths’. Also (Mods) this isn’t a plug, it’s not finished or published yet. Also, yes, it is semi-autobiographical God I miss NZ. The last Christmas I was in Franz Josef, our Christmas dinner, bbq and town drinking fest transpired somehow into a bed race around town. (Pushing a bed like a wheel barrow - it was a tourist hub and everyone in Franz was in hospitality). Ah crazy young days where every idea was a good one as long as you had a six pack of Monteith’s. Miss those. Fellow writer ey? Fancy showing me your trilogy if I show you mine?