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moikchap

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  1. What does the tooltip for calculating Repeat Business Score say?
  2. The fact that the gig is unfinished (Premium shows N/A) could be making people skeptical of your ability to finish a task, and decide against you. But as well, there's a lot of stuff going on in the gig that muddies the water. Like, at a glance I was confused that you were offering writing help here on the forum but it looked like you only had an editing gig. I had to stop and re-read the gig. The writing needs to be a separate gig. The gig page a chaotic, unfinished jumble. It needs a lot of polish work.
  3. What style of art are you looking for? A lot of the good/commercial art I have actually takes two sellers; a line specialist and a colour specialist. But, they tend to be anime, cartoon, and comics styles. I actually have a kind of opposite problem where I find it easy to find character artists and hard to find people who do landscapes, structures, mechanical objects, monsters, etc. But, it depends on your spec.
  4. True. A legality webinar on AI product ownership would be neat. But, from what I understand, a lot of the legality is To Be Detemined. My layperson understanding is that an AI Assisted creator does not necessarily own what they created, unless they can "demonstrate a minimum of creative effort", and there are no suitable black and white definitions for that. If they are unable to do so, the product does not have a copyright owner as the result is considered to have a non-human creator. As well, it's currently going into the court to determine whether or not most AI Tools committed broad scale copyright infringement when creating their databases. Under some usage licenses, it may be the tool user rather than the tool creator who is liable for any assessed damages.
  5. I'm basically using the video game definition. Big budget, best-in-class type stuff. I expect someone who truly masters AI can deliver stuff that's inhumanly good at an inhumanly fast pace, and therefore be inhumanly expensive because they can exceed spec even in razor thin "emergency" type delivery windows. But, most people won't master it. They will misinterpret the buyer's needs, deliver something that barely fits, and still get negative private reviews because they didn't add value despite only charging five dollars.
  6. I've been spending a lot of time with Midjourney and ChatGPT to see what tasks I can shift off fiverr and handle myself. My experience largely matches what @droberts1990is saying. If you just ask it "write me a romance novel" you will get a romance novel, sure, but it will be the most bland and generic "just the facts, ma'am" written-by-a-vulcan, emotionless, textureless, one-star-review-earning blob of garbage one would previously expect from artificial intelligence. The pattern recognition of the human brain of the average person is soon going to be able to start picking them out. To make it do something that the book consuming public will consider to be worth buying requires actual domain knowledge. Like, I need to have it limit itself to doing a chapter at a time using specific literary frameworks, tell it how dialog looks, what kind of dialog it should have, what descriptive elements should be included in setting a scene, and so on, and then I'll need to read through and have it regenerate or expand certain paragraphs because they were too hand-wavey. Getting good content out of it requires editor hours. Making sellable content with it isn't actually free. It will still take billable effort to make a project of that scope something worth selling. All I really see AI doing is increasing the pace and reducing the total budget needs. Like, if someone is capable of writing one good book a year, it will help them bump that to four without a meaningful loss in quality. It will still take 2000 hours to achieve either result. I believe we're going to see a similar stratification among AI sellers that you see in other verticals where there are many who over-estimate their skills and abilities with the tools and under-deliver, and another separate set who actually studied and understood the tool and can hit triple-A targets at triple-A prices.
  7. @maitasun @uk1000 Do you guys know what the view is on a situation like if I have an account for me, and then I'm the point of contact who handles another account for my employer? Is the business a different user even though it's me handling it? I was thinking of making some proposals at work that I handle some outsourcing since I know the pain points of fiverr, but I don't want their stuff to comingle with my personal stuff. Surely this use case has come up before (using fiverr at work for work, then at home for self on separate accounts), but I can't easily find an answer when I google it.
  8. Advantage: It's fast and doesn't get writer's block. Disadvantage: It's so painfully generic that guiding it to be creative approaches taking as much effort as writing it yourself. Thoughts: I'm going to use it because I have a deep backlog of content with a repetitive format, so it makes economic sense for me to invest the time training it to replicate my template and fill it in. Importance: It doesn't add anything new to society. Creative and inventive people are still needed to advance us. It's the assembly line workers who will be replaced doing the work to backfill the corners.
  9. Back in college, there were a few people in my classes who either got hired before they got the degree, or got hired into the most prestigious places out of all of us. There was a common thread among those two types of people; they were spending time doing their own learning outside class and not just doing what the classes taught them. There is so much advice already on the forum, that if you started reading it, there would never be time left over to ask for people to bring you advice. If I had to boil it down it's going to come down to three things: - Don't have english mistakes in your gig if it's an english gig. - Have a gig that does something differently from everyone else, even if it's a minor difference. - Do that thing well.
  10. I'm betting the shape of Generative AI tools will simply adapt to become legal. Grey-tools like Napster and YouTube begat an IP Law revolution that ends with Spotify and DMCA/Content ID. The disruptive services and market behaviours became monetized in a way that worked for the established industry. Probably Generative AI will go a similar way that an agency will be set up to let people submit their content to potentially get paid, and then earn pennies because all of it's going to Getty Images.
  11. Every now and then, Fiverr will send me an email based on my recent searches. Ex, the title will be "Looking for fantasy writing?" because I was looking for fantasy writing, and then give me four gigs it thinks would work for that. The fantasy writing email I received has "I will do technical cybersecurity research writing and reports", "I will illustrate an original medieval fantasy character", "I will write your fantasy short story", and "I will write fanfiction or original fiction for you". I expect this new option will have the same level of match accuracy.
  12. Bro. You're a level 2 seller with 100+ reviews. You're probably already doing everything as correctly as you can. If you got a sudden drop-off, it's because of that random 1-star guy. From what I understand, it's mainly just a waiting game for that to stop affecting your gig.
  13. There might be another question of "Is it permissible under ToS?" I feel like I've seen something mentioned along those lines, but it might have to do with contact off-platform. I'm not sure. As to the question of etiquette, it probably varies by the culture of the client. I've had a few people do it, and it mostly comes off to me like a reminder to buy something from them. But, those sellers were more often people I'd only interacted with on one or two tasks. Probably if it was someone I bought from a lot and had a "long" relationship with, it would come across more as a relationship thing.
  14. From what I understand, yes. Judging by Fiverr's ToS, the licensing format for Voice Over is a "perpetual, exclusive, non-transferable, worldwide license" for any channels you buy out. What differs between basic, commercial buy out, and full broadcast buy out is which channels that license encompasses.
  15. moikchap

    Eat Zee Bugs

    Another fun one... if you're eating something vanilla flavoured, but the ingredients say "natural flavours" without directly saying vanilla or vanillin... it's probably trying to hide the fact that it's castoreum. If they were using proper, expensive vanilla they would probably say it outright, and commercial vanillin is typically the synthetic variant so they can't lump it into "natural flavours".
  16. It kind of sounds like maybe fear of the unknown. Possibly if you take some steps to center/ground yourself, you'll find things start becoming more familiar, and then you'll feel more in control. Like, in traditional Root Cause Analysis, it's exceptionally rare that the person is the source of the failing. The vast majority of the time it's the tools they were given weren't good enough, the training they were given was incomplete, or even communication of the tasks were misleading. Like, if you step back and consider what kind of company you were employed by, and compare it to others, maybe the problem wasn't your individual contributions, but a leadership decision that made the company unrecoverable. If you wonder why you and not some others were laid off, maybe those others had closer relationships with the managers who decided who to keep and who to let go. The more familiarity you gain with the situation, the more all the other cogs and wheels reveal themselves, and you gain a sense of ability to navigate them and don't feel as lost.
  17. I dunno if I wanna call it "cool"... But I definitely consider it "intriguing"... I have a very dilapidated copy of the First Edition of Reader's Digest Treasury of Wit & Humour from the 50s. Basically this, but in even more rough shape. It's a collection of mainstream North American humour, and it's very much "of its era". It would definitely be cancelled these days, but the glimpse into the past is neat to see. A lot of it would almost count as "advanced dad jokes" these days though. .
  18. I approached it as if I was looking for a Poem to use as a riddle/clue in one of my D&D adventures. So, I checked out the gig images to see if you already did anything that looks like what I would want. None of them do, because none of them have an obvious rhyme scheme when I read them aloud in my head. Basically, each of the preview images are too artistic/complex and would not appeal to me as a buyer with no experience in the field or interest in the category. I don't understand these to be poems. I have a very simple and cliché personal definition of a poem. To get my interest, I would want to see basically a clever limerick .
  19. moikchap

    Writer needed

    This is a tough one. I have a list saved with 35 writers and they're all "close but not quite". Best I can offer is this fella who I ordered from twice (but for D&D technical fantasy writing) and he does have an ad writing gig.
  20. If I'm understanding you correctly, I believe the thing you're asking for is currently in beta with Seller Plus. https://www.fiverr.com/support/articles/8423950960913-Request-to-Order-for-sellers?segment=seller
  21. It might be "Briefs" now. For me, it looks like it's under Profile > Post A Request.
  22. I recently did some digging in various verticals to see what proportion were $5 gigs. Some verticals have 50% of sellers offering a $5 option, but some only 0.5% have a $5 option. One of those categories is Rigging, which I know from college, so I browsed it to see how this highly technical field was offering $5 gigs. Rigging is the act of adding bones and mass to computer characters so you can animate them. There's a saying that goes like "The final 20% takes 80% of the effort." The rigging gigs are offering that first 80% which only takes 20% of the effort at $5. It only gets you a spine and limbs. Hands are extra. Weight maps are extra. Hair is extra. Face is Premium only. It's like the built their own funnel model. For the smallest price, you get the smallest result. Asking for more takes offering more.
  23. I buy a lot from $5 sellers, and if they deliver something way higher quality than I expected, I tip them the difference and give them my thoughts on where they could realistically price themselves. Through those conversations I hear back a few of the reasonings for staying lower priced than their straight value. The most common one is that people are only at $5 temporarily to get reviews and increase their prices later.* The next most common is that the individual is a student looking to expand their portfolio rather than financing their life via fiverr. Less common, but happening a few times given I deal with artists mainly, is that they have enough money but want to work and feel appreciated. * I have a list of 73 artists who met my standard at $5 when I started in Dec 2020. Now when I check, 40 of them are at $10 or up, with the highest being $50 minimum. This might be another reason why Fiverr might not change. It seems the sellers are raising their prices at a pretty significant rate, and it probably drags their return clients up with them. That's what I've done recently. I just placed two high quantity orders this week with the two best sellers I have, and the prices are double what I initially paid. I know what I'll get and that it's worth it.
  24. This is the first time I've seen a "Several people are typing..." in a thread. This is going to be quite the topic by the time it runs out of steam.
  25. This type of change would cut away the widest portion of the "funnel" system Fiverr uses. Lifting the base price would also raise a headwind on their globalization push, putting up a higher wall between buyers and sellers from developing nations (potentially reducing revenue the company gains from those regions by reducing total transactions more than it increases from the average per transaction). There could be a negative impact on buyer acquisition, on-boarding, and retention. Ideally, for discussions like these, I feel we should have some numbers so our thoughts look more like a data-driven decisions rather than theory-crafting. I'm wondering things like: - How many buyers never order a gig above $5? - How many buyers make their first order at $5 compared to $10? - How quickly does a buyer who started at $5 and then proceed to larger orders compared to starting at $10? - What does the satisfaction rate for $5 orders look like compared to $10 orders? - What does the cancellation rate for $5 orders look like compared to $10 orders? - What is the CS burden for $5 orders compared to $10 orders? - What percentage of Fiverr's revenue is from orders are made at the $5 tier compared to $10? - How do these numbers look when comparing established markets versus new markets? Like, sure, maybe $5 gigs are the new Buyer Request; a trivial component of business that's practicially vestigial and should be deprecated. If that's the case, they're actually more problems than they're worth. But, they may be a lynchpin given Fiverr's funnel process and globalization growth strategy.
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