[Is ghostwriting gig selling?]

Basically, there are almost 20,000 sellers in the ghost writing category, and still 8,000 when you limit it to eBook writers. Your gig images and description are very generic. There's nothing to separate you from the pack to make people want to click on you instead of someone else. People generally don't believe someone is good at everything. Pick one of the Expert options you listed and make your gig entirely about that (call it out in the gig image). You'll show up in fewer searches, but people will be more confident in your ability to do that.

Like, when I do searches for artists, I don't look for artists who do anything. I look for specialists in things like landscapes or characters. If I was looking for an eBook writer, I probably wouldn't find you because I'd be looking for specific things like "supernatural" and you wouldn't show up in what I search for.

[Is this on your gig?]

On 12/27/2022 at 10:04 AM, kendal1747 said:

I noticed maybe two weeks ago possibly, that Fiverr added questions to my FAQ's.

I started getting those in the Order Requirements page as a buyer. It really threw me off the first time. I didn't initially notice it wasn't something the seller had set. It even happens on Custom Orders where the seller and I already discussed the project and they have all the details. So it's just an extra nuisance for me and probably the seller has no control over it.

[Your favorite holiday/Christmas treat?]

1 hour ago, vickiespencer said:

Italian relatives brought it from Italy

We have a similar thing called Roman Nougat where I live. (But it has gumdrops instead of almonds)

[When Did You Get Your First Order On Fiverr?]

For many people, it's common to wait months. This is especially the case for people who get very specific with the genre of their gig. But, that does mean less competition (and greater likelihood of a sale!) as a result. However, that can be ruined if a gig description contains several grammar and formatting issues since it will lessen the buyer's confidence in the seller. 

[Your favorite holiday/Christmas treat?]

Chicken Bones are the tradition on my dad's side, specifically the Ganong brand ones. They're a cinnamon hard candy with a chocolate center.
On my mom's side it tends to be "assorted squares". Looks a bit like this.

[Dead gig purge?]

31,641 for me now. It's like it's deflating at about 10 per hour. So in about four months there will be no Voice Over gigs left at all.

[Dead gig purge?]

All I did to get my numbers was select the Music & Audio category from the bar at the top, then select the Voice Over sub-category. It should be similarly unfiltered. Since my last post, that same filter now shows 32011. A drop of 13 in about an hour.

[Dead gig purge?]

While our numbers don't directly match newsmike's... there is a trend. Catwriter saw 32057. Andy saw 32027. I see 32025. The quoted numbers are descending.

 

[Commercial rights and broadcast rights for voice overs]

1. However much you want. There's no requirement. As a smaller buyer though, I walk away when rights more than double the cost. Only put a big price if you're expecting small clients aren't going to be much of your business. Many probably search using their "budget" and will balk when they see additional fees of any amount. So, adding a fee will reduce your client count, but the ones who do contact you will probably be more professional from having been more organized in their search process.
2. I'm guessing you're referring to something like being added to a stock resource like AI Voice? That's a different product/service, so it's valid to charge differently. I have no idea how those buyers behave though. I've seen a number of Voice Over sellers on the forum claim to simply refuse that work. Probably those buyers have limited options and as a result higher price tolerance. You can probably ramp up the value of a custom offer for them to an unreasonable price and see them accept it.

[How much should an editor cost on Fiverr?]

22 hours ago, kcomic said:

I would want more than line editing, more like structure and story development

8 hours ago, kcomic said:

I wish I were a better storyteller, though, then maybe I wouldn't feel like I needed editing for story development. 

I do that generally via cheaper "worldbuilding" sellers to help with "grand scale" "framework" components, and then getting extra "final detailing" from proper pricey creative writing sellers once I can limit the scope easily and describe the lead-in and outcome accurately. (Give really good direction.)

Ex, take whatever the mystery equivalent of a Monomyth Framework is and provide it and other setting details to a Worldbuilder to get a basic set of coherent seed details/ideas. Then try and flesh each out as much as you can. When you start to get writer's block on a component, pass that one to a creative writer and move onto the next section. Then, at the end, have a beta reader give it a look over.

What catwriter said about trying a few sellers for each task is really important. You can try a few different sellers at a low price point and should have a good chance to find someone who is not only viable but goes a bit above and beyond (maybe they're pricing low to get reviews to kiickstart their fiverr career), which should save costs in the long run. Ex, some beta readers basically operate like a true line editor at a lower cost. But you would need to try a few out to find one like that.

 

[A Poll for everyone! How did you learn English and what's your relationship with languages?]

I was born in an english-speaking part of Canada, and I also speak a nearly-conversational level of Quebec French due to mandatory and elective schooling.

However, if we want to get into dialects, I also know Chiac and Newfoundland English around the same level as Quebec French, but from being around people who speak them. Both are considered generally lower-class dialects.

My sister has a similar background, but is fluent in french well enough to have completed her bacherlor's in communication at a french university.
My brother has a similar background, but is conversational in russian, greek, and slavonic as part of his theology studies in university.

My brother mentioned noticing at his school that native speakers seemed to be consistently worse speakers of a language than ones who learn it, and he theorized it was because the ones who learn it don't even know the improper ways of speaking, so they have nothing left but the proper ways.

I find myself code-switching a lot between what would be considered a "standard american accent" in work and business and my natural atlantic canadian accent, which is often associated with a number of negative traits by other Canadians. For example, people are more likely to question the validity of my suggestions if I say them in my regional accent as if they presume I'm less informed, due to my region being stereotyped as very rural and blue collar (uneducated).

[Sharing Gigs to friends, followers]

There's a point where you can know if someone is a "genuine" reviewer since reviews are public on profile in addition to gig. If they have a lot of reviews with a lot of different people, as some point, the network is too large to be entirely illegitimate. That individual is likely a trustworthy reviewer.

Like, five 5-star orders between the same pair of people? Sure, sketchy. Unreliable. But, it's possible to come across people with over 200 reviews between 100 different sellers. It's pretty unlikely they're friends with 100 different sellers. And, 200 completed orders would mean a lot of money eaten by fiverr's fees which those people are unlikely to spend on reviews just to pump reviews.

Any site with reviews is susceptible to some kind of "ballot box stuffing". The risk is always there. In this case, the ability to check out the reviewer is a big step to be able to spot shenanigans.

[What are the cosiest/freakiest winter-y video/board games?]

Depending on your definition of cozy... I'm going to assume that means sort of slow-paced games you can play while inside a blanket and holding a cup of hot chocolate in one hand. 

I guess I'll recommend Dorfromantik, a "match the tile sides" puzzle game. Cat Goes Fishing, a more 'arcade-y' fishing game (rather than a simulation). Windward, a pirate game which has intermittent combat, but is super zen during the times when you're just in transit sailing. And, I suppose Spellcaster University, a build-your-own-Hogwarts which is a sort of ant farm with a storyline. 

[What's the craziest hair you've had (or want to have?)]

This is the guitarist from KoRn circa the 90s, not me. For high school graduation I got my hair done like that. There was another guy who had his hair like this, and the local paper took a separate picture of us and together we became the visual for a "creativity on display" sub-story to the graduation news. (I'm from a rural area, population vaguely 40,000 at the time.)

In college, I had a fairly normal haircut, but dyed a silvery blue which I sprayed with a silicon hairspray to make it look like plastic. I am bald now, but the men in my family are bald on both my mom and dad's side, so the silicon may not be to blame. 

[Have You Ever Left A Buyer A Bad Review?]

20 minutes ago, williambryan392 said:

There is data out there that a perfect profile is concerning for buyers

If a depiction of a seller has good lighting, good framing, good posture, good clothes, and good backdrop; my gut says its a stock photo rather than the actual seller. I start to feel like it's a trick. If I see "a picture only a mother would Like" then it feel more like the seller must feel like that's their only option because it's the only good picture of themselves they have.

There's a marketing thing along those lines, which I forget the name for; if you lead with admitting a flaw, everything else afterward becomes more believable. Like, Dr Buckley's Cough Syrup increased its market share by advertising with the slogan "It tastes bad, but it works." Avis did a similar thing revolving around the idea that they're only the second best-selling car rental company, so they have to do better to be worth it, and increased market share.

From what I understand, japanese commercials are "weird" due to something along those lines where "hard sell" comes across as being a deceptive distraction, so you have to use soft sell techniques to demonstrate confidence in your product. There's a lot of little counter-intuitive things like that for different buyers across different cultures. I think most sellers do talk about making specialized gigs that appeal to thin spectrums of clients. That sort of thing may be another factor to consider, research, and plan for. I don't think I've seen much discussion of it, but I'm not around as much as most.

[Important Suggestions for Fiverr Inbox]

I'm cleaning up my conversation list, and the scroll keeps going back to the top. It seems to be occurring whenever I archive a conversation. I then need to scroll back down to where I left off, and it takes keeping track to find where I left off. I would prefer if it kept the scroll position. I'm using Opera.

[Improve "Label" system (stop having menu close automatically, allow filtering by multiple labels at once)]

It seems that I can't create multiple labels in a row (I'm using Opera). The label menu closes automatically after I create one, and when I re-open the menu, the label isn't showing. I need to refresh the page to use newly created labels. 

Possibly related, I can only toggle one label at a time. The menu automatically closes after I make a change, so I need to keep re-opening it until I'm done.

As well, the dropdown for filtering the conversation list via labels only allows using one at a time. Personally, I would prefer at least two since I'm labelling both by gig category and delivery value. Under the current system I need to go back and make more labels which combine the distinctions, and it's a nuisance given how the menu keeps closing after each action.

[Being a Woman on Fiverr]

15 minutes ago, vickiespencer said:

wonder if the men who portray themselves as women in their profile images get this type of s****l harassment.

I used to do QA for a social networking app. Sometimes I had to do tests on production which required a lot of active friend requests and conversations. I intentionally used "catfish" profiles to drawn in those people so they would generate the activity for me rather than me needing to use multiple devices to talk to myself. The harassment happened early, often, without hesitation or questions, and to shocking degrees even when I was saying and doing nothing. I could idle in a chat room, not interacting with it, and come back from lunch to 200 friend requests and most would turn into interrogations of my personal information. I also had to maintain a testing philosophy to check that any new feature abided the Block function so it could not be used as a vector for harassment, because we always got reports of blocks being bypassed if something slipped through in design.

[I Miss Office Parties]

Renting is a good one. If there was a place to rent a Switch I would probably do that. Related, there's a lot of consoles and games from the 90s and earlier that I miss. Atari, Sega, and whoever made the Commodore 64 need to do the NES Classic thing.
Sometimes I find it weird that there are no payphones anymore where I live, but I get it.
Depending if you want to count it as a "technology" or not... none of the buffet places where I live have returned to the buffet format, and the one at the racetrack was so good. I wish that would come back.
I miss the big, boxy, tanky cars like Ford Crown Victoria and Chrysler 5th Avenue. I don't like the sleek modern styles.
I wish passenger trains were more of a supported thing in North America. I'd go more places more often if I could do it in a more leisurely and peaceful manner.
Shoes with buckles instead of laces. I had a pair like that, my second favourite after the zip-up sneakers.
Do "arcades" count as a technology? Used to be every mall had one. Now none of them in my area do. Cyber cafes are also now way more rare around my area. No LAN parties. Should have been replaced by VR Cafes but that never happened, which is weird to me.
I miss the McPizza. I actually liked it.

I bet most of the actual good answers are going to be something along the lines of someone preferring the analog method to a digital method, like how some people swear by vinyl records over everything else. I see it happen a lot in the Dungeons & Dragons world that even though there are searchable online resources, people will still crack the books open to check the wording of a rule, even when they're already playing online.



 

[A friend joined Fiverr :)]

2 hours ago, vickieito said:

I think most "bad" reviews are result of poor communication, which, I don't think you'll have a problem with. 

I suppose that's true. I'll need to look around to see if there are any tips for prompting needed details from buyers. A lot of the horror stories on the forums make it feel like its hard to actually get proper engagement.

 

[A friend joined Fiverr :)]

28 minutes ago, williambryan392 said:

it's not coming up in Fiverr search or google for me.

If it doesn't come up from this link, blame some kind of obscure fiverr bug. (I've found my reviews do or do not show depending which browser I'm in)

[A friend joined Fiverr :)]

One of my buddies became an art buyer after he saw what I was getting at the prices I was finding. But, he's just using the site casually for things like pictures of his D&D characters. I have another buddy who's on the fence about becoming a buyer at a "professional content creator" level similar to mine. I think his worry is more being uncertain he can get what he wants, or how time consuming it can be to get it (creating task details/specs that can survive a language barrier is an involved process). 

I keep debating putting my day job skills into a gig, but this thing about one-bad-review resetting one's growth (getting de-ranked) is off-putting.

[Juuuuust curious.]

4 minutes ago, zeus777 said:

is it about the * cough cough * found in the toilet? 

No, found in an oil barrel filled with concrete.

[Juuuuust curious.]

I'm Canadian, and know of it through Mythbusters in the early 2000s attempting the presumed method of breakout. There was also "The Rock" movie around that time, so Alcatraz had some extra zeitgeist spotlight time for Gen X and Millennials. Probably older generations know more about Folsom Prison due to Johnny Cash and younger generations probably know more about Rikers Island due to The Division video game and recent controversies making the news.  

I don't know any japanese unsolved crimes. I only know of one solved one, because it still gets a lot of media due to it's horrific nature.

[ONLY BUYERS OPINION PLEASE]

I don't decide if a person is qualified "at first glance". At first glance, I decide if they're worth reviewing further. After further review, I'll decide if they're worth buying a gig from as a trial run. After that trial run is delivered, then I decide if they're qualified or not based on the delivery.

This is a more detailed description of how I decide.