timothykoen

Although wise advice, I disagree with this. I have to because this platform is in English. What to a native English speaker may seem like bad word usage, probably seems excellent to the writer. Also consider, sentence structure and spelling vary from language to language. And since this platform uses translation software what we see in English may have been written by and translated from another language. Not having excellent grasp of the English language should not be a red flag. However, well written descriptions are a plus. Bad ones shouldn't be a minus.

I also agree with this change. It would be nice to have 1 or 2 username change options. I signed up as me, but my brand name is something else. And I might want to update that in the future, but can't. 🥴

Frank, great advice. I have a little trouble with this one (Enable subscriptions). And that is, I don't know how to enable subscriptions. Maybe my gig(s) don't allow that or maybe I missed it somewhere. Can you tell me how to do this please? Side note: I am still sorta new on fiverr. In 6 months I've only made 2 gigs and had 5 sales. 3 of those sales have been repeat cutomers. So, a subscription might be attractive to some clients. I believe I have a lot more to offer but my strategy is slow and steady. (Get one thig working before moving on th the next thing, approach.) It is time to add a new gig to my repitroire and a subscription gig seems plausable. Do I do that when creating a gig or can I update an existing gig? Either way I have not seen that option as yet. Can you help, please? Tim Yeah, I don't see subscriptins in my dashboard. Maybe not available for the way I am structuring the gigs. But thank you for the awareness, something I can think about.

I use Camtasia and Adobe After Effects. Camtasia? While not as powerful as Adope Premier Pro it has come a very long way in the past few years. And is a one time cost for it. You can download it to your computer and not have to pay recurring fees. You can work offline and not have to be online to use it. Most of my videos do not require high end software to cut together. Not to disparage the high end Adobe products but for those intermediate and beginner video creators Camtasia is a winner. I do have a copy of Adobe After Effects and find it complicated and way over engineered. And yes I am a qualified engineer. With a degree in broadcast electronics and an FCC broadcast license. I use AE for some things (like motion graphics) but only for very short clips. I do not have Adobe Premier Pro cause I haven't found a bootleg copy, yet. And Camtasia is a lot easier to use. While not as powerful I use other software to fill in the gaps. I.E. Audacity for sound. Snagit and Paint.net for graphic design. And some paid for video creation tools from professional Internet marketers for specialized video creation. Every video creation product has its advantages and disadvantages. You have to decide what your future is going to be before deciding which is right for you. Keep in mind that focusing on an area of expertise is the wisest course. If you just want to cut together video that is way different than complicated motion graphics and animation. Also you want to consider live action productions which requires a lot of costly equipment in itself. Here are some tips for you. Adobe products are very high end, BUT. You need a four year degree and several years experience to get the most out of them. Not to mention high recurring fees. (Which is why a lot of people opt for bootleg copies.) TechSmith products (Camtasia and Snagit) are more PC oriented and work excellently in Windows OS. TechSmith products are excellent but limited in their scope. I hate Apple products because the company treats its developers like crap. I know I was one once. Not to mention the extrordinary high cost of their products. DaVinci's color corrector is world class but also requires years of experience. to get good at I know I was a colorist for 10 years. And colorists are expensive and tend to be utilized only on high budget productions. Okay, enough blabbermouth for now. Off to work. Tim

Thanks for the valuable tips. Time to change my thinking. Glad I didn't spend endless minutes creating nonsense replies thinking it would boost my reputation. Now, I know I didn't waste time doing that. Tim

Lloyd, thanks for the valuable tips. Seems to me though that posting in the forums is connected to the amount of gig impressions a seller gets. Correct me if I am wrong. But isn't one's activity in the forums tied to the number of gig impressions they get. If so, it seems logical to post nonsense replys like "thanks for the valuable tips" or "helpful." Because it builds participation recognition. I have seen several profiles where the person had the exact same cheezy response to 20 different posts, all within 10 minutes. It is obvious these people are copy and pasting the same response over and over in as many threads as they can, in as little time as possible. Why would they do that? Is it a hit or miss approach to finding buyers? (I think not.) Is it a good practice or not? (Undecided.) Are they gaming the system? (Definitely.) Or is it because fiverr's algorithm is geared to promote sellers with high forum participation? If that is the case then it is quantity of posts, not quality, that finds buyers. Here's my theory; buyers aren't deciding to buy from forum posters. Buyers are deciding to by from a sellers gig page. If so, then the more forum posts, the more impressions. The more impressions, the more clicks. The more gig clicks, the more sales one gets. Then, more forum posts = more sales. If true, then bad forum posts don't matter as much as the quantity of posts. Stil, I totally agree with you. The more a person pays attention to grammer, spelling and thoughtful responses the more popular one is in the forums. The more popular one is, the more activity they get on their profiles. The more profile activity, the better the reputation grows. The better the reputation, the more gig impressions one gets, eventually. This is a more organic, but slower way to build a reputation. I'm in the camp of slow, organic growth as opposed to quick but sloppy growth. Please, correct me if I am wrong. Tim

Thanks for the valuable tips. I actually changed my gig because of this thread. I figure 7 pages of agreement merits a look see. So I re-uploaded my primary image with a little color psycology applied. I thought blue and white together would signify cleanliness and trustworthyness. Then I used black and yellow for text. to make it stand out. I Thanks, hope it works. Tim

Did you contact support? Maybe they can solve the issue. Explain your problem and offer the solution you want. It is worth a try.

Done, turns out there is no entry for "ahahah" in the dictionary, but there is for "hahaha." I was not making fun of anyone just offering a helpful tip to a non-native speaker. I'm sorry if you were offended. You seem to have misunderstood me.

Yup, you guessed it. I get my information from experts, like on Google and Wikipedia (among others). According to the experts on those platforms, English is confusing. Here's the top SERP in Google Search for the phrase "Is English language confusing?" -------Quoted From Google------- "English Is Confusing" "It's the most widely taught foreign language in the world. ... There are many confusing oddities such as homophones, homographs, homonyms, and inconsistent spellings that conspire to make English difficult to learn and easy to misunderstand." ------- Here is the top SERP in Google under "People Also Ask :" "Is English the hardest language to learn?" "The English language is widely regarded as one of the most difficult to master. Because of its unpredictable spelling and challenging to learn grammar, it is challenging for both learners and native speakers.Mar 30, 2021" -------- I've been speaking English all my life. I was taught it in school from an early age. English classes were mandatory in grammar school, high school and college. I got all A's in English (speaking), English Literature and English Writing in grammar school, high school and in college. Yet still I find some English difficult to understand, sometimes. Doesn't mean I wasn't paying attention in school. It means the language is confusing. Don't take my word for it. Do the research yourself. If you think English is easy, then congrats, you've mastered a confusing language.

Oops, sorry for the duplicates. I didn't know my entry was bieng duplicated everytime I saved it. Sorry about that. Now I know why people use fake profile images.

History lesson from Wikipedia: "The phrase "the empire on which the sun never sets" (Spanish: el imperio donde nunca se pone el sol) was used to describe certain global empires that were so extensive that it seemed that at least one part of their territory was always in daylight. It was originally used for the Empire of Charles V, who, as Duke of Burgundy, King of Spain, Archduke of Austria, and Holy Roman Emperor, attempted to build a universal monarchy.[1][page needed][2][3] The term was then used for the Spanish Empire of Philip II of Spain and successors when the empire reached a global territorial size, particularly in the 16th, 17th and 18th centuries.[4][5] It was used for the British Empire, mainly in the 19th and early 20th centuries, a period in which the British Empire reached a global territorial size. In the 20th century, the phrase has sometimes been adapted to refer to the global reach of American power." I stand corrected. The Spanish were the most successful conquerers during the age of discovery. Untill it was overtaken by the British empire. I'm confused, seems you misquoted the phrase "The Empire where the sun never set". And makes my point. English is confusing. I didn't say English was hard to learn, I said it was confusing to understand. Even Fiverr disclaims it's English translations to be "the best possible and no substitute for human speech" Why do you suppose that is?

Yup, The English won WW1 and WW2, the Boer wars, and many other wars, colonized America, Australia, Canada, and others. That's how the language spread. You may think English is easy to learn but it is confusing for all to understand. There are a hundreds of English accents. And hundreds of ways to misspeak the language. Not because of U.S. cultural influence. Most English speaking countries already existed before U.S. spread influence around the globe. Hahaha is in the dictionary while ahahahah is not. You have confused Portugese with English.