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Yes, I do own that IG handle.

Why not do some cold outreach for the type of businesses you're targeting? Just don't be spammy though, that's never gonna yield any results. Good luck!

I wouldn't bring clients I meet out of Fiverr here either. Why pay an extra 20%? As a designer, most of my clients come from Instagram. It's the easiest platform to market design work since it's a visual platform. You can do some pretty cool stuff on Instagram reels using Framer. Don't get overwhelmed. Just start sharing your design work with some educational stuff on Instagram without any expectations and grow your page for a while. You will get inquiries coming in naturally. I wouldn't waste my money on paid advertising on social media since most of the customers are businesses. The best place to do paid advertising for a designer (in my opinion) is Google.

Your account is not suspended. I just searched for your account. And it's there. So no need to panic. It's not uncommon to get those "verification" things every once in a while. I get those a few times myself on different websites on a daily basis. It's just a spam prevention thing. Most websites have the famous "recaptcha", and Fiverr has the "press and hold". No big deal if you aren't doing anything shady.

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Check the URL of that site and tell me what you see.

If you think you need to make money using Fiverr after following a "dropshipping course" you haven't mastered anything. If you think you can create a "7-figure, ultra-responsive Shopify dropshipping store" for other people, why not do it for yourself? People aren't stupid to fall for these scams anymore. Good on Fiverr for not approving.

Pretty complicated topic. I suggest that you search the forum for previous threads on this topic. Search things like "gig ranking" "ranking my gig" etc. Good luck!

It's really cool to see someone so young come into freelancing. This is the first thing I noticed when I checked your profile. There are AI tools nowadays that do transcribing and stuff, so the likelihood of long-term success with that gig is very low. But you might still get orders because not everyone understands how AI works. However, what you need is a Fiverr gig that will last longterm. I want you to go ahead and start searching for different gigs that are relevant to your skillset and see if you can find any specific services that might be of value to people. Granted that most of the obvious ones might be saturated already so there's no point in wasting your efforts on those. Try to find those hidden gems that no one had thought about. Those are hard to find, but when you do, you gonna be like "ahh huh" xD Don't get discouraged and keep on searching. You will eventually either find something really cool, or think of something new that no one had thought about. Assuming you are into audio production stuff, think who would want to hire someone with the skillset you have. Why would they hire someone instead of doing it themselves? What kind of problems they might be having that hiring someone like you would solve? Also, don't just stick to Fiverr when you're searching for stuff. Try Google, Reddit, quora, and anything else you can think of. Good luck!

That doesn't look dead to me at all 🧐 From what I saw you have a pretty strong gig. I'm not sure why you had to do any edits. I would only do edits for a well-performed gig like yours if I'm lacking conversions (Clicks -> Orders). I would honestly put it back to the way it was before and turn on promoted gigs if you are lacking impressions in the first few weeks. Because something must've worked for you the way it was since you have 700+ reviews.

Very true. I honestly have no idea about copyright laws. But regarding the Google thing, I've actually taken it upon myself to start a blog from scratch using content responsibly written by AI (I will explain what I meant by "responsibly" if and when I might share the results for the sake of it xD) just to see what the fuss is about. And it's doing pretty well so far for a brand new domain blog. Apparently so many people have been hit by the August algorithm update, but that's not the case for my little test subject. It's been smooth sailing for me since the day I started it. Granted it's new (about 2 months old), but I'm seeing constant growth. So there's that. Regarding copyrights, there could be coincidences where a form of plagiarism (an exact duplicate of a sentence or more) is written by an actual human being with no intention to plagiarize too right (hypothetically)? This whole subject is big ol gray area in my opinion as there could be so many false positives.

I don't think this would apply to written content as it's just words arranged in a certain order that makes sense in a nutshell right? Google has stated (as far as I know) that they don't "de-rank (honestly I don't even know if that's an actual term lol)" content that is AI generated as long as it's quality and useful. This says a lot honestly. At the end of the day, it's all about how you use these things. Many people say that Fiverr is against VPN's but this is not the case as they have clearly stated they're not against that. And yet I see so many times that people spread misinformation stating that VPN's can get you banned. Any thing can get you "banned" if you use it to deceive and manipulate. https://developers.google.com/search/blog/2023/02/google-search-and-ai-content

100% I've been really impressed with what AI can achieve nowadays, and it's remarkable to see how technology has developed in a short amount of time like this. Most people are scared that AI is gonna replace them. And those are the ones who either don't understand it or, expect it to do everything for them. I'd say the smart ones will capitalize on that by using it to HELP them instead of replacing them. It's like hiring an assistant who is ready at all times. I mean, I've seen plenty of services out there that offer to "humanize" AI content so these detectors won't show it as AI written. Now what? I was intrigued by the AI model thingy that one of you guys posted on that group about an AI that can scan messages. I think it was custom built by someone right? That thing was amazing.

Further to what I've said above, and reading what @katakatica and @visualstudios said, it's safe to say that in the future the role of a writer will be to edit content pieces generated by AI instead of writing things from scratch. We might need to be open-minded to embrace that to avoid being left out like what happened to that Camera manufacturer (Kodak if I remember correctly) who refused to make the switch to digital.

AI content detectors aren't reliable at all. I myself have tested these "major" tools and they have consistently identified my own writing to be AI-generated lol. Don't take it from me. Open AI themselves have done testing on these AI content detectors, and apparently they have found that these detectors have flagged even Shakespeare's writing to be AI-generated lmao. So yeah.. there's that. Here's the link: In my opinion, there's no way to definitively tell that a piece of writing is generated using AI (unless it's really badly generated). Also, there's not much of a difference between human and AI written content at face value from what I've seen what AI can pull off. What makes the difference (in my opinion) are the nuances and tiny errors that humans make. To be honest, even tiny errors are out of the question since most writers use Grammarly nowadays. To sum things up in my opinion there's no real difference between AI-generated content and human-written content (and that's totally okay. It'll take some time for more people to realize this). I know it's insulting to hear as a writer, but it is what it is. What AI cannot replicate though is the style of a writer (for example, I've noticed that I'm a bit sarcastic when it comes to writing, and that's how I talk too.. I say things like "so yeah" / "and there's that" which would be really difficult for an AI to replicate). Of course, this doesn't apply to complex technical subjects that are known as "Your Money, Your Life (YMYL)" content. What I'm trying to point out here is that this is such a gray topic and no one would really be able to prove that a piece of content generated using AI by someone who knows what they're doing to be AI-generated. So yeah.. I think Fiverr needs to do something about this (with disclaimers or something) to ease the tension between sellers and buyers as it would be ridiculous to hear someone say that the content piece that took you over 3 days to write is AI-generated. -_-