zackreynolds

I'm still hoping Fiverr will incorporate two features into this that would make my life much easier. 1. You can set recurring out-of-office or at least weekend availability. My business on Fiverr is my main working gig, and so I work normal hours, but it is annoying to get assaulted by new buyer messages all weekend long. I would set myself unavailable every weekend except two things complicate this. 1st is that when I use the dates to set myself unavailable, it doesn't include the option to set a time, so I think by default it uses GMT time? Meaning it comes back available in the middle of the day for me. The 2nd I will get into in my 2nd point. 2. Setting myself unavailable blocks buyers from accepting custom offers. If I have a busy weekend out of the office, I might send some clients offers for work for the upcoming week, but if I then set myself as unavailable, they get an error when trying to accept the custom offer. It would be awesome if you could still allow custom offers to be accepted even when you're out of the office. Otherwise I have to choose to deal with the "Why can't I accept?" messages or a barrage of messages during a weekend when I don't want to have to deal with making sure I respond to every message within 24 hours.

Hey, my name is Zack, and I've been a TRS since December 2021, offering Google Sheets / Apps Script services. I started my journey on Fiverr in earnest at the beginning of 2020, and it took about a year to quit my e-commerce business and go full-time freelancer, and another year to get top-rated. The journey wasn't always easy, especially in the beginning. There were many days just waiting for the notification that someone sent me a message. Now those notifications are often interruptions to the jobs I'm already working on. 🙂 I've had to learn how to politely set boundaries with clients, when to say "no" to working with someone, how to work through misunderstandings, how to find the best possible solution in the midst of any situation, and have integrity in a world that often doesn't reward it. I've worked with some people I'm glad I don't have to work with anymore, and worked with others that now I'm friends on Facebook with. All in all, it's been a journey that has stretched me in many ways I never expected (such as going from someone who hated meeting strangers to someone who's on zoom meetings at least 2-5 hours a week), but in the end, it's a huge blessing in that I'm able to provide for my family while working from home, or road-trip and get work done while at someone else's kitchen table or in their den. And this week, I passed a milestone of $100K in total earned on Fiverr, which is wild. What are other people's thoughts on expanding their businesses? I've thought about trying to outsource/get employees, but not sure if you guys have more success with standardized products, or largely custom solutions (which is what I do)? Another question is what about video calls? I constantly get people who want to jump on Zoom, but my experience hasn't always been good with doing that with people prior to placing an order. I created a gig offering video consult calls (which now they can book directly through Fiverr), but what is your opinion on offering free calls prior to the client placing an order?

What my suggestion would be to both limit frivolous changes while giving legitimate business an option to change their username would be to make it a paid option once you're reached level 2, with a limit on how often you could change it (maybe one a year or something). If Fiverr charged $25 to change your username, they could make it a deal where you have to hop on a video call with a Fiverr rep so they can confirm the change. Where I see this option most likely being relevant is people starting with a personal account to do some side-work and then that evolving into a full-time branded business (which happened to me). In that case, being able to update your username to reflect that change in your account usage would be very helpful.

It's very simple... you can get your payout early if you are willing to pay a fee. I believe Fiverr has been rolling it out to more people, so I don't know if it's been offered to you, but you'll either log in and see it on your Earnings tab... or not.

Congratulations! I liked your story, and I appreciated that you explained your journey of the hard work and dedication it takes to get to Top-Rated. There are many people who view success on Fiverr as more a matter of luck, and often that buyers are obstacles on the journey to get there (like the old joke-- as they say in HR, "the job is great, it's just the people..." ). I'm glad that Fiverr provided you an opportunity to better yourself in an area where that can challenging. I hope the best for you and yours!

You need strong hands and an understanding of the human anatomy to deliver a good massage. For a delivery message, proper grammar and correct spelling are quite helpful. Beyond that, I would recap what you accomplished in the order, reiterate what steps the buyer may need to take next, and explaining after-delivery support (if applicable).

Not sure what this has to do with Fiverr, but if you open the link in Dropbox, there is usually a menu on the top right, and one of the dropdowns will be to "Download". If that option is not available or disabled, then the person sharing that files must have set the permissions to prevent downloads, and you will need to contact them if you wish to download the file.

Do you mean as far as benefits for your Fiverr business? No, getting forum badges will not increase your sales on Fiverr.

So the number of impressions your gig will receive is based on a number of factors. Some of it has to do with if the keywords in your gig and title match the keywords buyers will be using to search for your gig. It also has to do with your gig's performance in relation to the other gigs you are competing against. When your gig gets impressions, if it gets fewer clicks and fewer orders in relation to the other gigs, your gig will end up being lower in the search results page and get less impressions as a result. If this is the case, you will want to make sure your gig is optimized, professional, and attractive and uses relevant keywords in the proper context (so no keyword stuffing). You need to think of your gig as an ad, and you're trying to sell buyers on 1) YOU, and 2) the service you're offering.

It can take some time to get your Fiverr business off the ground. Make sure you have as many gigs as you're allowed to and think of each one as a distinct project. For example, one gig might be setting up someone's bookkeeping, maybe another is for entering/reconciling numbers, and another for creating statements based on the financial data (e.g. profit & loss). Splitting up your gigs like this will help target your individual gigs towards the specific tasks people have in mind when they're searching for bookkeeping gigs. You also might be surprised which gig ends up taking off and being your best seller. Other than that, do the best job you can on each order you get, and think of it as a compounding or domino effect. Do a good job, and another one will follow.

Ranking well on Fiverr is much like ranking well on Google these days. It used to be on Google that you could game the system by keyword stuffing, backlink spamming, etc. These days, the best way to rank well on Google is to have a website that people like and enjoy coming back to, so it's really about having an excellent product that people like, not trying to game the system. And it's the same on Fiverr. If you offer excellent service at a good price and try your best to give every customer a great experience, your ranking will rise. It might take a bit of time, but all good things come to those who wait. In the meantime, just make sure your gig title and description make it clear what you do and how you will do it. So for a new gig, you're not likely to get a placement on the first page--at least not for any length of time, so make sure you're competitive on price, and go above and beyond on the orders you do get.

Interested!