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Oh, come on. Did you really have to try to hijack the thread with a misplaced bid to get orders? This is not the place for that.

Clearly these people did not read the post. Sellers, your forum activity does not impact your gig in any way. Zero. Nothing. Nada. You could post one million times and not get one additional view of your gig. They are completely de-coupled? Is that clear enough? For the OP, what were you doing before that helped you get new buyers, or what did you change that might have caused the drop? Try to do a differential analysis.

Pitiful. Hijacking someone else's thread with a worthless advertisement for your own gig. Which, your post says "help" which can only be assumed to mean you need help, yet your gig says you are an advertising expert. Double-pitiful.

Fiverr is not going to market you if you aren't making them money. It is a harsh reality, but if you take time off, you aren't going to get the same level of impressions.

If you have a relationship with regular customers, it might be worth explaining what happened. Don't spam them, of course, but it sounds like you are in the seller plus program, so when you send a coupon say something along the lines of a one-time confluence of life events caused some unexpected consequences and delays. You don't have to gravel or apologize, but frame it in a good light and let them know you are back on your feet and ready to do the same great work as always. Of course, in the future you have to get ahead of the issues and create longer lead times, or pause your gig, or whatever else that is less destructive, but for now that train has left the station.

Clearly didn't read the OP comment. This is the same worthless information given every day and 100% why people from certain areas can never dig themselves out of the muck. So your suggestion is to wait instead of being proactive? Good luck with that. OP, you are a business owner. What have you done to help your own situation?

I knew we had some psychics on the platform (that is a whole other discussion about gigs); it seems I have met one who can read my mind. My point is very simple, fair has nothing to do with it, nor does the timing. Fair would mean the majority of people give open, honest, and accurate feedback, both sellers and buyers, and not play the 5-star game. The fact that you are talking about timing of when who can do what is shining a light on the whole issue of the 5-star game, not so much a particular policy. If everyone gave a truly accurate review, then timing of responses would be largely irrelevant. It is like when I am looking at a product on Amazon and someone gave it a 1-star because it arrived late (but the widget was great). The entire rating system needs an overhaul, not just a little piece of buyer gave a good review, seller gave a bad review, now buyer can give a bad review in private.

I understood what you said quite well, including your question about fairness. I encourage you to approach fairness from this standpoint. You agreed to the Fiverr terms of service. The terms of service are clearly published. Fiverr also gives you many additional avenues of support regarding how the system works. You agreed to all of these when you decided to do business here. Of course, Fiverr has room for improvement, as do all businesses. I would like the whole rating system to have a major revamp. But "fair" doesn't come into my vocabulary when I agree to someone else's rules.

What does fair have to do with anything? Fiverr is in business to make money, not be fair. With that being said, yes of course it is fair. Public reviews are pretty much worthless in my view, because very few people have the guts to leave an accurate review, and instead either give no review or a 5-star. I've said it many times before, if everyone is a 5-star, then no one is. To help counteract this, Fiverr gives the buyer a chance to give a private review, which we all know will be far more realistic.

Cheez whiz and gorilla glue.

None. I'm not suggesting that others should not market. I have a very specific path and plan for my journey through Fiverr, but it should illustrate you don't absolutely have to go to social media. I'll be a level 2 at the next evaluation, and not that that is a big deal, but it was done without social media marketing.

Note: Forum activity does not help your Fiverr gig in any way. Posting, following, liking, etc., none of that impacts your gig whatsoever.

Not necessarily. There are a lot of reasons you may not get continued orders from a specific customer. Customer's project may be over. Customer's needs may have changed, and you are no longer a good fit. Even though you may have gotten a good review, that doesn't mean they aren't also using other sellers who are as good or better for their needs. You aren't really satisfying them as much as you think you are. A lot of people give 5-star reviews publicly because they feel some sort of pressure to do so, but then give a more honest review on the private survey.

Who cares unless you are marketing to your target audience? I hear this same thing of "post on social media" nonstop, but that does absolutely zero for getting orders if you aren't marketing to your target audience. Impressions and clicks only matter if they translate to sales. You could have 1 million clicks per day and not have 1 order if you aren't marketing correctly.

If you add value, you will get value. If you come in here thinking you can post nonsense and thinking that participation in the forum will boost your gig in any way (it does not), then you will get no value from it.

The same useless advice being repeated over and over. Please stop repeating stuff you hear but has no basis in reality. If you want to be on page one, put in the work it takes to get there. The first page is for people who have worked long and hard to make great businesses. Fiverr has a trove of resources for you to learn from.

Rarely in my life have I found my skills outstrip the equipment I work with. Optimize your workflow and stop trying to buy your way into productivity.

Does it say what is not complete? Have you completed all of the on-boarding documentation, e.g., funding account, personal identification, etc.? Are you able to make a gig?

Same thing was happening to me a few months ago. Short story is, I had to contact CS and have them fix it. Some days I could post many times, other times I would be locked out for a few days. You have to stay on them to fix it. It took me a few weeks to get it corrected.

What the hay, I'll be from Bangladesh, too. Sounds like the place to be. Can I be from southern Bangladesh though? That's my accent.

The Laffer Curve is often used to illustrate such points. Increased prices = increased revenue (The Price Effect), and increased prices = decreased sales (The Quantity Effect). In other words, there is a theoretical balance between price and quantity which yields the highest revenue. https://www.investopedia.com/terms/l/laffercurve.asp#:~:text=The Laffer Curve is a,in increased total tax revenue.

You do realize America has more than 100 accents? That would be like me saying to someone from Indy I want to eat curry. I personally can speak in at least a half dozen different American accents, some of which I can make so thick not even other native speaking Americans can understand.

I am the batman! 🦇

I would really like to understand what motivated you to post that list. This is a sincere request. I'm trying to understand why some of this type of information keeps getting posted.

Firstly, nothing you have said is going to guarantee a tip, because there is no guarantee to get a tip. When I am the buyer, I want the work done to my specifications, not some artists rendition which has no bearing on my requirements. Your idea might work if the request is to create multiple versions of a logo or something like that, but this is far from axiomatic. Can you give us your formula for how fast to work? It seems to be something like Delivery Time < .5 Gig quote > .2 Gig quote, where Gig quote = 10 Again, you are making generalizations. Your gig quote should align with the time you know it to take to do the work, plus a little cushion for revisions if offered. Setting your gig quote at 10 days when you know you can do it in 5 is probably running off more buyers than the repeats you will get for delivering early. Additionally, that will only work with a given buyer once or twice and then they will know you can deliver in far less time than you quoted and it will become the new expectation. I cannot emphasis enough how incorrect this is for many, many buyers. Personally, I will not buy from someone who offers unlimited revisions because it means they have no confidence they can deliver the correct product the first time. There are many threads in the forum detailing why this is a horrible idea.