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As long as you're a Pro member, you're allowed to communicate off of Fiverr, so sending a Drive link should be fine.

I'm not going to say anything that hasn't already been said, but for the sake of adding more voices to the movement, I certainly echo these sentiments. As a ghostwriter, I functionally have an established long-term client base that supplies most of my work, and writing is so variable that almost no one uses the packages anyway, HOWEVER, when I was first starting off, that wasn't the case nearly as much. With the ability for clients to leave reviews on canceled orders - which I don't disagree with on principle - I do think that this becomes a more or less critical feature to extend to all sellers, if indeed it's an option for anyone. When I was first starting off, trying to climb the ladder through the different ranks, having this feature would have been helpful avoiding "problem clients," which in turn avoids cancellations, bad reviews, and makes the platform look better for everyone - including the stakeholders :).

Hello! I'm also a full-time fiction ghostwriter, been on here since 2021. I completely agree, I think a dedicated thread for this subject is a great idea! In response to your assorted hopes for this thread, I'm afraid I don't have any questions, nor do I have any particular tips. I've never run a single promotion, I don't have social media, and the order briefs drive me nuts :). I will say that I had quite a bit of fun putting together my gig descriptions, as well as my profile description, and I've had several people cite those as reasons they selected me (and I have my kids in my profile pic, which people seem to like), but that's about all I've got! To conclude, I'm certainly happy to connect with people! At present, I don't really have any connections to other writers, professionally or personally, and would love to chat with people about the craft!

I'll echo what neidertmike said! About a year ago or so, I was at the point where I was getting so many messages that I would have to spend almost an hour at the start of each day responding to assorted requests, both new and old, and would subsequently have to turn away from my work throughout the day as people followed up or just sent me new messages. I didn't want to be greedy, but eventually, I just had to start hiking my prices (I think I did it incrementally, over a several-month period) until the number of messages I was getting was down to a more reasonable level.