It's been 8 years and I have to say I never though any website of freelance work could create a reliable, steady income source for an artist/seller. Of course, everything comes along hard work, drive and professionalism. The real professional is that who structures a schedule from the start of the day to the end of it, even if working from home and without anyone "controlling" your actions. It is just you responding to your own way of doings things. The results would be a direct effect of that discipline (or lack of it).
Another good thing from fiverr: rewarding good perfomances from sellers. We are the face of fiverr in a way, so the more signifficant rewards we can get from you guys, the better the experience will be, and you guys will get more loyal users in shape of sellers and buyers definitely.
The logo maker platform is also a good thing. If anyone has that tool enabled, use it, but use it wisely. Really think about trends, and make sure you keep things simple but high quality of course. Never give away the value of your work.
Things to improve? I had a bunch of suggestions years ago. But I think fiverr is a good example of how a business can improve itself through experience (good and bad). As of now, I don't really think I have much suggestions left. The only thing I always think of is that, reaching a top seller status should have more benefits, and what better benefit than reducing the 20% fee from our sales. In the end, being a top seller improves the price range of our services, increases our volume of sales, so it would be fair to reduce that comission fee since we both are doing better (fiverr and us as sellers), for instance, why not make it 15% after reaching an all time renevue goal (you put the number, $50k, $100k, $150k)? Maybe encourage users to get to a point where you stay here long enough to sell more than $200K, and reward them with a new comission rate of 10%?
I say this because after 5 years of having reached the Top Seller status, I lost it for the first time 2 months ago, and I didn't really feel the actual need to push things up to get there again the very next month. I think after so much time, I do feel the need of another type of reward coming along that top seller status. Maybe you won't make it happen, but since you asked 😉
I'm always thankful for this platform. For me, it changed my life and made many things possible for me. Thanks for the free speech space.
Greetings to all sellers!
