droberts1990

I've only been here for a couple of months and haven't managed to get a sale yet. I think that is possibly due to me making mistakes and possibly a general slowdown, although I don't have any older data to compare my recent data to. I want to thank newsmike for writing this, because the same thought occurred to me a couple of days ago. It seems to me that Fiverr puts technology ahead of buyers, sellers and profits. It's not clear to me that this will be a good strategy in the long term. Maybe it has worked well in the past. It may just be that I don't know much because I'm new and so my views are misinformed and it's not actually the case.

Why don't you see Elephants hiding in trees? Because they good at it. This made me smile when I read it for the first time the other day.

Maybe this response is too late. But I would give it a 6 out of 10 for how "real" it sounds. I thought that the voice was quite monotonous and I would expect a typical human to have more pitch variation when they speak. I know that some people don't but I don't think that they are so nice to listen to. The other thing that bugged me about this recording was that in my opinion the speech was far too quick for the content type. I thought that there should have been much bigger gaps between the phrases. It was encouraging people to relax, so I would expect that the audio would have an unusually slow pace in comparison to normal conversation. These are just my opinions, I hope that they can be of some use.

One of your gig images contains the word "background" with two a's. It is spelt backgraound. Also, why does your profile say that you are in Sri Lanka and your gig says Cheltenham, UK? This might be confusing to potential buyers.

In the "Prepared Remarks" document dated 22 Feb 2023, (part of Fiverr's year end financial release) Micha Kaufman said: "...digital service is highly fragmented, unstructured and complicated - so matching buyers and sellers through an e-commerce model is a fairly difficult product challenge. With AI technology, we can unlock the long tail of data we have and drastically improve the overall search, browsing and matching experience. We are already working on some of these ideas." Micha Kaufman also said: "Yet we are still in the first inning when it comes to unlocking the full potential of Fiverr. To do that, and especially under the current macro, what became clear is that we need to give the core marketplace much more attention and take a more focused approach and prioritize fast, flawless execution. We have set three straightforward priorities for 2023. First, improve comparability in the marketplace. With hundreds of thousands of sellers and millions of service listings, we must deliver world-class search and discovery technology to surface exactly the right breadth and depth of inventory tailored to each buyer. Second, create differentiated category experiences. With so many different types of digital services offered on our marketplace, some visual and others non-visual, we need to provide sellers with robust tools to express their talent and their work." I may have this wrong, and I guess that you @frank_d already know all about this, but it sounds to me like - to borrow your term - Fiverr 3.1 / Fiverr 4.0 is on the way sometime this year. A new search experience for buyers will mean opportunities and challenges for sellers. That we will have to re-optimise our gigs for the new algorithm, but also it could make it easier for the "right" customers to find us. As I side note, I guess that it will also make this thread "out of date", although I'm sure that some of the tips are likely timeless and so will be very useful for years to come. As a certified total newbie, one of the things that has surprised me about the main Fiverr selling platform is the rate of change that it has. I suspect that that creates business risk for all of us sellers. frank_d: Thanks for starting this thread, I really appreciate it.

I'm sure that this "skill" that you are describing here will become a new kind of job or task. Maybe it could be called AI manager or AI coach or AI jockey or something. It would be based around an understanding of the strengths and weaknesses of different AIs and also as you say, domain specific knowledge to be able to nudge the AI in the "right" direction. I would assume therefore that if this skill becomes valuable then opportunities will emerge to produce courses to train people in this skill but also it may be possible to sell this skill directly. Sometimes it will be combined with other skills to be used to produce a hybrid product or service. Similar to how SEO is sold nowadays, but like thirty years ago SEO wasn't really a thing. I do wonder if AI will produce more opportunities for sellers, not just be a threat to them. I do understand that there are concerns that people have about fraud.

I didn't watch the webinar, but I would like to share some things that I have learned about ChatGPT in case they are useful to anyone. I am a member of a different forum, related to other forms of business (not freelancing) and on there they have been "playing" with ChatGPT since it came out. At first the view was that it was amazing, but over the past couple of months, that view has deteriorated. Most users on that forum now believe that ChatGPT is verbose and rarely expresses a preference. It also uses some not very common phrases and often writes in a "passive" manner that is not very interesting to read. It is also not always accurate. People have asked ChatGPT for help with basic maths and it makes mistakes. When you "correct" it, it will agree with you, even if you give it a wrong answer as a correction. Sometimes if you ask it to tell you about a topic, it will generate factually incorrect information. I have also seen it write some "code", but again sometimes the code doesn't have correct syntax, so would have to be fixed before it would run. There is a belief on this other forum, that asking the right question to the ChatGPT is very important. If you ask a better question you can get a much better answer, albeit with the caveats mentioned above. It has been suggested that potentially three types of content could exist with AI. AI generated, human generated and hybrid. An example of hybrid content might be if someone was asked to write some website content on a particular topic. The writer could give the task to an AI, eg. ChatGPT and generate a result. The writer could analyse that text and extract the key ideas that the AI had found and then use those as a starting point for their own research. Once their research was concluded the human writer would create the article. It seems to me that this approach could reduce the time taken for research and so boost the productivity of the writer. Obviously since the final deliverable is entirely human generated there is no way of telling from that deliverable that an AI was involved in the process at all. I agree with other posters in this thread that the major issue will be knowing whether content is AI generated or human created in any other way than what the seller claims. Clearly if "fraud" (misrepresentation) becomes a problem, then the reputation of this platform (EDIT: I mean this forum and the main site) and the sellers could deteriorate. I hope that this post is interesting to people. I understand that there are other AIs than ChatGPT, but I don't know anything about them.

These sound like a number of banana skins that newbies like me would slip up on. Thanks for posting this and keeping us informed. I need to try to work out how I missed the alert direct from Fiverr....

I am new to this forum. I have had a Fiverr account for a while but started out just doing some Learn from Fiverr courses. I recently posted my first gig but haven't managed to get my first sale yet. I will keep working and improving until I have many happy clients. I hope that I will have interesting conversations with many of you in the future.