grafva

Now got my first confirmed commission. Hell yes. Thank you very much.

On a couple of instances now, I've been contacted by people asking for my services, I've given them an offer and they've just disappeared. Have they taken the offer and I've not been notified or have they just given up because they couldn't trick me into giving it away for free? How will I know if they've accepted the offer? What kind of notification will I get? Also, what's the best way to respond to these kind of queries?

I'm not going to get any more messages though, am I? With how fast paced the gig economy is, everyone's going to go elsewhere.

You can't reduce much from 0. I've had nothing for a whole month until these 2...

So in other words, I should just expect no traffic for the next two months and then I'll have an opportunity to start from scratch?

Can I have a real answer please.

I was waiting for my first order for close to a month, since I still needed money to get food and not die though I had to go to work. Because of that, I wasn't there for when my first two orders came in, and I ended up keeping them waiting for 3 days. It's now been a day since I gave them their offers and they haven't responded, I can only assume they've gone and found someone else (voice actor btw) Now it's on my profile that my average response time is 2 days. Should I be worried? Am I not gonna get any more because everyone's gonna look at that and go "No, I want someone faster." Should I delete my account and make another one without this blight on it? Is that even allowed?

Well, that's not a lot but I guess that's something. So: Text on my gig's picture and add a video of some kind. Thank you very much for that at least.

There's nothing else wrong with my gig that I could improve? If not, how long do you expect it'll take, a month? Two? Six? Just a vague ballpark estimate based on experience would be nice.

I am online at just about all times during working hours and a decent amount of non-working hours, still not getting anything.

If anyone has any feedback to give for this (with one exception) I'd appreciate it. Most advice I've seen on this forum to increase sales involves customer interaction, something you can't do if you haven't even got one order yet. https://www.fiverr.com/grafva/record-a-high-quality-young-british-english-voice-over-for-you I'm aware it would be better if I used my face as the gig pic/profile pic, I'm not going to be able to change that. Any other advice would be very welcome.