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Believe it or not, Fiverr made my dream come true. I picked up my first instrument (guitar) when I was 7 years old, and studied with youtube and learnt from my older friends who were such good instrumentists. Later, I've picked up on piano as well, but I never had the chance to convince my parents to follow a musical school, and had to do it on my own. When I was in highschool, I got myself a copy of Ableton (which is a digital audio workstation) with the allowance money. Since then, I've experimented with producing music for myself, but never had the guts to release anything. The signs were there, but I always hesitated to pursue my dream of composing music for a living. Then, in University, I graduated Law School, and practised law, as a legal advisor for 4 years. The only constant in my life so far, was producing music and experimenting with music and sound design. In 2021, I've enrolled myself in a music production course, and realised that my level was quite advanced, eventhought I was self-taught. That gave me the courage to concieve the idea of maybe I can make some pocket-money out of this in my spare time. Therefore, in October 2022, I've found Fiverr and it's business model of Gigs, and decided to try it out. At the time, I asked my cousin for help, since he knew much more about sales and marketing, and also we were not looking for a quick cash grab. I was in charge of composing and producing the music, and he was in charge of sales & marketing. We found our niche of Video Game Music, since we are avid gamers, and the time spent playing videogames served well on my side, knowing how the music enhances different events and feelings that the game should express, and on his side it helped a lot when briefing with the customers, knowing what questions to ask. We even had some excel sheets with essential questions and flavour questions. We were very organised, and treated freelancing here as a very serious business. We analyzed our competition, learnt a lot from them, and created our first Gig which was priced, of course, at 5$. We've got 3 orders in the first 2 weeks (which was crazy if you think about it), and after that it was radio silence until January. In January we got another order, and things slowly picked up, and by March 2023, we were having around 15 orders/month on average. Then, we hit a brick wall, and decided to create our second gig, third gig and so on, and improve our first one to scale it as much as possible. From April 2023, it really started growing and the orders were quite constant. Unfortunately, in late May 2023, my cousin left since he had to focus on University studies, and there I was, having to learn the ropes of sales and marketing (which I never wanted to do, but I had to do it). By July 2023, the income made from composing music on Fiverr summed with the income from composing music outside FIverr surpassed the income I was having from my law dayjob and made me think that I could do this full time. At this time, I was working 8hr/day at the office, and 4 hr/day in the evening as a part-time job composing music on Fiverr. When the orders were piling up, there were numerous times I had to wake up 2 hours before going to office, to make sure I can create and deliver quality for my customers. This way, some days were 14+hours filled with work, and burned me out a bit. That's when I've took the risk and decided I want to pursue my calling instead of the boring office job I didn't liked. Therefore, in October 2023 I've quit my job and went freelancing full time. The first 3 months were super scary, and I often had the anxiety of thinking I did the wrong thing. The income was low, customers were fewer than before and most of my orders were from returning customers. But I was the happiest man on earth, since I did what I loved to earn my bread. Since I had a lot of free time, I've re-thinked how I marketed myself and did some drastic changes to my offers, my Gigs, and did a lot of A-B testing. In December 2023, being quite unsatisfied with my performance, I took the decision on joining the Seller Plus program and get in touch with my Succes Manager. And God, how the things changed since then. I was blessed to have the chance to meet the most involved person that helped me develop my Fiverr business and presence way further than I've ever expected. Always responsive, always helpful. With the advices from the Succes Manager and the will to risk it all for my passion, I've powered trough and took even more drastic decisions for my 2 most performing gigs. And you know what? It worked! Since then I'm having my best time here and each month is better than the last. Now I finally raised enough ammount of money to build my new recording and producing studio. I've finally received the City Permit (Authorization to Build) and the studio should be done by October 2024. All of this with the help of Fiverr which made it really easy for me (I'm not the most tech-savy person) to sell my talent and skill. Since October 2022, I've completed more than 230 Orders (90 of them being completed in the last 3 months), composed over 300 soundtracks, created sound effects and designed sound for over 100 indie video games. If you could tell my past self that this will happen, it wouldn't ever believe you. I know it's not much compared to other sellers that I look up to in my category and further, but I want to give back and hopefully help the new sellers that just started their journey here, and learn from my mistakes. This is what worked for me: Treat every order like it's your first. I had to learn this the hard way. At some point, after I got a consistent number of sales, I was starting to streamline my process of receiving orders and deliver them. Don't get me wrong, I do believe that a good business has to be streamlined to be the most efficient, but until you're not having 10 orders/day, it's not the case. My mistake was that I was less involved in the communication with my customers, and eventhought my products were higher quality than the ones from my first months of selling here, I wasn't retaining the customers like I did before. I realised that from that period of time (aproximately 3 months) there were only 2 customers that returned, while from the earlier timeframe (before streamlining my briefing and delivering process) there is still a great number of returning customers up to this day. Get involved and understand their needs personally and authentic, and they will stick with you even months later. Be prepared to revise over and over again. Of course I've started with unlimited revisions. After the first few months, I've encountered "that customer" that requested revision after revision and micromanaged everything that came into the production process, to a point where I've asked myself if he's a professional, dropshipping my services. The order lasted 2 weeks over the initial delivery time agreed. I was burned out and made the mistake of letting my ego take the wheel and confronted the customer on his practise. He accepted the delivery, never left a public review, but left a private review that hurt me even 6 months after that order. This was way before the new system was implemented, and with the help of my Succes Manager I've found out there's a private review hurting me like a truck. Now you think, "well, I can limit my revisions to only 2" but that don't work either. I've had customers keeping me in a 5+ revisions loop eventhought my offer included only 2. Don't make the mstake I've made and think the number of agreed revisions will be respected by your customers. Be prepared to revise over and over again each time you meet "that customer", because there will always be one at your frontdoor. Power trough that and provide your best service, since most of the buyers aren't unreasonable. This is how the revision system works sadly, and it's better to addapt and overcome it, especially when you're not like 500+ reviews in and a private one can hurt you even months after. Be authentic. Don't try to copy others in your category. Analyze their gigs, services and offers, and try to do better, of course, but don't try to imitate what they're doing since it's very less likely that you'll steal their audience, especially if you're looking up to seasoned sellers. The market is indeed very plentyful and customers are bombarded with 17.000 gigs when searching a certain category, but don't forget that you're selling on the internet. There will always be someone that will choose you because your unique traits. I've made the mistake to try to do what my competitors do, starting from the keywords, the style of the thumbnails, the style of how they've wrote Gig's description, and so on. Didn't worked. Why would've anyone pick me instead of my competitor who has more reviews than me and it's been there before I was? The momment I've realised this, and decided just to be myself and create my Gigs the way I thought it was good, I started gathering like-minded customers that are returning regularely, and the new ones are pretty much "my cup of tea", with of course the little exceptions (see "that customer" from above that creeps at your inbox right now). Use translation tools. As you might see from my writing, english is not my first language. Don't expect your customers to be english teachers or natives. When briefing with the customer, it's very important that you are 100% sure of what's the task and it's flavours. If you see your customer struggles to explain and you're not 100% sure of what are the fine details of the needed work, don't do my mistake and take the order and find out when you're delivering. You're loosing important time. Your time! Instead, you can see where your customer's from, translate your question in his language, send it and kindly ask him/her to respond in their native language. It happened to me many times that I had to "guess" some specific details, and since using translation tools to make sure I understand what's needed to be done exactly, the revision requests are fewer. Don't try closing the deal as soon as possible. When starting, I was always trying to close the deal as soon as possible, to make sure the potential customer won't pivot to other seller. Don't do my mistake! Make sure you put a lot of emphasis on the briefing process, since (at least in my field of work) customer requests are very subjective. If you're talking about art (music and audio in my case), some customers will see as "perfect" something that you don't. Take your time and discuss every little detail to make sure you understand their vision before accepting the order. It's risky because you might loose the potential customer to another seller? Well, yes, but it's more important to make sure you deliver exactly what your customer needs, and not get stuck in a revision loop or get over the deadline with "last minute details". Remember that every action has a direct consequence on your ranking spot and your gig's traffic, so think twice before saying you got all you need to start working on the order. Provide early drafts. It saves you so much time! With an early draft, you can make sure you won't loose your time in the wrong direction. Maybe you had all the needed details from the customer when starting the work, but guess what? There are a lot of customers that change their mind overnight. Provide them a draft as soon as humanly possible and ask for confrmation, so your time won't be wasted re-doing the job. I used to deliver the work without providing an early draft and it was a mistake. Almost 1/4 of my customers changed their mind overnight and shifted the key elements that we've agreed on initially, and when asking for the revision, I had to change structural elements of my work, resulting in almost re-doing everything since I had to addapt the rest of the work to their new requests. Educate your customers. I was just delivering the order and hoped for a returning customer. It was lazy, and it was a mistake. Before/When delivering, try to put together a small debrief on what you've actually done in your work. Your customers aren't stupid and eventhought you're an expert on your field, you could be surprised on how much your customers can learn from you and how that can beneffit you on future orders. Not long ago I've started sending my customers an explanation text with what instruments I've used, why I've used them, what's their role, what's the musical theory behind the composition and what's my personal take on all those things. This thing works! Next time you're collaborating, you'll have a much easier time to transpose customer's vision into your service, because they will know how to answer your specific questions! Give your customers some options You have that potential customer that wants to buy your 50$ service, but his budget is only 35$? I used to turn down those customers since my highest discount rate was at 20% and that way I lost potential returning customers! It was a mistake. Instead, at some point I've decided I'll take those requests, but I'll double down on the delivery time. Instead of 5 days delivery time, offer it in 10 days. That way, you will not loose a potential returning customer and you won't have to fit that project into your main scheddule. You can do it whenever you have a spare hour or two, since your delivery time is doubled! It works like a charm to me, and you'll be shocked on how many customers are not in a rush, eventhought they say so in their first message. Time is money, friend! Collect your own data I made the mistake on relying on memory and on the data shown by analytics to drive my business. Don't do that. It will save you a lot of time and you'll make informed decisions if you make your own spreadsheed with everything that happens with a relevancy for your Gigs. Try to track the most important stuff, such as: keywords performance, new customers/time frame, returning customers/time frame, types of projects done, the most asked questions or inquiries by your customers, orders that landed you tips and WHY that happened, changes made to the gig related to key factors etc. Be patient If you're treating every order like it's your first order, it's impossible not to grow. Don't make the mistake I've done by panicking when orders are not coming. It's not worth your time and your mental health. Instead, be patient, do your best on the services you provide, and try to slowly build your returning customer base. The best you can do proactively, is to fine-tune your Gigs, but be careful with that, since back-to-back changes might screw up the ranking algorithm (source for this is my Succes Manager). If you're looking to do A-B testing, wait at least 3-4 weeks in between, to have at least the minimum data to compare. I feel like there are much more to be told, but I just realised this post will take an eternity to read anyway, so I'll stop for now. I really hope my journey of pursuing my dream with Fiverr's help can motivate you and give you the strenght to power-trough rough moments, and that you can find something positive in the lessons I've learnt from my mistakes. Don't give up, and trust your skills and talent!

Anybody from fiver staff or any member know any solution, please guide me

Is the Early Payout option off now? If anyone knows an update, please comment

So I've sold a little on Fiverr but I'm mainly a buyer. Often I'll negotiate a custom order or purchase an order only to be slapped with more service fees on top. Which I couldn't take in consideration because I forgot that FIVERR does that until, it's all settled and I'm ready to pay! How convenient! Fiverr needs to start adding their service fees to an estimator or something when people are buying gigs AT THE FRONT, and especially when people are creating custom orders. As a buyer it's just getting under my skin, we're not shown the ACTUAL total beforehand until the very end. I was about to place a $10 well..they added about $3.xx in fees, so that price it's increasing the cost 30% of what I thought it was. Come on Fiverr, stop hiding your fees.

Hey there @tariqulgm Early Payout is not off, it is available to selected sellers only. Please find more information on this link Early Payout. Thanks.

as you can see in the attached photo, I have a problem sending the confirmation code to my phone number to confirm the withdrawal method, can anyone help me? the phone number I entered belonged to another account of mine but I deleted it, could this have influenced the problem?

I removed my old payoneer account from fiverr. Now i want to add new payoneer account. But when i click on 'Add payout method' it shows Attempts limit reached' i waited 24hours and tried again. But same problem. I tried multiple days. I did nothing. But it shows limit reached. I tried different browser, Chrome, Edge, Firefox but the problem didn't solved. Can you please check my screenshots. I am in seller mode. This is Seller's earning page: After clicking "Manage payout methods" After clicking "Add payout method": Attempts Limit Reached I need to withdraw my balance. Please help me. i talked fiverr support, he told me: "I can see based on the screenshots you sent that you've reached a limit in verification attempts, so I have added additional attempts for you to try again." but my problem doesn't solved. What can i do now?

I got 2 4-Star reviews recently, and I think that might be the issue why I am not eligible any more, but is it really that dire? Why am I even paying for this feature when I have to be "eligible" for it? What exactly are the criteria?

Everytime I click on add payout method it shows an error, and I talked to support and they provided me some solutions and I tried everyone of them but still the error pops up and I cant withdraw my money.

I added a payout method on Fiverr. I choose PayPal as my active payout method. Then afterwards i received a email to add the email through which I want to receive the funds. The issue came when I added the email id it showed - "Your Paypal application is submitted successfully, you will receive another email once its approved." I searched everywhere, the approval generally comes in 24 hours. But I haven't received any email and the approval has also not happened. I need to withdraw my finds via Fiverr. Kindly let me know howe much time it will take for the PayPal application to get approved. . Kindly let me know, as I am really worried and confused regarding it. Help me out please regarding this.

I disagree with this. Everyone has something and the great disappointment with the modern education system around the world is that it does not prioritize finding that thing that any one individual has. The modern education system is, of course, a relic based on the needs of factory owners in the early 20th century; designed to bring up generations of obedient people who didn't question authority and who had some basic general knowledge. Yes, it has evolved since then, but only because higher education has become a cash cow for greedy elites. But that's another story. We all have something, and we should all be supported in finding that something. However, the world as it is today will never support this. It is governed by money and the need to feed into a system that works on money alone - breaking out of it is very tough. In any case, the whole influencer thing, which is really how the social media/video thing works, is not,obviously, going to work for anyone. Not even micro-influencers. You need a certain skill set. Expertise is a minor thing you can add. We all know that anyone can fake expertise or borrow other people's expertise. The important thing is to sell the illusion and convince people, whether that's advertisers or your fawning audience. EDIT: I struggle to understand why this post was approved but my prior one, which said much the same thing albeit through the lens of social media's destruction of the younger generations minds didn't. I also struggle to see why these posts are somehow more approvable than the... 20-odd other posts I've made in this specific post that have been deleted? Or that the topic I made on this very topic prior to Smash was deleted? Help me to understand you and what you want, so I can post top-notch content, rather than just throwing words at a wall and wondering what's OK and what's not. You might want to fix that editing posts doesn't get the post re-hidden, too. Just sayin'. Seems like a loophole someone could take advantage of. Would you like me to look it up in the documentation for the forum software for you? It certainly helped with the double-posting bug, not that I heard a thanks for that, but I'll let it slide other than mentioning it lots of times.

Hi there, "I'm facing a serious issue with my Fiverr account. On December 27, 2023, my account was disabled, which has now been 90 days. I have a payment that I need to withdraw, but my preferred payout method is currently disabled. As a result, I'm unable to withdraw my funds, and I only have 6 days left to do so. I'm reaching out for help to resolve this issue as soon as possible. Your assistance in this matter would be greatly appreciated. Can anyone tell me what is this issue and when my preferred payout method will be enabled?

Your seller had a week, and you decided to cancel the order after just five days without first reaching out to see what was up? Sounds like there might be more to your story. I don’t sell web design on Fiverr myself, but I do know a thing or two about it from running my own agency. If I set a deadline, I expect my clients to respect that agreement too. Maybe I planned to start working on your project on day five because of other commitments? We could use a few more details to better understand why you jumped to cancel. Then you mention your seller deleted the theme and collections. Did you create that theme, or did you hand it over for the seller to use? Or was it all on the seller? Did they set up your collection, or did you? Because, if you cancel, you definitely lose any right to use whatever the seller has produced, just like the terms specify. Next, you’re talking about "retribution" as if this is some epic playground squabble. Maybe taking a more mature approach could be beneficial. Here’s what I recommend: Open a support ticket and explain your situation, hopefully clearer than you did to us. Wait and see what the support team has to say. I understand your frustration, but going on some kind of revenge mission because you canceled an order two days early doesn’t seem all that constructive.

Hi there, I am in the UK. I have successfully set up Payoneer and then added my bank account as a withdrawal method to Fiverr. I want to add Payoneer so I have the option of withdrawing direct to my Payoneer account. However, when I select Add New Payout Method, the only option available is Paypal. There are no other options to select. Why can't I see Payoneer as an option? Thanks.

These are payment methods (for paying for orders). Perhaps you'll find other options on the Payout methods. To manage payout methods, go to your Earnings page while in seller mode. To go there, hover over My business in the main menu and click on Earnings in the dropdown menu. Then click on Manage payout methods. The options available to you will differ depending on your country, so you'll hopefully find an alternative that works for you. I hope this helps!

Hi, it's me, the commentphant in the room. The last two resources are paid, Mark. One of them (Seller Plus) just went through a 100% price increase. I'm one of the people cancelling, since I was offered a "locked in" early bird price of $19 until I canceled. At the beginning of this month, Fiverr decided to "align their prices" so that I, along with 200 other sellers, would now have to pay $40/mo. That's an extra $4,000 a month, maximum. Also, since you are an affiliate, I have a question: it seems to me that Learn was removed from the program. Am I missing something, or is it actually removed - if yes, do you know why?

Hello, I had an option for Early Payout, and it’s now removed from my account. Is there any information on why they removed it again? It was a very great option I guess, They should not remove this. Let me know if anyone has news about this. Thank you in advance

As @smartdezigns said, you must remember your security question in order to change your old phone number into a new one, and going to the next process of adding payout method. I am sure that this is the answer you will get from CS.

But that's just it: most books just don't go anywhere. This was my main "job" before I started on Fiverr. What you're recommending isn't for aspiring authors. Best practice is not to waste money on these frills and just publish - if you must spend money on the book, then hitting up the paid promo groups is the best way to do it so you can start building up a list that gobbles up your stuff and gives you money so you can start to write for them and make the covers they like etc. And how it was then, at least in my group of authors, was that one had a runaway success and he immediately invested in a team of ghostwriters (pre-AI, obvs) to write more "formulaic badword" as he called it. We all saw it in real time. He made a killing. He's now a multimillionaire author (multiple pen names) and he didn't spend anything on his books until he was making money. Some people in our group joined Fiverr under their penname to sell their covers. I think that's how I found out about Fiverr, or at least took it more seriously than "man dancing in underpants singing happy birthday" that the platform effectively was in its earliest years. Why didn't I make this work for me? I didn't stick with it long enough (Fiverr's endless stream of $5 work stole my time away from me.....I'm not complaining about that, it's just what happened). Aspiring authors should not be wasting their money on the perfect book. They should be focused on acquiring readers. And yes, maybe you're talking about "book books", but that is still very much the domain of the publishing houses and they take care of all this once the manuscript is done. The majority of ebooks purchased on Kindle are never even opened. Aspiring authors who want to make it need to accept their early works will, in all likelihood, never be read. If they battle through that and keep writing, someone will buy their book. And then someone else, as it doesn't take that many sales to hit the bestseller charts if you choose your niche strategically - but you do need to sell ASAP for the algorithm. It's very easy to tell when you have a fan: one day you make a lot more money than usual because all your books, even that cruddy first one, sold. Your advice may help Fiverr to make more money, but it will ultimately drive potentially successful writers out of business by bleeding their motivation away, dollar by dollar.

Hi Kesha! I'll start, January 2014 (and early early January), so over 10 years here.

Actually $20, or are you just rounding up? Mine still says $19. I'll just update here as this is my "home thread" for now, since it keeps the AI Hub front and center of the Fiverr experience. In slightly unrelated news, I found this post from a while ago while I was researching stuff for another post I just made: I think that sums it up (I just email mine, but can you really charge $39/mo for a "feature" that is usually overbooked? Come on Fiverr. What would you do if a seller pulled this on their buyers for consultations? The phrase do as I say, not as I do comes to mind. Putting up the price when the features are largely all automated and the most valuable parts (in terms of workload/man hours) are.... like this is bad business practice. On top of the whole breaking trust with price locks for early bird discounts to claw back a maximum of $4k a month from the $19 group. These are not the signs of a financially healthy business that values its customers, whether they are buying or selling.

Its ON & OFF sometimes, In my recent few orders, it was there for Early payout, while in the last order yesterday, There is no early payout. only 48 hours early payout option there

Early Payout is not available to everyone, I think it will be back soon. https://help.fiverr.com/hc/en-us/articles/4402267122449-Early-Payout#:~:text=Please note%3A Currently%2C Early Payout,The standard fee is 1%.

I think they still want to increase prices. But I assume the email was sent too early. Maybe they try to provide some more features and that will come with the price increase. Or maybe someone sent the email too soon without any changes coming to the program. Who knows. I would love to keep my current price, and hopefully it was just a mistake on their side. Then again, it's not like it was sent to just a few people. Do keep us posted Emma, maybe it was just a mistake..