Mistakes are part of our life. And our Fiverr freelance life is no different. But there are some mistakes & myths which may cause you to waste time, and hold you back from your expected earnings. However, after reading this article you will learn about those big mistakes & myths. Also, you will know why you should avoid those mistakes in the first place. Those mistakes are as follows:
- Stay Online 24/7
- Promote Gig on Social Media
- Never Edit Gig Title
- Be Connected with Fiverr Forum
- Earn Gig Favorites
- Increase Gig Impression
- Create Multiple Gigs in The Same Category
- Sell at Low Price
1. Stay Online 24/7:
How bizarre! Sellers are not web hosting machine, they are human beings. Sellers also have to eat, sleep, bath just like the buyers. So they do not have to stay online 24 hours a day & 7 days a week, and it’s not required at all. Fiverr has an Analytic component called “Response Rate”. If you response to a new query within 24 hours, your response rate should be fine. Of course you should not wait upto 24 hours to response but you can reply them back when it’s easier for you.
How Quickly You Should Response
In my personal experience, I generally replied to a message as soon I saw it. It could be 5 minutes to 24 hours. I try to response as soon as possible when someone sends me a message for the first time, and even I try to response from my mobile app on the go. Once the first reply is done, I wait until I feel comfort for the next reply or I just let them know that I will write them back at the earliest time possible. This type of communication never hurts my business on Fiverr and even most of my clients are happy with my response rate & communication style. And it will be no different for you.
Keep in mind, a potential buyer does not send messages to multiple sellers at the same time & for the same work. A loyal client will wait for a reasonable time to hear back from the seller. This reasonable time depends on man to man, urgency, complexity, budget & seller’s quality but it should not less than one hour. Therefore if you saw a client left you for not hearing back and when you were in bathroom. Just let them go but never go to bathroom with your computer or phone.
It doesn’t hurt if you promote your gigs on social media professionally. But a large number of freelancer drives it wrong way. Likewise, many of the newbies are spamming on social media by sharing their gigs over & over. On the other hand, those sellers generally make comments only with their gig URL and even their gigs are totally irrelevant from the actual post. It never works! Not only that but also it destroys seller’s reputation and most people try to avoid those kind of sellers on social media platforms. Those sellers know as spammers. Those spammers don’t care about the topic where they are commenting on, it could be a post about natural disaster or about the death news of many people by road accident, they just make comments and share their gig URL.
Sharing gigs on social media platforms does not hurt if it’s done properly and it works if you do it professionally. But sharing your gig randomly & irrelevantly does not work on social media platforms. However, see our another post to learn how to promote your gig effectively on social media platforms.
3. Never Edit Gig Title:
You will find this advice a lot but it’s not true. You can edit your gig title as you see fit & when you see fit. Even if you already have a good selling gig and if you found a better title which may convert more well, then go for it. This is I’m confidently writing from my practical experience. I have a 4/5 years old gig which has been earned more than $15K. But still I edit this gig title when I see fit. However, It does not hurt at all. There is only one issue I found after editing gig/title- it disappears for few hours from the search result but it comes back again to its own place in one/two days.
4. Be Connected with Fiverr Forum:
Connected with Fiverr forum is not bad but it does not help ranking your gig. Yet I have not signed up for Fiverr forum but my gig have been playing very well till to date. I believe there are other sellers who also earned huge on Fiverr but not everyone has account on Fiverr forum. If you wish you can definitely connect with forum but it’s not related to your gig ranking in any way. So, it’s a myth.
On the other hand, many sellers have been asking the same questions over & over. So the other forum members find it annoying.
Pro tips: Before posting a question on forum, be sure to check if the same/similar question already has been asked.
5. Earn Gig Favorites:
Gig favorite has been designed to save seller’s gig for future reference and it does not related to rank your gig directly. Most of the cases newbies believe (myth) that higher numbers of gig favorites will help their gig for ranking. And sometimes they do Favorite Exchange which is a big MISTAKE.
6. Increase Gig Impression:
Increasing gig impression naturally is a good thing. But if the impression increased by some other people who are not loyal buyers then it’s a bad thing. Moreover, false impression will hurt your gig performance. Same thing is also true for click & view.
7. Create Multiple Gigs in The Same Category:
It’s not true and creating multiple gigs in the same category does not help ranking. If you search on Fiverr, you will find many sellers who created multiple gigs in the same category with no sales. Think of a tiger. A tiger only targets one deer when it finds a herd. You’re definitely allowed to create multiple gigs but only do it when it’s necessary. If you can not focus on multiple gigs then do not loose your focus by created unnecessary gigs.
8. Sell at Low Price:
Selling your gig at low price does not help your gig for ranking. However, helping a buyer for peanuts does not look professional, and it indicates your service is not valuable enough. On the other hand, I’m also not advising you to set your gig price with higher price irrelevantly. To clarify, Set the price for your gig/package relevantly and depending on market value & what you deserve.
Fiverr’s name itself indicates a number which is 5 (five). Buyers will get service from $5 US Dollar here. But it doesn’t mean you’re bound to sale everything with just $5 USD or you should not sale your service/gig with $5 USD which exact service other sellers are selling with $100 USD, it’s not fair both for you and other sellers.
Keep in mind, cheap seekers (low budget client) expectation is high enough. Few times their expectation has no limit, do not understand ‘Scope of Work’ and those are the buyers who leave negative feedback most of the time. Never exchange your gig price with feedback/good-review, MONTT (more order next time trap) or something else.
However, you will find a lot of blog posts, advice, tips & tricks on the internet for gig ranking. And most of the blog posts they wrote just for the sake of getting web traffics. In other words, many of the authors do not have practical experience working on Fiverr and even they were not successful sellers in the past.
So their blog posts have been written from silly assumption and by copy pasting from other blogs. Subsequently, the rumor spreads on the web and sellers become the victim. Read this post to learn how to rank Fiverr gig actually.
