Priced too high?

[williamz902]

Please can you take the time to look at this gig and tell me if you think the price and delivery time are too high, considering the effort involved in the gig.

I’m asking because I have had a high number of views but no orders?
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Kind Regards,

William.

[Guest phantompower]

😯 and you still have gig extras?? I am certain if you gave me 200$ I could do exactly the same job in 5 days print the magazine and ship it to you. The gig ain’t bad but the price is… how can I put this??

[jonbaas]

Unfortunately, there isn’t much of a market for a $700 basic gig here on Fiverr. You might find more interest if you offer a service that is more in-tune to the market. People come to Fiverr looking for smaller projects, and lower prices. $700 for a relatively obscure service isn’t likely to catch on.

[gina_riley2]

You have very well written gig.

Unfortunately, if I were to be getting married, I’d want to see sample portfolio that I can physically touch. I’d be hesitant to spend a lot of money online.

[mrproofreading]

No offence intended, but it looks like you created your sample using Microsoft Paint. I’m not convinced that cyan, orange, yellow, grey, white and black is a winning combo.

Honestly, it is really quite poor, so I’m not surprised you haven’t received any orders.

At $700, you’re far beyond the “fun gift” category and more into the “professional wedding services” category. Unfortunately, I feel as though the quality of your work isn’t.

[williamz902]

No offence intended, but it looks like you created your sample using Microsoft Paint. I’m not convinced that cyan, orange, yellow, grey, white and black is a winning combo.

Honestly, it is really quite poor, so I’m not surprised you haven’t received any orders.

At $700, you’re far beyond the “fun gift” category and more into the “professional wedding services” category. Unfortunately, I feel as though the quality of your work isn’t.

Can you suggest solid ways to improve? Interestingly, I’m not an Adobe fan. I prefer to use Inkscape and Gimp for my editing - the designs were created in Inkscape.

Thank you for your feedback. I always like people who are brutal, because it challenges me to self-improve.

Regards,

[williamz902]

You have very well written gig.

Unfortunately, if I were to be getting married, I’d want to see sample portfolio that I can physically touch. I’d be hesitant to spend a lot of money online.

Unfortunately, if I were to be getting married, I’d want to see sample portfolio that I can physically touch.

@gina_riley2 - I completely understand your point. I would also want to see more. I was thinking I would ask the first customer to allow me to use their magazine as a sample porfolio - but I haven’t received any orders on this gig yet.

Can you suggest any concrete ways to improve? Maybe I should do a generic design on Prince William and Kate’s Wedding as a generic portfolio piece? Am I being too cliche?

William.

[nadagraph]

Hi,
It is way too high price. It matters where you live. For instance, I live in Serbia, and it would be nice to have one, but it is unimaginable price for me.

[mrproofreading]

Can you suggest solid ways to improve? Interestingly, I’m not an Adobe fan. I prefer to use Inkscape and Gimp for my editing - the designs were created in Inkscape.

Thank you for your feedback. I always like people who are brutal, because it challenges me to self-improve.

Regards,

You definitely have the right attitude! 🙂

For me personally, the “Jane and John” sample just looks like a sea of ugly colours and fonts - there’s no “house style” or consistency. Sure, the imagery is good, but everything else is random.

I recommend you spend a little time researching the market to understand how your offering compares. Here’s a link to a Pinterest wedding brochure album that contains insanely good examples: https://uk.pinterest.com/explore/wedding-brochure/

[williamz902]

Hi,

It is way too high price. It matters where you live. For instance, I live in Serbia, and it would be nice to have one, but it is unimaginable price for me.

It is way too high price. It matters where you live. For instance, I live in Serbia, and it would be nice to have one, but it is unimaginable price for me.

@nadagraph Can you give me an indication of the price that you would pay for such a service? It would help me tremendously.

[jonbaas]

Can you suggest solid ways to improve? Interestingly, I’m not an Adobe fan. I prefer to use Inkscape and Gimp for my editing - the designs were created in Inkscape.

Thank you for your feedback. I always like people who are brutal, because it challenges me to self-improve.

Regards,

The first thing you need to do is offer a service (or part of your current service) that you can sell at $5 or $10. You’re not likely to make any sales at $700 for a basic gig.

[williamz902]

😯 and you still have gig extras?? I am certain if you gave me 200$ I could do exactly the same job in 5 days print the magazine and ship it to you. The gig ain’t bad but the price is… how can I put this??

I am certain if you gave me 200$ I could do exactly the same job in 5 days print the magazine and ship it to you.

@phantompower - thank you for your feedback. I’m not sure about this Fiverr printer service - It doesn’t seem to be available to me! I’m wondering if it’s a Level 2 Seller feature or a Top Rated Seller feature? It doesn’t seem to be available to Level 1 Sellers.

William.

[gina_riley2]

Unfortunately, if I were to be getting married, I’d want to see sample portfolio that I can physically touch.

@gina_riley2 - I completely understand your point. I would also want to see more. I was thinking I would ask the first customer to allow me to use their magazine as a sample porfolio - but I haven’t received any orders on this gig yet.

Can you suggest any concrete ways to improve? Maybe I should do a generic design on Prince William and Kate’s Wedding as a generic portfolio piece? Am I being too cliche?

William.

Unfortunately, this is not a field you can improve unless you have examples of work you have previously done.

I suppose you can detail your experiences and how many other happy clients you have. Perhaps, ask 5r customer support permission to add link so customers can be awed at other work.

[williamz902]

You definitely have the right attitude! 🙂

For me personally, the “Jane and John” sample just looks like a sea of ugly colours and fonts - there’s no “house style” or consistency. Sure, the imagery is good, but everything else is random.

I recommend you spend a little time researching the market to understand how your offering compares. Here’s a link to a Pinterest wedding brochure album that contains insanely good examples: https://uk.pinterest.com/explore/wedding-brochure/

there’s no “house style” or consistency. Sure, the imagery is good, but everything else is random.

I recommend you spend a little time researching the market to understand how your offering compares. Here’s a link to a Pinterest wedding brochure album that contains insanely good examples

@mrproofreading - thank you for these examples. I feel like you might be missing the point (if you are, then I have a problem). I’m NOT offering a brochure… I’m offering a MAGAZINE. Like literally Vogue magazine (with much less pages!). But it’s a magazine, not a brochure. There is a difference. A brochure is like a single sheet of paper divided into six parts. A magazine is literally a book.

But your feedback is valuable to me.

Regarding “house style” - I’m not literally a brand name with a niche subject (like Men’s Health). I’m offering people the opportunity to customize a magazine according to the theme of their wedding day - I can’t use the same fonts for an informal beach theme as I do for a formal modern theme. I hoped to demonstrate that in my designs, but maybe I am missing something???

[nadagraph]

It is way too high price. It matters where you live. For instance, I live in Serbia, and it would be nice to have one, but it is unimaginable price for me.

@nadagraph Can you give me an indication of the price that you would pay for such a service? It would help me tremendously.

@nadagraph Can you give me an indication of the price that you would pay for such a service? It would help me tremendously.

You may be surprised, but 200$ max.

[mrproofreading]

there’s no “house style” or consistency. Sure, the imagery is good, but everything else is random.

I recommend you spend a little time researching the market to understand how your offering compares. Here’s a link to a Pinterest wedding brochure album that contains insanely good examples

@mrproofreading - thank you for these examples. I feel like you might be missing the point (if you are, then I have a problem). I’m NOT offering a brochure… I’m offering a MAGAZINE. Like literally Vogue magazine (with much less pages!). But it’s a magazine, not a brochure. There is a difference. A brochure is like a single sheet of paper divided into six parts. A magazine is literally a book.

But your feedback is valuable to me.

Regarding “house style” - I’m not literally a brand name with a niche subject (like Men’s Health). I’m offering people the opportunity to customize a magazine according to the theme of their wedding day - I can’t use the same fonts for an informal beach theme as I do for a formal modern theme. I hoped to demonstrate that in my designs, but maybe I am missing something???

Well, I couldn’t find any suitable examples for wedding magazines - it’s a niche market. Equally, though, the examples provided should give you an idea of the quality expected for professional wedding services, which is how you’re currently pricing your service.

You don’t need to be a brand to have a good sense of consistency. Maybe it’s a cultural thing, but I feel dull, luxurious colours are best suited to weddings – not cyan, yellow, red, blue and green.

If you honestly look at your sample and think “yep, this is good stuff”, then I’m afraid we’ll have to disagree.

When I look at your samples, especially the second one, I see:

• Text overlapping the focus point of the image
• A sea of unattractive, non-wedding related colours
• A mixture of completely random fonts
• Inconsistencies in text placement

With all of this in mind, I cannot see any customer paying $700 for the service.

So as to not sound too negative, I do think you have a market, especially considering your awesome description and wording. I just feel you need to work on some high-quality, consistent and attractive designs to attract customers.

[wpspecialist24]

you will not get any order in this gig cause price too much high 🙂

[snowmare]

I’m not sure how this is a trend, like other said, it would feel quite detached, and non personal to give such work to a person who’s somewhere far away, and for example didn’t attend the wedding, or has no idea or feeling for customs of the area for example and so on and so forth.

Maybe some magazine that isn’t such personal matter for the buyer, but a broader topic.

And yes, the market on fiverr is made in such way, that most stuff start at 5$, 20$… so the person looking to spend 700$ on design magazine maybe wouldn’t search for that service on fiverr in the first place…

You have to offer really good service with that price tag, there’s always many people who will offer cheaper work so…
That typography and color choice aside th, how did you

[snowmare]

Can you suggest solid ways to improve? Interestingly, I’m not an Adobe fan. I prefer to use Inkscape and Gimp for my editing - the designs were created in Inkscape.

Thank you for your feedback. I always like people who are brutal, because it challenges me to self-improve.

Regards,

Maybe review the lessons on typography, color, kerning…

[n4y33m]

Your Gig looks perfect. but if I express my own opinion about the price, it’s definitely too pricey. In my currency, it’ll be more than 55k and many of our countrymen can’t even earn that much in a whole year 😉
however, according to @gina_riley2 I agreed that people won’t satisfy with only a soft copy for paying that much money.

[miroslavglavic]

One of the FAQ questions of your gig:

Can you ship me a printed copy?

Unfortunately I can’t offer a printed copy at this time. However, I am looking into this for the future. I will however, provide your magazine in any format required by a printing service of you choice, and will gladly help them to ensure a quality, final product.

So, since I see prices in Canadian Dollars, $922 is what I see. So you expect me to pay $922 CAD ($700 USD) , wait 29 whole days and not even get a physical product? For that price I expect overnight delivery.

As someone that worked in the print media industry (newspapers and magazines), I promise you that you will NOT sell that gig.

I can order the same thing, design and do the work myself and get it printed out, for under $50.

[zeus777]

Allow me to hop in, being a freelance illustrator, outside Fiverr I usually get paid around $200~$250 per colored image, usually digitally done.

Personally if I was going to charge someone $700 for an image, first of all the image would be quite detailed, and it will be an actual hand-drawn (or painted) image, and I will send the original picture to the buyer, perhaps in a frame.

$700 is a lot to ask for, if you are creating a whole magazine or a scrapbook with over 20 pages maybe you can charge $100 or so, but $700 does seem way to high.

[miroslavglavic]

Allow me to hop in, being a freelance illustrator, outside Fiverr I usually get paid around $200~$250 per colored image, usually digitally done.

Personally if I was going to charge someone $700 for an image, first of all the image would be quite detailed, and it will be an actual hand-drawn (or painted) image, and I will send the original picture to the buyer, perhaps in a frame.

$700 is a lot to ask for, if you are creating a whole magazine or a scrapbook with over 20 pages maybe you can charge $100 or so, but $700 does seem way to high.

how would you react if your new husband/wife spent this much on a magazine that there is no physical copy, thus I am guessing a .pdf file.?

[n4y33m]

how would you react if your new husband/wife spent this much on a magazine that there is no physical copy, thus I am guessing a .pdf file.?

Maybe I would give her a new nickname for that 😛

[Guest phantompower]

I am certain if you gave me 200$ I could do exactly the same job in 5 days print the magazine and ship it to you.

@phantompower - thank you for your feedback. I’m not sure about this Fiverr printer service - It doesn’t seem to be available to me! I’m wondering if it’s a Level 2 Seller feature or a Top Rated Seller feature? It doesn’t seem to be available to Level 1 Sellers.

William.

The feature is available to everyone, now, I see that you offer a 14 day deliver for 200$ meaning you are actually able to do the project in less days but prefer keeping the client waiting. So here is my advice. create a magazine pages template, insert image and text placeholders, this will help you because the whole process will be cut down by 80% so you will only have to spend 3 days on each project. Divide your pricing to 100, 150, 200. Then offer something extra as the price goes up.

Now for the golden tip… Say that you are offering a **************** ********** ********** service. This will boost your sales more than 70%.