Sellers' Future in Fiverr

[prologo1]

Dear All,



Day by day Fiverr popularity is going down as per the alexa rank. As a full time Fiverr seller i feel little bit unstable. You?



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[webchief]

I dont know for you, but I have to refuse 5-10 customers every day because I dont have time to manage working for all of them…

[Guest customrapsongs]

Reply to @webchief: raise your prices or increase gig delivery time

[preetiyoga]

Reply to @webchief: may be you need a assistant 😉

[kuwano]

but unfortunately sellers like “fragglesrock” who offer gigs and do not answer messages for days on end doesn’t help the sellers rep at all! I would pay for quality not quantity with regards to gigs.



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[prologo1]

Reply to @webchief: Here also same. I hope our future also to be same.

[webchief]

 

@customrapsongs:

 

Why should I ? I make 2x more then average salary in my country and I am on college from 07-19 every day and I work from 20 - 01... go figure ?

 

@preetiyoga:

 

When I find reliable guy/ girl(even better) I would be more then happy to give him work to do.

 

@prologo1:

 

Yes I hope too, as I am expanding my business, having a lot of people in my "contacts" is main goal for now - which is not an issue for you :D

[darrendesign]

Fiverr isn’t going down it’s always growing it’s a best place to make a business you have a wide ability of choice there is a great professionals working here in every sphere just keep going make the best you can and you will always have a buyers



best,

Darrendesign

[david388]

Reply to @prologo1: for those of us unversed in the market, could you explain what Alexa Ranking is ?

[kozakura]

Well… I do feel unstable seeing that the rankings are going down but as long as I always have an order to deliver I’m fine with it. You don’t look like you need to worry though, since you have 14 orders in queue for one of your gigs…

[adsenseliveapps]

It depends on some matter . Fiverr wants there business also . So they will try hard and soul to keep the ranking .

[prologo1]

I think I was wrong.

[radugeorgescu]

Well the way I see it is the more sophisticated it will get the less traffic it will get 🙂 maybe for some does not make sense but that is how I for 1 see it.

[ilovenish]

I completely agree. Instead of making it simple for sellers, fiverr is making it worst. People working full time on fiverr should be worried now.

[skydesigner]

Well, few months ago USA was on first place on percent of visitors, now india. That means there is more sellers then buyers on fiverr currently.



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[abidagfx]

fiverr should be easiest and simplest market place on the net. simple like 2+2=4.

[rodrigueskevin]

This is just my opinion but I think the popularity will increase as more and more people get access to the Internet and learn more about Fiverr. As long as there is a demand for work that is being posted on Fiverr, there should be no problem.

[tsweezey]

Reply to @david388: Hey David, good to see you here 🙂



Alexa ranks websites, presumably by traffic. But given that nobody has real traffic information, they collect data and extrapolate a ranking. They do this by collecting data they receive from people that use the Alexa search bar in their browser.



While is a poor representation of real traffic, it can be helpful for relative comparisons between sites, in addition to spotting traffic trends. Fiverr’s traffic appears to have fallen off a cliff as of last October.



From someone who use to analyze third party data for site ranking comparisons, I can say that I have little faith in the Alexa numbers. But, there might well be a reason for what appears to be a precipitous drop. One theory is that fiverr made the conscious decision to throttle back on advertising in favor of sellers promoting their own gigs externally. That’s all purely speculation though.

[tsweezey]

Reply to @skydesigner: For what it’s worth, I was hired to do a job via fiverr from a company in India who had a client in Boston. Presumably, because my rates were competitive. In short, a US company outsourced to India. India outsourced to the US.



Go figure 🙂

[tsweezey]

I think the key to fiverr success is to curate quality and integrity. It has the “value” part down. Otherwise, it’s likely to be viewed as a preditorial marketplace for corrupt sellers, buyers looking for partners to help sell/market fraudulent services, and desperate sellers looking to do anything for a buck.



I think we’ve already heard many of these concerns, which is really a shame. So many sellers here are really great talents with tremendous care and advocacy for their clients.

[writerlisaz]

Reply to @tsweezey: I agree completely. Many of us have found success with a simple way to market our skills here, and we are really good at what we do. I hope Fiverr continues to remain easy to use, a great value, and also top quality and integrity. There is really no reason it can’t be a success that way. I think some of the changes to Fiverr (i.e. response rate, which has its issues but is mostly a positive) are for the purpose of improving quality and integrity. I’m happy with that!

[thecreativeguys]

Reply to @tsweezey: I agree with you 100%. It seems to me that fiverr is working on something big right now which is why they are cutting down on advertising. I’ve got an email 🙂 But once this is launched things will pick up if it all works out.

[thecreativeguys]

Reply to @silberma1976: Don’t even use the word clone. Most of those sites are worthless.

[thecreativeguys]

Reply to @darrendesign: Yes Indeed. As much as people would like to think they know that fiverr is going down it is i fact only becoming a bigger and stronger platform. Major updates speak for themselves.

[thecreativeguys]

Reply to @prologo1: Yes. Big time. It tends to happen to us when orders do not come in but in reality (they come and go)