great clients don't come cheap
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ninomino19
Banned - repeatedly selling outside of the MP
- Jun 22, 2015
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that hit hard lol
darkfury
Regular Member
- Oct 23, 2008
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But why pander to clients?
I worked as an SEO for years, took clients from 5k a month revenue to 100k+, with no effort from themselves just paying for services they do not understand.
Clients are a stepping stone, and free research.
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HustleTong
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- May 30, 2019
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The reality is that most high=ticket clients stick to popular platforms like Fiverr
- Apr 4, 2009
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I have the same experience, never wrote a contract in my life, 30 years of doing business, first time customers pay in advance but after the first job it is 30 days invoice after the job is done. Also offline customers only.
OccultKingdoms
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- Mar 11, 2013
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Clients with tight ass syndrome will never pay you and you will go bankrupt. Them paying you 5 euro or dollars is as likely to happen as you becoming a millionaire overnight. 
plvgga
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- May 26, 2023
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It's so paradoxical and funny fact
I'm selling my digital product, and many people write hundreds of questions: will it pay off itself? do you use this? how many people buy this? won't you trick me? why don't you give a trial? discount for a review plz?? and so on
But rarely some people write: "Hi, interested in your soft, WTB". The second message from them is a transaction screen. Funniest is that these people are buy the most experiense version for the longest perion of time
Things like this are very surpriced when you learn this by your own
I'm selling my digital product, and many people write hundreds of questions: will it pay off itself? do you use this? how many people buy this? won't you trick me? why don't you give a trial? discount for a review plz?? and so on
But rarely some people write: "Hi, interested in your soft, WTB". The second message from them is a transaction screen. Funniest is that these people are buy the most experiense version for the longest perion of time
Things like this are very surpriced when you learn this by your own
wreckerwrecker
Newbie
- Oct 24, 2023
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this is 100% accurate
the fix is actually really simple. just don't work with price sensitive clients. if i even sense for even a fraction of a second that a client can't afford my service i will instantly block them. fuck em. i'm not going to sit here and haggle and dick around with a client that doesn't know what they want/aren't willing to pay what a service is worth.
sounds harsh but that's how you've gotta handle it.
you're selling a service for $5k? cool
client offers $4k
block
trust me... shitty clients will always going to be a pain in the ass down the line one way or another.
the fix is actually really simple. just don't work with price sensitive clients. if i even sense for even a fraction of a second that a client can't afford my service i will instantly block them. fuck em. i'm not going to sit here and haggle and dick around with a client that doesn't know what they want/aren't willing to pay what a service is worth.
sounds harsh but that's how you've gotta handle it.
you're selling a service for $5k? cool
client offers $4k
block
trust me... shitty clients will always going to be a pain in the ass down the line one way or another.
johnnysilverhand
Newbie
- Oct 24, 2023
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This is so, so true. Honestly, I feel this applies to a lot of things. For example, going out.
Person A: Drives me like 80 miles, asks me if I need anything else.
Person B: Drives me like 2 blocks, wants gas money and starts explaining his math to me.
Person A: Drives me like 80 miles, asks me if I need anything else.
Person B: Drives me like 2 blocks, wants gas money and starts explaining his math to me.
reviewtrust
Junior Member
- Jan 7, 2023
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This is so true! Especially on Fiverr, where you have a big disadvantage to the customer. He could just simply say, he will give you a bad review, and then you have to refund it even though you've already delivered.
reviewtrust
Junior Member
- Jan 7, 2023
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Depends on what service you provide. If you put them in a sales call, you can call them directly after they've registered and ask them a few questions. These questions will contain the information you need to work with them. For example, you ask him indirectly how much money he has, if he had experiences with such service in the past...
aslickking
Banned - Selling outside of marketplace
- Oct 29, 2023
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Yes, I agree with this. A client who can pay $5000 likely has checked out the seller before. No need to test the waters with $500. It would be inefficent for any established buisness in terms of time.
Fiverr is for that reason and many others really just a race to the bottom anyway. This is because Fiverr wants their costumers to be content, but their main costumers are the buyers, since if the buyer stops buying from the sellers, they will lose profits and since some third world guy will always be willing to keep up with it, there will be always enought sellers and we have an inbalance of too many sellers vs too few buyers, which makes the buyers so powerful.
Sounds more like a scammer
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reviewtrust
Junior Member
- Jan 7, 2023
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This is true, but if you advertise your gig on Fiverr through ads, it shows your trustworthiness. Would you recommend expanding from Fiverr to other sites, such as Upwork...? Or would you say I should focus on one site
aslickking
Banned - Selling outside of marketplace
- Oct 29, 2023
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It will be better to ask or search for information about people who are in your field of expertise, about the platforms they recommend. But even for technical people these sites are usally quite bad. If you have already a client base and get work pn Fiverr, why not expand and see if it will be benificial for you to expand it with Upwork? I would give it a try.