Actually, a place in the search is never certain, whether they're testing or not, so: what do you do?
Doing your own experiments might be a good idea. Tweaking your gigs, maybe creating new ones, maybe deleting the ones that are simply not selling... That's what I'm currently doing.
As much as I love kinetic typography, the gig for writing scripts for kinetic typography videos never sold, so I deleted it. That doesn't mean that I won't write that kind of scripts; my main gig still covers them.
Among the paused gigs, I had the one for cat-related Teespring headlines. It never sold, the only ones who inquired about it wanted headlines in bulk (I don't like bulks), so I deleted that one, too.
My gig for custom projects was initially meant for my old buyers who had a different project for me, something that I'm capable of doing, but don't offer on regular basis. Since it was there, other potential buyer sometimes contacted me to ask if I could do this or that, and those things were something that I didn't want to do. I'm not really sure what to do with that one, so I have paused it, and will unpause it for my old buyers when needed.
Some time ago, I have also paused my gig for scripts for Christmas videos. I will unpause it for the season.
The biggest change, though, was my main gig. I have changed the picture (hopefully this one makes it obvious that it's for video scripts, not for radio ads or email marketing), the description, some tags... And I'll keep working on the search tags, because there was an announcement on the forum about them. Fiverr will make yet another adjustment, and the search tags will count for more than they used to; ideally, they will also help narrow down the search for the buyers, and help them find exactly what they need faster.
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| Does this picture make it clear that I write scripts for videos? |
I have some other experiments in mind, too, like pausing two script writing gigs (for scripts for animated explainers and whiteboard animations) because they don't seem to help, and starting a new one, more specific, and hopefully fun to do.
Like always, I'll see what happens, and I'll keep playing.
