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11 Tips for the New Graduate

Author: Leon Banksy on May 23, 2013 in Oh Fiverr you so silly!. 14 Comments Tags: fiverr gifs, Fiverr tips, gifs, Graduation, graduation gifs, graduation tips, new graduates.

Aaaah, Graduation Day!
The time has come to pack up your college dorm, find a cheap rental and put all those years of education to use.

How hard can it be?
Surely you picked up some skills in college?

We know this transition can be daunting, so we asked the Fiverr community (on Facebook and the Fiverr Forum) to share some advice for all new graduates.

Here’s what they had to say:

1) “What feels like an important thing right now will not be in 5-10 years. So, don’t stress.” – madmoo

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Mother’s Day Gifts in a Jiffy

Author: Leon Banksy on May 9, 2013 in Special Occasion and Uncategorized. 5 Comments Tags: Fiverr Mother's Day, last minute mother's Day gifts, Mother's Day Gifts, personalized mother's day gifts, unique mother's day gufts.

Mother’s Day is just around the corner.
If you’re tired of going to stores and seeing the same old gifts, then look no further.

We have selected some unique, customized and creative gifts that’ll make your Mom smile.
What more can you ask for this Mother’s Day?

With a personalized gift and a free Mother’s Day greeting card, you can’t go wrong!

Check it out:

There's only one thing better than spoiling your Mother with a cup of coffee in the morning... spoiling her with a cup of coffee with her name on it! Check out Fabricafifa's super cool personalized coffee stencil.

Nmawyin brings her creativity to life with her beautiful blackboard messages. Tell your Mother you love her in style!

Have you searched far and wide for the perfect Mother's Day card, with no success? Have no fear, Anastasias is here! This crafty lady will make a personalized card that'll put a smile on any Mother's face.

Looking for that perfect gift? Look no further. Send in a picture of your Mother to Nickyfin and get it transformed into a super cool caricature.

As the (not so) famous saying goes, "When in doubt... Scrabble-lize it!" Jesser722 uses Scrabble pieces to create awesome stop motion message videos. Check it out.

Does your Mother fancy herself a pop star? Then why not celebrate the day by making heran original piece of pop art? Makemebark will take her photo and create a personalized work of art!

Is your mother a kitchen guru? Why not order a custom made, bamboo utensil set? She can think of you while cooking up a storm. check out Jetfumes's awesome Gig!

Here's one that will make your mother's head turn... literally. Get her profile turned into a victorian-style silhouette and mounted on a card. Another great gift idea from Fabricafifa.

Professorpuppet is at it again! This time he is creating fun custom videos to send to your Mother. This fun and sentimental gift will have you all laughing out loud!

Check out more Mother's Day gifts here.

Get your free Mother's Day greeting cards here!

Come and meet our fabulous , featured, Fiverr Moms!

Free Mother’s Day Cards

Author: Leon Banksy on May 2, 2013 in Special Occasion. 6 Comments Tags: free mother’s day card templates, free printable mother’s day cards, homemade mother’s day card ideas, mother’s day card crafts, mother’s day card phrases, mother’s day card sayings, mother’s day card templates free, mother’s day greeting card, online mother’s day card, printable mother’s day card.

Michelle Obama is a one, Angelina Jolie is one too (a few times over), and Kim Kardashian is soon gonna be one. We’re talking about Mothers of course!

If you’re anything like us, you spend your time constantly buzzing around preoccupied with work. Next thing you know… Mother’s Day is a few days away, you have no gift, no card and no time! You’re probably running around your house frantic trying to put a gift together, scolding yourself for not giving this more thought.

I mean… she is your Mother!

We’re talking about the woman that raised you into the awesome human being that you are today… it’s Mom-mentous!
This year, we’ve partnered with some crafty Fiverrs to make your life a little bit easier, and put a smile on your Mom’s face.

Check it out – below are five free printable card templates for you to choose from. All you need to do is choose your pic, click, print, fold and you’ve made your Mama’s day!
Don’t forget to also take a look at our awesome Mother’s Day gifts. They are unique, fun and simply Fiverr-tastic.

We love our Moms… and yours too. Can you tell?!

Here are your specially designed, free printable Mother’s Day cards (made with the most important element -LOVE):

Image by Paperdollhouse - Print it here

See all the cards here.

Fiverr’s Magnificent Moms

Author: Leon Banksy on April 30, 2013 in Special Occasion. 40 Comments Tags: Fiverr Moms, Fiverr Mother's Day, Mother's Day Gifts, Mother's Day Poems, mothers day.

With Mother’s day quickly on its way, we wanted to take a moment to highlight some of the Fiverr Moms! Their unique stories of love and ambition are an inspiration to us at HQ. There were so many to choose from we could only choose a few… and here they are.

Introducing, our featured Fiverr Moms.

“Fiverr allows me to spend time with my children whilst fitting in work on my own terms in doing gigs. I also like working on Fiverr because it allows me to control my workflow though pausing gigs when I need too, or setting completion times to suit the type of week I am planning. Most importantly I get to enjoy what I do most of the times.”

- Mari Simo

“I work in sales and marketing, and wanted to do something different after long days of number crunching and product demonstrations. As a creative outlet, Fiverr gives me some free space to promote others and have some fun. As a seller, it makes me feel good to help others in a creative and constructive way, but I also enjoy buying gigs from other Fiverr contributors!”

- Nykki Stenger

“I found Fiverr through some “Work at Home Mom” job sites. Fiverr has been a nice way for me to interact with new people and work on my current skills. Since I do illustration, it's something I can share with my daughter, who also enjoys art. It’s a little extra money for having fun with my family.”

- Lisa Nguyen

“I found Fiverr last year and started a gig to customize and optimize blogger templates. Fiverr changed my life as an under graduate IT student. My gigs are my primary job and I work about twelve hours a day on them. I am able to be with my family at home while I work which means so much to us all.”

- Debbie Navarro

“In looking for websites that support freelance writing I found Fiverr - it was love at first gig. All of my income is currently made at home and a decent chunk comes from Fiverr. By working on Fiverr I am able to balance my sons’ doctor appointments, my husbands’ ever-changing schedule as well as family errands. When we are all at home I have the flexibility to walk away from the computer and spend time with them - if there are no express gig, that is.”

- Darcie Martin

“Recently, I was put on furlough from my job. Fiverr was my back up plan. Now that I have been able put all of my focus on my family tree gig it has kicked in five fold! Bins of genealogical resources and bookcases filled with research and archives books about the history of the families and the United States surround my desk in my home office.”

- Ashley Ligon

“I have an MBA in Business and Marketing and have done work in design, marketing, and writing. I needed a second job to pay down our debt and I found Fiverr. I started a couple gigs for freelance writing and design and was instantly in love with its easy interface and helpful community. If orders continue to come in at the same rate, I might just have all our credit debt paid off in ONE YEAR!”

- Deanna Balestra

Are you a Fiverr Mom? How are you planning on spending your mother’s day? We’d love to hear from you.

We’ve got your back!

Author: Leon Banksy on April 23, 2013 in News. 64 Comments Tags: Fiverr Customer Support, Fiverr tickets.

Hi Fiverrs!

Lately, we’ve been hearing a lot of feedback about the response time of our customer support team, and wanted to take a moment to address some of the issues you may be experiencing.

First off, a “congratulations!” are in order. Our community is growing exponentially which is super exciting. Let’s take a second to welcome all the new comers – “Welcome aboard, guys!”

Due to our rapid growth, there has been an increase in the number of support tickets and therefore, the Customer Support team has noticed an increase in response time. In order to keep things timely and streamlined, we want to remind you about a few tricks that might help get the answers you need as quickly as possible.

1) The Answers are at Your Fingertips

If you are looking to get your questions answered in a jiffy, look no further than the Knowledge Base. Here we have a wide variety of questions already answered for quick reference. If you still can’t find the answer you need, no problem. Feel free to open a support ticket.

2) Choose The Correct Category

When submitting a support ticket it is very important to select the most appropriate category on the feedback form. This way our Customer Support team can review your request and get back to you as fast as possible without having your ticket bounce around from category to category! (We may like pinball, but we want your tickets to take the most direct route.)

3) One Ticket

Please remember, one ticket will suffice. We promise to get back in touch once you submit a ticket. Your experience with the Fiverr website is very important to us at HQ and we are working hard to respond as quickly as possible. If you suspect your ticket did not make it, check its status by logging in here and clicking “Check your existing requests”.

You can also add any new issues to an existing ticket by clicking the same link and continuing to the current ticket conversation. There you can track your issues as well as our responses. All of your concerns wrapped up in one tidy support request.

4) Mutual Cancellations

Guess what else… mutual cancellations can be done without Customer Support. You can do it yourself and it still won’t affect your ratings. Find out how to do it here.

All of this said, the most important thing to our team is you – our community.

The highest priority is to answer your concerns. We are taking several measures to improve response time and continue to handle your requests in a timely manner. Thank you for the patience and understanding while we tweak to make things run that much better for you.

The Hipster Hares

Author: Leon Banksy on March 27, 2013 in Contest. 31 Comments Tags: contest, Easter, Easter competition, fiverr contest, hipster hares.

The Easter Bunny is, like, so mainstream!

Don’t get us wrong we love Easter, obvi!

What’s not to love? Spring is in the air and it’s time for new beginnings, but most importantly it means… chocolate eggs!

It’s just that darn Bunny.

So, this year we’ve broken out the vintage tees, Wayfarer glasses à la Buddy Holly, and ironic mustache to give the fur-ball a 2013 makeover.

You heard us right… we are proud to introduce Fiverr’s latest Easter edition,
‘The Hipster Hares’.

These rad rabbits are taking geek chic to the next level and giving away prizes while they’re at it!

Every day from now until Easter one or more of the Hipster Hares will be hiding in a tweet sent from our new Fiverr Twitter account (@Fiverr). All you have to do to win is:

1)   Follow @Fiverr on Twitter.
2)   Spot a Hipster Hare hiding in a Tweet.
3)   RT the Tweet you found him/her in.
4)   Stand a chance to win some Fiverr moola!.

It’s as easy as that. So keep your eyes peeled, hang on tight (to your antique bicycle handles), and get ready to take Easter to a new level of fabulous.

Official contest dates: March 27 – March 31, 2013

Watch out 2013 – We’re coming for you!

Author: Leon Banksy on February 28, 2013 in News. 32 Comments Tags: 2013 Fiverr, fiverr, Fiverr news, fiverr update.

Attention all Fiverrers, thanks to you 2012 was an enormous year for us all. With a 190% increase in sales, we’ve continued to stake our claim as leaders in the services market. We have also expanded our offering from 12 to 120 categories of services, with an increase in demand for services such as personalized gifts, graphic design, music and audio, programming and tech, video and animation, writing and translations and so many more.

We also want to say hey to our new Vice President of Growth, strategic marketing veteran, Ayesha Ahmad. (All together now) – “Hi Ayesha!”

She is heading up our NYC HQ. Ayesha was previously the co-founder and CMO of Trunkt, a successful marketplace for designer goods which was acquired by Etsy in 2012. In the past, she also led marketing strategy for companies such as Gilt Group and J. Crew. At Fiverr, she will be responsible for growth marketing initiatives focusing on our continued global expansion, fostering community, and accelerating Fiverr’s market position.

In a nutshell she’ll be working hard to make sure you have more incredible Gigs to choose from, and make more money with Fiverr. Sounds good?

With 2013 already well on its way, put your seat-belts on ‘cause we are all in for a wild ride!

Keep kicking ass Fiverr!

7 Valentine’s Day Gift Ideas

Author: Leon Banksy on February 7, 2013 in Special Occasion. 53 Comments Tags: first Valentine’s Day gift ideas, first Valentine’s Day poems, funny Valentine’s Day quotes, good Valentine’s Day gifts, great Valentine’s Day gifts, homemade Valentine’s Day cards, poems for Valentine’s Day, short Valentine’s Day poems, valentines day, Valentine’s Day cards, Valentine’s Day cards from daughter, Valentine’s Day crafts, Valentine’s Day e cards, Valentine’s Day gift ideas, Valentine’s Day gifts, Valentine’s Day ideas, Valentine’s Day pictures, Valentine’s Day poems, Valentine’s Day poems from daughter, Valentine’s Day poems from kids, Valentine’s Day poems from wife, Valentine’s Day presents, Valentine’s Day quotes, Valentine’s Day sayings, Valentine’s Day video.

Can you feel the love tonight? Well, whether you can or can’t, it doesn’t change the fact that Valentine’s Day is around the corner.

What? Still no gift?
Don’t worry. With over 1 million Gigs to choose from, you can’t go wrong.

If that’s just too much to handle – then take a seat, make yourself comfortable and keep on scrolling as we present: 7 Valentine’s Day gift ideas for your special someone.
Check them out here

Fiverr is on Instagram

Author: Leon Banksy on January 10, 2013 in News. 38 Comments Tags: Fiverr Instagram followers, Fiverr instagram likes, Fiverr on Instagram, Fiverr's on Instagram, hiFiverr, Instagram Fiverr, pics for instagram, pics on instagram, pictures to instagram.

Get your phones charged and your fingers ready because…
Fiverr is on Instagram!

Follow us there (@FiverrHQ) to see all the behind-the-scenes happenings. This is your chance to meet the staff and other Fiverrers, see some great Gigs and get creative with us.

To launch us into this photo-frenzy fun – we want to meet you and get to know the faces behind those awesome Gigs.

Take a photo of yourself, your workspace or your Gig on Instagram and tag it with #hiFiverr.

Keep your eyes open, we’ll be sharing some of your best pics on Instagram soon.