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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.

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Watch out 2013 – We’re coming for you!

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!

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Fiverr for ‘Best International Startup’

Nominations have opened for the 2012 Crunchies – an award that recognizes and celebrates the most compelling startups, Internet and technology innovations of the year.

You’ve all brought your talents and skills to build the incredible marketplace that Fiverr is today. It’s because of you, our awesome community, that we feel Fiverr should be a solid nomination for this year’s ‘Best International Startup’ award.

 

 

To get our community nominated we’re gonna need all of you, plus your families and friends to help!

The nomination process is super easy and will only take about 0.5 seconds to do:

1) Click here: http://crunchies2012.techcrunch.com/nominate/.
2) Scroll down to ‘Best International Startup’.
3) Type ‘Fiverr’ in the nominee box and click nominate.
4) Share this with your friends, families and everyone else you know.
5) Repeat steps 1- 4 daily – As everyone is allowed to vote once a day from now until December 6th.

So get your voting fingers warmed up, get ready to kick ass and let’s get ourselves nominated!

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We’ve Got Some AMAZING News!

Hey everyone, we have some big and exciting news to share with you today.

Fiverr has just secured $15 million in a second round of funding from a group of amazing venture capitalists, Accel Partners and Bessemer Venture Partners. Following previous financing led by Bessemer Venture Partners and angels Guy Gamzu and Jonathan Kolber, we’ve now raised a total of $20 million.

Both Accel and Bessemer have a track record of investing in disruptive consumer Internet companies such as Etsy, Kayak, Wonga, Dropbox, Spotify, Skype, Pinterest, LinkedIn and Yelp.

We’re so proud to share our continued growth with the whole Fiverr community. Since the beginning of 2011, we’ve grown 600% in transactions, now work with sellers across more than 200 countries, and list over 750,000 awesome and unique gigs on the site. Together, we are truly changing the way the world works – and it’s just the beginning!

Today’s funding will support our continued company and product growth, so that we can quickly develop and provide you with more features, tools and services to help you grow your business on Fiverr.

Here’s what our investors had to say about us:

“Fiverr introduces a level of liquidity, velocity and engagement to the services economy not seen before.  This is why its marketplace has grown so rapidly,” said Adam Valkin, partner at Accel Partners. “Micha and Shai have an incredible vision, which is to be the place for people anywhere to monetize their talents and passions on a global stage. We are very excited to be part of it.”

“Fiverr’s users are the key to the site’s success. Far more than a set of tools, Fiverr creates an entrepreneurial community focused on helping sellers build their Gigs into significant revenue and customer interaction,” said Adam Fisher, partner at Bessemer Venture Partners. “Together Fiverr and its users are changing the nature of work, building a global groundswell of support for income independence and creative freedom.”

We are very excited to share the news with you (you can read the whole story here) and we look forward to building this amazing marketplace with you.

Shai, Micha and the rest of the Fiverr Team

 

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Hungry Jack’s $5 Advert, Showing on all Good TV Screens Across Australia Now!

“The Stunner is back” – With the help of users from Fiverr.com

As you are no doubt already aware, Hungry Jack’s (aka Burger King in Australia) turned to the incredible creative talent on Fiverr to look for material to use in their brand new TV commercial!

If you haven’t seen the finished product yet, it’s right here:

Congratulations to all the users who were chosen to feature in the ad. I know that they had so many great videos and voiceovers to choose from!

Happy Gigging, Fiverr!

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Bye bye old Facebook, Hello Timeline!

“You may like or dislike the new Facebook profiles, but one thing is undeniable: Facebook dares to innovate on an unprecedented scale!”

Fiverr’s CEO Micha Kaufman, 2011.

The Fiverr team is proud to unveil our brand new Facebook Timeline page, complete with milestones, achievements and great content to keep you entertained. Not only will we keep followers updated with great Gig ideas, you’ll also be able to find video compilations,  all of our previous Fiverr Podcasts and have direct access our official blog through the page!

Head on over to our page on over to our Fiverr Facebook page now and check it out.

That's us, that is!

Did you notice our first cover picture? That’s ‘Team Fiverr’ (well, about half of them) and yes, that is what everyone wears to Fiverr HQ on a regular basis!

Happy Gigging, Fiverr!

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Hungry Jacks $5 project – Update!

There’s less than five days until the Hungry Jack’s $5 Experiment airs on Australian TV and quite a fuss is being made about it in the advertising blogosphere. Here’s one example from Adverblog.

Just like you guys, we can’t wait to check out the final ad that you all made possible. As soon as we get it, we’ll post it here for all to see.

Remember, there’s less than 5 days to deliver your creative content to Hungry Jack’s if you’ve been fortunate enough to have received an order.

Happy Gigging guys, and don’t forget – April Fools’ is a com in’.

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What do you get when you put a Canadian in the bath with a sparkler? A Fiverr news report!

So last night I received a message. “I’m going to be on GlobalTV! I’m going to be on the news with my Fiverr Gigs!”

My good friend Rob, who goes by the name DJEmotion on Fiverr had apparently flagged down a news van earlier in the morning and given them one of his Fiverr business cards (which were suitably designed by user TofuPanda). He told them get in touch to talk about his successes on Fiverr, and they did just that. Back at the studio they’d checked out DJEmotion’s Gigs and fell in love with his bathtub offerings and decided the story was not just quirky, but impressive enough to find out more.

In the afternoon a news crew visited DJEmotion’s home to give a full on interview for a two minute segment on GlobalTV. Wow!

What else is there to say but watch the damn video, it’s great!

Impressed? You should be! DJEmotion managed to take a well meaning but bizarre Gig and explain to the world (or at least 100,000 Calgary viewers) that Fiverr is a global market place where you can get just about anything or any service for just $5! Hats off to the Canadian in the bathtub.

Have you got a hidden news story in your Gig? Drop us a line or leave a message in the comments below.

Happy Gigging, Fiverrs!

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High Fiverr to our own New York City Giants

Step right up, step right up, read all about it!

If you were in New York the last couple of days, there was only one story worth reading about. No, we’re not talking about the Giants winning the Superbowl, although it was awesome, it was nothing but a mere side note. What we’re excited about is seeing our very own users in print in the New York Post!

We picked up a copy bright and early in the Big Apple on Monday morning:

Congratulations to all the Fiverrs mentioned. If you’d like to read an online version, you can check it out here on the NY Post’s website.

The five successful Fiverrs that got to see their name in print:
JerseyFerretti,
UniqueFiveX,
Rikochet,
Chrishardy
& Nosociallimits.

Well done guys & happy Gigging.

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