Improving my stats
Hello all!
I would love to get some specific feedback on how I can improve my stats and book more projects here on BunnyStudio. I'm still fairly new to this platform, and I know at the beginning, your stats are given a bit of a boost to help you kind of "establish" yourself, but now that I've done more than 5 bookings, I'm pretty sure the stats on my profile are now specific to my work.
I'm pretty sure that the biggest issue with my stats as of now is my response time. For some of my earlier projects, I waited a day or more before accepting, but I am working on getting quicker! So hopefully that will even out as we go. However, the only way I can improve my response time is by getting more bookings and accepting them quickly, so I need to start improving my overall stats to make that happen. However, when I look at the section in my stats dedicated specifically to "Bookings," the numbers are confusing me a bit. It says I've submitted 5, and all of them have been approved by the clients, giving me a 100% client approval rate. But that leaves me in the bottom 0% of all successful bookings. Where does that 0% come from? Is that because of my response time? Or is that just because 5 isn't very many projects? How can I get that number up?
My next question is about speedies and contests. I haven't done any successful contests yet, and I've only done one successful speedy, so I don't have any stats showing for those yet. But if I really focus on auditioning for more contests and grabbing more speedies, will that also help my profile overall, and help me be seen by more clients for potential bookings? I know there isn't really a response time feature for speedies and contests because it's first-come-first-served, but will doing well in those areas help to "balance out" my slow response time or something so that I can get better search results?
I know that's a lot of info (and a lot of questions) but any help you guys can provide would be great! Thanks!
Joan
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Hi Joan,
From what I can gather, the response time on your first few jobs is crucial to giving your profile that boost in order to raise your profile. You said that you waited a day until accepting the first few jobs? Out of curiosity, why did you do that?
I would say if you can do more speedies and contests, then go for it as I think it will help your stats. However, as I said - response time (seems to be) paramount. All you can do now is wait for some more projects to come in and jump on them as soon as you can.
Also, make sure you tag your samples as this raises your chances of being chosen by potential clients and try and upload as many diverse samples as you can.
Hope that helps and all the very best!
Jon :-)
To answer your question, the reason I waited about a day before accepting some of my early bookings is that some of them happened to be extremely long scripts that I knew would take a long time to record and edit, so if I was notified in the booking late-ish in the day, I opted to wait to accept it until I knew I would have enough time to complete it before the clock ran out. Also some just happened to be sent to me at inconvenient times, like when I was in the process of working on something for an outside client. But thankfully, since then I have gotten some more bookings that I was able to accept more quickly.
Thanks for your advice! I'll work on trying to jump on some speedies/contests, and make sure my samples are tagged!
Joan
It's a fairly common problem, especially for those that live in more extreme time-zones to where Bunny is located, to get jobs coming in during the early/late evening. I know that's the case for me! I sometimes leave them until the next morning to accept them, but if something comes in the early evening and it's a fairly short script then I'll jump on it.
It is tricky at times to negotiate several jobs on different platforms. Personally, I think the whole "1-day turnaround" on here is a little unrealistic, due to the reasons I mentioned; 2 - 3 days is perfectly acceptable and if the client is in a rush, then the job should cost extra, as we then have to drop whatever else we are doing and start work.
Anyway, speaking of work I had better get back to it. Have a great week!
Jon
Hello Joane and Jon!
First of all, thank you Jon for your awesome advice to Joane! You are completely right when you say that it is a good idea to go for more projects, as the system averages everything you do on a given year (stats take projects done in the last 365 days only) the best way to increase them is through more work.
Regarding the response time, it is a very important stat (probably the most important one) so that one definitely needs some focus from your side, Joane. What Jon mentions regarding timezones is actually something we know and understand, and in cases like that, we are open to receive an email to support to check every case specifically and see if we can ignore a specially problematic project from a Pro's stats if the situation allows it (this is an exception that depends completely on the project and the reasons that caused that delay).
So, to give a quick answer, yes, your response time is the stat that needs to increase, and the best way to do it is to complete other projects in a timely manner! For example, speedies do count and the response time is calculated from the time you take to deliver and the time you take to submit a revision if it is necessary, so please feel free to work on speedies and contests as well! Every single project will help :)
Let me know if I can answer any other questions and feel free to send us an email regarding those first projects so we can look into them!
Kind regards,
Daniel
Thank you so much for your help Daniel! I'll work on my response time and try to grab some more speedies as well.
Best,
Joan
You are welcome, Joan!
Remember that if you have any other questions, we are here to help :)
I hope you have a wonderful day!
Daniel