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Being good at what you do is only half the battle | Translator Mentoring Blog
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Sharing ideas about, experience with and insights into the business of translation. Being good at what you do is only half the battle. June 23, 2015. Where freelancers often go wrong and agencies win out. There are pros and cons to both of these scenarios. I think there are two main factors:. Freelancers succumbing to the pressure to accept lower rates. If freelancers didn’t allow themselves to succumb to the downward price pressure, agencies would be forced to up their game and start competing on qualit...
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How not to market your translation services | Translator Mentoring Blog
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Sharing ideas about, experience with and insights into the business of translation. How not to market your translation services. November 5, 2014. I often receive emails from other translators looking for freelance work which annoy me and which I therefore swiftly delete but this week there seem to have been so many of them that I feel inspired to write a blog post about it. Things that annoy me about unsolicited advertising:. 1) People who don’t bother to research the people to whom they are writing.
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The Five Steps to Charging on Value not on Price | Translator Mentoring Blog
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Sharing ideas about, experience with and insights into the business of translation. The Five Steps to Charging on Value not on Price. July 22, 2015. Today’s post is a guest post by my own coach, Vanessa Ugatti, The True Worth Expert. No doubt, you’ve heard it before focus on value, not on price. The question is are you doing that or not? Ask yourself the following question:. Do I want to be the person doing it cheaper? Ask yourself this: When was the last time I really looked at and understood my value?
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How can niche marketing help translators? | Translator Mentoring Blog
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Sharing ideas about, experience with and insights into the business of translation. How can niche marketing help translators? March 11, 2015. Photo credit: Dimitris Kalogeropoylos. In this post, however, I want to look at how specializing can help you with your marketing efforts and, more specifically, at the concept of niche marketing. Target market = the entire market which you serve (i.e. (specific types of) businesses/private individuals who need translations in your language pair(s). Easier to ident...
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Focus on your goal – but don’t get ahead of yourself | Translator Mentoring Blog
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Sharing ideas about, experience with and insights into the business of translation. Focus on your goal but don’t get ahead of yourself. July 6, 2015. Keep your sights on your goal but don’t get impatient and don’t rush it. Step by step replace clients successively. If you do, make a list of all of the qualities and characteristics of those clients so that you know what you are looking for in new clients. If not, use your imagination. What qualities would your ideal category A clients have? If you are cur...
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Are you undervaluing yourself? The effects on you, your business and the translation industry | Translator Mentoring Blog
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Sharing ideas about, experience with and insights into the business of translation. Are you undervaluing yourself? The effects on you, your business and the translation industry. March 30, 2015. The downward spiral of underpricing. Avoiding the vicious circle. Translations are not commodities. In her international bestselling book,. True Worth, How to Charge What You’re Worth and Get It. It is our responsibility as translators, both freelancers and agencies, in the 21st century to be proactive in turning...
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Help Traduzioni: il nuovo sito web | Help Traduzioni - Studio di traduzioni e comunicazione web
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I nostri profili professionali. Laboratori e lezioni di inglese. Help Traduzioni – Studio di traduzioni e comunicazione web. Traduzioni, comunicazione e web marketing. Laquo; Chiusura estiva: Help Traduzioni va in ferie! Help Traduzioni: il nuovo sito web. 9 settembre 2014 di Help Traduzioni. Vi invitiamo a visitare la nuova versione del nostro sito www.helptraduzioni.com. Per ricevere le notifiche dal nuovo blog, se siete già iscritti a questo, non sarà necessario compiere un’altra iscrizione. Notificam...
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Sharing ideas about, experience with and insights into the business of translation. Translating in one direction or both – your choice to make. September 20, 2016. Today’s post is an English translation with slight adaptations from an article I first published on my German blog. When reviewing the site stats for Translator Mentoring Blog earlier this week, I found that the most popular post by far continues to be Should I only translate into my native language? The native speaker principle. The native la...
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Marketing to translation agencies | Translator Mentoring Blog
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Sharing ideas about, experience with and insights into the business of translation. Marketing to translation agencies. March 20, 2015. Defining Targets Differently Frits Ahlefeldt-Laurvig. Working with translation agencies. Marketing to translation agencies. So large translation agencies must receive a large number of such applications every day. Finding agencies suited to your skillset. How to make contact, information to provide. Advice from the agency’s perspective. Tess Whitty’s most recent pod...
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