The famous debate about gender discrimination at the workplace, particularly in terms of remuneration made me wonder if this applies to those who are active
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7 reasons to opt for a professional translator rather than an internal linguist
When faced with the option of paying a professional translator to take care of a translation for your company or having a colleague with language
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18 reasons why an agency might stop working with you
The general advice regarding clients is that you should be actively seeking new ones all the time because you never know what’s around the corner.
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Selecting a Translation Services Provider – 3 Tips
Selecting the right translation services provider is not always easy. Read our top 3 tips list to get you going in no time.
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Seven Tips for Escaping the Overworked Translator’s Trap
Not turning down work is a trap! And when we find ourselves in that trap, chances are, it’s nobody’s fault but our own. Newbies may
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Article ou nouvelle autobiographique sur les arnaques aux traducteurs
J’ai le regret de vous annoncer que non, cela n’arrive pas qu’aux autres. Et plutôt que de vous faire part d’un article détaillé point par
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10 Key Reasons Why You Should Make Your Website Multilingual
With the advent of the internet in the early 1990s, most businesses began to realize the importance of having an online presence. As a result,
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8 Key Steps For Streamlining The Localisation Of Your App Or Website
For some developers being just on a market is sufficient, but those who want to reach more markets with their products have to go through
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11 tips for new freelance translators on the hunt for their first assignments
A while ago a new colleague on a translators’ forum asked for advice on how to secure those all-important first assignments and set up shop
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How Successful Travel Websites Reach Global Customers
Ever wonder why some travel sites seem to have millions of international visitors while others are not so popular? It’s not just big booking websites
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Translators facing scam agencies, fake profiles, and other “con artists”: how to prevent their attacks?
Who isn’t tired of scam translation agencies? Have you ever been scammed? In my case, I have been scammed many times, but these experiences have
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Getting started in freelance translation: what we wish we’d known!
Starting a new career from scratch or going self-employed after years of employment can be daunting, and there’s lots of advice wafting around that might
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The Creepy Spy Clause in Translation NDAs
It seems the translation giants are at it again, exercising increasing power over the little guy while trying to conceal their abuse of contractual asymmetry
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10 Factors That Help Determine Translation & Interpretation Fees
So you think: “Translating and interpreting is easy, anyone who knows two languages can do it. It should be really cheap, right?” Wrong. Let’s examine
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Cost Components in Translation Agency Services
What are the costs incurred in translation services that ultimately factor into the price paid? Among the ones I can identify, listed in no particular
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Why Multicultural Marketing Is The Next Big Thing
From big brands to small companies – those who market and sell their products to ethnic minorities are the winners. With a spending power of
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10 Simple Rules Every Translator Should Live By
For my first blog post of 2015 I decided to start with something motivational. Something that can inspire.. And here comes the very
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9 Tips for Website Localization
Getting website localization right requires planning and proper execution. To make sure your localization efforts are rewarded, read through this guide.
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Is your software “translation worthy”? Crowdsourcing may give you the answer
You’ve developed a great program and now you want to localize it for foreign markets. But you don’t want to waste money translating it into
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Visible translators – a new business model
The translation business model has seen little change for decades. Technology is challenging the status quo. Large, inflexible agencies and big technology solutions are not
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Three Lessons: Humility, Collaboration, Perseverance.
All three – in that order – hold the key to becoming a world-class translator. An interviewer, who was also a writer, once asked me
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Entrepreneur or Freelancer – What’s the Difference?
It seems like everyone with a business is an entrepreneur these days. The truth is, you don’t have to be an entrepreneur to run a
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Why Translators And Interpreters Compare Themselves To Doctors And Lawyers
A professional translator and interpreter should be seen in the same way as any professional in the medical or legal profession, because ultimately all three
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8 Skills You Must Have to Succeed as a Freelance Translator And How to Get Them
Necessary skills to succeed as a freelance translator and how to improve them. Having been a freelance translator for over 10 years, I can definitely
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Translators should not be subject to lie detector tests
It is inappropriate and wrong for translators to be ordered to take lie detector tests, says Brampton lawyer-linguist Suzanne Deliscar. The issue has become a
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Professionalism in the age of social media
We need to talk about online professionalism. Professionalism is a word we hear a lot as translators. As an unregulated industry, we naturally need to
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Technology, modernity, and globalization are great for interpreters, it’s just that…
Dear colleagues: We are very fortunate to live at a time when there are so many developments that make our lives more comfortable; this includes
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