Localization agencies are always on the hunt for the best clients and projects, and likewise, translators wanting to collaborate with agencies tend to flock to
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What is Post-Editing and Why is It So Hard?
Jörgen Danielsen describes the challenges in getting started with Machine Translation and the difficulties faced with post-editing. Modern technology now covers more than the basics,
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Post-editing: Blessing or curse for translators?
One is unlikely to make many friends among translators talking about machine translation (MT) – unless the conversation is restricted to deriding its stupid mistakes
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Should You Specify Your Rate Range on Your TM-Town Profile?
On your TM-Town profile, you have the option to set a rate range (both a per word range and also a per hour range). This
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Just About Every Day Brings an Offer of Translation Work for Me that I Ignore
Adventures from three consecutive days in the life of Mad Patent Translator. Just about every day brings an e-mail from a translation agency that either
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Determining your rates and fees
If you are a freelance translator, putting yourself in a position to do high quality work on an ongoing basis requires that you approach the
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To break out of the low-rate market, change these three things
Stop me if this sounds familiar: I really needed work, so I decided to take whatever came through the door. I decided that applying to
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Freelancer Income Survey 2015
Are you earning enough? Read the Freelancer Income Report and find out! (report to download) The Payoneer Freelancer Income Survey Benchmark Your Rates
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Figuring Out Translation Rates
Figuring out rates can be tough. There is discussion forum after discussion forum where newbies are asking how much they should charge and veteran translators
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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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Navigating the Absurd
The professional reality for translators has undergone a rapid transformation due to globalization and technological innovation. University translation programs struggle to keep pace. Navigating the
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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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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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Tips for setting your translation rates, for professional translators.
One of the first difficulties that a professional translator has to face is deciding their rates. Personally, I started researching what the current market rates
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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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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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Les tarifs en traduction, ce casse-tête
Suite à une demande récente, je me décide enfin à écrire sur un sujet vaste qui me tentait depuis quelques temps : celui des tarifs.
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Why Translators are Promoting Premium Markets
As one of the more visible proponents for moving upmarket into the premium translation market sector — a position I’ve argued since 1997, but one
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The A to Z of Freelance Translation online course
Entering the translation stage can often be an overwhelming experience for new freelance translators. You may have just left university with a translation degree and
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The big list of 103 Freelance Translators’ tips
If you follow Tomedes on Twitter (and if you don’t, you should!), then you’ll be aware of our “Quick Translator Tip”, which we’ve been faithfully
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A Tale of Two Agencies
The freelancer-large agency relationship is often an ambivalent one. On the one hand, the industry behemoths can provide a steady flow of work, which is
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Thirteenish reasons why you might stop working for an agency
Correct me if I’m wrong, but the overriding factor causing translators to end their relationship with an agency is not being paid at all (no-brainer
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On rates
I have recently seen a link posted by Ral (thank you, Ral!) to a really interesting article on setting consultancy rates. It is clear, helpful, and
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The Insider’s Guide to Project Management in Translation Agencies
You can’t please all of the people all of the time, or so the saying goes. But as any translation project manager will tell you,
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53 Freelancing Mistakes That Are Costing You Clients, Cash, and Credibility
Making mistakes is a good thing — provided you learn from them. But the problem is that you may not even know you’re making a
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Hourly rate or project fee: What makes freelancers more money?
We all know that figuring out what to charge is one of the most nerve-wracking parts about freelancing. There are two main ways to charge
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