It is never easy to ask questions. As professionals, we might fear that people reading our questions think we should have known, or found, the
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Teaching translation project management
Teaching Translation Project Management (TPM) is really thrilling. One of the aspects I most enjoy is that the majority of my students are highly interested
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The Difference Between Translators, Translation Agencies, Language Services Providers (LSPs) and Language Providers (LPs)
In his book “Das Unbehagen in Der Kultur”, whose title was cleverly translated into English as “Civilization and Its Discontents”, Sigmund Freud offers an analysis
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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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What is “the right rate” for your translation services?
After “How do I find some clients?,” I think that the most common question I get from beginning (and for that matter, experienced) translators is
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Post-Processing of Machine Translations, the New Money Maker of “the Translation Industry”
Translators are supposed to be, almost by definition, intelligent and educated people. After all, they must know at least two languages and many of them
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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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Translator’s Guide to Contacting Translation Agencies by Email
Download this free guide — to help translators use email more effectively in the course of contacting translation agencies by email to seek project work.
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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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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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Is it better to work with agencies or direct clients?
Freelance translators have their say: Is it better to work with agencies or direct clients? Part of the joy of being a freelancer is being
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5 Excuses Translation Agencies Use When They Do Not Assign Their Project To You!
During my seven years of experience as a freelance translator, I have collaborated with countless agencies around the world, I have e-met fantastic people and
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Cómo abaratar costes de traducción en el desarrollo de software
He trabajado en seis empresas de software y en todas ellas la queja era siempre la misma: el alto coste que suponía traducir los textos
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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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How do translators showcase their talent to translation agencies?
Last week, Letraduct authored a post about one of the problems that your target customer (the translation agency) has, which is lack of time and
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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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Translations and Avoiding Minimum Fees
Avoiding translation minimum fees It can sometimes be difficult in the translation industry to get the translation of a single word or sentence without it
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Special Customers – A Blessing or a Curse?
(by Ann Latham) Are you blessed with a special customer? Special customers are the ones who represent a significant chunk of your revenue. Some also
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Best Practices in Localization Project Management
Pre-project is a good time to research best practices and brush up on your localization project management skills. Here’s how to overcome challenges in localization
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Is your translation agency damaging your brand?
I was talking to a global marketing director recently, and he told me he was worried that his translation agencies were damaging his brand. Here’s
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What’s the difference between Translation Agency, Localization Services and LSP?
All of us have heard or read terms like translation agency, translation company, localization agency and language service provider (LSP). Many people new to translation
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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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Using clients’ names: OK or not?
A reader asks: On my website and resumé, is it OK to use my clients’ names? Does it matter if I worked for them directly
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Review of Tradumanager (project management software for translators)
Tradumanager is a project management software for translation service providers. It is available in two versions: for translators and for translation agencies. It is a
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The 5-Question Road Map for Planning a Translation Project
Get 5 tips to help your translation project succeed and enable your translation agency to provide the highest translation quality possible.
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Is your translation agency treating you fairly? Top tips for freelancers
Everybody knows that trust is paramount in all relationships, business or otherwise. But for freelance translators looking for work online it’s sometimes a tall order,
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