Inbound Marketing Tactics for Freelance Translators
Marketing your services is about finding out who your potential clients are and why they need your services.
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Entering New Markets for Translators and Interpreters
Before becoming a translator or interpreter, did you gain experience in some other industry? Perhaps there is a way to market that unique knowledge? Can you fill a particular niche? I was fortunate to stumble upon mine, but perhaps reading this experience can spark an idea for you.
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Online Tool to Easily Create a Translator CV
When you’re working with translation agencies, your CV is the first point of contact and having a well-structured, concise and well written CV can often mean the difference between getting the work and being rejected.
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Why bother with term bases, glossaries and style guides?
As a translator, building vocabulary and style resources is an essential part of growing and improving your business – even when it might seem like an overwhelming task, or a distraction from your core job.
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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 not be useful. Here’s some tips from real freelancers on what they wish they’d known back when they were starting out.
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The history of translation: from tribal trading to company memos
Who were the first translators, and how did we get to where we are today? It’s time for a trip back into the mists of time for a visit to our translator ancestors to discover what we have in common, and what’s changed.
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Diversify your portfolio: content marketing for translators
In the past few years, the translation industry has engaged in a discussion about diversification, broadly understood as expanding your portfolio of services beyond “just translating”. Content marketing has recently emerged as an interesting avenue to follow for professionals working with languages, including translators.
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How Much Revenue is Lost by Having Only English-speaking Employees
In today’s growing multicultural society, multilingual employees and companies that cater to a variety of customers (not just English-speaking ones) are becoming more sought-after. Employees that are bilingual or can speak multiple languages are highly regarded in positions such as sales, management, and certainly customer service.
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