Pricing strategies in translation
Once you figure out your target per hour income and decide how many hours you can work, you can base your project prices on these numbers quite easily.
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Improving your translation sales pitch
A potential customer tells you that you’re too expensive, they assigned the project to a translator who’s much cheaper. Why did you lose the business? It’s not because you’re not cheaper, it’s because you didn’t get your sales pitch right.
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Free rate calculator for translators
There are rate calculators for generic freelance jobs all over the internet, but none that take into account the kind of factors that determine our productivity and growth potential. This rate calculator has been made specifically for translators and it also fits in neatly with the theme of the Translation sales handbook that it was originally distributed with.
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Pricing Strategies for Translators and Interpreters
Pricing is a controversial and complex subject, and one that all linguists need to think about very seriously. In order to make a good living in the profession that we love, it is essential to figure out how to price our services.
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CIOL-ITI 2011 Rates Survey
The Chartered Institute of Linguists (CIOL) and the Institute of Translation and Interpreting published the 2011 Rates and Salaries Survey for Translators and Interpreters.
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