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How To Become A Successful Freelance Translator?
After completing their translation training programmes at higher professional education or university level, many students can't wait to set up as a freelance translator. However, gaining a foothold as a freelancer in a very competitive translation market may turn out to be a pretty complicated business. Translation agencies are not usually keen on contracting inexperienced translators, business c
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Tips To Help You Start Your Own All-Round Translation Business
There is no shortage of translators who take the plunge and set up shop as self-employed freelancers, but few have the ambition or the spirit to start up their own all-round translation agency. This is not surprising, of course, as the establishment of a full- scale translation agency is a quantum leap compared with what it takes to launch a viable freelance practice. Nevertheless, the intellectua
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Three Myths About The Translation Business
The native speaker principle is overrated, and the academic concept of 'quality' means little in a business context. Statements such as these may sound offensive to translators and clients alike. Yet those who plan to start up a translation business should be aware that the received views of the translation establishment may have little to do with reality.
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How To Make The Translation Process Less Labour Intensive
Although in fact it ended only two decades ago, the era of handwritten or typewriter translations is one that most of us are not nostalgic about - if they remember it at all. To any modern-day translator, versed in - and addicted to - the cut-and-paste functionality of the latest word processing software, it is almost unimaginable there was ever a time in which translations were produced with a pe
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How to become a successful freelance translator
What does it take to become successful in the translation business
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Quality assurance in the translation business
Various market studies carried out in recent years have revealed that quality is one of the two principal criteria clients use to determine whether to place repeat orders with translation agencies - the other main criterion being speed of delivery. It is evidently important, therefore, to think very carefully about how to ensure the sustained quality of your translations without compromising your
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Is the translation business something for you?
Below are five questions you might wish to consider if you are thinking of pursuing a career in the translation business. If you can answer all the questions in the affirmative, you will stand a chance of surviving in the translation business. If your answer to any of these questions is negative, you will probably never be a happy translator.
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Freelance or in-house staff in the translation industry
When you have set up a translation agency you are not likely to bother about hiring staff at first, as you will have to invest all of your energy and effort in putting in place effective mechanisms to attract clients. In the beginning, therefore, the focus will be on Marketing and Sales rather than on the actual translation work.
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