One of the biggest challenges that any business faces is how to find and attract clients. You cannot help people or attract clients if they do not know your business exists. Sounds simple, but you would be surprised at just how many translators struggle to show up on their ideal clients’ radar.                                                                                                                                                                                                                          https://alexandria-translation-resources.com

One of the main purposes of this blog when we recently created it was bringing the translators community closer and promote the sharing of different ideas and experiences. Given that we don’t want to turn this blog into something “closed” and only ours, we decided to extend the invitation to recognized translation and translation project […]

Once upon a time some translators had one or more cardboard boxes where handwritten and alphabetically ordered terms ─ including their definitions, sources, synonyms and etymology ─ were kept on cards of different colour. Some colleagues kept them in their notebooks we also used to use as phone directories. http://www.maslias.eu

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 desire to read lengthy cover letters, CVs and translation portfolios. The advice was clear: be a translator that makes it quick and easy for the project manager to see key […]

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 really, as continuing to work for a client that is not paying you—whatever their excuses and promises—just doesn’t make good business sense), and secondly being paid late.       […]