Localization agencies are always on the hunt for the best clients and projects, and likewise, translators wanting to collaborate with agencies tend to flock to
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Just About Every Day Brings an Offer of Translation Work for Me that I Ignore
Adventures from three consecutive days in the life of Mad Patent Translator. Just about every day brings an e-mail from a translation agency that either
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How Do Language Companies Train Their Translators?
Often, these questions are raised by clients and potential translation partners who are in the process of scouring for potential language companies. Translators master at
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Enough is enough – or when it’s time to sack a client
I had one of those awful days last Friday, when an agency client got in touch to say her end client wasn’t satisfied with my
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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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The Creepy Spy Clause in Translation NDAs
It seems the translation giants are at it again, exercising increasing power over the little guy while trying to conceal their abuse of contractual asymmetry
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Cost Components in Translation Agency Services
What are the costs incurred in translation services that ultimately factor into the price paid? Among the ones I can identify, listed in no particular
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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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Translation companies – Let’s hear it from the good guys!
You read and hear all these horror stories on social media and translation blogs about translation companies. I want to tell you about a lovely
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Working with agencies
Standing out in a competitive market is a must, no matter the industry you work in. The translation industry is no exception, and it’s not
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Boutique agencies: the new generation of translation solutions
There was a time when dinosaurs dominated the world of translation: huge great lumbering beasts of companies with offices in every major world city and
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Winging it — No project management for translation or localization
Sound project management is crucial to taking possession of a quality, error free project. If you’ve undertaken a translation or localization project, even a small
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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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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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Project Management Tools for Agencies: Our Top 17
Project management tools benefit you and your business by making things easier – allowing you to focus on the important things. This list of project
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Translation companies
(e-book extract) Translation companies are the linking point between clients and translation teams. End clients contact a single translation company rather than several freelance translators
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Dear Scammer
As some of you are aware (or at least I hope you are), there is this plague affecting the translation profession: it’s called scammers. And
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