How to Succeed as a Freelance Translator, Third Edition

How to Succeed as a Freelance Translator, Third Edition

Author: Corinne McKay

Publisher: Two Rat Press

Published: 2015-12-11

Total Pages: 242

ISBN-13: 9780578170077

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The original how-to guide for people who want to launch and run a successful freelance translation business, fully revised and updated! With over 10,000 copies in print, How to Succeed as a Freelance Translator has become a go-to reference for beginning and experienced translators alike. The fully revised third edition includes nearly 250 pages of practical tips on writing a translation-targeted resume and cover letter, preparing a marketing plan, marketing your services to agencies and direct client, avoiding common pitfalls, and more! New in this edition: an all-new technology chapter by translation technology expert Jost Zetzsche, and more detailed information on ways to market to direct clients.


How to be a Successful Freelance Translator: Your guide to earning a living through translation. Use your language skills to create a career.

How to be a Successful Freelance Translator: Your guide to earning a living through translation. Use your language skills to create a career.

Author: Robert Gebhardt

Publisher: Lugano Translations LLC

Published: 2020-02-11

Total Pages: 160

ISBN-13: 1660736528

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Use your language skills to earn a living Remember, your languages are your Competitive Advantage. Especially when times are hard, you can survive and thrive more than ever, if you do things your own way. Translators can now earn a great living in ways that were unimaginable just 10-15 years ago. You can get paid to translate documents for the clients you choose, during the hours you choose, and wearing the clothes that you choose. What you get with this book: Step-by-step instructions, from A to Z Detailed instructions (what to charge, where to find clients, etc.) Templates you can use (intro emails, invoices, etc.) Plenty of extra bonuses and tidbits Makes a great gift for an aspiring Freelance Translator! You've learned your language, and this book concentrates on everything else. Join other Freelance Translators and add this to your basket now!


Confessions of a Freelance Translator

Confessions of a Freelance Translator

Author: Dr Gary Smith

Publisher: Gary Smith

Published: 2016-05-06

Total Pages: 330

ISBN-13: 9788460865650

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Packed with useful advice on how to organise and leverage your freelance work and life to the full, avoiding potential pitfalls. This book deals with both the business and professional sides of translation, including visibility, organisation of work and how to improve the quality of services you give to your clients, guiding them through the translation process to meet their needs...and much more. For translators starting out or those who wish to make the leap to a more professional level of work and client base. Welcome to one of the best jobs in the world!


Secrets of Six-Figure Translators

Secrets of Six-Figure Translators

Author: Oana Sofronov

Publisher:

Published: 2019-08-09

Total Pages: 141

ISBN-13: 9781086015119

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This book contains interactive exercises and self-assessment tools to help you reach your potential.Who is the author?Oana Maria Sofronov is a sworn English > Romanian translator & interpreter, mentor and successful entrepreneur based in London, UK. Who are you?-You want to pursue a career in translation -You are an experienced translator looking for ideas on how to find more translation clientsThis book is packed with practical advice which will help you to: -Write a professional CV-Contact translation agencies-Find more clients-Set your goals-Write a marketing plan-Become more confident-Track your success


The Entrepreneurial Linguist

The Entrepreneurial Linguist

Author: Judy A. Jenner

Publisher: Lulu.com

Published: 2010

Total Pages: 202

ISBN-13: 0557256232

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Any linguist can become an entrepreneurial linguist, work with direct clients, and make a good living while maintaining a healthy work/life balance. This book by longtime translating twins Judy and Dagmar Jenner will teach you how to start your entrepreneurial linguist journey. Written in a purposely non-academic style, "The Entrepreneurial Linguist: The Business-School Approach to Freelance Translation" will show you how to market your services to direct clients, build and nurture relationships, grow your client base in a structured way, use web 2.0 to promote your services, and much more. This book is intended for both beginning and established translators and interpreters around the world.


The Prosperous Translator

The Prosperous Translator

Author: Chris Durban

Publisher: Lulu.com

Published: 2010

Total Pages: 282

ISBN-13: 0615404030

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A compilation of business advice columns for translators and interpreters published under the names Fire Ant & Worker Bee in online Translation Journal. Pithy tips and insights.


Finding and Marketing to Translation Agencies

Finding and Marketing to Translation Agencies

Author: Corinne Mckay

Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform

Published: 2017-10-12

Total Pages: 88

ISBN-13: 9781978136649

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Translation agencies are the backbone of many freelance translators' businesses. A good agency can offer you a steady flow of projects, allowing you to translate while the agency handles the non-translation work. But especially in the rapidly-changing landscape of the translation industry, you need to know how to find and market to translation agencies and how to work effectively with them. Finding and Marketing to Translation Agencies walks you through the process of identifying agencies that are worth applying to, making contact, following up, tracking your marketing efforts, and negotiating rates and payment terms. The book includes a bonus chapter, answering real-life questions submitted by readers of the author's blog.


Marketing Cookbook for Translators

Marketing Cookbook for Translators

Author: Tess Whitty

Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform

Published: 2014-11-27

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781502507792

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A must-have for high-aiming translatorsTess Whitty's 'Marketing Cookbook For Translators' is a simple and easy to follow guide that ensures any translator reading it will not get lost in the crowd. Whitty, herself a translator, shares over ten years of her experience, where she rose from being just-another-one to a renowned successful translator with a thriving business.The book, written in a friendly "cookbook" manner explores various aspects of marketing like "pantry", the basic assessment of requirements; "appetizers", where she lays stress on the ways to plan marketing; "main course", where the big guns come out: finding clients and winning over them, and retaining the existing ones with the best marketing practices. She even goes a step ahead and suggests the pricing models and effective marketing techniques commonly in use to give the reader a better picture on how marketing works.The book starts by giving an introductory perspective of marketing so that the newbies get an insight of the basic functioning. That way, they are prepared for the subsequent chapters which form the crux.Whitty turns the complex process of marketing which even the professionals find exhaustive into simple steps which are clear and action oriented.Learning from others' experience is a big step towards success. Having this book is strongly recommended whether you are a translator just starting out or an already established one.


Homesick

Homesick

Author: Jennifer Croft

Publisher: Charco Press

Published: 2022-08-23

Total Pages: 153

ISBN-13: 1913867323

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The coming of age story of an award-winning translator, Homesick is about learning to love language in its many forms, healing through words and the promises and perils of empathy and sisterhood. Sisters Amy and Zoe grow up in Oklahoma where they are homeschooled for an unexpected reason: Zoe suffers from debilitating and mysterious seizures, spending her childhood in hospitals as she undergoes surgeries. Meanwhile, Amy flourishes intellectually, showing an innate ability to glean a world beyond the troubles in her home life, exploring that world through languages first. Amy's first love appears in the form of her Russian tutor Sasha, but when she enters university at the age of 15 her life changes drastically and with tragic results. "Croft moves quickly between powerful scenes that made me think about my own sisters. I love how the language displays a child's consciousness. A haunting accomplishment." Kali Fajardo-Anstine


The Translator

The Translator

Author: Nina Schuyler

Publisher: Simon and Schuster

Published: 2021-11-15

Total Pages: 276

ISBN-13: 1639361243

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When renowned translator Hanne Schubert falls down a flight of stairs, she suffers a brain injury and ends up with an unusual but real condition: the ability to only speak the language she learned later in life: Japanese. Isolated from the English-speaking world, Hanne flees to Japan, where a Japanese novelist whose work she has recently translated accuses her of mangling his work. Distraught, she meets a new inspiration for her work: a Japanese Noh actor named Moto. Through their contentious interactions, Moto slowly finds his way back onto the stage while Hanne begins to understand how she mistranslated not only the novel but also her daughter, who has not spoken to Hanne in six years. Armed with new knowledge and languages both spoken and unspoken, she sets out to make amends.