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How to create profitable and rewarding relationships with translation agencies

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Duration

51 minutes

Learning Objectives

How to find the “good” agencies
How to create mutually beneficial relationships
Tips for working with agencies
How to ensure payment (and raise your fees)
How to deal with translation tests
How to deal with contracts

Description

This presentation provides tips and strategies on how to find good agencies to work for, get paid a decent amount of money and how to create long lasting and profitable relationship with agencies.
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There are a lot of complaints in the industry of abusive relationships between translation agencies and freelance translators these days. But it does not have to be that way. Here are tips and strategies on how to find good agencies to work for, get paid a decent amount of money for your work and how to create long lasting and profitable relationships with agencies. Specific details we will cover are what to look for in agencies, where to find them, payment practices, translation tests, contracts, cat tools, project management tools and customer service.

Upload Date

January 30, 2015

Trainer Bio

Tess Whitty - Tess Whitty has been a successful freelance translator and entrepreneur for over 10 years and owns the company Swedish Translation Services. Her educational and professional background is in marketing and she is passionate about sharing her knowledge with other freelancers in the form of presentations, training, mentoring and consulting. She is also the author of the book Marketing Cookbook for Translators, with easy to follow recipes for marketing your translation services and achieving a successful freelance lifestyle, and the award winning podcast Marketing Tips for Translators. For more information, and to connect, go to www.swedishtranslationservices.com or www.marketingtipsfortranslators.com.

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