Risk Management in the Online Translation Industry

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Douglas Bissell - Douglas Bissell is a teacher/translator/business manager, who has lived in Portugal since 1984. He began teaching English as a foreign language and worked in several private language schools before being invited to open the English department in a private college focusing on the transport industry. After almost 20 years as a teacher and technical translator, and just as the financial and economic crisis was beginning to take hold in Portugal, he decided to open his own translation company. Forming, managing and ensuring the company’s survival has required considerable risk management skills, as the global environment and domestic pressures are sending many firms, not only translation companies, out of business. Douglas has been active on ProZ.com since first joining in late 2009 and he became a member a year later. He is usually in the top-ten point leaders in his language pair (Pt-Eng) for both the last three months and last 12 months. Thanks to ProZ.com, his company, 2L1.eu, now has customers from all round the world, enabling him to diversify his customer base and mitigate his underlying geographical risk profile, skills he is happy to share with anyone else who is thinking of branching out or going their own way.