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"Making the price" of your translation services (as opposed to "taking the market price") |
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Every business, whatever its nature, including your translation business, is pursuing a number of objectives to guide its activities and mandate its actions. One of the main business objectives is to be profitable. While there are other important factors -growth, adding value to the company, etc.- without profitability it will not be possible to sustain your translation business in the medium to long term. |
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The Illogical Series (When a Big Translation Is a Big Problem) |
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What exactly is a big job? How many words merit my accepting a discount?
And just what kind of percentage discount can we be expected to accept? |
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5 Pieces of Advice for Rookie Translators |
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To give you an idea of what I'm talking about, before I became a translation and interpretation student I used to translate some videogames in my free time. This allowed me to get to know the "ins and outs" of this type of project. When I was tested to work at Nintendo as an English-Spanish translator, I felt very comfortable thanks to my previous experience with such texts. |
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If Lady Gaga has a business plan, why shouldn't we? |
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I have seen too many colleagues stammering when working out an estimate, stopping at every morpheme, really suffering in a process that should be completely natural. My physiotherapist does not hold back when quoting his fees, why should I? |
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Yes, Word Choice Matters |
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There is nothing new about the idea that words are not all there is to reality, but that reality often cannot be changed without them. |
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