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Collection
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The objective of this article is to improve communication between freelance translators and translation agencies on various payment issues. It is based on my first-hand experience in freelance translation from English to Russian and vice-versa for 45 translation agencies in 12 countries (USA - 11, UK - 7, Russia - 5, Japan - 4, Belgium - 3, Czech Republic - 3, France - 3, Germany - 2, Hong Ko ...
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Are you Prepared to Meet Your Client?
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The phone rings: it is a client. A welcome event these days�and not a very frequent one for many of us. But, are you prepared to answer that call? Clients call because they need information, and we should be prepared to provide the information they require in a clear, precise, and concise way. You see, any hesitation will be perceived by the client as lack of confidence and lack of confidenc ...
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Translation: A Market in Crisis?
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Colleagues who attended the 2002 ATA meeting complained that there was a significant reduction in the number of agencies present. Nothing wrong with the ATA itself: just a sign of the times, for our trade is in a state of crisis and the signs of deterioration are seen everywhere, not only in the paucity of participants in the ATA job exchange. Responses to the crisis have been many, diverse and of ...
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Translation Economics 101
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Translators, like everybody else, with the possible exception of monks and vagrants, wish they could make a little more money and work a little less for it. There is nothing wrong with this. However, many of us try to justify this yearning for a better material life by claiming we are paid comparatively less than other professionals or than our due. To support those claims, some of us oft ...
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How to collect late payments
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Most probably you all have already met the problem of bad payers. If all other procedures fail, before taking legal action there is another possibility of trusting the debt collection to an agency.
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