The original how-to guide for people who want to launch and run a successful freelance translation business! With over 4,000 copies in print, the first edition of How to Succeed as a Freelance translator has become a widely-cited reference for the translation industry. The fully revised second edition includes 200+ pages of practical tips on writing a translation-targeted resume and cover letter, preparing a marketing plan, setting up a functional home office, finding and keeping well-paying clients and more! New in this edition: separate sections on marketing to agencies and direct clients, a new chapter focusing on your first year as a freelance translator and a new chapter on online networking and social media.
Category: Books
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Corinne McKay’s blog Thoughts on Translation is one of the web’s liveliest gathering places for freelance translators.… now available in book format! Wondering whether to charge by the word or by the hour? How to receive payments from clients in foreign countries? How to write a translation-targeted resume? It’s all in here, in chunks that take just a few minutes to read. Corinne McKay is also the author of “How to Succeed as a Freelance Translator,” the original career how-to guide for freelance translators, with over 5,000 copies in print. Her practical, down-to-earth tips are based on her own experience launching and running a successful freelance translation business after a first career as a high school teacher.
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The Marketing Cookbook For Translators, is not just another book about marketing. It’s specific to your niche, targeted to your needs like a pinch of salt to a soup. It contains the tools to market your translation services in an efficient way, methods and systems to perform the marketing to your ideal clients, strategies to maintain a continuous marketing plan to find new clients and keep your existing clients and to get the word out about your translation services so that the clients can find you instead of you trying to find them.
By writing the Marketing Cookbook for Translators, Tess wanted to create an easy to follow guide for freelance translators looking to build or grow their business, outlining all the marketing and client retention strategies to make that dream a reality. She wanted it to be as easy as following a recipe in a cookbook!
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Trajectory, a digital distributor and technology developer, has developed a proprietary algorithm platform it claims will take book recommendations to a new level of accuracy and utility. After scanning the text of a book, Trajectory claims its technology can deliver better keywords and book recommendations to its clients in the bookselling, library and school markets.
Trajectory is now offering commercial access to its Natural Language Processing Engine, a series of “deep learning algorithms,” said Trajectory CEO Jim Bryant, that will deliver a “big step forward in book discovery”—the ability to connect readers to desirable books they don’t already know about. The technology, he said, effectively maps and displays the personality of a book which can then be compared to other books.
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