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The Nine Mistakes Freelance Translators Should Avoid

Learn how to avoid the top mistakes and transform your business and do what matters for you
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Description

I have seen freelancers who have made us feel they were part of our team while some good translators by doing some of these mistakes sabotaged their relationship with us.

In this course, I will be sharing the mistakes that I have seen happening over and over again. You can easily avoid this mistakes and transform your business by building long lasting relationships with new clients as well as develop your existing ones. This will help you do what matters for you.

You will learn

✓ Pricing mistakes – factors to take into account when setting your prices
✓ Will you lose customers if you turn down jobs
✓ Should you have a specialist subject
✓ Benefits of belonging to a professional organisation
✓ Should you pay attention to a professional development

Requirements

• None

This course is for

• Freelance translators
• Translators
• New and experienced translators

More info about the instructor,

Levent Yildizgoren

Managing Director of TTC wetranslate
Levent is an author of ‘Good Business in any Language’ book.
He is the co-founder of TTC wetranslate Ltd, a UK-based multi award winning translation and localization company formed in 1992.
He has been in the language industry for 30 years. He has worked as a freelance Turkish translator and he is a PRINCE2 qualified project manager, mentor, and a visiting lecturer at the University of Essex. Levent is passionate about working with universities and helping them grow talented translators. Levent’s company has been organising Translation Challenge competition for the last 8 years where students take part in a real life projects.
Levent also has a Podcast Channel called ‘Conquer New Markets by Breaking Language Barriers’ which is available in all popular platforms.
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Video: 1h 40m
Language: English
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