She scratched her head, gazing upon the data.
Could it be right? She worked more hours this month, but her income remained the same. Data can surprise you sometimes, especially if you aren’t used to tracking it.
Here’s the story of a French translator who used time-tracking data to help her translation business.
Emeline started her career as a translator in 2013. When she started, she did freelance translation work with a portfolio of agency clients.
The journey to translation is different for each translator.
or some, they start at another job entirely...
Translators don’t only need to be proficient in their target languages—they also need to be able to dabble in basic finances. Yes, even if you’re a literary or tourism translator, having some degree of...
As we enter the last quarter of the year, one of the ways we can reflect on the year that passed and what’s to come is by crunching some numbers.
The maths seem to make sense when you add it all up.
More time, more words, more money...right?
You may have heard about translators scaling their businesses.
What does scaling mean, and how can you do it?
Scaling means to grow your business without you being a bottleneck.
We’ve all heard the horror stories.
Many of us have been victims of the said horror stories.
“But they’ll steal my clients”
Have you ever found yourself thinking that when faced with the option to collaborate with or recommend
another translator...
Diversifying your income is the proverbial additional baskets to put your eggs in.
While some translators may prefer to focus on nothing but translation - others like to dabble in
various
activities...
“Good, busy!”
Is the answer we normally give or receive when someone asks “how have you been?”
If you studied a bachelor’s or master’s in translation, you’re probably (hopefully) well-equipped to start the actual translation process. But even if you’re officially educated, that doesn’t mean you...
You were riding that wave for a while, freelance translator.
The feast wave.
All of a sudden, you get loads of work.
Everyone wants you to translate for them.
When you go to study translation, most of us learn about the theoretical side of translation (formal or dynamic equivalence sprinkled with some Nida and Pym), and we get our hands dirty with some ...
couple of months ago we published an article on finding your ideal clients. Since then we got to thinking: What about an article on how you can actually use ...
Who doesn’t love to hear that they're amazing? By their very nature, testimonials are full of praise. But besides cheering us up, client feedback in the ...
We get it. It seems counter-intuitive that you’ll get more from (technically) doing less. But when you find a niche and stick to it, that’s exactly what can happen.
So, you chose to gain control of your time and started using a time tracking tool, possibly one that allows you to record billable hours. Good for you!
Your email happened to arrive just as I finished my first cup of tea: the best time of the day to contact me. But despite the favourable conditions and your unmistakable keenness ...
With so many options to be social, we know that staying in touch with clients should be a piece of (Instagrammed) cake. But the truth is that all of these channels ...
If you can recall exactly the last time you said 'If only there were 36 hours in a day' or 'I'll save this for the weekend', and if you are reading this in spite of the fact that ...
For "regular" people, who are employed by someone else, a quiet time of the year at work is something to be celebrated. It's a time when they can take longer lunches, ...
Writing pitches to potential clients is nerve wracking! Contacting someone you don't know, but making them feel like you do know them, is pretty tricky.
Gone are the days when we viewed colleagues as competition. Now, collaboration is the name of the game. In fact, colleagues are the new clients.
For those of us who are used to living the solitary freelancer-hiding-behind-their-laptop life, the thought of in-person networking can seem pretty daunting.
Collaboration, flexibility, promptness are essential to the way we work today and central systems can go a long way to help us stay ahead of the game.
There's no doubt that deciding your rate is tricky. There are many factors to take into consideration, and anyway, having one single rate for all clients and all projects ...
How productive are you? Are you uber-focused on the task at hand, or do you find yourself flitting from one thing to another...and forgetting where you started?
Everywhere you look online, there are guides and how-to posts on defining and finding your ideal client. It can get pretty overwhelming. In this post, we're not going to talk about ...
Feeling like you have too many tasks for your head space is not pleasant. Yes, it's great to be busy, but if you're not in control of start and finish dates, responses or project ...