30 Spooky Freelancing Practices
Courtesy of the Freelance folder. Spooky Freelancing HabitsAre you engaging in scary freelance practices? Check out the following list: Not researching your client. You’d better believe that your client researched…
More on elevator speeches
Here's an interesting little training video by Ed Gandia from the International Freelancers Academy, fitting this week's topic very nicely. It's called "How to Create a High Impact Elevator Speech…
How great leaders inspire action
Last weekend I was at the ProZ.com conference in Barcelona, which was not only a great opportunity for me to meet new people and practice my Spanish, but also to…
Business dinner
Last night, I went out to dinner with a friend who is also a prospective business partner. Because of the mixture, our conversation went from private to business and back,…
Great customer service
Sure, they want to sell something. Sure, it helps to be nice in order to do so. But still! I had to download the trial version of a flowchart editing…
The 10 stages of communication
Being a freelance translator working from home, it's important not to lose contact with the real world. This is true not only regarding your personal life, but also when it…
How many mistakes can you find in this picture?
An excellent post on "No Peanuts" concerning the job ad of an Italian publisher for a translator.
The top 5 things to consider before translating content
Is the document finalized? Will there be any future edits? Making changes to the original language after translation has begun is likely to incur additional fees, even for small changes. …
European English
This is not new, but still good: The European Commission has just announced an agreement whereby English will be the official language of the European Union rather than German, which…