• Archive for February, 2010

    ProZ.com petition and translation rates

    by  • February 23, 2010 • Uncategorized • 4 Comments

    Today, a petition was started against the manner in which ProZ.com runs its job-placement service for the translation industry. Here’s the key passage from the petition: …as in any freelance profession, we believe the freelancer and not the client should establish working conditions, prices, etc. We hope that ProZ.com will take swift action to revise [...]

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    Why most businesses need a translation agency, not a freelancer

    by  • February 16, 2010 • Uncategorized • 14 Comments

    There’s a fairly common belief among freelance translators that translation agencies are, at best, something you necessarily grow out of as your career develops and, at worst, a plague to the translation industry. The problem with this belief is that it assumes that all translation agencies are nothing more than paper-shufflers passing e-mails back and [...]

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