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What Drives Translation Services for Businesses?

What motivates businesses to purchase translation services (translation of written text that is)? To help provide insight on this question we reviewed five randomly selected translation projects currently in progress at our company and listed them below with a brief description. Project 1: A high-end landscaping operation need confidentiality documents translated into Spanish. The company […]

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Dear Client — Your In-House ‘Translator’ Is Not Awesome

Occasionally these days a client company will have someone in their organization that speaks a language other than English. This is especially the case for major languages such as Spanish, French, and one or two others. Sometimes these lay linguists get tasked to review a delivered translation. The result is often unnecessary change recommendations and […]

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Small Translation Projects Are Serious Business

A client’s translation requirement is important whether it’s large or small. For us as a business it’s true that larger translation projects help our company reach monthly revenue targets more quickly. Still we take smaller project requirements seriously. We remind our project managers of the things below: 1) We become indispensable to our clients by […]

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Certified or Notarized Translations

Translation clients often confuse the words ‘certified’ and ‘notarized’. Neither have any real effect on the quality of translation services provided. The terms are sometimes relevant to ensure meeting clients’ requirements. Any translation company or individual translator can certify their translation work (this according to the American Translator’s Association). A certified translation is a translation […]

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Strange Business Translation Questions

Occasionally we receive questions from business clients that are difficult to answer. For example a prospective new client recently asked for translation services that “don’t need to be entirely accurate.” This is an unusual request, especially from a business client, since companies typically want to make business decisions on the most accurate information possible. Business […]

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Manual Translation | Project Questions

Requests for translation of manual documents is a common request our company receives. Manuals come in all shapes, sizes, and topics including those among the listed categories below.   One of the advantages of working with a translation agency is that they typically have access to numerous qualified professional translators for projects that come up. […]

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