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Ron McCoy is the director of Affinity Translation since 2007. He holds an MBA from the University of Colorado at Boulder and an undergraduate degree in education. He welcomes all inquiries both language or business related.
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Around the Affinity Translation Neighborhood
Affinity Translation provides translation services for the entire country from our central location in Denver, Colorado. All translation business is efficiently handled via email, electronic file transfers, and occasionally the telephone. It’s an operational system that’s tried, tested, and works very well. Since we seldom have a chance to see our clients face-to-face, we thought a brief […]
Best File Formats For Translation Services
Affinity Translation can translate text received in files of almost any format (e.g., MS Word, PDF, image files, etc.). Still there are certain advantages, disadvantage, likes, and preferences about the type of file format we receive. Here’s a brief summary: 1) MS Word: Probably the best and most preferred file format is an editable text based file […]
Our Translation Only Focus
There are some advantages for companies who do one thing only. One of the most obvious is that those companies become well known for doing that one thing. When their product or service is needed, customers know where to go almost automatically. Organizations that do mainly one thing also tend to become very proficient at that thing over […]
How Can I Find Translation Services For A Video?
Someone recently asked in an online forum about finding a translation service for a video. This is a question that comes up more often these days as online video and other video content has become very common. Generally the conversation with a client begins with an email or telephone call stating that the have a […]
Translation Companies as Market Makers
It’s ironic that a translation company’s main function isn’t translation. To be sure translation is the service translation company clients purchase. However, it’s translators that provide translation services and not companies. Instead translation companies are market makers, to borrow a phrase from the financial services industry. According to Wikipedia’s definition: “A market maker or liquidity provider is […]
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