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Translation Services Buying Process

November 23, 2015

Various models exist to help illustrate the process by which many consumers of goods and services make purchases, including translation services. One simple model is the following 3 stage approach: 1) Awareness: The prospective translation client is becoming aware of a need. The need might not yet be well defined. A recognized need for translation services […]

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November 21, 2015

Adobe’s InDesign desktop publishing software is one of the most popular applications for designing and formatting documents. At our company at least 8 of 10 inquiries that involve document design work are connected to InDesign. Professionally formatted documents created in InDesign can easily be translated into another language. Indesign translation projects usually begin with a quotation for […]

Translation Services Buying Process

November 23, 2015

Indesign Translation Services | Get Quote

November 21, 2015

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Translation Services Buying Process

November 23, 2015

Various models exist to help illustrate the process by which many consumers of goods and services make purchases, including translation services. One simple model is the following 3 stage approach:

1) Awareness: The prospective translation client is becoming aware of a need. The need might not yet be well defined. A recognized need for translation services might not yet even be known as this stage.

Perhaps it’s a commercial client expanding their business internationally and they’re finding that customers are not readily accepting their products due to language issues, for example. At this stage the client might just be starting to consider the issue of language as it relates to their business.

2) Evaluation: The prospective translation client has established a name for their need (e.g., translation or other language service category) and requires additional information about it.

Educational content about translation services would likely be helpful to a prospective translation client at this stage. How does the translation process work? What are the costs? How long does translation take? What are options for translation services? Discussion and answers to these types of questions might be appropriate at this stage.

3) Selection: The prospective translation client is ready to make a decision and select a provider for translation services. At this stage translators will want to bring attention to their unique qualifications and reasons for hiring them.

Every professional translator has unique strengths and competitive advantages they’ll want to emphasize at this third phase. Clients are ready to pay for services and they’re seeking an immediate or near term translation services provider.

Adapted from: The Translator’s Guide to Blogging

Indesign Translation Services | Get Quote

November 21, 2015

Professionally formatted documents created in InDesign can easily be translated into another language. Indesign translation projects usually begin with a quotation for services. Typically quotes are prepared with a line item for translation, and then a second line item fee for InDesign formatting.

Requesting a quote is easy:

First, email us a PDF of the InDesign file. PDFs are easy to attach and email (or upload for larger PDFs). While the translation process doesn’t take place within a PDF file, a word count can be extracted from a PDF document. Given a source document word count and a specified target language, a quote for translation services can be created and returned to the client.
Next if a client decides to proceed with the project then the full collection of files (InDesign and associated images, et. al.) can be sent for formatting production after translation is complete. Since translation doesn’t occur within the InDesign environment, document formatting within InDesign is a separate step after translation and language verification is complete.

And that’s it. InDesign documents are created in a new target language along with high resolution camera-ready PDFs.

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Translation Services Buying Process

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