Translation Agency Tips: #41: Handling Feedback on your Translation
Translating for clients is often very rewarding but it can be hard to get there when you’ve just started working in the industry. Once you’re armed with the necessary...
Translation Agency Tips: #40: Professional Safety and Identity Theft
Agony aunt I am not, but over the years I’ve read many reports from translation agencies: “Every day we receive around 50 translator applications which are patently fake. They...
Translation Agency Tips: #39: Credit Control
Credit Control – Before you start work Credit control really starts from the moment you consider taking a job, from any client, translation agency or not. Have you confirmed...
Translation Agency Tips: #38: Keeping in touch with your clients
In the world of translation and interpreting, establishing a good relationship with your customers is key for a prosperous and constructive working relationship. Initially you’ll have to invest some...
Translation Agency Tips: #37: Tips for an editing/amending assignments
You’ve just delivered a translation to a client and you’re about to make yourself a cup of tea before you start working on a new project. Sounds like a...
Translation Agency Tips: #36 Communicating with Clients
We are all about communicating here at Atlas Translations; it is one of our best assets! When we are in the office we are here for clients and suppliers...
Translation Agency Tips: #35 How best to use reference material
Whether the source materials you’ve been given to work on are of a technical nature or whether they’re fairly straightforward, if your client has provided you with some reference...
Translation Agency Tips: #34 My translation is going to be late. What’s the best way to deal with this?
In a previous blog we discussed what to do in the event you’re experiencing IT difficulties, and mentioned the importance of contacting your client as soon as you can...
Translation Agency Tips: #33 When things get too technical…
You’ve been offered a job from a client and of course the first thing you want to do before accepting the project, is to check the documents and make...
Translation Agency Tips: #32 IT Problems
When you work with computers on a day to day basis, sooner or later you are bound to experience some IT problems, and you can guarantee it will be...