The Prosperous TranslatorChris Durban Some of the Web's pithiest advice on building a successful translation practice. Translation is the grandest, most foolhardy enterprise that humans can engage in. Done right, it can also be a lucrative and intellectually satisfying career. Fire Ant & Worker Bee (Chris Durban and Eugene Seidel) have over five decades' combined experience in the translation business. They firmly believe that skilled translators benefit from adopting an entrepreneurial outlook, sharing insights and experiences, and investing in themselves. In their column in the Translation Journal, they have dispensed no-nonsense advice since 1998 on topics ranging from successfully navigating the freelance/agency divide to finding direct clients, raising prices, kicking implicit content into explicit shape, mastering office clutter and translating in the nude. Readers from translation company owners to students just starting out have found Fire Ant and Worker Bee's advice invaluable. See comments at www.prosperoustranslator.com |
Contents
3 | 34 |
relations | 59 |
Pricing and value | 90 |
Marketing | 127 |
Location | 145 |
7 | 170 |
Best practice | 185 |
8 | 191 |
Finance | 201 |
Professional | 238 |
Moving shaking | 244 |
Kitchen sink | 254 |
Selected websites | 267 |
Common terms and phrases
advice American Translators Association better brochure buyers can’t career certification charge colleagues course customers deadlines Dear direct clients documents English experience expertise FA & WB FA&WB feedback financial translation Fire Ant freelance translator French give glossary Here’s Houyhnhnm I’ve idea in-house industry input interested Internet invest issues keep language combination legal translation literary translation live look national translators non-disclosure agreement offer option payment PEN American Center person potential clients produce professional association professional translators proofreading questions rates remind simply source text Spanish specialized Stockholm Syndrome student suggest suppliers sure target tell things translation agencies Translation and Interpreting translation company translation memory translator’s Translators Association words Worker Bee writing skills you’ll you’re you’ve