Poll: What are the best strategies for expanding and growing your translation business? Thread poster: ProZ.com Staff
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| More clients and more/bigger projects | Oct 10, 2024 |
Having more clients gives more stability, but it wouldn't be to much avail if those clients just send tiny projects. IMO, most convenient and lucrative are big projects with lenient deadlines, interspersed with smaller projects from many different clients.
[Edited at 2024-10-10 08:34 GMT]
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Quality focus + Client focus + Project focus
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Peter Simon 
Netherlands
Local time: 18:40
English to Hungarian
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This is something I see as a basic problem with the whole world: everything and everybody wants to grow. The asker didn't even include the option of not wanting to grow. I, for one, don't want to grow, improve, widen, etc. my work: I want to live my life quietly and freely, want to do what I can without much pressure, want to learn what I still can and want to learn or experience things as long as possible. Otherwise, I don't need more, or newer, "better", "faster", or anything that drives the w... See more This is something I see as a basic problem with the whole world: everything and everybody wants to grow. The asker didn't even include the option of not wanting to grow. I, for one, don't want to grow, improve, widen, etc. my work: I want to live my life quietly and freely, want to do what I can without much pressure, want to learn what I still can and want to learn or experience things as long as possible. Otherwise, I don't need more, or newer, "better", "faster", or anything that drives the world sooner or later into chaos and into the ground. I just want to live my life until I die. No big wishes. I won't take more with me after life than any of the richer or faster or better do anyway. ▲ Collapse
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Lingua 5B
Bosnia and Herzegovina
Local time: 18:40
English to French
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Consulting = $500/hr
Or ask AI to consult you, they know everything.
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Jianrong Sun
Local time: 00:40
Member (2019)
English to Chinese
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Balance = Client focus (more opportunities)+ Project focus (high volume jobs)+ Rate focus (Highly specialized areas)
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Btw, what can TL stand for in the stability option?
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finnword1
United States
Local time: 12:40
English to Finnish
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| Lower your rates | Oct 10, 2024 |
plus fine-tune/improve your efficiency. You will make the same amount per hour but receive more jobs.
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Daryo
Local time: 17:40
Serbian to English
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| The way it's going the best way | Oct 12, 2024 |
to improve your income is to diversify... outside of the translation business.
Unless you have a sporting chance to get into some of the few "niche markets" that will still stay alive for the foreseeable future.
Otherwise the future doesn't look very bright ...
Plenty of opportunities outside of the translation business where being bi / tri lingual is a huge advantage.
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Corrections have been disabled after 24 hours, so I add here, why stability: to understand if you grow you need stable reference mark, a notch on the door post
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