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tranfree issue 8 - 15 November 1999
"Seasonal Cycles & Quiet Spells"
this tranfree contains...
As always, I would like to strongly encourage people to ask
questions. Your anonymity is assured, unless you specifically
want to be named. Keep the questions coming - if you don't know
the answer to something, the chances are someone else doesn't
either.
I hope you find tranfree valuable
and enjoy reading it. Please tell all your friends about it.
Alex Eames
tranfree editor, Author -
How to Earn $80,000+ per Year as a Freelance Translator
translatortips.com news and NEW site sections
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tranfree now reaches 3500 people around the world.
Just this week tranfree
reached the landmark figure of 3500 subscribers. As far
as I know, this makes tranfree
the largest translation related ezine in the world
(although if anyone knows of a larger one I'd be glad to
hear about it). I'd like to thank all those of you who
have helped me grow the subscriber base so quickly in
such a short time. Of course, there has to be more than
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LANTRA stated that there were as many as 60,000
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I recently read that one of the best and most ethical
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Many people are afraid to make online card transactions
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Please note that this does not mean that ALL web sites are
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NEW Statement of privacy policy
Another thing which a lot of people are concerned about is
their personal privacy. How are the people at this site going to
use my personal data? If I give them my email address how do I
know they won't sell it to spammers? What are cookies? Why are
they necessary and what are they used for?
Another new page at translatortips.com
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This tranfree's Feature Articles...
- Predicting seasonal cycles in
the translation industry
- What to do when you have a quiet spell
Payment Practices
Karin Adamczyk's famous Payment Practices mailing list reached
600 subscribers this week and is going from strength to strength.
Many people are beginning to say that this marvellous FREE
service is starting to make a difference in cleaning up the
translation industry. As I've said many times before, the more
members there are of Payment Practices, the better information we
all have when making our decisions about whether or not to work
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If you want to join you can also sign up there!
Radek Pletka's weekly translation job list
Radek's weekly translation job list is distributed by email
every week as a zipped text file. The 07 November 1999 edition
contains over 18,000 words spread over 62 pages (when I opened
the file in Word). This is a very comprehensive collection of job
offers all around the world. If you want to save yourself time
and money you really should consider subscribing to Radek's list.
It only costs $30 per year and in my opinion is worth much more
than this. To subscribe click here!
translatortips.com Linkers FREE Prize Draw
I am keen to get as many of you as possible who have your own
web sites to link to the translatortips.com website.
To encourage you all to put a link to translatortips on your own
site, I am holding a monthly prize draw for everyone who does
this. Each month all those people who have put a link on their
own website to the translatortips site (and let me know about it)
will go into a ballot and the winner gets a FREE translatortips.com product of
their choice from the following...
this winner is Rocio Valle - please contact me within the next 3 months to
claim your prize from the above selection.
If you wish to put a link to the translatortips.com site on your site you
can find instructions at the bottom of this edition.
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