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tranfree issue 12 - 15 March 2000 "Your Eyes & Localization pt. III" This tranfree contains...
tranfree now has an officially recognised international ISSN registration code. ISSN 1470-3866 With just under 6,000 subscribers tranfree is becoming more popular than ever. I have changed over to a professional distribution system because the Majordomo on our virtual server did not solve the list administration headaches like we thought it would. This will not affect your subscription Do not hit the reply button if you want to write to me or I will not get your messages. Please use... editor@translatortips.com I hope you find tranfree valuable and enjoy reading it. Please tell all your friends about it. Alex Eames
Hot Topic - Translatortips 20 second pollBy Alex Eames This month I thought it might be a bit of fun to get interactive with you, the tranfree readership and the translation community in general. So I arranged a quick one question poll... What is the best source of translation jobs on the internet? We've had an excellent response - just under 1000 votes at the time of publishing. But before we get into the details of the results I would like to apologise to a few of you who could not vote due to the slightly over-zealous security checking in my voting software. This affected a small proportion of people (less than 1%) - sorry for that folks, but better a few people were excluded than allow someone to distort the results by multiple voting. I should also apologise to xlation.com for omitting them from the
poll. Sorry guys I forgot you. Several people wrote to me and
said they would have voted for you! If it's any consolation I also forgot to mention my own product tranmail (newly updated - now with 1800 agencies) - a few people wrote in and reminded me about that one too!
Now to the results...What is the BEST source of translation jobs on the internet?
I have left the poll up and running, but am reporting the result based on the first 913 votes. The overall conclusion is that there was a clear best and worst and quite a lot of good stuff in the middle. Aquarius showed itself to be the Yahoo!® of the translation jobs world with a staggering 44.47% of the vote. Next was Other - several people wrote to me stating their own favourites which were noted (more on that in a moment). The rest of the results speak for themselves. The two egroups mailing lists seem to be popular, and ProZ figures quite well in the statistics considering it has only been around for a short time. Right at the bottom of the heap was our old friend the 'spam-happy' jobswarm. I am glad they did not get a single vote because they really damaged the credibility of affiliate programs with their fruitless pyramid scheme. Consequently when translatortips.com started a genuine affiliate program (which pays 30% of real products, not imaginary jobs), we had difficulty getting good affiliates on board because of the "Jobswarm effect". Read more about our affiliate program at... http://www.translatortips.net/af/affiliate.html
By far the most common "other" source mentioned was "My own personal web site". So, if you don't yet have your own web site, GET ONE! If you do it right the rewards can be excellent. At ALMAL we get around 50% of our new translation clients through our web site. That's 50% we would not have if we hadn't built our site! If you are interested in building a site that really sells, or modifying your existing site to get more sales, you should immediately check out... http://www.sitesell.com/tt.html ...and get your FREE download of 2 great chapters from an excellent ebook called Make Your Site Sell. The first chapter tells you the most important thing you must do to sell on the web. Most sites are not doing this! The second one will show you vital issues that most people ignore when building their sites. I recommend you go there right now while you remember. Do not look this gift horse in the mouth! http://www.sitesell.com/tt.html
Alex Eames is the founder of translatortips.com,
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Hebrew Translating Mailing ListHebrew Translating is a moderated discussion group for issues which arise among translators to and from Hebrew, Yiddish, Aramaic, or Ladino. The group also includes questions and discussions about terminology or idioms and relevant job leads. Subscribe to Hebrew Translating at www.geocities.com/jewishgroups or by sending a blank e-mail to hebrewtranslating-subscribe@eGroups.com
translatortips.com Linkers FREE Prize DrawI 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.com 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.com 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 Dominik Kreuzer - 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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