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tranfree issue 20 - 6th November 2000

"New Questions & (Not) Holidays"

 

Welcome to issue 20 of tranfree - the newsletter for translators.

 

New Developments

As usual it's all change here at translatortips.com...

  • New release of tranmail being launched today with 1650+ [current edition has 1800+] agency entries...

http://www.translatortips.net/tranmail.html

  • Fastest ever growth...
    In the last month we've added over 1500 new tranfree subscribers. Welcome to all who recently joined us

  • We're launching some of the things we've been putting on hold for the last few months

  • tranfree is now a twice-monthly ezine

Alex

Alex Eames
tranfree editor, Author -
How to Earn $80,000+ per Year as a Freelance Translator

 

 

This tranfree contains:

 

 

Star Letter

Date: Wed, 20 Sep 2000 17:13:25 -0500

"Dear Alex.

My name is Maria Mejia and I recently bought tranmail.

Anyway, I just wanted to say that thanks to tranmail, I finally got my career as a freelance translator started. I sent out 598 messages the first week and had a 20% reply ratio after two days and a 50% reply ratio after only two weeks.

Thanks to this unbelievable response I had, my rates and resume are in the databases of about 300 translation agencies in the US and UK, alone (I have yet to send messages to agencies in other countries).

I have completed 5 projects and am still getting more replies.

Thank you for this excellent tool, it has been more helpful than you can imagine."

Maria Mejia


Wow - thanks Maria - that's even better than I did! I thought my >20% was pretty darned good

The latest version of tranmail (1650 entries) is launched today. You'll be glad to hear that due to the infexibility of our ecommerce provider we have not been able to raise the price yet as we intended. So now you get 65% more than when we launched tranmail - for the same cost...

http://www.translatortips.net/tranmail.html

I know I owe quite a few people an update. I'm getting to it - don't worry - it'll go out this week

I got a little bit behind because of the new book I'm writing. It's already twice as long as the first book I wrote, and it's still nowhere near done yet

translatortips.com product URLs are as follows...

tranmail - system for applying for work by email at 1650 translation agencies around the world

http://www.translatortips.net/tranmail.html

eBook How to Earn $80,000+ per Year as a Freelance Translator

http://www.translatortips.net/ht50.html

Alex Eames, tranfree editor

 

 

    This tranfree's Feature Articles...

  1. A New Question You Should Always Ask - Alex Eames
  2. (Not a) Holiday - John McCarthy

 

 

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 web site. 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 web site 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 Andreas Prause - 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.

 

 

Translation Joke

More foreign travel funnies...

CHINESE

Outside a Hong Kong tailor shop:
Ladies may have a fit upstairs.

In an advertisement by a Hong Kong dentist:
Teeth extracted by the latest Methodists.

On the box of a clockwork toy made in Kong Kong:
Guaranteed to work throughout its useful life.

 

***End of issue 20***