tranfree issue 30 - 18th April 2001

"Holidays & Being No. 1 Translator"

Welcome to issue 30 of tranfree - the newsletter for translators.

This is a short(ish) tranfree because of holidays - both Easter and mine

Almost 2 years to the day since publicly launching translatortips^® I am going "offline" for a "proper rest". The site is still business as usual though. Phil will be running the show while I'm away.

For any of you that missed the announcement in the last edition, the second edition of...

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

...is now out.

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

Enjoy and benefit from tranfree.

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

This tranfree contains...

• Be Good To Yourselves - Alex Eames
• Add A tranfree Signup Box Competition
• How to be Number One Translator - Sian Marlow
• Translation Joke

Add A tranfree Signup Box Competition

I am keen to get as many of you as possible who have your own web sites to put a tranfree signup box on your web site.

To encourage you all to do this we are holding a monthly prize draw for everyone who does. This is in addition to the linkers free prize draw. So you can double your chances of winning if you do both

Each month, all those people who have put a tranfree signup box on their own website (and let me know about it) will go into a ballot and the winner gets a FREE translatortips^® product of their choice from the following...

• My ebook - How to Earn $80,000+ per Year as a Freelance Translator (edition 2 newly released in April 2001) http://www.translatortips.net/ht50.html



• tranmail - newly released database of 1650+ translation agencies around the world, with email addresses and a booklet about marketing yourself by email http://www.translatortips.net/tranmail.html

This edition's winner is Elena Kivshik - please contact me within the next 3 months to claim your prize from the above selection.

If you wish to put a tranfree signup box on your site you can find instructions at the bottom of this edition.

Translation Joke

Marketing Goofs due to ignorance of the foreign culture and language...

Bacardi concocted a fruity drink with the name 'Pavian' to suggest French chic ... but 'Pavian' means 'baboon' in German.

Coors slogan, "Turn it Loose", translated into Spanish as "Suffer From Diarrhoea".

Puffs tissues had a bad name in Germany since "Puff" is a colloquial term for whorehouse.

Christian Faucheux runs META the spiritual linguist newsletter which contains a lot of language and translation related jokes http://www.all-languages.com/bulletin.html 

***End of issue 30***