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tranfree issue 43 - 26 November 2001

"12 Tips & Bidding Charges"

 

Welcome to issue 43 of tranfree - the newsletter for translators.

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

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

 

 

Star Letter

From: "Tao Weber"
To: "'translatortips.com'"
Date: Mon, 5 Nov 2001 12:06:28 -0800

Dear Alex,

Friday I bought your tranmail product. Today I
am struggling with inquiries for excellent
projects, have an excellent prospectus on
my desk, and have been approved and
entered into 120!!!! New client databases.

Being bilingual is MY talent, being
successful with it is YOURS.

Just one week ago I would never have thought
that I'd ever have to turn down "several"
project offers at once, today I have to.

Thank you
Tao P. Weber


Thanks Tao, translatortips.com product URLs are as follows...

tranmail - system for applying for work by email at 1746+ translation agencies around the world (Newly Updated)

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

 

 

Follow Up With Dead-beats

We got paid last week for a job we did 2 YEARS AGO for NCI Translation Center in Belgium. It was for 25 pounds and we'd given up on getting paid for it...

...But then they approached us for a new job, I told them...

"no chance until you clear your debt"

...so after being asked to send another copy of the invoice, we eventually...

... got paid.

In tranfree 41 I told you about another debt which was cleared after one year by another company. This is now our new in-house record! So it's worth following up - even after 2 years!

 

 

    This tranfree's Feature Articles...

  1. Bidding Charges? What's Happening at ProZ? - Alex Eames
  2. 12 Tips For Freelance Translator Success - Radek Pletka

 

 

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 month's winner is Amanda Grey - 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 click here

 

 

Translation Joke

A Mexican bandit made a speciality of crossing the Rio Grande from time to time and robbing banks in Texas. Finally, a reward was offered for his capture and an enterprising Texas Ranger decided to track him down. After a lengthy search, he traced the bandit to his favorite cantina, snuck up behind him, put his trusty six-shooter to the bandit's head, and said...

"You're under arrest. Tell me
where you hid the loot or
I'll blow your brains out."

But the bandit didn't speak English, and the Ranger didn't speak Spanish. Fortunately, an interpreter was in the saloon and interpreted the Ranger's message. The terrified bandit blurted out, in Spanish, that the loot was buried under the oak tree in back of the cantina.

"What did he say?" asked the Ranger.
The interpreter answered...

"He said 'Get lost, Gringo. You wouldn't dare shoot me.'"

 

***End of issue 43***