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With the intention of this book being to grow or streamline your business, the first step ought to be to set out an overall approach to follow.

Freelance designers, programmers and copywriters all face the same problems: § customer acquisition and retention § conveying their true work value § dealing with non-payers § keeping income and expense accounts § re-using previous work effectively § cont…

As a freelancer in the translation market, it is useful to know the upper limits of our earning potential.

Since the initial release of this book in November 2012 I have collected and implemented a few new strategies for sales, marketing and business optimisation.

Thank you for your interest in this book.

The translation sales handbook A roadmap to higher rates, better clients By Luke Spear 2014 edition A note on the online version

Fast, efficient French-to-English technical translation – When your business needs to expand, the first thing to consider is this: how does it translate?

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Svensk-Engelsk översättning Behöver ni översättning av texter eller dokument till engelska (från svenska eller franska) så kan jag hjälpa till.

Freelance businesses don't tend to scale very well, in the sense that your day's work (and therefore, income) is limited by how many hours are available to you.

I pity spammers in some way.

I get lots of emails of a clearly spammy nature, mainly to an email address used to outsource work as a small agency.

After yesterday’s post there was a little bit of interest in some pointers as to how to wring the most performance out of a low-end VPS in order to run multiple CMS-based sites without having to constantly upgrade to higher end packages.

It has taken a few years to level up my experience and to move this site, and four others I host, to an un-managed server/VPS.

In this post I’ll briefly explain what RSS is, and how you can use it in your professional life to keep on top of the latest news and events in translation and beyond.

We’ve heard from the politicians, the security services and now we’re hearing from the corporations.

Hwaet!

This summer’s privacy leaks concerning NSA/GCHQ data collection and retention have been of great interest to small businesses around the world, as some of the internet’s leading service providers have been caught up in the blanket-sharing of data that was…

The last month has seen the arrival of some new IT gear in the home office.

On the 22nd of June, 2013, I nervously began speaking into the microphone, carefully positioned in corner of the home office.

Des traductions anglaises axées sur leurs lecteurs et fondées sur une expertise technique Fort de nombreuses années d’expérience en tant que traducteur pour des multinationales, mais aussi pour de plus petites entreprises s’aventurant pour la première fois

Des traductions techniques du français vers l’anglais qui parlent aux gens Que ce soit pour des conseils rapides sur demande ou bien une traduction complète, Luke Spear a su aider depuis 2005 des entreprises de toutes tailles à communiquer leurs idées par…

While browsing through the advice from top SEO and translation firms around the world on how best to manage a site targeted at users in various languages, I came across this page from Google which basically states that the search giant ignores HTML tags as

Just a few words to mark the release of the ‘Translation sales handbook’.

On being asked what MemoQ had over the competition by @AnnikaAsklund, I thought I’d better take some time to re-evaluate my own choice of CAT tool, given the new version having appeared in recent days.

Having recently made the transition from Sole Trader to Limited Company, I was looking for some way to document all business transactions smoothly and hassle-free over a few different currencies.

With my previous laptop having finally succumbed to old age, it was time to find another tool to allow me to work remotely.

What is it?

It has been 4 weeks since I last jotted anything down in my paper diary.

Is your copywriting not having the desired effect?

There's something I'd like to share with the translator community; I've figured out how to run a CAT tool on my Nokia N900 mobile phone.

Translations of stories issued by Aéroports de Paris approved by Warner this month, after rigorous translation and proofreading process.

Business Advice for Freelance Translating Collected from the freelance translation community on twitter , via the hashtag #xl8 This post aims to collate helpful information from freelancers and translators around the world on managing money, tax, clients…

As Moore’s law pushes the capabilities of technology ever harder, has voice recognition finally got the power it needs to come of age?

Looks like the twitter hashtag #xl8 is being used by folks around the world on a daily basis, some 10 months after I first proposed it to some of the more active members of the twitter translation community.

The well-known translation portal proz.com ran my profile on the front page of their site this week, leading to a small surge in website traffic and the following screenshot: Luke Spear on Proz.com homepage It certainly has been a good week for exposure.

People-friendly translation, backed up by technical expertise With over 10 years’ experience of translating French and English for multinational corporations, as well as for small firms making their first forays into foreign markets, Luke draws on a his c…