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tranfree issue 7 - 12 October 1999

"Translation Jobs, Reputable Translation Agencies & Translation Links"

 

I am delighted to welcome two new contributors this month. Both are well-known and highly respected in the online translator community...

  • Karin Adamczyk, founder of Payment Practices
  • Mary Maloof, founder of SPTranslators

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

 


 

translatortips.com Announces translation-agencies.com

Last month I mentioned a new joint venture in the pipeline. This has now been finalised, launched and is already there for you all to see. The new venture is called translation-agencies.com ( http://www.translation-agencies.com). The purpose of the new site is "helping translators find better clients".

The site has a similar 'look and feel' to that of translatortips.com and is intended to be another major resource for translators, with a heavy emphasis on job listing services and Payment Practices. The first product available at translation-agencies.com is Karin Adamczyk's Reputable Translation Agencies Database. I strongly recommend a visit, since there is plenty of FREE information available at the site! Just go to http://www.translation-agencies.com

 


 

    This tranfree's Feature Articles...

  1. Payment Practices and Reputable Translation Agencies - Karin Adamczyk
  2. An Amazing Collection of web links to translation and reference resources - Mary Maloof

 


 

Hot Topic - translation job listing services news

translatortips.com is very proud to announce sponsorship of two excellent FREE email job listing services. Translation Job Opportunities (TJO) and Jobs-Translators. Full details of these services are available at http://www.translation-agencies.com on the NEW job listing services pages.

As always, I am on the...

... lookout for new job listing services for online translators because this is one area in which the web is quite rich and getting richer all the time. So here are the latest ones I have come across...

Aquarius - RapidResponse

Aquarius is the original and largest searchable translator database on the web and has many thousand visitors every single day of the week! Translators and agencies can register themselves FREE at http://aquarius.net

Clients looking for a translator go to Aquarius and can search on a whole variety of fields e.g. language pair, country etc. I have received work from people who found me through Aquarius. In fact, most online translators I know have met up with some new clients through this site.

Aquarius classifieds has new jobs listed daily, but there is an exciting new development at the Aquarius site. It's called Aquarius RapidResponse. It is a system where clients list a project with Aquarius and then the project details are automatically sent to every member of the Aquarius database who meets the project criteria. e.g. If I'm looking for English to French translators who specialise in legal work, I register the project details and if you meet these criteria you will be sent an email about the project.

Does that sound interesting to you? If so you must be sure to get yourself listed at Aquarius. If you already are listed you must make sure your details are up to date. People change email address very often these days (I lose about 1-2% of tranfree subscribers every month due to address changes). So go and check your Aquarius record or create one if you're not listed! Visit Aquarius at http://aquarius.net

 


 

Experts on the Web

Experts on the Web is a career-oriented web site for language translators and other independent consultants. After a free registration, a translator can post his or her resume/CV, search for jobs, bid on contracts, find and contact other translators and search for recruiters/translation agencies. Other features include e-mail alerts that notify you when a recruiter views your profile and a statistics page that shows how many people search the database each day. Every potential client is able to contact translators through an online form. However, no personal information is ever revealed without prior consent.

Experts on the Web currently has a database of over 2100 professional translators and is growing rapidly. Why not add your qualifications today? http://www.expertsontheweb.com

 


 

META humorous translator newsletter

META, the spiritual translator newsletter, is published in 3 languages:

English, French and Spanish. The purpose of this ezine is to share knowledge about languages, translation problems, translation aids and software, etc. but also to take life with humor. Half of the newsletter is dedicated to make you laugh with linguistic, phonetic (and other) jokes. Try it out in the language of your choice or in all of them if you are a "polyglot"!

 


 

translatortips.com Linkers FREE Prize Draw

I am keen to get as many of you as possible who have your own websites to link to the translatortips.com website. To encourage you all to put a link to translatortips 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 site (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:

this winner is German Pareja - 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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