8 Skills you Must Have to Succeed as a Freelance Translator—and How to Get Them

By The Savvy Newcomer | May 5, 2015

By Tess Whitty Reblogged from Marketing Tips for Translators blog with permission from the author (including the image) Having been a freelance translator for over…

15 tips on how to increase your chances when contacting translation companies

By The Savvy Newcomer | April 21, 2015

By Riccardo Schiaffino Reblogged from About Translation blog with permission from the author Our tiny translation company does not advertise for translators, since we do most work…

11 tips for new freelance translators on the hunt for their first assignments

By The Savvy Newcomer | April 7, 2015

By Nicole Y. Adams Reblogged from NYA Communications blog with permission from the author (including the image) A while ago a new colleague on a translators’ forum asked…

Our “Mother Tongue”: Keeping it Fresh in a Foreign Land

By The Savvy Newcomer | March 31, 2015

By Helen Eby Estemed friends, It seems to make much time that I don’t write to you.—Ramón, in “Ramón Writes,” an Argentine column published…

How do translators showcase their talent to translation agencies?

By The Savvy Newcomer | March 24, 2015

By Gwenydd Jones Reblogged from The Translator’s Studio blog with permission from the author (including the image) Last week, Letraduct authored a post about one…

Adventures with Direct Clients—Part One

By The Savvy Newcomer | March 18, 2015

By David Friedman I have always wanted to work with direct clients, since the early stages of my translation career. I would like to…

Reading the small print

By The Savvy Newcomer | March 10, 2015

By Jo Rourke Reblogged from Silver Tongue Translations blog with permission from the author (including the images) I’m not entirely sure what happened. I’m usually pretty pernickety…

The ATA Mentoring Program through the eyes of a mentor-mentee pair

By The Savvy Newcomer | March 3, 2015

With the deadline to apply for the ATA Mentoring Program for 2015 fast approaching this week—March 7, to be more precise—we thought this would…

The Ins and Outs of Term Validation

By The Savvy Newcomer | February 24, 2015

By Patricia Brenes Reblogged from In My Own Terms with permission from the author (including the images) Every step in term processing during the preparation of…

Universitat Pompeu Fabra: A Day in the Life

By The Savvy Newcomer | February 17, 2015

By Carmen Salomón Hernández I finished my high school degree, including the International Baccalaureate Diploma in 2011 and decided to study Translation and Interpreting…

Do you know your ideal customer? Creating a customer avatar for your freelance translation business

By The Savvy Newcomer | February 10, 2015

By Tess Whitty Reblogged from Marketing Tips for Translators with permission from the author (including the image) The other week I interviewed Alessandra Martelli on creating…

Go National or Stay Local?

By The Savvy Newcomer | February 4, 2015

by Giovanna Lester in collaboration with The Savvy Newcomer Team Full disclosure: I am one of the co-founders and currently the president of the…