Ready to Plan for a Mid- to Long-Term Medical Leave? Part 1
The idea for this post was born on my most stressful day in recent memory: the day I took three of my children to…
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How to Get Approved for a Mortgage as a Self-Employed Person
Imagine if you could freeze your rent payment forever. Now imagine that it could disappear by the time you retire. That financial advantage is…
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Freelance Finance: Paying Taxes
Here at The Savvy Newcomer we understand that it can be intimidating to talk about money. It’s often a sticky subject, but we feel…
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How and Why You Should Diversify Your Freelance Translation Business (COVID-19 Series)
This post was originally published on Madalena Sánchez Zampaulo’s blog. It is reposted with permission. More and more translators are seeing the need to…
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Teamwork: The Pros and Cons of Being a Lone Wolf or a Pack Animal
This post is a reblog, originally published on Nikki Graham’s blog, My Words for a Change, and later published in the ATA Chronicle. It…
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How’s Your English?
Most of us have heard it before: To be a good translator, you have to be a good writer. Today this maxim is truer…
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Enhanced Productivity with Text Expansion
This post is a reblog, originally published in the Audiovisual Division Part of the American Translators Association’s Deep Focus Newsletter, Issue 7 in 2020. It…
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How to Use Your Website to Get Translation Clients
This is a summary post from Tess Whitty’s ebook Quick Start Guide: 10 Steps to an Optimized Website, published in 2019. Having a website…
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Scams and Default to Truth
This post is a reblog, originally published on the Austin Area Translators & Interpreters Association blog. It is reposted with permission from the author.…
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Setting Goals for Your Freelance Business: An Important Job Satisfaction Tool
I have been teaching business classes for freelance translators for about 15 years, so I’ve seen “under the hood” of many freelancers’ businesses. The…
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Educating the “Uneducated” Client
This post originally appeared on The ATA Chronicle and it is republished with permission. Because of the nature of our work, we translators are…
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