Freelance Translator Business: Marketing Tips for Translators and Companies
Freelance Translator Business: Marketing Tips for Translators and Companies
Every freelancer has the potential to exceed their own expectations and create successful careers.
Whatever your own personal measure of success looks like, there’s a marketing approach to suit it and I can help you find it.
That’s because I’ve been in your shoes. I understand the difficulties establishing and growing a freelance business.
From 2014 to 2021, I actively supported freelance translators in marketing their businesses to reach ideal clients. Although I’m no longer doing this actively, I have kept these pages to provide available to provide continued support.
I have worked as an English-Swedish translator since 2003. After moving from Sweden to the US in 2001 I started looking into a freelance career so I could stay home with our two young children. I started from scratch to establish myself as a successful freelance translator, worked my way up to more clients, better pay, job satisfaction and success. I’ve had the opportunity to help the world’s largest software companies and online streaming sites reach their Swedish customers. With an education in international marketing, and experience as a marketing manager, I’ve been able to use my marketing skills to grow my business to six figures, finding clients and projects I love, and not working weekends and late nights.
What you see is what you get with me. I am as enthusiastic, helpful and energetic in person as I am on my podcast or at the many training sessions and presentations I give.
Because I genuinely love to help.
I’ve been honoured to have won multiple Proz Community Choice Awards over the past 5 years, for my work as a trainer, a speaker and a podcasting pro. These awards have been wonderful, but it’s the emails, messages and warm hugs I get from fellow translators who tell me about their successes which give me the warm and fuzzies and the desire to keep on keeping on.
The focus of this website is to share my marketing and business tips with you, from my own experience, from other experts and from research. One way I do this is through the podcast. Each episode have show notes, giving a summary of the podcast, as well as important links for quick and easy access to the resources mentioned.
The blog supplements the podcast with even more in-depth marketing advice and step-by-step instructions and tools.
I love getting to know my readers and listeners, so please do get in touch if you have any questions on marketing for translators, a suggestion for a podcast topic, or if you have any marketing tips of your own to share.
Another good tip is to subscribe to my newsletter and blog so you don’t miss anything.
You won’t be bombarded with emails, the subscription is simply a way to share my top tips and tools, and create a community of freelance translators who value marketing as one of their favorite magic tricks.
Proz Community Choice Award: Website: Best overall professional translator’s website. 2017
Proz Community Choice Award: Trainer: Active trainer in in-person or online training. 2017 to 2018
Proz Community Choice Award: Conference speaker: Based on lectures/sessions given at events from January 2016 to date.
Proz Community Choice Award: Podcast: Best podcast (series or single podcast) from January 2014-2018
Master’s degree in International Marketing
MA in Business Communication and PR