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08/03/2015Episode 61: Translation cooperative as a marketing advantage – Interview with Translation Corner
In this episode I am interviewing one member of a translation cooperative, six translators sharing office space, jobs, marketing and budget. This is a great way to gain an advantage on the market and an inspiration for many of us for how we can develop our one-man business to one using collaboration in many ways, to everyone’s advantage.
In this episode we cover the following:
- How a cooperative is different from a translation agency
- How you can work together in a cooperative
- Important rules or structure for making a cooperative work
- Shared tasks, shared opportunities
- Advantages and disadvantages with working in a translation cooperative
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Many thanks to Maria for sharing how they started a cooperative to benefit from joint marketing efforts and be able to provide additional services to clients. These tips are worth sharing and be inspired by.
The Translation Corner
Translation Corner was constituted in 2011, but was actually formed in 2010, when Anders Warnqvist, Irene Elmerot and Maria Andersson began sharing an office. The idea was partly to share marketing costs, and partly to be able to handle bigger assignments. Since we wanted a restricted hierarchy, we chose to form a co‑operative. We have different, but to an extent overlapping, areas of expertise when it comes to subject areas, from technical, EU and marketing texts to tourism, food and culture. Translation Corner has also translated several books, both as common projects and separately. We have ten source languages in total: Danish, Dutch, English, Finnish, French, German, Italian, Latin, Norwegian and Russian, and we only translate into Swedish, our mother tongue.
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Thanks for the podcast. Very interesting. I would be interested to know if they have any non-compete agreements to keep the cooperative’s clients off-limits from any of the individual translator firms within the collective. That could potentially be a major issue in the event that the cooperative were to split up or have defectors.
Thanks for the podcast. Very interesting. I would be interested to know if they have a non-compete agreement to keep the cooperative’s clients off-limits from the individual members’ private firms. That could potentially be a major issue in the event of defections from or disolution of the cooperative.
Hi Scott! Not that I know of. But it’s best that you contact the interviewee directly, or the cooperative.