Inbound vs. Content Marketing for Translators
03/26/2018How to get started as a freelance translator
04/02/2018How to find more or better clients
We all want more or better translation clients, but finding them is not the easiest. This page has links to podcast episodes or blog posts with lots of valuable tips on how to find your ideal clients.
The easiest way to get more clients that you like is to ask for referrals. This episode has tips on how to do this in a practical and easy way.
Growing your freelance translation business through referral selling – Interview with Maryam Abdi
You asked questions – I providede answers on where to look for clients and how to contact them.
Ask Me Anything – Where and How to Find Clients
One of the most efficient methods of finding new clients is to go to live networking events. These can be local events, such as chamber of commerce events, or large international ones, such as conferences or expos within your field of expertise, where your ideal clients hang out. Listen to this interview for great tips on how to network efficiently in person.
Face-to-face networking for translators – interview with Sara Freitas
This blog post talks about 4 easy methods to attract more translation clients:
4 Ways Freelancers Can Attract More Clients
Working with direct clients, instead of through a middle-man, can be both financially and motivationally rewarding. Joy Mo gives us tips on how to find your first direct clients in this interview.
How to get your first 3 direct clients: Interview with Joy Mo
Once we’ve done our marketing and attracted potential clients, it’s time to convince them to buy our services. This episode explains how to create and use an effective sales process to land our ideal translation projects.
The sales process for translators – Interview with Paul Urwin
The most common, and easiest, way to get plenty of translation work is to work with translation companies. If you want more or better work from translation agencies, you get some great tips on how to market to agencies here.
Marketing your translation services to translation companies/agencies – Alina Cincan
If you cannot network live with prospective clients, warm emails are the second most effective marketing method. These are highly targeted emails to your ideal clients.
Warm email prospecting for translators – Interview with Ed Gandia
In order for us to find our ideal clients, we need to know who they are. The better we know them and describe them, the better we can serve them and the easier it is to find them.
Do you know your ideal customer? Creating a customer avatar for your freelance translation business
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