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Translator Pay | The translation business

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Translators have little choice but to participate in the global market – but getting paid via the conventional banking system across different currency zones can be an expensive exercise. Contest, Translator Pay is willing to take on the big banks in order to get a better deal for translation industry players – freelancers and LSPs alike. Translator Pay has been developed to tackle some of these problems. It helps language service providers (LSPs) make foreign currency payments to their freelancers at a.

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Nice or nasty? Which translators finish first? | The translation business

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Collusion and betrayal in the translation industry which do you choose? Which translators finish first? November 10, 2013. In a previous post. I looked at a phenomenon known as the. In the translation industry this is where competitors cannot resist the temptation to win more work by undercutting each other on price. Simple mathematics shows that they end up worse off than if they had kept their prices steady. I discussed this thorny problem with my colleague, Luigi Muzii. Do you see a way out of the.

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The author | The translation business

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Totally committed to projects that will improve the wellbeing and income of translators. Paul Sulzberger was born in New Zealand and studied second language teaching methodology at Moscow State University in the late 1960’s. He completed his MA (Hons) degrees in modern languages and political science at Victoria University, Wellington. Later in life he completed his PhD in Applied Linguistics. Which grew into the largest professional document translation provider in Australasia. Wellington, New Zealand.

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The economic model | The translation business

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Friday, April 16, 2014. Buying and selling on the web now touches almost everyone on the planet. With small business becoming increasingly globalised, a professor at Yale University is suggesting that web-based commerce has just seen a radical transformation. We asked economist Ian Alexseev to explain the background to the evolution in online trading he describes in his new book. The multi-factor auction. E-commerce comes of age. What was wrong with the model? The factors up for auction are the buyer’s h...

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Collusion and betrayal in the translation industry—which do you choose? | The translation business

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Will the best and most talented translators benefit from the disruptors? Which translators finish first? Collusion and betrayal in the translation industry which do you choose? August 19, 2013. Are translation industry players locked into a self-defeating paradigm where they end up taking actions which are against their own best economic interests? In this post, I look at the translation industry in terms of a. However, there is a catch if they. Rat on each other, they’ll. Get the full prison sentence.

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The OpenBorder story | The translation business

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A translation business which follows the sun…. We watch how a novel economic model makes global trading possible, even for small and medium-sized firms. We see how buyers can leverage the liquidity of the global market to locate suppliers who can deliver exactly the sort of business services which match their real needs. Click here for OpenBorder’s “Vision” story (pdf). Pingback: A novel way to communicate a complex idea for a startup with global scope – write the novel! Xl8 The translation business.

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Will the best and most talented translators benefit from the disruptors? | The translation business

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8220;Liar, liar! 8221; Who can afford to tell the truth about translation quality… and who can’t? Collusion and betrayal in the translation industry which do you choose? Will the best and most talented translators benefit from the disruptors? July 23, 2013. So what’s next in the translation world? Can we predict the likely course of events into the future? A certain Clayton Christensen, a professor at Harvard Business School, seems to think so. Christensen studies how disruptive ideas and new technologie...

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The translation business | Empowering translators | Page 2

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Newer posts →. Paying translators – let’s stop tearing out our hair and just fix the system! July 23, 2012. Frank looked at the email. An American translator well versed in the intricacies of translating financial material from German, he has always relied on local US clients and LSPs for work. An offer like this, from a foreign customer, could be a great opportunity to expand his client base. 250 GBP to USD. 8221; into Google’s search box:. 8220;Now, $392 divided by 3,200 is just over 12 cents a word&#4...