The Easiest Way to Mitigate Risk in International Business is……

Our company just finished helping another company and their law firm out of a major legal jam.  To make a long story short, an American company was in a dispute with their Chinese colleagues.  The dispute boiled down to their written agreement, a contract that was written years ago when no one making the agreement foresaw the current situation.  The contract did not contain enough information...

Is working with China a way to keep your business profitable? We think so and here is why!

I find myself a bit irritated by the “Occupy Wall Street” protesters simply because I don’t think their protest is the best way to bring about change, nor do I think it will bring about change.  In fact, I spoke yesterday with a consultant from New York here in Cincinnati on business, and he stated, “No one down there protesting knows what they are protesting about!  Ask two different...

Interpreter sets wrong tone for important China-Cincinnati business conference

The conference we just completed has given me fuel for several blog postings, I highly encourage anyone reading this posting to back up and read yesterday’s first, in order to put all of this in context.  An interesting hard-to-ignore part of the event was the interpreting itself.   Global2Local is more of a translation, particularly technical translation, based company, although we do...

A firsthand account of frustrations with China

Our blog has been silent for the last few days as we had the pleasure of helping with the interpreter and interpreting equipment end of a conference put on by a Chinese organization by the name of Reach24.  Never heard of Reach?  Neither had I.  What I personally learned in conversations with the attendees of the conference/workshop, the Chinese nationals (there were about 60 of them), and the...

What would you do? Our customer sent more than the translation…..

I was supposed to receive 3 documents for translation into Chinese from a manufacturing company we recently started to work with. What was emailed to me was a folder that contained much more than the source documents we were expecting. In fact, there was so much extra information and documents, that I had to call the client to find out which ones were part of the assignment and which ones were...