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...

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...

Deliberately changing the text of a translation

While poking around online last night, I found, as I often do, an article that lead to another article, that lead to another article. The first was a website regarding Sun Tzu’s “The Art of War.” Here is the paragraph that caught my attention: In a sense, no book written in the conceptual ancient Chinese can be completely translated into English prose sentences. The least of which is that...

An Interpreting Tale- How we all affect each other

While attending the small business matchmaker event in Dayton OH today, I got into a conversation with the representative of a large Ohio healthcare organization. After telling the woman what my company did and where we were from (Cincinnati), she said to me, “Are you from the company whose interpreters sleep on the job?” Of course I said “No, “ because I was not, but, after further...

SEO: By language or by country?

Dear Colleagues- This article was sent to me by a friend and I found it to be very simple and helpful. It was written by Christian Arno and I am passing it along because it is such great information!! English could be seen as the lingua franca of the Internet, just as it is in the business world. It’s certainly the most commonly used language online in terms of content, but even so it...