10 Ways your Business Benefits from the Recession!

I am sure most of you have watched the events of the last few weeks with a mixture of awe and horror.  As I listen to news reports and see the Dow swing widely, the main thought I have is, “How will this affect me and my business?”  A downturn is never good news for small business or the people that depend on small businesses, or anyone for that matter.  A list of “10 Reasons a Downturn...

Are employees inherently “good” or inherently “evil”?

Do you think employees are inherently lazy or do you think they inherently want to do good work?  This can be debated almost as heatedly as “is man born inherently good or inherently evil?”  We have all been to a place of business or restaurant where the man or woman behind the counter isn’t going to move faster, no matter what.  You could put a gun to their head but they are still going...

Make sure everyone knows the rules BEFORE the game begins!

This posting may seem very simple but I see the negativity between agencies and translators, and, as much as I would like to distinguish my agency from that group, I have to eventually face the fact that I may not ever be able to singlehandedly overcome the space inbetween.   However, the old saying, “it takes two to tango” generally applies.  I don’t know that most agencies try to be...

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...

Shockingly Low Rates- are they good for the translation industry?

A translator from Argentina contacted our office last week asking for work, she stated that her price was $.03/word. The email came to me and I did not respond to it, I automatically have distrust for prices that low, and Global2Local is not really in need of more Spanish translators at this time. However, two days later she emailed again, stating that she would be happy to take a translation...