A letter to our customers regarding the downward slide of interpreting rates

Dear Customer- We value you as a customer and feel that you deserve the best from your language services provider; therefore, it is our pleasure to assure you that the interpreter G2Local sends you will be excellent. We felt the need to send our customers this brief memo as a result of a startling downward trend we have witnessed.  We want to assure you that G2Local is not a part of the horrible...

The Trouble With Paying our Translators so Quickly!

Translators, like everyone else in the world, wish to be paid for their work in a timely manner.  I understand this and, as such, our company has made the decision to pay our translators twice a month.  We pay for all jobs from the 1-15th and then the 16th-31st.  Same thing every month.  I personally like to know when I am getting paid, I think that is fair and reasonable. Two translation...

How can my agency be part of the solution instead of part of the problem? Interpreter wages, UK court debacle, and being caught in the middle!

I had decided to not spend any more blog time on the UK situation until I read the headlines today on http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-17709440.  I am copying the story exactly to refresh your memory.  If you are familiar with the most recent debacle, please skip to the end and help me understand exactly what we can do to avoid situations like this in the future. Trial collapses at...

ATTENTION OHIO businesses! FREE translation services!

If you are an Ohio business that exports any kind of good or service, Global2Local is able to provide you with certain translation services free of charge.  FREE.  The services we can offer for FREE are those that will help your business increase its exports & imports.  These are all important items including website translation, translation of business cards, translation of marketing...

Translation pricing for today’s “prosperous” translator

I love to read translation oriented blogs, articles on the translation business, and opinions from translators.  Translators are very vocal about what they like and do not like about this industry, and there is a wealth of information out there for anyone that wants to learn about this business. I read a lot of articles regarding translation prices, and a lot of opinions regarding how one, as a...