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Apr 10 2017
Corinne McKay

Free webinar Wednesday: Three ways to find your first translation clients

This Wednesday (April 12), I’ll be giving a free webinar through SDL’s professional development series, on Three ways to find your first translation clients. Inspired by my blog post on the same topic, I’ll describe how to:

  • work the local market
  • apply to translation agencies that base their hiring only on their own tests
  • cultivate a micro-niche

These strategies are intended mostly for new translators who need a way around the chicken and egg dilemma of, “Clients don’t want to hire me without experience, but how do I get experience if clients won’t hire me?” It’s free, and is not a sales pitch. Hope to see some of you there!

Written by Corinne McKay · Categorized: Announcements, Getting started as a translator, Marketing

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  1. Mayte Millares says

    April 10, 2017 at 5:26 pm

    What time?

    Reply
    • Corinne McKay says

      April 10, 2017 at 5:43 pm

      Thanks, Mayte: it’s at 4 PM UK time (time should be on the web page I linked to), which is 5 hours ahead of US Eastern time. I’m in Colorado (Mountain time) and it’s at 9 AM my time.

      Reply
  2. Guylaine says

    April 11, 2017 at 3:34 pm

    HI, Corinne!
    I’m having trouble registering for the webinar. I wrote to SDL but no one answered me yet. Can you help?

    Reply
    • Corinne McKay says

      April 12, 2017 at 3:29 am

      Hello Guylaine and I’m sorry to hear that! Unfortunately I can’t process registrations directly, but you could contact Ed Flower (eflower@sdl.com) to see if he can help.

      Reply
      • Guylaine Jacob says

        April 12, 2017 at 2:23 pm

        Hi Corinne,
        Thanks to you and Ed, everything’s fine now. Great team work! Can’t wait to hear the webinar. Thank you!

        Reply
        • Corinne McKay says

          April 12, 2017 at 4:40 pm

          Thanks, hope you enjoyed it!

          Reply

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