Here's a video introduction to my new book, Getting Started as a Freelance Interpreter: Essential strategies for launching and growing your business as a spoken-language interpreter. It's now available wherever books are sold (Amazon, Barnes&Noble, Apple bookstore), but the best way to support … [Read more...] about My new book, Getting Started as a Freelance Interpreter

Greetings, Training for Translators readers, I hope you're all doing well! A quick tip for this week: When you're thinking of potential clients, don't discount professional associations for your specializations (and I mean having them as actual clients, not just research and networking … [Read more...] about Hidden client idea: Professional associations for your specializations

Happy September, Training for Translators subscribers! For those of us in the Northern Hemisphere, it’s back-to-school/rentrée time, with all the new beginnings that this time of year entails! Write a book review? If you’ve read my new book, Getting Started as a Freelance … [Read more...] about If you’re thinking about quitting freelancing, try these strategies first

This episode is based on a LinkedIn post I wrote this week, that generated a lively discussion. If you're finding the current freelance environment hard, you're not the crazy one: perhaps, all these years (or decades, or since the 1980s) you've been more of a fractional employee than a freelancer?  … [Read more...] about T4T podcast, episode 17: Do you have a freelance business, or two clients and a Gmail address?

Greetings, Training for Translators readers! I hope you're all doing well. Here's the T4T news this week: Medical marketing master class Guest instructor Ana Sofia Correia kicks off the T4T "school year" with a two-hour master class exclusively for medical translators and interpreters on … [Read more...] about First, do no harm (to yourself, when marketing)