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)

Greetings, Training for Translators readers! It's August! Vacation season for those of us in the Northern Hemisphere! Perhaps your mind isn't on work, and you're getting a well-deserved break. This year, I front-loaded my summer adventures in May and June (Fiji, Grand Canyon, cello camp), but in … [Read more...] about Ways to combat overthinking