Thank you to everyone who nominated or voted for my blog and books in this year's ProZ Community Choice awards. The winners have been announced, and I'm excited to see that Thoughts on Translation won for best blog about translation, and Finding and Marketing to Translation Agencies won for best … [Read more...] about ProZ Community Choice awards: thank you!
Blogging
Blogging for business: Five questions to answer before you start
Blogging: it's dead! Blogging: you'll never find clients without it! Is one of these true for translators and interpreters? Both are true? Neither? Is blogging totally 2009, or should you start blogging today, if you're not doing so already? Having written this blog since 2008, I can say that … [Read more...] about Blogging for business: Five questions to answer before you start
An open letter to One Hour Translation: stop lifting my blog posts
Thanks very much to readers of this blog who have recently informed me about thinly-veiled rewrites of my blog posts appearing on the blog of One Hour Translation. This dates back to the summer of 2017, when OHT's CEO responded to me about this issue, blaming outsourced writers hired by OHT and … [Read more...] about An open letter to One Hour Translation: stop lifting my blog posts
This blog, by the numbers
Here's a short post inspired by a question from a reader, who asked, "You seem open to 'ask me anything' types of questions, and I wonder if you could give us some statistics about your blog. How much traffic does it get? How many people are on your e-mail list? Do you make any money directly from … [Read more...] about This blog, by the numbers