Classes for translators

Greetings, readers! I apologize for the radio silence here over the past couple of weeks (lots of big translation projects going on!), and I have a couple of posts in the works that will go up soon.

My online courses always take a pause over the summer, but I wanted to let you know that the September session of Getting Started as a Freelance Translator is open for registration at the Early Bird rate of $380. This session is filling up pretty quickly, so now is a good time to register if you like to plan ahead!

This is a four-week online session for beginning translators in any language combination, anywhere in the world. Over the four weeks, you’ll do 12 online videos at your own pace, and you’ll complete four homework assignments that I will give you individualized feedback on: your translation-targeted resume and cover e-mail, rates and billable hours sheet, marketing plan, and online presence. We also do eight live question and answer sessions (recordings provided if you can’t attend live), so that you can get all of your questions about freelance translation answered. When you’re looking at online courses, I think it’s important to pick one that offers individual feedback and the opportunity to ask questions, which all of my courses do.

A past student in this class commented, “Neither in my undergraduate classes in education nor in some of the more practical classes I took as part of my MA in English (including the course connected to my assistantship as a writing consultant) did I ever experience one course that delivered as much precise and helpful information as this course.” If you’d like to launch your freelance business on the right foot, reserve your spot today and join us on September 6 when the course kicks off.

My online course Marketing to Direct Clients starts Monday, and I still have a couple of spots left. It’s a four-week online session that includes online videos, eight live question and answer sessions (recordings provided if you can’t attend), and individual feedback on four homework assignments. You’ll finish the course with a doable plan for finding and marketing to direct clients.

A recent participant in one of my courses commented, “The course was fantastic, full of lots of interesting materials and useful tips and tricks on how to move forward with our businesses. I was particularly struck with how generous Corinne is with her time and how she makes herself available on conference calls, inviting questions to answer and debating business issues with fellow translators.”

Registration for Marketing to Direct Clients is $380, with a $15 discount for ATA members (use code ATA at checkout), and a $15 discount for anyone who’s taken a previous course with me (use code ALUM at checkout). I hope to see some of you there!

My final online course of the “school year” starts on May 8: it’s a four-week, fully online session of Marketing to Direct Clients, and is limited to 20 students. A past participant commented, “Corinne’s course arrived just at the right moment in my freelance translation career, at this crossroads where you know you have to move up in terms of client base, rates and overall income, but you just don’t know where to start or what to do.”

Like all of my courses, Marketing to Direct Clients includes lots of personal attention and practical information that you can apply right away:

• Twelve slide shows with audio tracks, to view at your convenience.
• Four homework assignments with individual feedback.
• Eight live question and answer sessions (recording provided if you don’t want to attend live).
• E-mail support from me for any additional questions you have.

Marketing to Direct clients is open to translators in any language combination, and at any stage of freelance work. The only prerequisite is to have an established freelance business and a desire to move into the direct client market. Registration for the course is $380; ATA members get a $15 discount (use code ATA), and anyone who’s taken a previous class with me gets a $15 discount (use code ALUM). I hope to see some of you there!

My advanced coaching group–for experienced translators who want one-on-one advice, plus the support of a group–starts on Monday, and I have a couple of spots left.

The group lasts for five weeks, and is designed to help you create a daily routine around marketing and business development. Everyone starts off with an hour-long individual call with me, during which we talk about the current state of your business and what you’d like to work on during the group. You then break that goal into daily tasks that you track, and we do two weekly group calls for you to ask questions and report on your progress. I send out daily tips for motivation, and the group wraps up with another hour-long individual call.

Participants in the inaugural session of this group commented:

Thanks for a great course, I really enjoyed it and I feel like a lot of things have improved in the last month!

Thank you so much Corinne. You have no idea how useful this was for me.

The class definitely gave me a strong incentive to work on marketing every day because of the built-in accountability. I miss the calls now! I’m very glad I did it, and I don’t think I would ever have done this much work on my own!

This course was interactive and, it offered tailored advice. Even if my business is going quite well, I needed this course to consider other revenue streams.

Registration is $530, with a $15 discount for ATA members (use code ATA), and a $15 discount for anyone who’s taken a previous class with me (use code ALUM). You can also combine those discounts. To read the full course description or to register, please visit the course web page.