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CAT Tools & Technology

How to Spend $1 or Less on Cross-Border Payments to Your Translation Suppliers

The Open Mic Team

Dear friends! This month we’re partnering up with our friends from Smartcat to promote their all-in-one, intuitive, free-to-use translation platform. You can signup for a free

Marketing

Should Freelance Translators Have Business Cards?

Jasmine Heesaker

You might be thinking, "No way, business cards are outdated. Internet marketing is where it's at!" Well, I'm here to t

CAT Tools & Technology

Will the interpreter survive technology?

Pieter Beens

Mesay 3.0 review: The emergence of voice translation technologies has led to a host of translation computers. The ne

CAT Tools & Technology

How to Spend $1 or Less on Cross-Border Payments to Your Translation Suppliers

The Open Mic Team

Dear friends! This month we’re partnering up with our friends from Smartcat to promote their all-in-one,

Professional Development

Questions & Answers

Tom Hoar

We made it! This is the sixth and final article in my series sharing what I learned from customers about translators’

Food For Thought

The (potential deadly) impact of poor translations

Pieter Beens

Poor translations are often hilarious. On social media people share pictures of translation fails with unintended me

Marketing

4 steps to create a (nearly) perfect email for a prospect

Olesya Zaytseva

I have a strange habit of collecting links to useful online resources and publications. The reason I call it strange

Business

One-liner #47: Don’t be a baby centaur

Vladimir Zakharov

“If centaurs were real, the bottom half would start walking around immediately after being born, while the top half wo

Translator's Memoirs

Learning About Yourself Through Translating

Jasmine Heesaker

Taking the time to notice these things about myself has given me the power to become a more productive and efficient

Food For Thought

Translating Fashion

Natalia Sgibneva

Fashion is a fascinating world and one of the most interesting areas for translation. It can seem easy on the first sigh

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