The ups and downs of entrepreneurship (and life)

Don’t believe in overnight success. There are no alternative routes for success in entrepreneurship rather than to put in a consistent daily effort for a…

The secret panacea for translators: Tips to improve your translation skills

Every professional activity has its own insights and tricks to master them and usually practice is the most effective method to…

The impact of the gender pay gap in the translation industry

It’s hard to get precise numbers, but it’s accepted that there are more women working as translators than men. That fact makes the perception…

The good, the bad…and translation samples. How jumping over hurdles can help your translation business

Translation samples are often the last stumbling block standing on the way between translators and…

Conquer the web: why you need SEO translation and localization

Translating a web page and optimizing your content for search engines in a foreign language, are two separate things requiring different…

Why hire native translators?

Native translators are professionals who use their mother tongue and deep…

Localizing Marketing campaigns and selling across cultures: The thin line between Marketing translation and transcreation

Four worrying trends in the translation industry and what can we do about it

We all know the pros and cons of technological progress but there’s a darker side to those advances that are often overlooked…

What is Proofreading? Do I need it?

The best way to assure us that no errors were ignored and that we’ll be happy with our texts is by hiring an independent professional proofreader. Despite being…

Done is better than perfect: Tips to get from ideas to action

Being a perfectionist is to seek for the very best outcome and end up doing nothing. That urge many of us share prevents us from achieving…