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Discussion for Marketing & Recruitment day session (2016): Find direct clients and run a business that you love | Great presentation each freelance translator should listen to!

Wojciech Szczerek — Thu, 29 Sep 2016 19:50:00 +0000

Forum: ProZ.com's Virtual Conferences
Topic: Discussion for Marketing & Recruitment day session (2016): Find direct clients and run a business that you love
Poster: Wojciech Szczerek
Post title: Great presentation each freelance translator should listen to!

Lots of tips on the most crucial aspects of freelance work. I think everyone should see the video, at least in part to ask themselves some crucial questions about their careers.
Great job! Thank you!

Discussion for Marketing & Recruitment day session (2016): Find direct clients and run a business that you love | Lots of tips! Thank you!

Lorena Ibacache — Thu, 29 Sep 2016 11:48:00 +0000

Forum: ProZ.com's Virtual Conferences
Topic: Discussion for Marketing & Recruitment day session (2016): Find direct clients and run a business that you love
Poster: Lorena Ibacache
Post title: Lots of tips! Thank you!

They are very useful for me since I am just starting my own direct-client search. Love the presentation, very clear and motivating. Good luck to you!

Discussion for Marketing & Recruitment day session (2016): Find direct clients and run a business that you love | Just another tip in addition to what Sara told

Vadim Kadyrov — Thu, 29 Sep 2016 08:36:00 +0000

Forum: ProZ.com's Virtual Conferences
Topic: Discussion for Marketing & Recruitment day session (2016): Find direct clients and run a business that you love
Poster: Vadim Kadyrov
Post title: Just another tip in addition to what Sara told

Timing and trust - these are two things that prevent your leads from contacting you. They either don`t need your services NOW, or they don`t trust you NOW.
While you can`t influence the exact time when they will need you, you can still build up trust. How? By staying in contact with them, following up, etc.

Discussion for Marketing & Recruitment day session (2016): Find direct clients and run a business that you love | A couple of tips

Vadim Kadyrov — Thu, 29 Sep 2016 08:03:00 +0000

Forum: ProZ.com's Virtual Conferences
Topic: Discussion for Marketing & Recruitment day session (2016): Find direct clients and run a business that you love
Poster: Vadim Kadyrov
Post title: A couple of tips

[quote]Kerlene wrote:

How do you balance managing projects, actually translating, managing all your internet profiles and sites, and paying your bills? I am practically just starting out, so doing all this myself seems overwhelming. [/quote]

First, you should set up your own schedule. As for me, I DO NOT work on Saturdays and Sundays (or public holidays either). Period. These days are for my family, and for myself. Additionally, when its is 5 p.m., I just shut down my PC and use my smartphone for urgent communication with my clients.

This is very important, and this is the most crucial thing to start with.

And, you have to prioritize your everyday "chores", although it comes with practice, of course.

Finally, frankly speaking, it is better to be flooded with projects and assignments during the day then to surf social media aimlessly for 8 hours. You just start the day, and it ends almost naturally, without you even noticing that it is over.

Discussion for Marketing & Recruitment day session (2016): Find direct clients and run a business that you love | presentation slides?

Ima Oduok (X) — Wed, 28 Sep 2016 20:05:00 +0000

Discussion for Marketing & Recruitment day session (2016): Find direct clients and run a business that you love | Great presentation!

Natallia Lupik — Wed, 28 Sep 2016 18:44:00 +0000

Discussion for Marketing & Recruitment day session (2016): Find direct clients and run a business that you love | Social Media Presence Management

Kerlene Telesford — Wed, 28 Sep 2016 18:19:00 +0000

Forum: ProZ.com's Virtual Conferences
Topic: Discussion for Marketing & Recruitment day session (2016): Find direct clients and run a business that you love
Poster: Kerlene Telesford
Post title: Social Media Presence Management

How do you balance managing projects, actually translating, managing all your internet profiles and sites, and paying your bills? I am practically just starting out, so doing all this myself seems overwhelming.

Discussion for Marketing & Recruitment day session (2016): Find direct clients and run a business that you love | Well worth listening to again

Charles R. Castleberry — Wed, 28 Sep 2016 18:06:00 +0000

Discussion for Marketing & Recruitment day session (2016): Find direct clients and run a business that you love | Very useful tips to put in action

traductorjy — Wed, 28 Sep 2016 17:23:00 +0000

Discussion for Marketing & Recruitment day session (2016): Find direct clients and run a business that you love | May I try to contact a client directly if the agency which used to give me his projects has closed?

Vadim Kadyrov — Wed, 28 Sep 2016 17:19:00 +0000

Forum: ProZ.com's Virtual Conferences
Topic: Discussion for Marketing & Recruitment day session (2016): Find direct clients and run a business that you love
Poster: Vadim Kadyrov
Post title: May I try to contact a client directly if the agency which used to give me his projects has closed?

[quote]AngelikaVengrus wrote:

Hi everybody! I've done many projects for one big company during passed several years, but the agency which used to give me this texts is almost closed because of crisis and besides they still owe me money. Don't you know may I try to contact this client directly and how should I show them that I'm ready to continue our cooperation? Thank you in advance for your pieces of advice. [/quote]

I think a letter (sent by ordinary mail) would be a great idea. It should be personalized - search on-line for the name of a contact who could be responsible for finding translators (marketing manager, people responsible for provision of translations, etc.) and use the physical address of the company to send this letter.

BTW, direct mail campaigns is a great way to find direct clients ("The wealthy freelancer" book is about it), because e-mails are almost always sent to the spam folder.

[Edited at 2016-09-28 17:19 GMT]

[Edited at 2016-09-28 17:20 GMT]

Discussion for Marketing & Recruitment day session (2016): Find direct clients and run a business that you love | Excellent presentation!

kav02 — Wed, 28 Sep 2016 16:58:00 +0000

Discussion for Marketing & Recruitment day session (2016): Find direct clients and run a business that you love | English to yoruba

Omotoso Ogunmola — Wed, 28 Sep 2016 16:12:00 +0000

Discussion for Marketing & Recruitment day session (2016): Find direct clients and run a business that you love | Great session!!

Victoria Farina — Wed, 28 Sep 2016 15:03:00 +0000

Discussion for Marketing & Recruitment day session (2016): Find direct clients and run a business that you love | Great presentation

Thomas Carey — Wed, 28 Sep 2016 14:23:00 +0000

Discussion for Marketing & Recruitment day session (2016): Find direct clients and run a business that you love | Very useful presentation!

Yuliia_Behen — Wed, 28 Sep 2016 13:37:00 +0000

Discussion for Marketing & Recruitment day session (2016): Find direct clients and run a business that you love | May I try to contact a client directly if the agency which used to give me his projects has closed?

AngelikaVengrus — Wed, 28 Sep 2016 04:45:00 +0000