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Translation Ethics: December 2013

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Translation companies bad practices unveiled : free public blacklist of agencies, scammers, non payers, low payers. Online fishy businesses: Dixit (end of story. for now). Translation is the new lucrative industry to be in. As long as you're not a translator of course. That's why it attracts numerous leeches or " brokers. Who don't contribute to society by adding value but instead figure they'll just get in there and take their piece of the cake, because what else are they going to do? Dixit was created ...

Translation Ethics: January 2015

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Translation companies bad practices unveiled : free public blacklist of agencies, scammers, non payers, low payers. Travod and how to win your client's trust. Have suggested that companies should be categorised better. Y criteria for now is just who I would not work for and why. They suggest I should classify them by country, and separate bad payers, from non-payers and low payers. And on these grounds alone they are damaging the industry by lowering the standard. I made a translation for Travod. It ...

Translation Ethics: Travod and how to win your client's trust...

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Translation companies bad practices unveiled : free public blacklist of agencies, scammers, non payers, low payers. Travod and how to win your client's trust. Have suggested that companies should be categorised better. Y criteria for now is just who I would not work for and why. They suggest I should classify them by country, and separate bad payers, from non-payers and low payers. And on these grounds alone they are damaging the industry by lowering the standard. I made a translation for Travod. It ...

Translation Ethics: Guest posts

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Translation companies bad practices unveiled : free public blacklist of agencies, scammers, non payers, low payers. Business tips for translators #1: CV vs Service offer. Is giving a few tips on freelancing for translators, focusing on how to approach clients and collaborators in a professional manner,. And protect your business and reputation. Is the owner of the british translation agency Verto Languages. He wants to promote a fair pay for translators and better business practises in the industry.

Translation Ethics: Censorship of job platforms: comparing Proz and Translator's Café

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Translation companies bad practices unveiled : free public blacklist of agencies, scammers, non payers, low payers. Censorship of job platforms: comparing Proz and Translator's Café. I learned recently that TC had listened to the complaints and applied a new policy consisting of filtering out job offers lower than 5 Eur cents; and that sounds like a big step towards change. So I went on their forum and found a few jobs in my language pair. Correction: 4 GB, not 4 MB :)". 11000 Words in 3 days, and 3 euro...