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How to Be a Self Online Marketing Freelance Translator?

9 February 2010 17,567 views 12 Comments

First of all, we can’t at any level ignore the importance of “Marketing”, as it plays the major role nowadays in trading process, actually in business by general means.

“Marketing” is another name for creativity; to be a good marketer, you have to be creative, you have to fly out of the box, you have also to think how to be unexpected, and you have most of all convince everyone that they need your service, but the creativity is not to be so pushy, not to make it hard for others to listen to you, because you are so pressing. You don’t have to seem like you’re trying so hard to sell your product.

No. I think that the good marketer is the one, who understands your needs, then try to figure how his \ her product would benefit clients, and convince them that it will. Now I feel that this introduction is much enough.

How to find a freelancer translator vacancy through search browsers?

Well. Nice question. Simply type between brackets “Translators needed” and here exactly comes the role of creativity. Try to phrase this sentence in more other ways as you can, such as:

  • “Translator Required”
  • “In need for translator”
  • “I need to translate”
  • “Translation service required”
  • “Translators needed” ….etc.

This way, you can create phrases and words that gave the same meaning and help you reach the desired results. If you don’t YOOSOCIAL.ch will help you to do the appropriate search engine analysis for your business.

Google has different domains

Regarding (Google) search browser, as you may know, it has different domains, such as:

  • Google.de (Germany)
  • Google.de (Switzerland)
  • Google.co.uk (United Kingdom)
  • Google.com.eg (Egypt)
  • Google.com.ca (Canada)
  • Google.com.sa (Saudi Arabia)
  • Google.com.ru (For Russia)

You can type the mentioned before search phrases on those domains , and benefits from the button in every domain that allows you to search in specific countries.

An Example

You can visit the Google domain of Switzerland at Google.ch, and type “Translator needed” into the search box, then choose the button of “Pages from Switzerland”, and the search results that will appear, will e the pages and jobs , which were published only in Switzerland.

Of course, you may simply ant any search browser type the phrase of “Translator needed” between brackets then type – out of it – any country name, which you may want to be involved in the search like “Translator needed” United Kingdom. You can also type any other word in any category that may help defining your search query more and more, such as a specified company name, field, or salary range.

Now, this is the time of some suggestions on how to market you small business as a freelancer translator.

  • Search for publishing houses, they are, at most times, in need for translators, and always mention that you accept to do tests. This is a basic rule.
  • Search for legal offices, they always need translators, especially French translators.
  • Search for both media and marketing agencies, they always need to translate their brochures, flyers, ads, and also correspondences.
  • Finally create some short introduction e-mail, in which you should write a short description about the service provided by you, such as how many languages you speak and translate from and to, and keep it as draft. This way you’ll manage to benefit from the almost daily ads that you receive on your personal e-mail. You may simply press the reply button, paste your draft, and then send. I assure you, that you’ll get responses out of that way, because I’ve actually had got a lot of responses out of that creative also simple method.
  • Some last advice. If you didn’t get replies soon, don’t stop the process and give up. Don’t worry, at least the company has got your offer, and it will be kept for future.


This blog post has been contributed by Rola Adel R., a Freelance Russian-Arabic-English translator. You can reach her on http://bit.ly/aYvObP. If you need a professional translation service in any language, at TranslationArtwork.com your translations are in safe hands, believe me. As a translator you a welcome to easily subscribe for translation jobs here.

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  • Anneliese Trevino said:

    I am not meaning to be critical, I just notice this text has a few grammar errors in English, for example: “Now I think this introduction is much enough,” is incorrect. A better phrase would be, “I think this introduction is more than enough,” though it may sound a little strong in tone.
    I am sorry to correct this but I have a natural editorial impulse in my native English. :)

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  • Team TranslationArtwork.com (author) said:

    Dear Anneliese, thank you so much for your feedback. The article was written by a translator as service for the translation community. In our opinion a blog post does not have to be “perfect” but the content has to have a greater usage for the community. But Anneliese, would you like to write a blog post for TranslationArtwork.com. We would be very pleased. Best wishes, Your Team TranslationArtwork.

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  • Rola Adel said:

    Dear Anneliese,

    First of all, let me thank you for having the time to read my humble essay, and also for our most appreciated comments. I definitely put it into consideration, yet, I believe translation is all about providing the meaning in the most defining meaning in your opinion; this phrase can be issued in million ways. You can simply type ” It’s much enough” into Google search, and you’ll find that this term is already used a lot, so we can’t really say that it’s incorrect, but we can say ” in my opinion, I have better phrase, It’s always about opinions…..” and again, the most relevant matter in here is to deliver the meaning, and I’m glad that the content has delivered the desired usage.

    Thanks Trans Artwork for your reply, appreciates it.

    Regards.

    Rola Adel.

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  • Sofia Baker said:

    A very good marketing strategy is very important in promoting your products both online and offline.*`;

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  • Freya Harris said:

    marketing always makes a product more popular and is necessary for its success.`:,

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  • English Translation said:

    Great idea! Love seeing a creative mind work and gain success!!!!!! Hope it continues to grow!

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  • Elizabeth King said:

    marketing of products is very necessary so that someone will buy it.”-

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  • grammur said:

    actually, the first comment has three sentences separated only by commas with a tense error. =D however, she is right about the blog post. my own grammur sux tho, since i forgot evryting from bloggin too much, heheheh.

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  • Pine Desk  said:

    online marketing is my specialty, i love to market products online::,

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  • Compatible Ink : said:

    marketing is my specialty becuse i like to promote new products.:*

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  • Electric Griddle · said:

    online marketing should be a good way to promote products and servies online, it is fast and you can reach a lot of audience ..

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  • Curtain Lining said:

    marketing really takes some skill and talent if you want to succced in it ,.*

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