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| Business issues | Overseas Customer | Blue Board | There is a feature named Blue Board here in ProZ.
I usually use that to gauge my clients. Any
clients under 4.5 stars typically do not get much
attention from me.
But there is always a | Mohammad Renaldi Diponegoro | Dec 11, 2023 | | Business issues | How bad is declining job after accepting it | Discuss with the client | For your situation, I think it is best to try to
discuss it with your client. Tell the truth to
them.
In my opinion, it all boils down to 2
scenarios:
1. If you are confident you can | Mohammad Renaldi Diponegoro | Dec 7, 2023 | | Translation Theory and Practice | Do people lose interest when you say "I'm a translator"? | They do they | [quote]Tom in London wrote:
Somehow translators
don't seem to be thought of as interesting
people.
[Edited at 2023-12-06 09:49 GMT]
[/quote]
I am not interested in what people | Mohammad Renaldi Diponegoro | Dec 6, 2023 | | Business issues | Reasonable for client to ask for a copy of my Certified Translator certificate? | Well... | You could scan the certificate using any scanner
app for your mobile phone. There are plenty of
these apps on the Apple Store/Play Store.
And
then you could convert it to PDF and send | Mohammad Renaldi Diponegoro | Oct 19, 2023 | | Translation Theory and Practice | Professionals are hard to find | Spot on! | [quote]Lieven Malaise wrote:
So I think a lot
of translators will only respond if they have an
immediate interest in doing so.
[Edited at
2023-09-25 06:06 GMT] [/quote]
Spot o | Mohammad Renaldi Diponegoro | Sep 25, 2023 | | Translation Theory and Practice | Professionals are hard to find | Maybe... | This is just a guess from me. But maybe, it lies
in the nature of our industry. Translation is not
a highly regulated profession, unlike some
industries like engineering, pharma, aviation, | Mohammad Renaldi Diponegoro | Sep 25, 2023 | | Marketing for language professionals | ProZ vs. LinkedIn: Which Platform is Better? | At least... | [quote]Baran Keki wrote:
Unless you're a native
English 'niche' translator translating from a
major language, and therefore seeking good paying
direct clients as opposed to translation< | Mohammad Renaldi Diponegoro | Sep 19, 2023 | | Marketing for language professionals | ProZ vs. LinkedIn: Which Platform is Better? | Each has their own merits | I use both LinkedIn and ProZ. I think both of them
has their own advantages:
ProZ: more focused on
the translation industry. As such, you might find
jobs and resources as well as troubl | Mohammad Renaldi Diponegoro | Sep 18, 2023 | | Scams | Scam: Public Organization Procedures Research Phase 1 and 2 | Thank you! | [quote]Maria Suescum wrote:
I received a
request from a Proz user, Md Omar Faruk, asking me
to apply for work. There are no reviews from him.
Bering is a South Korean company and the | Mohammad Renaldi Diponegoro | Jun 12, 2023 | | Business issues | Do you work on Sundays? | Not officially, but... | ...There are always exceptions that I reserve only
for my long-time clients. Other than that, they
must build their reputations with me first.
Reputations such as not paying late, regular< | Mohammad Renaldi Diponegoro | Jul 25, 2022 | | Getting established | Is it normal for work volume to go up and down? | It is normal | Hence you should always be on the lookout for new
and potential clients, and maintain a good
relationship with existing clients. Not to mention
always upgrading yourself on the new transla | Mohammad Renaldi Diponegoro | Jun 30, 2022 | | Business issues | Application for a monthly invoicing agencies | Been 4 years using... | Hiveage (hiveage.com). Its web-based and the
lowest pricing plan is USD 15/month on annual
plan. The plan, of which I use, includes:
Unlimited clients
Unlimited invoices
2 Staff
(i | Mohammad Renaldi Diponegoro | Aug 29, 2019 | | Money matters | Invoicing tool for agencies | Personally I use... | Hiveage (www.hiveage.com). While it is lacking in
project management and translation software, it
makes up in the ease of use for recurring projects
and different pricing entries.
The v | Mohammad Renaldi Diponegoro | Mar 19, 2019 | | Lighter side of trans/interp | Have you ever had a project you absolutely loved? | Greetings from a fellow game translator! | Ah, I see that you have found the passion and
reason to stay in translation industry. I have
taken gaming translation projects from 2010, and I
could say that I love every moment of it. Fr | Mohammad Renaldi Diponegoro | Dec 7, 2018 | | Windows operating systems | My PC seems to run fast, but my CATs are still quite slow. What can I do? | Memory problem? | [quote]Luca Tutino wrote:
This time I have
tried to save and pretranslate with MT. It does
not seem to be much slower than without MT. Here
you can see the resources accourding to PE:
| Mohammad Renaldi Diponegoro | Aug 8, 2016 | | Trados support | Studio Plugin for Microsoft Translator | Hope you will consider the 2014 version | SDL updates Trados 2014 quite often, it will be
great if your plugin could run in native 2014
environment instead of the 2011 workaround.
Looking forward to it. | Mohammad Renaldi Diponegoro | Oct 31, 2014 | | Business issues | That moment when you missed a job offer email | Been there, done that | Well, I believe there's nothing you can do other
than to grit your teeth and move on. I agree with
Ildiko (Hi Ildiko, we met quite often in TWB); a
professional relationship is mutual.
| Mohammad Renaldi Diponegoro | Feb 24, 2014 | | Getting established | Advice: getting established without an education? | many ways to Rome | [quote]AlexHughes wrote:
It helps to know that
there are other successful translators who don't
have a bachelors degree. Hopefully if I study hard
enough, I will be able to get one of t | Mohammad Renaldi Diponegoro | Aug 24, 2011 | | Getting established | Looking for texts for sample translations | Project Gutenberg | Project Gutenberg is also a good place to start.
They host more than 36,000 free ebooks from US.
You might want to take a look at subjects that
best describes you, and pick up some pages t | Mohammad Renaldi Diponegoro | Aug 7, 2011 | | Indonesian | Pemberitahuan: "A simple choice for Translators" | menarik :) | [quote]Harry Hermawan wrote:
Bikin polling
gitu. Atau apa lah...via polling gratisan dan
setelah itu bisa diberikan data keras tersebut ke
ProZ.com.
[/quote]
Bagus dibawa ke milis | Mohammad Renaldi Diponegoro | Jun 4, 2011 | | Translation Theory and Practice | Addition of Cultural Explanations - Yes or No? | should ask first | [quote]Paul Dixon wrote:
Is it advisable to add
explanatory information to a translation, to make
the text more understandable to people outside the
source culture? And, if so, how much | Mohammad Renaldi Diponegoro | Jul 30, 2010 | | Money matters | Reply to quote... | nothing is better... | [quote]Mohamed Mehenoun wrote:
I was amazed
last time to see people bid for a job posted by a
contractor rated 1 on the blue board by two fellow
translators !
Some people are just l | Mohammad Renaldi Diponegoro | Jul 28, 2010 | | Software applications | Anti-virus software suggestions? | Avast, Comodo & (probably) Apple ? | [quote]lidija68 wrote:
I use avast, and I'm
very happy with it. [/quote]
Yes I also use it,
lightweight, optional silent/gaming mode, easy &
light update system...no problems at
| Mohammad Renaldi Diponegoro | Jul 20, 2010 | | Office applications | Best way to translate with PDF files and other PDF issues | OCR is good | I think its best to go with OCR (Optical Character
Recognition) softwares such as Scansoft OmniPro.
This is the case if the PDF file is mainly
text. If the file is mainly drawings/pict | Mohammad Renaldi Diponegoro | Jul 8, 2010 | | CAT Tools Technical Help | free/open source word counter | Try searching these... | For MS-Word there's a built-in word counter on
Tools>Word Count
For freeware or shareware
applications that you mentioned, you might try
some sites such as :
- www.softpedia.com
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