Training Videos for Freelancers

Founder and Chief Wordsmith Pritam has been conducting webinars for Freelancers worldwide in collaboration with proz.com – Leading Translation portal. He is a Certfied Trainer and you can purchase those recorded webinars from proz.com

• From linguist to heading a professional agency - Managing the change of roles

  two module conceptual and actionable programme prepares a freelance linguist / project manager / aspirant agency owner for the change of role needed. A freelance linguist turned agency owner shares real-life, direct input on the challenge of founding, leading and growing with an agency. The presentation shares practitioner's insight into issues which are fundamentally different than encountered in the previous role. It also tells the rewards that follows the challenges.
  It provides modularized, practical and actionable tips to manage finance and time (and crisis), building supply chains (and creative destruction of them), marketing and brand-induction (freelance brand to agency brand), SSSH techniques (Segmentation, Social Networking, Stealth and Honour) in building, running and leading an Agency. more....

• Email marketing Tips for Freelancers and Agency Owners

  For a large segement of freelancers and agency owners, Email is perhaps the only affordable and effective tool for taking one's services to clients distributed globally and locally. Unfortunately, the potential of this extremely powerful tool is not harnessed due to lack of awareness and not understanding email from the standpoint of human behaviour. As long as reader of an email remains a human, without factoring human behaviour into designing and deployment of emails, the tool will not be as effective as it should be.
  Module I of the Course emphasizes this aspect in details and with real-life examples that confirm the behavioural aspect. Once these issues are pre-considered in your campaign, the chance of being noticed and the urge to engage increase significantly.
  Module II is more practical and answers the who, when, how, what next aspect of an email marketing campaign. Step by step guide to make an email marketing letter/campaign of such loaded potential that the recipient would not be able to ignore it. more....

• The art, science and commerce of pricing your translation-related products and services

  Price generally has an association of a number, an arithmetical entity. But in an open, fragmented, un-regulated and very competitive market like translation, pricing is the key for business success - both short and long term. Pricing is equally important for both freelance translators and agencies and needs to be considered while buying and selling translation products. The art and science of pricing should be considered when engaged in selling [ freelancer ] and buying [ agency ] and then selling upstream [ upstream agency to end customer ]. The video delves into many areas of business that are compressed and encrypted into a shorthand dialog "price". Topics include: competition, value-addition, investment, quality and perception of quality, self-image and perception of it. more....

• Project Management for Translation Business - Making clients and yourself happier

  The Course uses two kinds of tests - Sensitivity and Stress to evaluate a project and your engagement with it. Taking examples from real life, it advises how a good project management values and processes are essential not only to have happier clients but what is oft neglected : a happy freelancer with a more fulfilled work-life and life. more....

• Social Networking Guide for Freelancers and Agency Owners

  A step by step guide to make a linguist or agency owner truly harness the immense potential of social networking to one's own advantage.
  Understanding the potential of social networking
  1. The Costless Connection - Opportunities as a marketing tool
  2. The Frictionless Journey - opportunities to know the unknown
  3. The Levy's Theory - how to remain interesting with time
  4. Relationship and Number : Threshold and Dunbar's Number - How many should I connect to ?
  5. Linking Connection to Purpose - Why ?
  6. The art of information balance - How much should I do social networking ?
  more....

• Diversification for Freelancers : More Money and New Skills

  The course enables established and upcoming freelancers experiment and practice new diversifications strategies. Once artfully deployed, these strategies generate :
  1. More money
  2. More flexible work schedules
  3. Variation in work
  4. Learning new skills and making new connections more....

• Design your CV for the translation industry

  This presentation will take you through the issues, challenges, do's and don'ts of designing a CV for translation and localization industry. The video goes through CV design from an architectural point of view The presenter will introduce the ingredients that need to be added and sequenced so that you stand up among hundreds of CV's that drop into the client's inbox everyday.
  1. Understanding the inner dynamics of silence (after CV being sent)
  2. Trying to avoid critical issues that make a CV mute
  3. Understanding the link between interest and purpose
  4. Few structural formats of CV more....

• 20 tips and templates to write that killer marketing email

  The video provides 20 tested tips and templates to make a killer email to market your products and services to strangers. Email remains the oldest but most-used marketing tools by freelancers and small agency owners. more....