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[JITF2020] Finding Your Place in the Premium Market

Chris Durban Chris Durban is a US-born freelance translator based in Paris, where she translates business texts from French into English for demanding clients. She translates every day and enj...

[JITF2020] Understanding and Promoting the Value of Interpreting in an Uncertain World

Jonathan Downie Dr Jonathan Downie is a consultant conference interpreter (French<>English) and interpreting researcher based in Edinburgh, Scotland. As well as co-hosting the popular Tr...

Business Aspects to Interpreting for Commerce and Industry: Learning to think like a business owner (Part 3) Offers

Not Off-the-Shelf Because interpreting is a professional service, interpreters cannot sell their offer in the same manner as a physical product. Unlike a banana or a wrench, there is nothing to pu...

Business Aspects to Interpreting for Commerce and Industry: Learning to think like a business owner (Part 2) Value and Pricing

You say: I’m just an individual interpreter who gets almost all of my assignments from a few agencies; I feel more like a hapless laborer with three part-time jobs than an independent business. And my...

Business Aspects to Interpreting for Commerce and Industry: Learning to think like a business owner (Part 1)

Competitiveness: distinguishing your own business from others to win clients and command higher fees Preface For any profession like a medical doctor, financial accountant, notary public, real estate ...