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Necesitamos asegurar nuestro retorno

English translation: We need to secure our return

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Spanish term or phrase:Necesitamos asegurar nuestro retorno
English translation:We need to secure our return
Entered by: Eugenio Llorente

22:31 Mar 24, 2008
Spanish to English translations [PRO]
Marketing - Marketing / Market Research / advertising
Spanish term or phrase: Necesitamos asegurar nuestro retorno
El contexto se refiere a que es necesario tomar medidas, en este caso hacer que la publicidad sea realmente efectiva, de modo que podamos contar con un retorno de la inversión.
Eugenio Llorente
Spain
Local time: 00:41
We need to secure our return
Explanation:
This is how I would say it.
Selected response from:

Nikolaj Widenmann
United States
Local time: 16:41
Grading comment
Concise and to the point. I thought as much but I wasn't sure. Thank you very much.
4 KudoZ points were awarded for this answer



Summary of answers provided
4 +6We need to guarantee return (on our investment)
Victoria Porter-Burns
4 +2We need to secure our return
Nikolaj Widenmann
4 +1We need to ensure the return will be sufficient
Marian Greenfield
5need assurance of a positive ROI.
J- Kloninger
4We must insure/assure our return
Ryan Becker
4We need to secure our payback
Bubo Coroman (X)
4We need to ensure our return (on investment -ROI)
Alpha-Beta


  

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2 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5 peer agreement (net): +6
We need to guarantee return (on our investment)


Explanation:


Victoria Porter-Burns
United Kingdom
Local time: 23:41
Specializes in field
Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish
PRO pts in category: 4

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  Elizabeth Medina: Agree, with small change: ...guarantee our ROI.
7 mins
  -> Thanks Elizabeth. ROI is return on investment.
agree  Patrice
8 mins
  -> Thanks Patrice!
agree  Janine Libbey
17 mins
  -> Thanks viva madrid!
agree  Egmont
19 mins
  -> Thank you :-)
agree  Ruth Rubina
1 hr
  -> Thanks Ruth
agree  JPW (X)
13 hrs
  -> Thanks again, John
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4 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5
We must insure/assure our return


Explanation:
suerte

Ryan Becker
United States
Native speaker of: English
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5 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5 peer agreement (net): +1
We need to ensure the return will be sufficient


Explanation:
there are various ways to word this in context, but I would not use "guarantee", as to "guarantee return" means you're offering a guaranteed return (generally to investors), not securing your own return

Marian Greenfield
Local time: 18:41
Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish
PRO pts in category: 70

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  Patrice: yes, or guarantee "a" return
6 mins
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8 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 5/5
need assurance of a positive ROI.


Explanation:
ROI is the acronym for Return on Investement. This is a well know phrase and can usually be used this way in a marketing/business context

J- Kloninger
Local time: 16:41
Specializes in field
Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish
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11 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5 peer agreement (net): +2
We need to secure our return


Explanation:
This is how I would say it.

Nikolaj Widenmann
United States
Local time: 16:41
Works in field
Native speaker of: Native in DanishDanish, Native in EnglishEnglish
PRO pts in category: 4
Grading comment
Concise and to the point. I thought as much but I wasn't sure. Thank you very much.

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  De Novi
1 hr
  -> Thanks
agree  Carline Dumoulin: We need to secure our return on investment
2 hrs
  -> Thanks
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33 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5
We need to secure our payback


Explanation:
definition of "payback":

Main Entry: pay·back
Function: noun
Date: 1955
1: a return on an investment equal to the original capital outlay

Bubo Coroman (X)
Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish
PRO pts in category: 105
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10 hrs   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5
We need to ensure our return (on investment -ROI)


Explanation:
I think this is closer to the original

Alpha-Beta
Bulgaria
Specializes in field
Native speaker of: Native in BulgarianBulgarian, Native in SpanishSpanish
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