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Top 5 Social Media Tools For Translators - Finding the right tools for you and how to use them!

Formats: Videos
Topics: Translator business development
Software, tools & computing
Professional skills

Course summary
Availability:This training is available on-demand

Duration: 60 minutes.

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Language:English
Summary:Social Media is all the hype these days. While social media can provide excellent means for affordable marketing, it can also feel overwhelming. This video show you the top 5 social media tools to use, how you should use them to generate visibility and business, how to simplify the tasks, connecting your accounts and recycling your efforts.

Description
How can translators utilize social media to create more visibility and more business, while keeping a tight budget for your small business? This video will show you the top 5 social media tools to use, how you should use them to generate visibility and business, how to simplify the tasks, connecting your accounts and recycle your efforts.

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Target audience
Beginning and experienced translators and small translation business owners.

Learning objectives
This video will explain the top 5 social media tools for translators, how to use them to market your business, how NOT to use them, 7 guidelines for social media marketing, time management strategies for social media, connecting your accounts and recycling your efforts. All this marketing is free.

Prerequisites
Familiarity with Internet and basic knowledge of social media as a concept.

Program
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- Introduction to Social Media and the New Marketing
- Five social media tools for Translators
- Step by step instructions on how to use these tools, and how NOT to use them
- 7 guidelines for social media marketing
- Time management strategies
- Connecting your accounts and recycling your efforts

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Price: 15.00 USD

Click on the buy button on the right to purchase your seat Participation fee includes unlimited access to the recording. How do I purchase the video? To purchase your seat at this session please click on the "buy" button. After your payment is received, your status will be changed to “registered and paid” and an invoice and receipt of payment will be sent to you for your records. How do I access the video?Once the payment is processed you will be able to watch the video here: Top 5 Social Media Tools For Translators - Finding the right tools for you and how to use them!

Trainers
Terese Whitty
Bio: Tess Whitty has eight years of experience as a freelance translator from English into Swedish with
her company Swedish Translation Services. She specializes in software localization, marketing and
business communications. She has a M.A. in Business Communications and PR from Belgium and a
M.Sc. in Economics from Finland.

Before working as a translator she worked for a Telecommunications company in Sweden as a
Product Marketing Manager. She is the language chair for the upcoming ATA English-Swedish
certification program and is a member of American Translators Association, several local translation
chapters and The Swedish Association of Professional Translators. She has previously served as
the president for the Swedish School in Salt Lake City for five years. This school was funded by the
Swedish government and provided complementary Swedish education to children with Swedish
parents. During this time she also taught Swedish to teenagers and adults.

She runs a very successful freelance translation business, and works with both agencies and direct
clients. Her background in marketing has given her valuable knowledge and experience in marketing
her own business, and she is now ready to share this knowledge with other freelancers.

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