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Article: Time Management and the Art of Saying No | Only for a senior freelancer

David Zhang — Tue, 06 Oct 2009 08:13:00 +0000

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Topic: Article: Time Management and the Art of Saying No
Poster: David Zhang
Post title: Only for a senior freelancer

Those are really good and useful advices for a senior freelancer.

Article: Time Management and the Art of Saying No | Consider making recommendations

Mike (de Oliveira) Brady — Mon, 22 Dec 2008 05:20:00 +0000

Forum: Translation Article Knowledgebase
Topic: Article: Time Management and the Art of Saying No
Poster: Mike (de Oliveira) Brady
Post title: Consider making recommendations

Another possibility that may be useful to consider is responding with a recommendation of another translator whose work you trust for the client to deal with directly. While there is the possibility that you may lose the client to that other translator, there will also be times when your colleague will put work in your direction.

Sometimes I have had clients ask me to interpret, which is not a service I provide. In these cases I've also recommended colleagues.

You could also direct clients you cannot satisfy to this site, of course.

I think that when a client has a translation task they value your support in completing it even if you don't end up doing the translation yourself.

Article: Time Management and the Art of Saying No

ProZ.com Staff — Fri, 19 Sep 2008 02:07:36 +0000

Forum: Translation Article Knowledgebase
Topic: Article: Time Management and the Art of Saying No
Poster: ProZ.com Staff

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