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Poll: In your opinion, how important is it to physically meet potential clients? | .

Kay Denney — Sat, 29 Jun 2024 11:02:00 +0000

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Topic: Poll: In your opinion, how important is it to physically meet potential clients?
Poster: Kay Denney
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It's maybe not necessary to meet PMs from agencies. But with my direct clients, it's much better when I do actually meet them. I can get a better feel for them as artists.
This may not be the case when you're translating technical stuff, but definitely in the arts it's important.

Poll: In your opinion, how important is it to physically meet potential clients? | Very much a resource

Lingua 5B — Sat, 29 Jun 2024 09:44:00 +0000

Forum: Poll Discussion
Topic: Poll: In your opinion, how important is it to physically meet potential clients?
Poster: Lingua 5B
Post title: Very much a resource

One can very much be treated like a resource even in person, it doesn't change anything. For instance, I had interpreting projects where a decision maker who hired me by email never appeared in the physical world during the project, they had people working for them (who did not have the power to assess me). So, did it change anything? Not at all.

IMO not very important. I met some clients in person but that didn't make them a particularly better client than others.

[Edited at 2024-06-29 09:45 GMT]

Poll: In your opinion, how important is it to physically meet potential clients? | Communicating by e-mail is much easier!

Christine Andersen — Sat, 29 Jun 2024 09:28:00 +0000

Forum: Poll Discussion
Topic: Poll: In your opinion, how important is it to physically meet potential clients?
Poster: Christine Andersen
Post title: Communicating by e-mail is much easier!

I did actually meet a couple of my best clients, when we worked for the same agency. They are Norwegians, and I can read Norwegian without trouble, but guiding them round a small Danish town was quite another matter! We resorted to speaking English, which worked, of course, but was not the same. Danish and Norwegian look very similar on paper, but we have real trouble understanding each other's spoken language.

It is often a pleasure to meet clients at seminars or other gatherings, and it may be a good way to find new clients, but for me, it is not an important part of the business relationship.

What if they discover that I'm really a grumpy old woman, not that charming person I try to project in my mails? :-D

Poll: In your opinion, how important is it to physically meet potential clients? | Very useful, I would think

The Shredder — Sat, 29 Jun 2024 09:25:00 +0000

Forum: Poll Discussion
Topic: Poll: In your opinion, how important is it to physically meet potential clients?
Poster: The Shredder
Post title: Very useful, I would think

As I’ve said here many times before, meeting clients in person is the best marketing you can do, because they then remember you and are more likely to treat you as a human being rather than a “resource”. However asocial we might be collectively, it’s always nicer working with a person than a machine.

That said, I’ve never met a potential client, only existing ones.

Poll: In your opinion, how important is it to physically meet potential clients? | Not at all

Alex Lichanow — Sat, 29 Jun 2024 08:45:00 +0000

Forum: Poll Discussion
Topic: Poll: In your opinion, how important is it to physically meet potential clients?
Poster: Alex Lichanow
Post title: Not at all

I am yet to meet any of my clients in person and it has never been necessary for my business.
One of my existing clients insists on monthly Google Meets to discuss each month's jobs in detail, so I do get to hear her regularly, but we don't even use cameras in those Meets. That is pretty much the closest "personal" contact I have ever had.

Poll: In your opinion, how important is it to physically meet potential clients? | Not important at all

Enrico Zoffoli — Sat, 29 Jun 2024 05:39:00 +0000

Forum: Poll Discussion
Topic: Poll: In your opinion, how important is it to physically meet potential clients?
Poster: Enrico Zoffoli
Post title: Not important at all

In fact, not having to do that is one of the cool things about this job.

Poll: In your opinion, how important is it to physically meet potential clients? | Not important at all

Maria Teresa Borges de Almeida — Fri, 28 Jun 2024 21:11:00 +0000

Forum: Poll Discussion
Topic: Poll: In your opinion, how important is it to physically meet potential clients?
Poster: Maria Teresa Borges de Almeida
Post title: Not important at all

Except for sworn translations (which since I moved back to Portugal in 2015 I only do 3 or 4 per year), in more than 40 years in the business I have only met 3 clients in person.

Poll: In your opinion, how important is it to physically meet potential clients?

ProZ.com Staff — Fri, 28 Jun 2024 20:10:04 +0000

Forum: Poll Discussion
Topic: Poll: In your opinion, how important is it to physically meet potential clients?
Poster: ProZ.com Staff

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