Palex Journal: Clients

Palex Journal

CLIENTS

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For me, the real problems begin when I get a new request from a client, where they send three emails, five documents with a hundred comments, a couple of screenshots and an Excel file. You surely can't just pass on such "instructions" to the vendor, because you'll receive a bunch of questions, answering which will take a long time, and you'll still most likely receive the job done incorrectly.

Project Coordinator

5 min read

1 Aug 2019

CLIENTS

Structuring complex request: shape your client's needs

You always have to remember that standards and rules are nothing more than a guide—it's the minimum that you need, not everything. It's the foundation upon which you build a quality translation from the pieces of information you receive from the client—their insight, their expertise and their wishes. Quality doesn't mean following the norm. Quality is making your client happy.

Olga Simonova

Linguistic Lead

10 min read

20 Jun 2019

CLIENTS, WORKFLOWS

Translation correction by client: why it is good and what to do the feedback

I'm a linguistic lead in our company. I've analyzed hundreds of clients' complaints and spent hours explaining why we can't change the translation of one or another term. And after these hours, I still received requests to change it to what the client wanted. A normal reaction to this would be to give up and do what the client asks, but it's important to understand that it's not about an incompetent reviewer or freelancer, rather about the lack of communication between the freelancer and the client due to the endless number of intermediaries involved.

Kamil Mustafin

Linguistic Lead

10 min read

13 Jun 2019

CLIENTS, WORKFLOWS

Translation review: how to avoid miscommunication between translators and reviewers

Let's say you receive a letter from your client: "We need to translate only five words, but our budget is already exhausted this month. We will be grateful if you can do this for free." You want to make your client happy and agree without any hesitation. But it turns out that there are three glossaries, eight screenshots, and strict requirements regarding the number of characters that come with these five words. Most linguists would ask for a minimum fee for this kind of work. So, making your client happy got you to a negative budget and dissatisfied linguists whom you asked to reduce their usual rate.

Project Coordinator

9 min read

30 May 2019

CLIENTS

Free translation: how to make your client happy and avoid problems