Four Free Tools to Streamline Your Translations

Formats: Videos
Topics: Business of Translation and Interpreting
Business skills for translators
Translation project management
Time management
Translation project skills
Productivity tools
Software, tools & computing

Course summary
Availability:This training is available on-demand

Duration: 90 minutes.

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Language:English
Summary:Learn how to use 4 free tools to organize all your crucial information: client emails, project files, work schedule, and billing cycle.
Description
We'll discuss 4 free tools that help you organize your work day, streamline your projects, and save time. We'll walk through a regular project and explore each management step up until the moment you need to sit down and translate it: (1) receiving files by email, (2) saving it to the cloud, (3) scheduling the project, and (4) recording project and billing info. By following these steps, you'll be able to track each request to plan your week and become more efficient when you have projects back to back and work with multiple clients.
Target audience
Freelancers who want to organize their schedule and centralize information about clients, projects, and billing cycle
Learning objectives
In this presentation, you'll learn the following organization tricks:
» Color-coding emails
» Using labels to organize messages
» Organizing project files in the cloud
» Scheduling projects to plan your work day/week
» Entering invoicing information
» Keeping an eye on the billing cycle
Prerequisites
None! We'll be covering 4 tools that are available online for free.
Program
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» Using colors and icons to visually identify emails
» How to create email labels to organize messages per clients
» Folder structuring ideas to organize files in the cloud
» How to schedule your projects to plan your work day/week
»» Discussing average output and business hours
» Entering crucial information for invoicing and billing
» How to establish a billing cycle to maximize payment
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Created by
 Rafa Lombardino    View feedback | View all courses
Bio: Rafa Lombardino is a translator and journalist from Brazil who lives in California. She has been working as a translator since 1997 and, in 2011, started to join forces with self-published authors to translate their work into Portuguese and English. In addition to acting as content curator at eWordNews, she also runs Word Awareness, a small network of professional translators, and coordinates a project called Contemporary Brazilian Short Stories (CBSS) to promote Brazilian literature worldwide.
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Four Free Tools to Streamline Your Translations
Lorena Farag
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four free tools to streamline your translationsApr 5, 2016

Hello I registered and paid for the training mentioned above followed all direction to view the training and have not been able to find the name of the course. It continues to say "course not found." can you please help?

 
four free tools to streamline your translationsApr 8, 2016

Lorena-farag wrote:

Hello I registered and paid for the training mentioned above followed all direction to view the training and have not been able to find the name of the course. It continues to say "course not found." can you please help?


Hi Lorena-farag,

You should find the video at your My videos page http://www.proz.com/videos/my_videos :

http://www.proz.com/videos/4039-four-free-tools-to-streamline-your-translations

Hope this helps.

My bests,
Helen


 

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