ProZ.com Newsletter: October 2016

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(1) Report to members, 2016
(2) More choice when it comes to your membership
(3) New: options for advancing your translation business
(4) The translation center now offers in-platform invoicing
(5) The Open Road: using ProZ.com to get where you need to go
(6) Open Road story 1: Biljana Stojanovic
(7) Open Road story 2: Marjon Pijl
(8) ProZ.com Mobile now available on both iOS and Android
(9) Make sure your profile ranks high in Google searches
(10) Upcoming powwows


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(1) Report to members, 2016
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"An estimated one billion USD in work has been passed through ProZ.com."

The 2016 report to ProZ.com members has been published, detailing recent news and advances of interest to those who use ProZ.com. Please consider taking a few minutes to review the report.

A big "thank you" goes out, as always, to all ProZ.com members, who make advances like those in the report, and much more, possible.

http://www.proz.com/topic/307684

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(2) More choice when it comes to your membership
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The ProZ.com site team has been working on introducing more choice into your ProZ.com membership.

You can now choose between two service packages for membership, depending on your needs:

1. The Standard service package includes all of the benefits and services you already enjoy.

2. A new Plus package will be released on November 15. This package, designed with the needs of full-time professional freelancers in mind, will include everything in the Standard package PLUS certain extras. Special pre-registration pricing is available for this service package until November 15.

See what each service package includes and compare features: http://www.proz.com/professional-membership#comparison-table-section

A promotional campaign is underway to introduce the new service packages. Significant incentives are being offered, so you may want to consider renewing your membership at this time. Please note that you do not lose any of the remaining value of your current membership when renewing early.

ProZ.com Founder and President Henry Dotterer spoke about the new choices in membership recently, at the virtual conference celebrating International Translation Day.

See the presentation on the new options for membership: http://www.proz.com/professional-membership#plusVideo

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(3) New: options for advancing your translation business
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The ProZ.com site team has been working on introducing more choice into ProZ.com membership.

You can now choose between two service packages for membership, depending on your needs:

1. The Standard service package includes all of the benefits and services already available.

2. A new Plus package will be released on November 15. This package, designed with the needs of full-time professional freelancers in mind, will include everything in the Standard package PLUS certain extras. Special pre-registration pricing is available for this service package until November 15.

See what each service package includes and compare features: http://www.proz.com/professional-membership#comparison-table-section

A promotional campaign is underway to introduce the new service packages. Significant incentives are being offered. Now is the best time to join ProZ.com as a member.

ProZ.com Founder and President Henry Dotterer spoke about the new choices in membership recently, at the virtual conference celebrating International Translation Day.

See the presentation on the new options for membership: http://www.proz.com/professional-membership#plusVideo

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(4) The translation center now offers in-platform POs and invoicing
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Two important features have been added to the translation center powered by ProZ.com and made available to ProZ.com Business members: in-platform invoicing and communications during the assignment of tasks.

See more about these and other features of this translation project management platform on the ProZ.com blog: http://wp.me/p1gp2T-1pj

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(5) The Open Road: using ProZ.com to get where you need to go
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No matter where you are in your career as a freelancer, ProZ.com is here to provide you with tools and opportunities you can use to get where you want to go. The theme of the new ProZ.com campaign is "The Open Road", and a special prize giveaway is happening in support of that theme. An Apple Watch is being given away every Friday, and one lucky winner will take home a new Nissan Juke car at the end of the year.

In this newsletter we'll take a look at the first two winners of an Apple Watch. A new winner is being selected every week.

If you are not already participating in the prize giveaways, don't wait:

http://www.proz.com/open-road

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(6) Open Road story 1: Biljana Stojanovic
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"As we all know, marketing is a vital aspect of a freelance career. Some of us are capable of making new connections easily, finding customers by meeting people and making phone calls. But, like the majority of translators, I am an introvert. I became a member of ProZ.com, I made a profile, and I became a Certified PRO. In the beginning, nothing happened. However, after only one year, I must say that the results are very visible. I have had some interesting jobs, and I’ve acquired at least five very good clients through ProZ.com."

ProZ.com member Biljana Stojanovic -- http://www.proz.com/translator/1920943 -- is an English into Serbian translator specializing in chemistry, pharmaceuticals, and engineering. She was the first Apple Watch winner.

Read the full interview with Biljana: http://www.proz.com/open-road#storyOne

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(7) Open Road story 2: Marjon Pijl
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"As a freelance translator, I am free to choose the jobs that I am interested in. It makes me happy working on a project that is a challenge for my translating skills. Having to think for an hour about a sentence or even a word and finally finding exactly what I was looking for is very satisfying. Sometimes I am so absorbed in a translation project that I suddenly realize that my stomach is rumbling with hunger because I have forgotten to eat for hours. Once I read a translation after finishing it and I see that it fits in all respects, it feels like I’ve successfully conquered a tall mountain and I’m standing at the top, enjoying the view. That is what translating is about for me!"

ProZ.com member Marjon Pijl -- http://www.proz.com/profile/1304965 -- is a Spanish to Dutch translator operating under the company name "Hasta Luego." She is also a professional psychologist, and is based in the Netherlands. She was the second winner of an Apple Watch.

Read the full interview with Marjon: http://www.proz.com/open-road#storyTwo

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(8) ProZ.com Mobile now available on both iOS and Android
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ProZ.com Mobile, an application developed by ProZ.com for use on mobile devices, is now available for use on iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch devices running iOS 8.0 or later.

While the app is still in a beta testing stage, ProZ.com members can already quote on jobs, search the Blue Board, find millions of translated terms, participate in KudoZ and more: http://www.proz.com/mobile

Get ProZ.com Mobile in the iTunes store: https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/proz.com-mobile/id1159346024?ls=1&mt=8

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(9) Making sure your ProZ.com profile ranks high in Google searches
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ProZ.com member Tristan Goodwin -- http://www.proz.com/translator/1280944 -- spoke recently at the virtual conference celebrating International Translation Day about using your ProZ.com profile to stand out and meet more clients. He has followed this up with an in-depth video discussing how to make sure your profile ranks high in Google search results. Check out the video on YouTube:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zlWlb3Q6CQI

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(10) Upcoming powwows: Iceland, Spain, UK, Mexico, Italy, Czech Republic
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October
23: Barcelona, Spain (4) http://proz.com/powwow/6146
27: Mexico, Mexico (11) http://proz.com/powwow/6137
27: Edinburgh, UK (20) http://proz.com/powwow/6131
28: Tilburg, Netherlands (4) http://proz.com/powwow/6127
28: Minsk, Belarus (12) http://proz.com/powwow/6143
29: Dusseldorf, Germany (21) http://proz.com/powwow/5956
29: Bologna, Italy (12) http://proz.com/powwow/6062
29: Reykjavík, Iceland (1) http://proz.com/powwow/6151

November
3: Valencia, Spain (7) http://proz.com/powwow/6136
5: Cardiff, UK (10) http://proz.com/powwow/6134
5: Kiev, Ukraine (18) http://proz.com/powwow/6130
9: Périgueux, France (2) http://proz.com/powwow/6148
12: Bristol, UK (15) http://proz.com/powwow/6128
12: Southampton, UK (4) http://proz.com/powwow/6065
19: Evora, Portugal (6) http://proz.com/powwow/6079

December
3: Cardiff, UK (10) http://proz.com/powwow/6086
10: Prague, Czech Republic (28) http://proz.com/powwow/5840

Full list of powwows (including those after Oct: http://www.proz.com/?sp=event/powwow_board&r_id=572


Thanks for tuning in! I look forward to sharing more Open Road stories from translators with you next time, and if you are not already participating in the prize giveaways, be sure to check them out:
http://www.proz.com/open-road

Happy translating,

Jared
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