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| | | | Barbara Carrara 
Italy
Local time: 01:08
Member (2008)
English to Italian
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ProZ.com Staff wrote:
"How much of your new clients"
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| | | | neilmac
Spain
Local time: 01:08
Spanish to English
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| | 4 new agency clients in the past 2 years | Aug 30, 2021 |
But I wouldn't call them 'regular' clients, as each of them accounts for a negligible part (albeit always appreciated) of my overall income:
1 one-off
1 came back 10 more times
1 came back 6 more times
1 came back once more
Of those, only two are likely to come back for more at some point.
I don't track projects I turn down.
With 21 jobs for 7500 euros total, I still rely on my installed client base for the major part of my earnings. I don... See more But I wouldn't call them 'regular' clients, as each of them accounts for a negligible part (albeit always appreciated) of my overall income:
1 one-off
1 came back 10 more times
1 came back 6 more times
1 came back once more
Of those, only two are likely to come back for more at some point.
I don't track projects I turn down.
With 21 jobs for 7500 euros total, I still rely on my installed client base for the major part of my earnings. I don't see any of them becoming Tier 1 clients at present, but it's enough that they get a biggish new end customer or marcom agent in my street to reshuffle my main income sources with requests for website content, social campaigns, training material, video subtitles, press releases, sales brochures, technical doc, newsletters, reports, studies, sales pitches and everything a multinational company has to have translated these days to enter or remain in FR markets.
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All my regular clients have been with me longer than two years (a very dear regular customer has been with me for over 25 years what makes me both proud and grateful). I have been working with 6 new clients (agencies and direct clients) in the last 2 years but I don’t expect them to become regular.
| | | | | No idea..... | Aug 30, 2021 |
They come and go, and come back and leave again.
Looks like the Dutch weather.:-)
| | | | Tom in London
United Kingdom
Local time: 00:08
Member (2008)
Italian to English
ProZ.com Staff wrote: This forum topic is for the discussion of the poll question "How much of your new clients started giving you regular jobs in the past 2 years?". View the poll results »
How much?? Maybe about one and a half slices, if I compact them all into one compressed block.
| | | | | Define "much" | Aug 30, 2021 |
neilmac wrote:
Define "regular".
Define "much"
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Tom in London
United Kingdom
Local time: 00:08
Member (2008)
Italian to English
| Or the English weather | Aug 30, 2021 |
Robert Rietvelt wrote:
They come and go, and come back and leave again.
Looks like the Dutch weather.:-)
....Or the English weather. But despite it, I went for a hike yesterday. Not thinking (much) about translation.
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How "much" is a piece of string?
| | | | Robert Forstag
United States
Local time: 19:08
Spanish to English
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Seems like an appropriate shot, given the state of affairs in our profession.
If only you could have zoomed in a bit closer....
| | | | Michele Fauble
United States
Local time: 16:08
Member (2006)
Norwegian to English
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[Edited at 2021-08-30 19:42 GMT]
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neilmac wrote:
Define "regular".
This time the question is so poorly phrased it's impossible to give a meaningful answer. "Around 1-25%" - is that around 1%, or around 25%? What is a "new" client? Any client I acquired in the last two years, or something else? What are "regular" jobs"?
Pass.
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I'm happy with my current client base. I haven't been taking jobs from agencies recently because their rates keep getting lower. I voted "none," but one of my new clients, a researcher in Brazil, has been referring his colleagues to me.
| | | | Kay Denney
France
Local time: 01:08
French to English
| Much ado about definitions | Aug 31, 2021 |
Define "new". I mean, there was a woman who contacted me last year, I billed work from her as a freelancer for the first time at that point. But I had previously translated for her company while working at the agency so is that really new? Then there was an agency that contacted me, and has come back for more since, that's part of the same group as another agency that gives me a lot of work. Is that really a new client?
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