“Innovation, Competition, and Perception” will explain how you can use innovation to differentiate, protect, and grow your business whilst delivering more value to your clients. Practical tips will be given within a realistic strategy enabling you to make affordable investments in innovation and position you as a partner that can help your clients now and in the future. And because innovation is not just limited to the technologies we use to help our clients, we will also discuss how to use innovation in services, marketing, and communication. We will also look at soft skills such as developing an innovation culture and managing your clients’ perception of your organisation.
За пределами Рунета: Переводческий тренинг на конференции TFR в Астрахани 30 июня 2016
Selling Translations® «За пределами Рунета» Продвижение ваших переводческих услуг онлайн на мировых рынках Рад сообщить, что в июне я буду проводить тренинг “За пределами Рунета” в рамках переводческой конференции TFR, которая пройдет в этом году в Астрахани. На этом тренинге вы научитесь: • Формировать маркетинговое обращение для вашего веб-сайта и онлайн-профилей; • Создавать привлекательные профили […]
Teaser for Translation Sales Workshops at TFR Sochi 2013
My fourth year at Translation Forum Russia! I’m very grateful to the organisers who have invited me again … спасибо огромное! I’m looking forward to going to Sochi where I shall be speaking and running pre-conference workshops for translators and translation companies. I hope you enjoy this animated teaser for TFR Sochi 2013 …
Selling Translations® and CSA Workshop Announced for Boston, USA, 21st May 2012
The Strategy Factor: Building the Foundation for Sustainable Growth – Take your company to the next level! In this workshop Don DePalma, Nataly Kelly, Doug Lawrence will help owners, CEOs, or Managing Directors of language service providers and technology companies develop the right corporate and sales strategies for their businesses, enabling them to stand out […]
Reputation ranking of Top 100 Russian LSPs now available in English
Following on from my post about the launch of the Reputation ranking of Top 100 Russian LSPs in December 2011 (#100buro). I’m please to announce it is now available in English. The ranking has been criticised by some (especially as it differs from financial measures). However the method is published on the site, and I hope, for one, that the Ranking will continue to be published, improve over time, and become an increasingly […]
Reputation ranking of Top 100 Russian LSPs released today!
I have a fondness for Russia and Russians, which has lead to an active interest in the fast growing Russian speaking translation market. I’ve delivered sales workshops and in-house training for translation companies and freelancers in various cities across Russian, and have been impressed by the professionalism, talent and ambition exhibited by Russian LSPs. This ranking (#100buro), the first of its […]
Translation Strategies Conference 2011, NovSU, Velikiy Novgorod, Russia: Preliminary Programme Announced
The preliminary programme for the Translation Strategies Conference 2011 at Novgorod State University in Velikiy Novgorod, Russia was published today. The conference runs from Friday October 21, until Sunday October 23, 2011. I’ll be giving a presentation entitled “Selling Translations® in a Changing Marketplace” on the Friday. The conference is organised by Novgorod branch of the Translators’ Union […]
Autumn Tour: No sleep till Kalafat!
2 continents, 9 countries, 20 cities, a good number of rivers and unfortunately 9 currencies! Avid readers of this blog (surely there are some? Mother?) may have noticed many of my recent posts were about events I’m attending, presenting, moderating, facilitating or other business-like jargon verbs and noun-verbs. This entry combines (and links to) all […]
Translation Strategies Conference 2011, NovSU, Velikiy Novgorod, Russia: Selling Translations® Presentations
I’m excited to attend the Translation Strategies Conference 2011 at Novgorod State University in Velikiy Novgorod, Russia. The conference runs from Friday October 21, until Sunday October 23, 2011. The conference is organised by Novgorod branch of the Translators’ Union of Russia, Novgorod State University, and Textowik translation agency. My exact contribution isn’t finalised yet, but it is […]
“Is Translation Software Heading to the Cloud?” – Tekom Panel Moderation
I’ve been invited to moderate this panel at tekom on Tuesday October 18, 14:45-15:30, in Room 2c at TECH-POD 3. The panelists are: Terry Lawlor, Senior VP Operations, SDL Stephan Böhmig, CTO, Wordbee Elliot Nedas, Business Development Manager, XTM David Canek, CEO, MemSource I am looking forward to panel which builds on my keynote TM-Europe […]