Promote your business: new and original tools to promote your translation business

Formats: Webinar presentations
Topics: Getting established in the translation industry
Marketing tools for translators
Grow your translation business
Marketing for translators
Business of Translation and Interpreting

Course summary
Start time:Aug 11, 2015 15:00 GMT     Add to calendar

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Language:English
Summary:Improve your communication and marketing skills with a few new tools and trends that are changing the way freelancers work. Simple tools that can help you to be seen in innovative, more personalised and unique ways without spending a folly.
Description
In one hour we will learn more about a few new apps and marketing tools that are cheap and effective and can help you to increase your contacts, reach new clients and establish your business.
Specifically we will explore Periscope, Pinterest new buy button, CANVA and mobile contents that sells.

Going past fancy logos and motivational quotes, we will take a look at the marketing potential of integrating these tools and how trends are changing also the way that freelancers communicate and work.
Target audience
Freelancers starting in the translation industry.
Experienced freelancers who want to expand their clients database.
Outsources who want to get new end clients.
Project managers that want to learn new techniques to improve their performance.
Learning objectives
In this webinar you will learn:
• what are the trends in social media and digital communication for business purposes
• what has changed in the translation industry in terms of social media usage and connectivity
• how to use Periscope & CANVA for business purposes
• why is the Pinterest "buy" button key for freelancers too
• how to use these and other social media platforms to create unique contents and reach more people
• why it is important to be innovative and improve the way we communicate in our work environment
Prerequisites
No specific prerequisite
Program
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Contents include:
• learning how to use Periscope and CANVA
• know more about recent changes in social media for small businesses
• learn how to take advantage of the mobile revolution for your translation business
• plan and create unique and personalised marketing campaigns based in these new tools
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Created by
Sara Colombo    View feedback | View all courses
Bio: Sara is a qualified En-Fr-Sp>Italian translator with 6 years of experience within the marketing, business and CE/medical devices fields backed by relevant working experience in the marketing industry.

She is also the author of the book ‘Balance Your Words. Stepping in the translation Industry’ and a blogger at www.saracolombotranslations.com
A marketer by heart, Sara loves to use social media to connect with peers but also to find new markets and niches. To get in touch with her connect through Twitter (@sc_translations), LinkedIn (Sara Colombo), Facebook (Sara Colombo Translations) or visit her blog!
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