Poll: My biggest client is Téma indítója: ProZ.com Staff
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EvaVer (X) 
Local time: 22:06
cseh - francia
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| International | Apr 30, 2017 |
just now, but this can change with one big project - there are at least 6 clients that can potentially rise to the top.
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| Other - international in my own country | Apr 30, 2017 |
My biggest clients are all international organizations. Most of them are based in the U.S., though they are 3 hours ahead of me.
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| International | Apr 30, 2017 |
Like Muriel, my biggest clients are all international organizations. In general, my Portuguese clients are very occasional (I have a reputation of being expensive…), with one exception: I deal directly with the Portuguese branch of an American specialty interventional therapies company, but I invoice the head office in Germany…
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Michael Harris
Németország
Local time: 22:06
Tag (2006 óta)
német - angol
I do not have a "bigest client". I always make sure that everything is well spread so that when the one drops, it can be caught by one of the others.
But other than that, all of my customers are based in Europe.
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Julian Holmes
Japán
Local time: 05:06
Tag (2011 óta)
japán - angol
All of them are local since I can go and visit them in the (highly unlikely) event that they don't pay.
I am in negotiations with a few companies based overseas but they are dangling the proverbial carrot so I'm really in two minds as to if I am going to bite and take the bait. FYI, it's always the overseas customers who approach me with the lure of 'potential' projects. At least the customers here contact me with real, actual work.
[Edited at 2017-04-30 11:05 GMT]
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DZiW (X)
Ukrajna
angol - orosz
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| DIRECT foreign clients locally | Apr 30, 2017 |
They are mostly local offices of foreign companies and their representatives or referrals.
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neilmac
Spanyolország
Local time: 22:06
spanyol - angol
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But has gone global. The company started out in Spain roughly 20 years ago and now has offices in several countries in Latin America and Europe, and clients in more than 65 around the world.
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| No local clients at all | Apr 30, 2017 |
I purposefully avoid local clients as they underpay translators compared to the international market.
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| No local clients | Apr 30, 2017 |
No local clients from my beautiful country. Nadie es profeta en su tierra = Nobody is a prophet in his/their own land.
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Edwige Thomas
Franciaország
Local time: 22:06
Tag (2014 óta)
angol - francia
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| Local, what else? | Apr 30, 2017 |
Given the taxes and insurance I have to pay in Germany, I don't see how I could survive if my biggest client were outside Europe, or even in France for example. Most agencies outside Germany/Northern Europe offer ridiculous rates.
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| First-world countries | Apr 30, 2017 |
tomtom88 wrote:
Given the taxes and insurance I have to pay in Germany, I don't see how I could survive if my biggest client were outside Europe, or even in France for example. Most agencies outside Germany/Northern Europe offer ridiculous rates.
[Edited at 2017-04-30 20:59 GMT]
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That is the price you have to pay for living in a first-world country.
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| Third-world countries | Apr 30, 2017 |
Platon Danilov wrote:
I purposefully avoid local clients as they underpay translators compared to the international market.
This is the advantage of living in a third-world country.
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Mario Freitas
Brazília
Local time: 17:06
Tag (2014 óta)
angol - portugál
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| Very few local clients | May 1, 2017 |
Platon Danilov wrote:
I purposefully avoid local clients as they underpay translators compared to the international market.
Same here. Until the local clients show some respect for the profession, they'll have to do without me.
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| International: France | May 2, 2017 |
My biggest client is French..
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