How to open a translation agency

To open a translation agency, you will need a small office room, equipped as standard, and registration of a legal entity or individual entrepreneur. Non-standard solutions will require the promotion of a translation company and the selection of qualified employees. The entrepreneur who decided to start the translation business should be the first to think about the last two tasks.

You will need

• - certificate of registration of individual entrepreneur or legal entity;

• - An office equipped with landline telephones and computers connected to the Internet;

• - Editor, administrator and lawyer on an ongoing basis;

• - several translators on an ongoing basis or working remotely;

• - A database of remote translators, including those specializing in less common languages ​​and "synchronists";

• - advertising website business card.

Instruction manual

1

Find an employee who will become your "right hand" and help organize your activities, the editor. Well, if it will be your friend, and be sure - a linguist by education. Only a professional can always distinguish a truly qualified translator from a second-rate translator.

2

Decide whether you will recruit translators or to work with remote employees. The editor mentioned above, as well as the administrator and the lawyer (necessary for the provision of notarized translation services) must in any case be on the staff of your office. The selection of translation staff should be carried out by an experienced editor.

3

Make a list of the services that your translation company will provide. In addition to the common translation from / into English, French and German, it can be a translation from "exotic" languages, a notarized translation, an interpretation. Many translation agencies also provide layout services (prepress) of materials that are planned to be published in the form of a brochure or booklet.

4

Create a website for your translation agency - market players unanimously call the electronic page the most effective promotion tool in this business. Do not spare money for the "promotion" of the resource, they will soon pay off in full. To get into the city directory of goods and services, however, will also be useful.

Useful advice

Remember that efficiency in the matter of translation plays a huge role, so be sure to set tariffs for translation services "urgent", which usually cost customers twice as much.

Work not only with high-class station wagons, requiring significant remuneration for your work, but also connect novice student translators who are quite able to take orders “simpler” and less urgent.

Own translation agency: secrets of a successful business