Creating and optimizing a website for your translation business

Format: Webinar presentations
Topic: Personal branding
Course summary
Start time:Mar 30, 2017 15:00 GMT     Add to calendar

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Duration: 60 minutes.

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Language:anglais
Summary:A session on how to quickly and easily create and optimize a website specificly directed at freelance translators.
Description
Deciding to create a website for your professional freelance translation business is one of the best ways to maximize your business success. This session will show you how you how to create your own website at no or low cost, without having to know html or hire a web designer. The session presents what content you should include and how to make it more visible online. Specific examples of website content for linguists will be discussed, plus some dos and don’ts in website creation and maintenance.

This presentation will cover the following topics:

  • Why we need a website for our freelance translation/interpretation business
  • Free or low cost website hosting and templates
  • Steps to create your own business website
  • Website content
  • Do’s and don’ts for a translation service website
  • Marketing your website
  • Basic Search Engine Optimization
  • Integrating your website into the rest of your online presence and marketing




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    Target audience
    • Freelancers starting in the translation industry.
    • Experienced freelancers who want to expand their clients database
    • Freelance translators who do not yet have a website to market their business with
    Learning objectives
    - How to create a website in an affordable and easy way, without knowledge in HTML
    - Content and do's and don'ts for a professional website for freelance translators
    - How to make your website more visible and get clients to find it
    - How to integrate your website in your marketing
    Prerequisites
    Basic computing skills and familiarity with Internet
    Program
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    This presentation will cover the following topics:
    Why we need a website for our freelance translation/interpretation business
    Free or low cost website hosting and templates
    Steps to create your own business website
    Website content
    Do’s and don’ts for a translation service website
    Marketing your website
    Basic Search Engine Optimization
    Integrating your website into the rest of your online presence and marketing
    Registration and payment information (click to expand)
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    For PC-based Users:

    • Required: Windows Vista – Windows 10
    • Required: Google Chrome v39 or later; Mozilla Firefox v34 or later; Internet Explorer v8 or later (JavaScript™ and Java™ enabled)
    • Required software: GoToWebinar desktop app; JavaScript enabled
    • NOT required: Microphone - attendees can communicate with the trainer through incorporated chat.

    • Internet Connection Required: 1 Mbps or better (broadband recommended)
    • Recommended: 2GB or more of RAM (recommended)


    For Mac®-based Users:

    • Mac OS X 10.8 (Mountain Lion) – 10.11 (El Capitan)
    • Required: Microsoft Edge; Apple Safari v6 or later
    • Required software: GoToWebinar desktop app; JavaScript enabled
    • NOT required: Microphone - attendees can communicate with the trainer through incorporated chat.

    • Internet Connection Required: 1 Mbps or better (broadband recommended)
    • Recommended: 2GB or more of RAM (recommended)

    Join from Android

    • Operating system: Android 4.0 (Ice Cream Sandwich) or later
    • Internet connection: 3G connection or better (WiFi recommended for VoIP audio)
    • Software: Free GoToWebinar App from the Google Play Store



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    Created by
     Tess Whitty    View feedback | View all courses
    Bio: Tess Whitty has been an English to Swedish freelance translator for the past 18 years. Before that she studied and worked with marketing.

    During the past 10 years she has also shared her marketing knowledge and translator experience with other freelance translators as a speaker, trainer, consultant, author, and podcaster. She has been sharing her experience and knowledge in online marketing through workshop, courses and e-books since 2016. In 2020 and 2021, she was ranked among the top 50 world’s industry localization influencers by Nimdzi. For more information, or to connect, go to www.marketingtipsfortranslators.com.


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