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I won't be playing much of a role in terms of site moderation, so this hat fits.
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Mario Freitas Brésil Local time: 10:05 Membre (2014) anglais vers portugais + ...
I've had many and I don't have any
Apr 24, 2019
That's exactly the issue with direct clients. They are great, but they are usually one-timers or for a short while. You really can't count on direct clients and discard the agencies, no matter how good the former are or how bad the latter are.
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Muriel Vasconcellos États-Unis Local time: 06:05 Membre (2003) espagnol vers anglais + ...
More than 75% of my active client base
Apr 24, 2019
I receive work from about 7 international organizations, which account for more than 75% of my *current* client base and about 90% of the volume. The work flow with agencies is much less consistent. They are usually looking for my Portuguese, whereas most of my workload with international organizations is from Spanish. If I include one-offs and some agencies that I can go a long time without hearing from them and then suddenly appear, then it's a different picture: there are more than 65 client... See more
I receive work from about 7 international organizations, which account for more than 75% of my *current* client base and about 90% of the volume. The work flow with agencies is much less consistent. They are usually looking for my Portuguese, whereas most of my workload with international organizations is from Spanish. If I include one-offs and some agencies that I can go a long time without hearing from them and then suddenly appear, then it's a different picture: there are more than 65 clients on that list.
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EvaVer (X) Local time: 15:05 tchèque vers français + ...
About 25% in number, 35% in turnover
Apr 24, 2019
… YTD, considering only "active" clients (i.e., those I have worked for this year). To me, direct clients generate MORE turnover than agencies on average, but this is due to some large direct clients and a lot of agencies very small to me (sometimes one-off jobs in rather rare language pairs). And to the fact that I have been turning down a lot of work from agencies, which, of course, I never do in case of direct clients.
Muriel Vasconcellos
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