You’ve always loved languages, travelling, multilingual communication and cultural exchanges…

√ You’ve always felt passionate about different cultures and helping people understand each other…

√ From a young age, you knew you wanted to be a life-long student of languages —a bridge between two cultures…a cultural ambassador…

√ And so, you studied foreign languages and even did a Master’s in Translation Studies…

√You knew that translation was the right career for you.

√ You bought the most expensive hardware in the market, purchased CAT tools and invested in numerous translation webinars eager to set up for a career that’s so close to your heart.

√ You had big dreams for yourself…

Until you found out that…

✗…you’ll have to do numerous unpaid tests (some of 1K+ words or more) before someone gives you the time of the day… 

✗…the majority of translation agencies are more interested in profit than quality – and take a significant cut from your proceeds too …

✗…0.07 USD/word is considered a pretty decent fee nowadays…and, get this, you should be grateful for it too…

✗…there will be more and more MTPE work in the future, paid at half your usual fee…

✗…no matter how long it takes you to finish a complicated translation, you’ll get paid by the amount of words —not for the time you spent...

(but)

✗…you are not even paid by the total amount of words, you are paid by weighted words...

✗…you are somehow expected to discount your fees for large volumes of work, (so less money for more work?!)…

✗…you have to wait up to 45 or even 60 days to get paid!

Surely, that’s not what you went into translation for, is it?

I sure as hell know it isn’t.

You see, just like you, I, too, had to learn about this industry the hard way:

✗ I too have received countless “Dear Translator” or “Dear Resource” e-mails…

✗ I too have tripped over my cat [or enter any other pet] running to the computer to press “Accept” for a job. I was two minutes late and the job was already gone… what?!

✗ I too had to spend several weekends working because I had not received much work during the week. Why do PMs always send jobs at 5pm on a Friday?

✗ I too had to read 5 different documents, fill in 2 more and open an account on their over-complicated online portal to work on a 25-word translation that they wanted to pay by the word?!

✗ I too was promised “lots of work in the future” if I discounted my rates, only to get diddly squat…nothing…nada.

✗ I too was offered scanned PDFs with handwritten texts by dyslexic doctors…thanks but no thanks!

✗ I too was offered 6K projects with a 24-hour turnaround! Are you for real?

✗ I too had to accept exploitative word discounts for the use of a CAT tool and the somehow misleading promise that I would be faster, more accurate and more profitable in the future.

I wasn’t.

And the most infuriating thing of all? 

They know we love our job and they want to take advantage of us.

ENOUGH IS ENOUGH.

The problem with translation agencies

You just need to talk to a veteran of the translation industry who’s been around since the 1980s to realise that there is something fundamentally wrong with the translation industry today.

The problem started manifesting itself around the turn of the century when the mammoth translation agency model with its hundreds and thousands of employees was born...

… you know which agencies I am talking about.

Thirty years ago, it was all about the art and craft of translation.

Today it is about the art and craft of buying and selling translations.

The cheaper these agencies buy, the bigger their profit margin. 

How else can such big corporate monoliths continue to exist?

But let me ask you a question first…

Have you ever wondered why although you may be working for some really big end clients eg. Microsoft, Vodafone, Google, etc. you are still getting paid very little per word?

For some Eastern European or Asian languages, this could be even less than 0.05 USD per word.

I mean, don’t these companies have billions to spend on their marketing budget?

How come is it then that translation agencies only have a very limited budget for translation?

These huge conglomerates, especially those with subsidiaries in developed countries, don’t hire full-time translators to work in-house for them.

Instead, they split bulk translation jobs between several subcontractors in cheaper countries to ensure a bigger profit margin.

These subcontractors, in turn, split the projects again by language and content and allocate various parts to even smaller companies within the target language countries.

Finally, these smaller companies subcontract freelance translators.

As you can understand, every time a project “changes hands”, mediators eat into your profit. 

The bigger and more complicated a project is, the bigger the supply chain becomes.

By the time the project gets to you, 3 or more mediators will have siphoned off the budget causing it to shrink even further and leaving you with very little to do your work.

If this is not the meaning of the expression: “the last cog in the wheel”, then I don’t know what is.

Unfortunately, today anyone can become a translator which is why this model of work is not going anywhere. 

As long as there are chancers, hobbyists and other self-proclaimed translators who don’t mind working for peanuts, this business model of “quantity over quality” will continue to exist for many more years to come.

The market has also become more sophisticated over the years.

Translation is no longer enough for many end clients.

Clients are now asking for SEO, content writing, social media management, PPC, e-mail marketing, etc.

Translation agencies that have no way of differentiating themselves from their competitors will always compete on price.

ENTER MACHINE TRANSLATION!

Who do you think keeps the difference in cost when translation agencies insist on paying less for fuzzy matches?

Machine translation was created to help us, translators, streamline our work. It is NOT meant to be used against us.

Unfortunately, it is not uncommon at all today to receive a 19K project job where 3K are new words and 16K are repetitions paid at half your rate!

The whole concept is very much akin to an assembly line where most of the work is done by machines and humans perform assisting roles for pennies on the dollar.

I may be getting old but I find the concept of Human-Assisted-Machine-Translation pretty post-apocalyptic.

In the old days, humans were assisted by machines.

Today, machines are assisted by humans.

The mind boggles! 

Fast forward a few years...

Luckily, things are not at all like that for me anymore.

Today I only work with a select few (boutique) translation agencies.

Agencies that respect my work and time and pay me what I ask them.

I don’t concern myself with the rest, nor do I take part in bidding wars against colleagues.

I ignore “Dear Translator” e-mails or any other communication that asks for my “best rates”.

I am in the fortunate position to be able to pick and choose the projects and clients I want to work with but that didn’t happen until I realised one very crucial thing:

That in order to be successful as a freelancer you need to diversify.

You see, having been in this industry for 10+ years, I’ve come to realise that in order to make good money as a translator you need to either:

a)      Work with direct clients only + 5% of really good, boutique translation agencies,

b)     Be extremely fast (translate 1K+ words per hour) + command high per word fees or

c)      Be open to diversification and other sources of income

The first two are not easily achievable by everyone depending on your language pairs and how fast you naturally are (spoiler: I am a little faster than a turtle).

But diversification… there are so many services one can pivot to.

Diversification allows you to have multiple streams of income so that you don’t have to be held hostage by the whims of one particular industry. 

If one industry suffers, then your income will suffer too but if you can stick your fingers in more than one pies, then you can mitigate your losses a lot easier.

Diversification also helps you fight the freelancer’s biggest enemy: the feast or famine cycle.

If there’s famine in one service, there’s bound to be feast somewhere else. 

I know this sounds a bit controversial given that the no. 1 advice we get when we set up as translators is to specialise.

Not to be a Jack-of-all-trades but to specialise in one niche.

I took this advice to heart and specialised in one niche: marketing, but then decided to diversify my actual services.

And that proved to be a game changer! 

So, why content writing?

There are so many services you can pivot to today, so why content writing, you ask?

Because translation is a type of content. If you can translate it, it’s because someone else wrote it first.

If you are a specialist in a niche, then you can both write and translate for that niche.

If you are, for example, a medical translator who specialises in this niche through your academic background or previous working experience, you can not only translate for medical clients, but you can also write popular medical articles.

If you’ve got a knack for finances, know how to budget well and understand financial terms, you don’t have to limit yourself to financial translations only, you can write content for bank blogs too.

No matter what your hobbies or interests are, no matter what your specialties or the experience you’ve acquired from your academic or professional background is...

...there are several companies in the world that sell products or services in that space and are in need of great content.

According to HubSpot, “content writing has the power to convert readers into prospects and prospects into paying customers”...

...which is why good content is worth a lot to companies and business owners are willing to pay very fairly for competent writers.

Entrepreneurs who know how valuable content writing is to their bottom line are constantly looking for good writers.

8 out of 10 companies have blogs today and they are more hungry for content than ever before.

The writing opportunities are simply limitless! 

As translators, we already have 50% of the required skills to ace content writing because we are already very accustomed to working with content.

Some of us have translated so much content in one niche that we have even become experts in that niche!

I created “Content Writing for Translators”, the only content writing course on the market specifically for translators, to show you what the other 50% consists of.

Are you ready?

And here's what you'll learn when you go through the course:

How to:

1) Nail down your writing niche so that you can attract the exact clients you’d love to work with. My 18-point questionnaire will help you find your true (writing) calling, whereas my research tips will help you find that "sweet spot" between loving your niche and making good money from it!

2) “Hijack" your readers' minds to find out what it is that they want to read about so that your articles always make it to Google’s Top 10. It is not just about writing SEO-enabled articles (although we talk about this too), it’s also about knowing what to write in the first place.

3) Discover the easy blueprint to starting content writing as a beginner.

4) Use ChatGPT to improve your writing (from researching niches and clients to topic ideation and copy critiques

5) Find high-paying clients that can pay from USD 0.20 to 0.50 per word (sometimes more, sometimes paying on delivery too!) Plus, I’ll give you 10 more ways to research + find your favourite clients.

6) Create mouth-watering content writing strategies for unlimited content ideas that leave your clients salivating in anticipation for your work.

7) Write the exact “plug-and-play” pitches so you can start pitching clients and bringing in projects right away.  

Ready to tap into a new lucrative market?

This is not just another content writing course of which there are hundreds out there.

This is a content writing course specifically created for translators who want to acquire highly paid content writing skills and make money writing for their clients.

This means that when you buy Content Writing for Translators, you get 2 courses in 1.

One will teach you content writing and the other will teach you the business side of freelancing so you can start thinking more like a marketer and by extension a more successful freelance translator.

"Both" are taught by an entrepreneurial translator-turned-content-writer-turned-copywriter.

So, why do translators like "Content Writing for Translators" so much, you ask?

Because...

· My 'niching down' method works for both writers and translators.

· My client acquisition methods can be applied to acquire both translation and writing clients.

· The tips and tricks I teach you about writing can also be applied to transcreation tasks.

· The tips I give you about pitching clients can also be used for translation clients.

I've taken everything I’ve learned over the years (from dozens of courses I’ve taken myself and years of mistakes and triumphs) and distilled it into what works.

I’ll now show you how to apply this knowledge to your freelance biz so that you don't have to shell out thousands of dollars or spend years of time either to achieve the same results.

The choice is now yours.

You can either spend months and countless of dollars learning content writing on your own or you can shortcut your freelance journey to success by taking this very course.

And at this price, if you implement everything I teach in it, you just need to write ONE article only to get your money's worth!

But that's not all...

Because I am feeling particularly generous today, I am also throwing in 4 incredible FREE bonuses:

· 20 mistakes freelance writers make in their first year of writing and how to fix them (let me take the guesswork out for you and show you how to avoid some of the most common mistakes beginner writers make) (value: 27 USD)

· Collaboration agreement (don't start work without this if you are working with smaller, local clients - you can thank me later!) (value: 47 USD)

· 9 blogs to write for in the translation industry – for money (why don't you use the experience you already have as a translator to make money writing for the industry's biggest blogs?) (value: 47 USD)

· Your comprehensive list of writing niches + some more research tips, if you are still struggling to pick a writing niche (you won't believe the things you can be writing for. There is literally a niche for everything today!) (value: 27 USD)

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So, here’s everything you are getting today:

You also get 4 bonus resources:

· 20 mistakes freelance writers make in their first year of writing and how to fix them (value: 27 USD)

· Collaboration agreement (very important to have this in place) (value: 47 USD)

· 9 blogs to write for in the translation industry – for money (why don't you write about the experience you already have as a translator and make MONEY? (value: 47 USD)



· Your comprehensive list of writing niches (you won't believe what you can write for today) (value: 27 USD)

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ONLY $120 TODAY

By the end of this course you will have:

√ Gained clarity on your niche and found out how to research lucrative markets

√ Found out which niches are profitable and learned how to re-slant your topic to fit several markets

√ Learned how to structure good articles and what types of articles you can write for any business

√ Learned how to write for SEO, pick headlines and source photos

√ Learned how to get inside your readers’ minds and understand what they want to read

√ Learned how to start content writing as a beginner

√ Learned how to use ChatGPT to improve your writing (from researching clients and niches to doing topic ideation and copy critique)

√ Found the clients you want to work with with the right contacts and e-mail addresses 

√ Learned 10 more ways to find great clients and gained clarity on your pricing and pitching habits

√ Learned about the writing needs of different clients, what makes a good pitch and how to write one

√ Learned what customer journeys are and how to use them to create great content strategies

You have questions? I have the answers!

Who is this course actually for, REALLY?

This is a course like no other. It is the only content writing course in the market that's specifically tailored for translators who want to break into content writing.

Are you a translator who loves writing? Do you want to leave bottom feeders behind by breaking into the lucrative market of content writing, writing (esp. blogging) for companies?

If you answered yes to the above questions, then you need to check out this course a.s.a.p. 

Who is teaching this course?

I am a freelance translator just like you (so I understand the particular pains and struggles of our industry) turned-content-writer-turned-copywriter, so I bring a unique perspective to this course.

You get the chance to learn a few inside secrets into the world of digital marketing from someone who has been trained by the best copywriters in the world.

Moreover, in 2020 & 2021, I was named a top 50 localization influencer by Nimdzi Insights, so it is undeniable that I take marketing quite seriously. :-)

I’ve written content for several international brands, agencies, websites, print publications and in-flight magazines.

I work for a number of digital content agencies, publishing houses and direct clients as a writer and have created content for brands such as: Babbel, Davidoff, Reebok, Indigo Hotels, MemSource, Jet2, Qatar Airways, Air Baltic, Korean Air, Lingvist, among others.

Ok, I really want to take this course now but I’m busy. How long will it take me to go through the course?

I get ya. I mean, who has the time to do anything these days, right? I know how valuable your time is, so I am teaching this programme step-by-step. That means there are certain steps you need to take, in a certain order, in order to benefit fully from it. Each module comes with an assignment.

Read the first module in your own time and complete the first assignment. Then, move on to the second module and do the second assignment at the end. Then move on to the next. You need to finish each action in a sequence, but this can all be done in your own time and at your own pace!

You do not need to submit your assignments to me - they are designed to help you take the next step in finding writing clients and they are not about right or wrong answers. You can always e-mail me of course if you have a question about something!

You also have indefinite access to this course which means you can log in and do the course whenever you want. You can even enroll now and start it at a later date! The course will still be waiting for you!

Are there any conditions to take this course?

There are no special conditions to take this course. The course is taught entirely in English, so it is important to be able to understand English, but it is not just for English speakers.

Content writing can be done in any language you feel comfortable writing in. Are there companies in your country? Of course, there are. That means they, too, are looking for great content which you can write in your own language. Moreover, 95% of my tips apply to all markets. 

You also don’t need to have previous knowledge of content writing, as I teach this from the beginning, but you need to have a love for writing. 

What do I need to do next?

Click on the button below to be taken to a safe and secure order form. Immediately after paying, you'll receive an automatic confirmation e-mail giving you full access to the entire course.

200+ translators have already joined, and the great reviews keep coming in!

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I still have questions about this course.

Then e-mail me at [email protected]! 😊