We are pleased to announce tha
t our Search Engine Marketing Manager, Ronak Thakkar, has been awarded Google Adwords Certified Professional status.
Adwords certification is a globally recognized stamp of approval which showcases knowledge of the latest AdWords tools, best practice techniques, and demonstrates the ability to effectively manage pay-per-click campaigns. (more…)
In an effort to do what we can to help Haiti one year on from the devastating earthquake that claimed more than 100,000 lives and left 2 million people homeless in January 2010, we’re cutting the cost of our translation service.
We’re offering translation into Haitian Creole and French (the nation’s two official languages) at cost for organisations involved in helping Haiti rebuild its infrastructure and economy. This includes charities, aid organisations, those working on healthcare programmes, education programmes, and so on. We can translate any type of document: medical, legal, public information,
If you are working with an organisation involved in the Haiti recovery effort, please get in touch to discuss your translation needs - we’ll charge any translation undertaken at cost, so the price won’t be marked-up. All we’ll add is a 10% project management fee to cover our administration costs.
Let’s hope that 2011 is a safer and better year for all Haitians.
The Web-Translations team has expanded! We’d like to introduce 3 new members of staff here in the Leeds office.
We are happy to announce that two new Project Coordinators, Geraldine McCarry and Malcolm South, have joined the company, starting this week.
Also joining the team as New Business Consultant is Sunita Persad.
Welcome to the team!
All three are currently undergoing a comprehensive training and induction programme, you may encounter one or more of them in due course so we ask you to please bear with them and be kind! We were all new once too…
We are really looking forward to getting to know Malcolm, Geraldine and Sunita and working with them as they get up to speed with their new roles. 2011 is already shaping up to be a busy year for Web-Translations!
Coming soon - watch this space…
We’ll be posting an longer introduction to each new member of staff as part of our new “Meet the Team” section on this blog.
We’d like to wish all our 
readers a Merry Christmas, and a Happy New Year!
Web-Translations will be closed from 12 noon on Friday 24th until Wednesday 29th December.
On the 29th, we will have limited staff cover, so please bear with us.
We will be back to full working capacity on Tuesday 4th January.
If you have any urgent translations, please get in quick - our hard-working translators and project managers deserve a holiday too!
Season’s Greetings, and all the best for 2011!
Translation is a complex service that often doesn’t quite get the recognition it deserves. Many people who buy translation may never have lived in another country and so have no frame of reference for the level of skill required to complete a good translation.
Consequently many fall into the trap of buying translation as a commodity, as if buying rice or cotton. But translation is a service, and like all services, it is performed by people so education, skill and time all contribute to delivering the final ‘product’ (for want of a better expression).
While it’s logical that you would want a service to be performed by the best people, it’s actually quite alien to most of us to buy a service from a) someone you don’t know b) aren’t ever likely to meet and c) where you as a buyer do not actually consume or experience the service first-hand.
There has recently been a further sign of recovery in Europe’s biggest economy - German exports were up more than 3% in June, and the country has experienced unprecendented growth of 2.2% from April to June this year.
A weakening of the Euro in recent months coupled with a strong demand for German goods in Asia has helped to boost exports. (more…)
Have a look at some of the recent projects we’ve been working on:
If you’d like to be featured as one of our success stories, get in touch!
We did it again! Thanks to your eager voting, we were ranked in the Top 100 Language Blogs this year for the second year running!
See the full list…
Thanks to all of you who voted for us, we really appreciate your support!
We’ve added a new feature to our website, so that you can ask us to call you back, just by completing a short form.
When you’re browsing our services and portfolio pages, you’ll see a “Please Call me” link at the bottom of the introductory paragraph:
The link will take you to the following form - simply complete a few details about who you are, and give us a number to call you back on, along with your email address.
One of our Sales team will call you back as soon as they are free.
Our MD, Daniel Rajkumar, will be speaking at this year’s Internet World!
His seminar - entitled: Global eMarketing: How to make your website an international selling tool will take place at 15:45 on Wednesday 28th April.
Daniel’s session will take delegates through the why, what & how of website localisation, and introduce the benefits of being multilingual, giving a step-by-step guide to the localisation process, illustrated by a client case study, then highlighting some important dos & don’ts before summarising how to make the most of your global potential.
To get a free pass into Internet World and catch Daniel’s talk, as well as saving yourself £20, register here: http://www.internetworld.co.uk/page.cfm/Action=PreReg/PreRegID=1/t=m
We look forward to seeing you there!
