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Poll: How much of your business is conducted online?
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Maria Teresa Borges de Almeida
Maria Teresa Borges de Almeida  Identity Verified
Portugal
Local time: 06:50
Member (2007)
English to Portuguese
+ ...
Other Aug 12, 2022

Depends on what is meant by conducting: all of it is received via email but delivering is another matter as sworn or certified translations are sent by courier service, snail mail or delivered in person.

Baran Keki
 
neilmac
neilmac
Spain
Local time: 07:50
Spanish to English
+ ...
Most of it Aug 12, 2022

Sometimes I will physically go to my 'gestor' or the tax or social security office, or similar. That's about all nowadays. I used to do the occasional stint as an interpreter or symposium secretary, but haven't done anything like that for years now.
 
Christopher Schröder
Christopher Schröder
United Kingdom
Member (2011)
Swedish to English
+ ...
+1 for what does this mean? Aug 12, 2022

It all comes and goes by email but I don't work in the cloud.
 
Baran Keki
Baran Keki  Identity Verified
Türkiye
Local time: 08:50
Member
English to Turkish
Personal delivery Aug 12, 2022

Teresa Borges wrote:
but delivering is another matter as sworn or certified translations are sent by courier service, snail mail or delivered in person.

I've received a few sworn translation requests (as well as some interpretation jobs at police stations or notaries) in the last two years, but Covid has been a great excuse to turn down such jobs.. the less contact the better. That said, if they had been paying in EUR, I'd have braved catching the virus.
 
Kay Denney
Kay Denney  Identity Verified
France
Local time: 07:50
French to English
. Aug 12, 2022

99% of my business is conducted online. Although sometimes a phone call is necessary, and I have struck up conversations with people at parties and at the dog park that led to me getting work.
 
Philip Lees
Philip Lees  Identity Verified
Greece
Local time: 08:50
Greek to English
None? Aug 13, 2022

I'm intrigued by the 1.2% (5.184 people at present count) who answered "None of it".

If they don't do any part of their business on line, what are they doing here?

expressisverbis
Maria Teresa Borges de Almeida
Barbara Carrara
Aline Brito
 
Tom in London
Tom in London
United Kingdom
Local time: 06:50
Member (2008)
Italian to English
That's the next poll question Aug 13, 2022

That's the next poll question. How often have you got translation jobs by striking up conversations with complete strangers?

Christine Andersen
Barbara Carrara
 


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