Four Free Tools to Streamline Your Translations

We'll discuss 4 free tools that help you organize your work day, streamline your projects, and save time. We'll walk through a regular project and explore each management step up until the moment you need to sit down and translate it: (1) receiving files by email, (2) saving it to the cloud, (3) scheduling the project, and (4) recording project and billing info. By following these steps, you'll be able to track each request to plan your week and become more efficient when you have projects back to back and work with multiple clients.

Freelancers who want to organize their schedule and centralize information about clients, projects, and billing cycle

In this presentation, you'll learn the following organization tricks:
» Color-coding emails
» Using labels to organize messages
» Organizing project files in the cloud
» Scheduling projects to plan your work day/week
» Entering invoicing information
» Keeping an eye on the billing cycle

None! We'll be covering 4 tools that are available online for free.

» Using colors and icons to visually identify emails
» How to create email labels to organize messages per clients
» Folder structuring ideas to organize files in the cloud
» How to schedule your projects to plan your work day/week
»» Discussing average output and business hours
» Entering crucial information for invoicing and billing
» How to establish a billing cycle to maximize payment

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 Rafa Lombardino    View feedback | View all courses

Bio: Rafa Lombardino is a translator and journalist from Brazil who lives in California. She has been working as a translator since 1997 and, in 2011, started to join forces with self-published authors to translate their work into Portuguese and English. In addition to acting as content curator at eWordNews, she also runs Word Awareness, a small network of professional translators, and coordinates a project called Contemporary Brazilian Short Stories (CBSS) to promote Brazilian literature worldwide.