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Tuesday, November 4, 2008

Sourcing a Trustworthy Translation and Interpretation Service Provider

By Irina Tischenko

Today translation became one of the basic requirements for establishing your business globally. Your business can't reach the end customers worldwide if you are going to use your local language or the international language. You should customize your product or service in the local language of the region where you market in order to reach all your potential customers. For this reason you should outsource to any professional translation service provider it may be either agency or an individual, but you should make sure that they and their work is reliable else it will have long lasting devastating effect on your business. This article explains how you can outsource your work to a reliable service provider.

• The basic criterion of a reliable translation service provider is trust. The translation agency or the individual whom you hire to perform your task should be fully trustworthy, that too if it is a legal document or any other confidential data. The translator may disclose such information for money or any other advantage. Alternatively you may request the translation service provider to sign up a Non - Disclosure Agreement, if the work is worth that much.

• Money plays a key role in determining quality. There are thousands of service providers out there; you can find translation service providers in a varied range of budget. You can select the one which suits your budget, selecting a very cheap translation service provider may risk your business because the provider may be a newbie and may not know the seriousness of the work but there are chances where he may be an expert just now entering the business, so in order to capture the market he may offer the service for cheap rate. On the other hand very expensive provider doesn't mean excellent quality because there is an upper limit for quality. So, wisely select the translation agency that will suit your budget and at the same time not very cheap.

• Experience can help you to determine the reliability. You can use the experience of the translation service provider as a tool to measure the reliability of the service provider. The more the experience, higher the reliability. Since, the translation agency had dealt with many similar translation projects in the past they can do your work with high degree of accuracy and perfection. Apart from the blind experience you should also look what is their customer's feedback about their work.

• Native translators are more reliable than the equally ranked translators. The job done by professional translation agency would be very clear and perfect in most cases but in some rare cases the translation not only deals with just the literal meaning of the text. The translation service provider should understand the context in which the word is spoken and should discover the actual intention of the phrase. Just translating the word from source language to target language with literal meaning will not produce correct meaning. So, as far as possible you should hire translation agency which employ native people for the translation work.

The above guidelines can help you to recruit the apt professional translation service provider for your task. Use these guidelines wisely and you will find perfect agency for your need.


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