Thursday 4 April 2013

Translating Documents Using a Translation Agency

By Tom Bodidle


Why should you pay a professional translation agency to translate documents, create new documents, or write ads in languages that you do not speak? You could always find a bilingual friend or pay a college student to translate, right? Here are the top five reasons corporations rely upon professional translation agencies: Accuracy, Integrity, Reduced Stress, Reliability, and Consistency.

Professional translation services offer a distinct advantage, first of which is accuracy. A college student may be willing to work hard for less money and speak the appropriate language; however, he or she does not have the experience you will find with a professional. Each industry has some specific lingo and professional translators have years of experience speaking, writing and reading both the language and the lingo. You will never get the same level of accuracy from a non-professional. Imagine the fiasco of inaccurate content on your website or a poorly translated legal contract.

How much stress are you and your employees under trying to deal with a foreign language? Relieve that stress by hiring a professional translation agency! Allow the professionals to take on your growing burden of translating duties instead of relying on bilingual employees or other non-professionals. Why take the risk when accuracy and professionalism is so important.

Professional translators offer another important advantage in business, which is certifiable integrity. Do you ever deal with legal or governmental documents? These are processed by specific agencies and they are not going to accept the work of your friend or a neighbor's college kid home on break. Certifiable integrity is definitely important, particularly if you are trying to grow your business. Employ professionals for each and every translation project your business faces.

Yet another advantage you have with a professional translation service is reliability. Do you want to wait for the college student to get over a weekend of partying before translating your important papers? Your neighbor may be a great help to you on many occasions but can you really depend on the quality or timeliness? Students, friends and neighbors have other obligations that may take precedence over your documents! When you work with a professional agency, you will have access to well trained professionals who are highly educated and will prioritize your documents. Moreover, once you have established a relationship you will never have to search out a new translator for future projects.

Without employing a professional agency, you will have trouble obtaining consistency for all of your translation projects. Once you find a good translation service and work with them on a regular basis, they will know what you expect of the service and work diligently to give your company exactly what it needs. Keep in mind the translation service will have a vested interest in pushing their translators to provide you with accurate, high quality work of superior integrity in order to keep your repeat business.

Do you now see why large corporations pay for high dollar translation agencies rather than saving their budgets and cutting corners? There are affordable agencies that cater to smaller businesses with less substantial budgets, and they will still offer all the perks you have read about right here. The trick is to find a translation agency that can offer the caliber of services you expect at a price you can afford. If you can provide consistent business, there are services willing to provide exactly what you need.




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