logging in or signing up Richard Gray1 Miranda Download Post to : URL : Related Presentations : Share Add to Flag Embed Email Send to Blogs and Networks Add to Channel Uploaded from authorPOINTLite Insert YouTube videos in PowerPont slides with aS Desktop Copy embed code: (To copy code, click on the text box) Embed: URL: Thumbnail: WordPress Embed Customize Embed The presentation is successfully added In Your Favorites. Views: 24 Category: Education License: All Rights Reserved Like it (0) Dislike it (0) Added: January 15, 2008 This Presentation is Public Favorites: 0 Presentation Description No description available. Comments Posting comment... Premium member Presentation Transcript Slide1: Putting your faith in in-house teams – going against the trendSlide2: Intermediaries that just get in the way – and don’t add any value Going direct made me a better translator Share out money by value added CUTTING OUT THE MIDDLE MANTRADPERFECTO: TRADPERFECTO + + = translation agency INTEGRATED OFFICE SERVICES INC.: INTEGRATED OFFICE SERVICES INC. DTP, printing, copywriting, temping, photocopying, telemarketing, typewriting, language classes, word processing, interpreting, recruitment and…… ….translatingTHEN CAME E-MAIL...: THEN CAME E-MAIL... @A 21st CENTURY COTTAGE INDUSTRY: A 21st CENTURY COTTAGE INDUSTRY INTERMEDIARIES AND COMMODITIES Yellow Pages – A Snapshot: INTERMEDIARIES AND COMMODITIES Yellow Pages – A Snapshot Aardvark, A&A, ABC Translations… All languages, all subjects… Phone free on 0800… =>Translation is a commodityVALUE CREATION 1: CLIENTS TALK TO TRANSLATORS : VALUE CREATION 1: CLIENTS TALK TO TRANSLATORS Client Translator informationVALUE CREATION 2: TRANSLATORS TALKING TO EACH OTHER: VALUE CREATION 2: TRANSLATORS TALKING TO EACH OTHER Translator Translator informationVALUE CREATION 3: NETWORKED TM : VALUE CREATION 3: NETWORKED TM TM: YOU PUT RUBBISH IN, YOU GET RUBBISH OUT : TM: YOU PUT RUBBISH IN, YOU GET RUBBISH OUT ===Slide12: THE FRAGILE FABRIC OF OUR INDUSTRY Slide13: SOCIO-POLITICAL TRENDS Tighter rules on companies avoiding tax by using freelancers EU integration -> falling social security charges for companiesSlide14: CONCLUSIONS Negative aspects of freelancer-agency model: Cottage-industry image Commodity presentation drives down prices Stunts professional translator development Unstable structure Discourages knowledge-sharing In-house model favoured by…? TM Socio-political trends You do not have the permission to view this presentation. In order to view it, please contact the author of the presentation.
Richard Gray1 Miranda Download Post to : URL : Related Presentations : Share Add to Flag Embed Email Send to Blogs and Networks Add to Channel Uploaded from authorPOINTLite Insert YouTube videos in PowerPont slides with aS Desktop Copy embed code: (To copy code, click on the text box) Embed: URL: Thumbnail: WordPress Embed Customize Embed The presentation is successfully added In Your Favorites. Views: 24 Category: Education License: All Rights Reserved Like it (0) Dislike it (0) Added: January 15, 2008 This Presentation is Public Favorites: 0 Presentation Description No description available. Comments Posting comment... Premium member Presentation Transcript Slide1: Putting your faith in in-house teams – going against the trendSlide2: Intermediaries that just get in the way – and don’t add any value Going direct made me a better translator Share out money by value added CUTTING OUT THE MIDDLE MANTRADPERFECTO: TRADPERFECTO + + = translation agency INTEGRATED OFFICE SERVICES INC.: INTEGRATED OFFICE SERVICES INC. DTP, printing, copywriting, temping, photocopying, telemarketing, typewriting, language classes, word processing, interpreting, recruitment and…… ….translatingTHEN CAME E-MAIL...: THEN CAME E-MAIL... @A 21st CENTURY COTTAGE INDUSTRY: A 21st CENTURY COTTAGE INDUSTRY INTERMEDIARIES AND COMMODITIES Yellow Pages – A Snapshot: INTERMEDIARIES AND COMMODITIES Yellow Pages – A Snapshot Aardvark, A&A, ABC Translations… All languages, all subjects… Phone free on 0800… =>Translation is a commodityVALUE CREATION 1: CLIENTS TALK TO TRANSLATORS : VALUE CREATION 1: CLIENTS TALK TO TRANSLATORS Client Translator informationVALUE CREATION 2: TRANSLATORS TALKING TO EACH OTHER: VALUE CREATION 2: TRANSLATORS TALKING TO EACH OTHER Translator Translator informationVALUE CREATION 3: NETWORKED TM : VALUE CREATION 3: NETWORKED TM TM: YOU PUT RUBBISH IN, YOU GET RUBBISH OUT : TM: YOU PUT RUBBISH IN, YOU GET RUBBISH OUT ===Slide12: THE FRAGILE FABRIC OF OUR INDUSTRY Slide13: SOCIO-POLITICAL TRENDS Tighter rules on companies avoiding tax by using freelancers EU integration -> falling social security charges for companiesSlide14: CONCLUSIONS Negative aspects of freelancer-agency model: Cottage-industry image Commodity presentation drives down prices Stunts professional translator development Unstable structure Discourages knowledge-sharing In-house model favoured by…? TM Socio-political trends