How To Start Your Own Language Translation & Interpreter Business: The Complete "How-To" Guide for Language Interpreters, Translators and Professionals Starting their own Language Translation Business - Softcover

Soto, Salvador

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1449051545 ISBN 13: 9781449051549

Publisher: Authorhouse, 2010

Synopsis

Start Your Own Language Translation & Interpreter Business The Complete "How-To" Guide for Language Interpreters, Translators and Professionals starting their own Language Translation Business Start Your Own Language Translation & Interpreter Business is the result of 10 years worth of building and managing a full-service language translation & interpreting business with clients across the globe in over 100 languages 24 hours a day. Salvador Soto, 2007 Hispanic Business Magazine "Entrepreneur of the Year-Rising Star Category" Runner-up and 2007 Innovation Award Winner, has pulled his world of knowledge about the language industry into a single, complete resource for the next generation of language industry professionals. If you have you ever wanted to start your own interpreting company but had no idea where to start? What to charge? How to bill for your time? This book was created as a "how-to" resource for individuals and entrepreneurs that needed assistance and guidance in starting and managing their own language translation and interpreting business. Cash in on the $5 Billion dollar translation & interpreter industry. Provide services to courts, hospitals and government agencies and start a new career! Compete with sample forms and checklists, this hands-on resource walks you through everything you need to know about: - Planning - Budgeting - Incorporating - Certification - Creating Your Rates - Risk Management - Protecting Your ASSets The language industry is here, growing just as the global market continues to grow by leaps and bounds. When starting my company I didn't always hit homeruns and I wish I had learned my mistakes with someone else's money. Work from Home as a Freelance Interpreter or Start a Full-Service Language Translation Company We have also created a website for support. Please leave your comments and ideas for future editions and publications at: www.DESOTOTRANSLATIONS.com

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About the Author

About the AuthorSalvador "Sal" Soto: Sal started DeSoto Translations in 1999 making it one of the premier language translations & interpreting agency in the Midwest. DeSoto Translations has been helping Fortune 100 & 500 communicate in over 100 languages, from translating agreements for the purchase of a company in Japan, translating a website into Portuguese for a client in Brazil to providing on-site interpreters in over 50 languages 24-hrs a day for regional hospital. In 2007 DeSoto Translations received several awards and accolades and Sal was individually recognized by Hispanic Business Magazine as one of the Entrepreneurs of the Year (EOY) in the "Rising Star" Category. As the former Director of Diversity Initiatives for the United Way he is frequently asked to speak at conferences, moderate panel discussions at national and state conferences and facilitate workshops on a number of issues. Notable Awards 2008 Indiana Companies to Watch, 2007 Hispanic Business Magazine's Entrepreneur of the Year (EOY) "Rising Star Category" Runner-Up, 2007 & 2006 United States Junior Chamber Award for the Ten Outstanding Young Americans (TOYA) Semi-finalist, 2007 Fort Wayne Business Weekly Innovation Award Recipient, 2004 Indiana Governor's Award for Tomorrow's Leaders, 2004 Fort Wayne Business Journal 40 under 40, 2003 Mayor's Award for Community Leadership (Fort Wayne, Indiana), 2002 Fort Wayne Chamber of Commerce Diversity Business of the Year and 1999 Recipient of The Dr. Juan Andrade Hispanic Leaders Scholarship. Sal received his college degree from the University of Saint Francis and plans to get his MBA in the near future. Sal is a veteran of the U.S. Navy, stationed in Texas, California & the Middle East. You can read the authors full bio at: www.SALSOTO.com

Edition details

• Publisher: Authorhouse
• Publication date: 2010
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1449051545
• ISBN 13: 9781449051549
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 280