After spending numerous years as an owner of Translations office, We found a few crucial domains of business concern for translators. One of them is comprised of dealing with customers.

Below are my couple of tips that may be useful for raising your chances of successful dealing founded upon personal experiences:

1. Always take the Order or The written ratification through telefax or even e-mail prior to starting up a job.

2. Before you sign on a contract read it cautiously and exhaustively. Inquire for clarifications where you bear slightest question.

3. Explain to the Translation clients, what translation may be about. Do not take on any unrealistic deadlines.

4. Become stern on your terms of payment. Whatsoever is specified in advance, simply stick to it.

5. When you do get into difficulty with Translations customers, be firm.

6. Call for the elaborated background information about the Translation customers to be secure (telephone number, sending address, and so forth.).

7. Avoid Translations agents that own free email account like Sify.com or Indiatimes.

8. Avoid translation requests that demand a high amount of words to be interpreted by mode of a "test".

9. Be certain that you take entire Translations work in hand and pick out whatever section of it for trial.

10. Reference: never throw away inside information of references. Test and name of agents will be more than adequate.

11. It is forever best to forgo a potential project than to live through the irritation and worries of chasing after the money afterwards.

12. Stay away from "telemarketers" who call just to waste period of time.

13. For bigger projects, charge the deposit of nearly 47%.

14. Don't become afraid to charge first time customers beforehand.

15. Bill for acquiring whatever special software package or even any extra product as a necessity for receiving tasks.

16. Merely give approximates, anytime text is not available. Net rates should simply be decided after having the view of whole thing.

17. Never agree to whatever volumes you can't handle.

18. Forever hand over not delayed or before of schedule.

I personally hope you receive best prospects and earn more from above mentioned points.

Ashish Jain