samedi 30 mars 2013

The Advantages of Going With a Translation Agency

By Timon Lione


Should your company hire a professional translation agency to take care of new documents, advertisements and incoming translations when a language other than the one you speak is required? You may be tempted to opt for a cheaper option such as hiring a college student or asking a bilingual friend. Top corporations in the country will tell you there is no replacement for a professional translation agency; in fact, they list five major reasons: Consistency, reliability, reduced stress, accuracy and integrity.

Accuracy is the first advantage to hiring a professional translation service. Yes, that college student working for his next meal may speak the language, but he's not a professional and doesn't have years of experience translating professional documents. A professional translator normally has years of experience speaking, reading, and writing industry-specific lingo in their languages. A non-professional simply can't provide the accuracy that is demanded of professional or legal documents. Inaccuracies are bad news for sales ads and website content as well.

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.

Another advantage to working with professional translators is certifiable integrity. Consider the times you need translations for legal or government documents, the work of a college kid home for the holidays or your neighbor will be unacceptable to the agencies processing these documents. While growing your business it is very important that you take care of your reputation, which is yet another reason you want the certifiable integrity of a professional translation service for any project you have in the works.

Reliability is yet another advantage of going with a professional agency. You cannot wait for the college student to get over his weekend hangover and translate your documents. Bilingual neighbors are a great source of help but you can't depend on their timeliness or on doing a great job every time. You can only rely upon a proven agency that employs well-seasoned, highly educated translators who consider translation their career field. You do not want to waste time seeking out a new translator for every project. You want to establish an ongoing relationship with one reliable, professional translating service.

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.

You can save a bit on the budget by cutting corners with translation services, but what is the risk to your business? Do you see why this type of service is considered very important to large corporations? This can be difficult for smaller businesses, however if you will look around you can find agencies who cater to the smaller company and lower budget. In addition, you will have many if not all of the perks described above for a lower cost. You want to find a translation service that can provide you the level of service you need at a price you can afford. One thing that will help in that endeavor is offering the translation agency consistent business.




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