Translating under the Northern Lights
My love for languages goes back quite a long time, in fact to when I was in Year 5 and started learning English at school. Later, I became a language teacher and met my partner Grahame, who is English and with whom I started translation work for a renowned German lifestyle magazine. We were livin...
How to achieve better translation through customer communication
It’s happened to all of us – one minute, you’re cruising along, translating a long passage, rhythmically hitting the keys as you move between the source and target texts. The next minute, you spot something in the source that makes you stumble. Losing your rhythm, you wonder what to do next...
Five steps to selling internationally on Amazon
It’s no understatement to say that Amazon dominates online retail. With 11 marketplaces spread across North America, Europe and Asia, as well as customers in 180+ countries, the ecommerce giant connects retailers to millions of customers worldwide. By only listing your products in your native lan...
Guide to cross-border localization
The cross-border ecommerce market is expected to more than double within the next five years, reaching $424 billion by 2021. In response, more and more businesses are stepping up their international strategies to increase visibility and sales in new markets. Localization is a necessary step for g...
Introducing the Gengo Manila team
FEBRUARY 2017 — Last September 2016, Gengo opened its third office as part of the company’s long-term expansion plans to meet the needs and expectations of our growing customer base and translator community. The preference for the Philippines is an easy one.
Starting the new year right
JANUARY 2017 – Low volume is expected at the beginning of the new year due to businesses starting the year off slow. This kind of time-based pattern that repeats over a one-year period is called seasonality, and January 2017 was no exception. Last month, we saw our community translate 19.4M units...
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