Okay, so now we're dealing with setting up your accounts on real translation websites. And once again, I've calculated about one hour maximum per website for the same reasons. As the freelancer websites, you have most of the information available that needs to be filled out. And it's just a question of signing up and familiarizing yourself with a website itself. The first one to mention here is proz.com. Actually proz.com has been making quite a few changes in recent years, and they completely redid the website and they also redid the pricing scheme.

So I thought the easiest thing to do at this point would be to just walk you through setting up a new account and seeing how it goes. So first of all, when you go to proz.com, this is what you see. And if you and it's still not that simple. But anyway, if you're a translator looking for translation jobs at work, then you go here and you click on Create free account. Then you fill out this information No password, password. Obviously, I'm not creating a free account.

This is just to show you guys so we'll keep it at that. Country United States just because this is what I'm used to. Here you can decide if you want to click at the beginning I would recommend not clicking on tm town you can look into that later. Also all of these I recommend unclicking them. But right now I don't care since this isn't a real account. That's just all I need to do the other one too.

That's weird. And then you click on create my account. So you fill it all out you click Create Account don't need to save that now. And this is what you You get a special one time offer. And this one time offers for $110 a year and it's normally 120. Now in my experience, you can still get it for 110 later on.

So if you want you can decide No thanks I'll forego this one time offer. However, as I've mentioned before, if you're going to pay for anything if you're going to pay for any service and becoming a freelance translator, then proz.com is what you want to be paying for. So I recommend at this point, just saying yes, I want in because it makes your life a lot easier. But for the sake of example, I'll click on No thanks just to show you what a free account looks like. And then later on, I'll show you how to pay for the account. So here we have a snake that my username Joe Schmo, oh, my last name and freelance translator membership etc, etc.

Save an update Now there's a lot of information you should fill out here. All this requires stuff. The important thing at the beginning, I think is the language pairs. So that's what I'm going to fill out. Now. Let's put a tie in to English.

And these are the services you perform. And so click on translation, that's the important one that you can click on some other ones if you if you can perform those services. Add pair. What Oh, I need to given native tongue Now let's add a new pair. Let's put now I'm going to add obviously, here only add pairs that you're that you are interested in and that you can perform translations. And I'm going to add a couple just because it gives me more chance of finding very jobs at the beginning.

Anyway, you'll see what I mean in a second because I want you to To be able to show you some examples of English variants, let's put us Italian variant This is odd. Let's just keep that as it is. So now I have two language parents I have a native language and and then you obviously at some point I need to fill out all this other information but for now this is enough to look for jobs now to look for jobs, you click on jobs and directories here and you see job posting system, browse job postings click on that. And the reason I filled out the languages is because the default here is to have my languages pop up. Now I can search in all languages or in just a selection of my languages, but here the default is to have it in all my language combinations.

So right away I see Italian to English etc. Except for this Job. Obviously, each one of these rows is a different job being offered. Now when you see this, it means that only members can apply. So if I click on this, I can see what the job is. But I cannot submit a quote, let me get rid of this up here.

It's annoying, but I cannot submit a quote. So I need to either wait. So this is only for members. Some of them are for members until a certain time, which means members can can apply first. Members Only until May 16 2017. Anyway, this is in the future.

And so that's why it's better to be a member. Obviously, there's certain jobs this one that's a bit of a different color means it's expired. So see job was closed, so I can't apply for it anymore. And that's what very often happens, it'll expire before it becomes available to non members. Let's click On this one. Here we see technical manual trade oh six K, because it is available.

And you don't need to be a member. So I can submit a quote. Just quickly while we're here, I'll show you what happens when you click on submit a quote, you see the job description. And obviously, you should read through it and make sure it's something that's interesting, interesting for you. Down here, by the way, you see who posted the job. And you also see blue board record.

Now this is interesting. I'll open this in a new tab, because we want to come back to this because you can see their rating on the blue board the blue board is where other people rate them. Because I'm, I'm not a paid member, I cannot see who gave a rating and what comments they gave. But I can see that they gave 55555 this person got a lot of fives. And so that's a huge vote of confidence. It means it's a serious provider.

It's a serious person and I can count on doing real business with this person. So if I decide to work with this person, I click on Submit quote Let's say Italian to English, let's say that amount, I can say the total or per character per hour. Usually it's per word, you're the currency. And here you can fill out this other information, including title. So the interesting thing here under message is that you can fill out a message I'll just paste something that you know I've used in the past, and then you can decide if you want to save it as a template. You can give it a name here, I wrote general English to Italian, as you saw there.

Save as template. So here in the future, when you apply to future jobs, your templates will pop up. You can have general English to town, you can have business translations, legal translations, etc. And so you can tweak all the messages that you send for each type of translation and you have access to them right away so you don't need to write them out. Each time that you have a new job, so it makes it comfortable. And here is the catch for having a free account is that you need to pay $1 for every job you apply to.

Now, once again, I'm going to open this in a new tab because actually, I think you can only add $20 at a time. So deposit the funds in your wallet, or you can apply for membership. I'll show you that later. But let's say you want to deposit the funds in your wallet there, here we go is $20 at a time, and which allows you to apply for 20 jobs. Now, obviously, $20 is less than 110. So if you feel tentative, you don't want to spend the full amount you can always apply for jobs this way.

And obviously, you can only apply for jobs that are not only for members, because you won't have access to them, you can apply for the other jobs and you're still going to have to pay but you're going to have to pay less. However, I recommend paying the full amount up front because in my experience, you get that full amount back and then some because when you're applying for these jobs, you're competing against many other people applying for the same stuff. types of jobs. Let me show you quickly. As you can see here. If the clients are being contacted directly, then you have no way of knowing how many people applied.

However, this job came up recently. So it's only six quotes, but this one has 97 quotes. All these are contact directly. These are past deadline, this only has four which actually seems somewhat odd. And it might be because the rating isn't too high for this person. This one has a team though 32 and contact directly etc, etc.

So you're competing with a lot of people. And and it is in a certain way a numbers game, you could be the best qualified translator make it extremely obvious and still not get chosen because if this person is going through 97 in quotes, then he or she is probably not going to get to you, you know, they're going to go through maybe 10 of them and then this on someone or try to weed out a certain number of people but i mean you know, these are too many quotes that go through each and every one in detail. And that's the main reason why I think it's best to get a paid membership right at the beginning so then you don't have to think about it anymore. However, as you can see, you have that other option now if you do want to get get a paid membership, you click on your profile here, you actually just hover above it, you don't have to click on it.

And you see I have a free account now but I can click on upgrade account. Pros comm or more now that has a whole lot of information, you can just click on buy now goes straight to what they have available. And it's 120 or 180. Skip the plus for now, for now, just do 120 you know, after a while you can see if it's worth it to get the 180 or if they've you know, changed it again and there's some other options. But for now, just a 120 is what you can do. And in my experience, actually you can still get the discount to make it 110 Yeah, see?

It's still minus $10 It's 110. But again, 121 10 the differences in that much and I do think it is worth it. Because you're you're able to apply for as many jobs as you want. And you don't have to worry about paying for each job or you know whether it's for members only or not. And you at the beginning especially, you're going to have to apply for quite a few jobs before they start noticing you. So at this point, you just fill out the information and I'm not going to do it because I'm not going to pay again for membership.

And so that's how you sign up for pros and how you either stay as a free member or you pay for membership.