Here I should mention a few words about the blue board that I mentioned before on proz.com. The blue board is where translators can give evaluations regarding the companies they worked with, and they can provide feedback. Always check this board before doing business with any company. Also, remember to check the comments. If someone gave a low score to a provider, it could just as easily be due to a bad translator as it could be to a bad provider. In general, however, people try to avoid giving bad reviews.

Because this is a very important part for all for all companies on the website. So it should always be a red flag if you see a low score. As you can see at the bottom of any job notification or any job that's offered on pros, you'll see something like this the job was posted by a blue board outsourcer with a likelihood of working again, average rating of five out of five, which is obviously good, but it can be four out of five, three out of five, something like that, in which case you'll probably want to click on it and see why that is. You can also just directly go to proz.com slash blue board. And since proz.com is the most important website, I'm going to go through some other features that it that it offers and some other factors to keep in mind. First of all kudos points.

If you hover over your name at the top, you'll see a long list appear. I told you the site can get complicated, but yes, you hover over your name at the top you'll see a long list appear and the first important link here is the one for the kudos points, which you get by answering questions posted by other people in your language combination. Basically, if you go to proz.com you see job offers in your combination and if we scroll down, you'll see questions asked. Needless to say, this is a great place to ask any questions you might have regarding any particular terms or phrases, etc, etc. Although you won't get any points for asking the questions, you only get them for answering them. Now I don't want to go into too much detail here because it's beyond the scope of this introductory lesson.

I know I made a video about it before but when provider looked for you chances are depending on how they perform their search, you will be ranked based on kudos points. So it's worth it to get these Kudo points and to answer questions about expressions about terms, etc, etc, just so you can get these points. So anyway, I don't want to get ahead of myself. But just to keep in mind that it can be worth it to get more kudos points whenever you can. Another option to keep in mind is WWE or their willingness to work again, you can only get these four jobs you've completed. So be sure to keep track of all your clients while you're working on a job and once you've completed them.

And once you have completed a job to their satisfaction, you can ask them to give you feedback. proz.com makes it quite easy to do this, you can just send them a link and it's almost all filled out. And with the ability to add their own information if they want, so just be sure to collect these once you get started because these can be very valuable as well. People want to people like to see that you've worked with other clients And they've been happy with your work. Another translation website is translators cafe comm This is the only other website that's more or less ubiquitous in the freelance translation world. Unfortunately, it isn't any more user friendly than proz.com.

It is however free for the most part they do have a payment option but for the most part you don't need it. I don't think I've ever paid for translators cafe comm I know I don't at the moment and you can access pretty much everything you need with a free option. So the initial process is pretty much the same as proz.com you go to Well, this website here I spelt it out because it's a bit complicated to to say out loud. Here you will sign up as a linguist and then you'll fill out all the information once again that you have from your before getting started. Lesson. This time however, like I said, I will start with a non paying membership you can upgrade later, but I would just start off without paying you'll still be able to see job requests and even apply for them.

Although you might receive them after everyone else after the payment. Members, let's see, which could put you at a disadvantage, depending on your situation. If after a month or so you think it's worth it as in, you haven't been able to get any responses from translators cafe and you're not too busy working on jobs from other sources, then you can always upgrade. The good thing about this website is that it only has one paid membership option which makes your life easier. I mean, it's less choice, but it still makes it easier to choose. My recommendation here is just a sign up for the full year.

Things like this can take some time, so you might as well give it the whole year. Now, here's a list of other websites that concentrate on translation for freelance translators. I was gonna give translators base its own section, but I don't think it deserves that placement. At least not just yet. For translators base. Those who post jobs don't have to pay.

Well freelancers do. I've gotten some decent jobs from this website, but I've also been burned. The translators base and freelancer.com are the only ones that have burned me. Let's say it's just too it too easy for An ill intention person to post a job for nothing and use a yahoo.com email address with a fake name and have some overeager Freelancer that was me complete their translation and then disappear from the system without having to pay that is literally what happened to me. And unfortunately translators base com not having its own payment information cannot do anything to help you. However, translators Bates comm and all these other websites I have listed can be useful depending once again on on what country you're in and the languages you deal with.

They're by no means exhaustive, and in fact, they may be more geared towards what I have experienced in which is a tie in English with some other European languages. So you might hear about other websites. In fact, you almost certainly will if you deal with other languages. Now you might notice this Asterix next to toggle calm and toggle calm and the same as toggle it which is what I use for the Italian translations. The reason for the asterisk is I was almost not going to include this website, but I have used it quite a bit. And so I did include it.

However, I do want to specify something about it, namely that I've had serious issues with toggles safe pay system. Safe pay is their version of an escrow system, it's not exactly the same as the one you would find on Upwork. But it's their version. And my issue was that I tried withdrawing money from it. And after several weeks, I saw nothing in my bank account and nothing on my blog account either. So I contacted them on two of their country's websites.

And I was told the bank information was incorrect, although I'd copied and pasted it from a past transaction, which had been successful, and then they roll back and I'm reading now, please consider that 12 was not able to pay for any transaction fees or fees caused due to the bounce back. That's literally what they wrote. And the fee that they charged me for this transaction fee that apparently couldn't occur was 94.8 euro so it's not nothing. Again, this is anecdotal, but I thought I should mention it nonetheless. Another thing to keep Keep in mind is that some translator websites just aggregate from other websites so you might start finding some repeats if you sign up for all of them. I had this with a translators dotnet which features various jobs that when clicked on will link right back to translators base Comm.

I'm not sure why they do that. And that's it for this section. The next section will be about translation agencies themselves.