XTRF Team

You completed a whole stack of projects and got through a mountain of work. But at the end of the day the financial results do not reflect your efforts.

Today we deal with the absolute core of your business – managing vendors. Vendor management is one the most important tasks of a translation agency.

One of the main challenges we face is the influx of numerous small projects, which can hurt our bottom line. Every small request becomes a project in its own right.

Project management is both an art and a science. It requires considerable professionalism and skills. Skills to solve all the unpredictable issues that occur every day. Solving these should be the focus of your work.

The Vendor Database is at the core of any translation business operations. The way you handle it has great impact on your performance. Making full use of a database will guarantee both the best delivery time and quality. Mishandled, it will waste your efforts and cost you results.

There are two ways of growing business profits: increase sales and reduce costs. A wise reduction of costs is key to improving customer satisfaction, winning customer loyalty and growing your business in the long term.

Project Management is both an art and a science. It combines strict rules with a whole lot of gut feel in new situations. It can be a very rewarding job.

Translation businesses rely on their vendors. Their work and dedication form the basis of what you deliver to your customers. Great results never come by accident. So if you want to provide the best possible quality service you need to start with the way you manage your vendors.

Project Managers should spend their valuable time on their core responsibilities. Their days should not consist of just shuffling e-mails and files. Your time is precious, so do not waste it on repetitive tasks.

The translation business in all about language. And language is arguably an area most closely associated with human intelligence. At first glance it is not something that computers can take over from us, or even help us with.