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June 13, Monday @ 2:00 pm CEST | 8:00 am EDT

LIVE KICKOFF

We'll be kicking off the summit LIVE on Zoom! Join us as Nicole König takes us through the sustainable business practices that have allowed her to go from working 60+ hours a week to a 4-day work week. Submit your questions via the chat function. Places limited to 100. Recording available for Professional Package holders.

Nicole is a translator, bilingual copywriter and sustainable marketing strategist. Her purpose: empower as many people as possible to do good and talk about it. Her goal: plant 1 million trees [100 for every project wrap, testimonial, and speaking gig] by the time she retires to an offline life of slow traveling and buying land to protect and rewild. Nicole is a recovered workaholic championing the 4-day workweek and sustainable business strategies. She loves helping fellow word nerds get to that sweet spot where passion meets purpose and profit. When she grows up, she wants to be Dolly Parton. Or Jane Fonda. Or David Attenborough. Until then, she's happy as a dog mum, cat lady, book buff, gardener, and Taco Tuesday advocate.

June 13, Monday @ 2:00 pm CEST | 8:00 am EDT

45min Vinyasa Yoga Session for Beginners

Tess Whitty takes us through a thoroughly relaxing Yoga session. Suitable for beginners.

Not only is Tess a certified Yoga teacher, but she's also a certified English into Swedish translator, specializing in digital marketing and localization. With a degree in International Marketing and background as marketing manager, she also shares her marketing knowledge and translator experience with other freelance translators as an award-winning speaker, trainer, consultant, author, and podcaster. She is involved in several translator associations as a committee chair, language chair, trainer, and mentor. In 2020, she was ranked among the top 50 world’s industry localization influencers.

June 13, Monday @ 2:00 pm CEST | 8:00 am EDT

How to Overcome Financial Trauma

Dr. Fanike answers our questions about financial trauma and how it links to the lack mindset that keeps so many of us stuck in unwanted financial realities.

Dr. Fanike-Kiara Olugbala Young is an Energy Performance Coach. She uses
her personal experiences of healing from trauma with her clinical and educational
training as a Doctor of Behavioral Health, Licensed Trauma Therapist, and Master Reiki Practitioner to lead women entrepreneurs on the path to removing mental, emotional, financial, physical, and spiritual blocks rooted in hurtful experiences in childhood and keeping the women in cycles of negative thinking, limiting beliefs, and unhappiness. Dr. Fanike uses her unique integrated program to help her clients live the lives they want and deserve and reach their full potential. She is the author of What the F*ck is Your Problem?!: Becoming an Active Worker in Healing Your Trauma.

June 13, Monday @ 2:00 pm CEST | 8:00 am EDT

Caring for our Mental Health

Patrícia Cardoso Ferreira and I talk about how we as freelancers can take care of our mental health. At the end of the interview, Patrícia takes us through a relaxation practice.

June 13, Monday @ 2:00 pm CEST | 8:00 am EDT

The Importance of Self-Care

Luna Jungblut from Artlife Translations shares her self-care routines and tips. Specialising in museum, art and marketing content since 2013, Luna provides qualified high-end translation, subtitling and interpreting services from English and Spanish into French, her native language.

June 13, Monday @ 2:00 pm CEST | 8:00 am EDT

Protect Your Work-Life Balance Through Productivity and Systems

Jenae Spry shares her productivity tips and takes us through tools and systems that make our life easier!

Jenae has been in the translation industry since 2006 and has spent the last 6 years helping entrepreneurs, from solopreneurs and freelancers to small business owners, prevent burnout, continue to grow their businesses, and protect their work-life balance through productivity and systems.

June 13, Monday @ 2:00 pm CEST | 8:00 am EDT

Get Into the Right Mindset to Gain Better Clients

Yayi Samaké gives us the tools to get into the right mindset to gain better clients. Yayi is the founder of Umanda Coaching and helps working women and entrepreneurs build and thrive in a meaningful career they love based on their unique talents. Thanks to her very own Umanda Method, she helps you reach your professional and business goals. With a background in languages and political science that led her to the European Commission, Yayi is a gifted NLP Practitioner, and a Certified ICF Coach whose language enthusiasm is reflected in the diversity of the clients she supports. She speaks 7 languages and runs the Umanda blog in French and English.

June 14, Tuesday @ 2:00 pm CEST | 8:00 am EDT

SEO Translation

Marion Rhodes is an ATA-certified English to German translator, certified copywriter, and multilingual SEO specialist. A native of Germany, she immigrated to the United States straight out of high school in 2001. Before starting her translation career, Marion worked as a reporter for the Omaha World-Herald in Nebraska and as a freelance writer for various English- and German-language news publications. She holds a bachelor’s degree in journalism and a master’s degree in integrated marketing communications. When she's not crafting creative copy, she can usually be found riding one of her two horses around her home in San Diego County.

June 14, Tuesday @ 2:00 pm CEST | 8:00 am EDT

Subtitling

GOSUB was founded in 2016. Its speciality is online training in subtitling, closed captioning and SDH. Kelly O’Donovan is the creator of GOSUB.tv – An Education in the Art of Subtitling. She is also the creator of an online directory connecting qualified subtitlers and captioners with audiovisual agencies and producers.

June 14, Tuesday @ 2:00 pm CEST | 8:00 am EDT

Make the Cloud Work for You

Nicole Loney shows us some of the key functionality for productively working in the cloud - and answers our questions about security too.

Nicole is a Product Marketing Manager at RWS, looking after market leading products such as Trados Studio, Trados Team, Trados GroupShare and MultiTerm. She is responsible for helping bring new product releases and updates to the market, generating product focused content, working on campaigns with the field marketing teams, and conducting market research.

June 14, Tuesday @ 2:00 pm CEST | 8:00 am EDT

Inclusive Language

Sarah Riehle and I discuss the importance of inclusive language and how to incorporate it into both our client projects and our business practices.

Having been into languages since she was a little girl, Sarah started dreaming of becoming a translator early. Never losing track of her goal she achieved a commercial degree in foreign languages, and completed her vocational training in logistics before rocking her way towards the Certified Translator of English.

As an English<>German translator and editor focusing on neurology, inclusive communication and Easy-to-Read (German) Sarah ensures limitless communication between persons with and without chronic illnesses and disabilities.

June 14, Tuesday @ 2:00 pm CEST | 8:00 am EDT

Website Localisation

Dorota Pawlak is a translator specializing in website and mobile app localization. She holds an MA in Translation and MSc in Multilingual Computing and Localization. Dorota runs online courses on localization on her website and helps other freelancers to start and grow their businesses.

June 15, Wednesday @ 2:00 pm CEST | 8:00 am EDT

Mission Marketing

Nicole König is a translator, bilingual copywriter and sustainable marketing strategist. Her purpose: empower as many people as possible to do good and talk about it. Her goal: plant 1 million trees [100 for every project wrap, testimonial, and speaking gig] by the time she retires to an offline life of slow traveling and buying land to protect and rewild. Nicole is a recovered workaholic championing the 4-day workweek and sustainable business strategies. She loves helping fellow word nerds get to that sweet spot where passion meets purpose and profit. When she grows up, she wants to be Dolly Parton. Or Jane Fonda. Or David Attenborough. Until then, she's happy as a dog mum, cat lady, book buff, gardener, and Taco Tuesday advocate.

June 15, Wednesday @ 2:00 pm CEST | 8:00 am EDT

Pick Your Niche and Specialise

Tess Whitty is a certified English into Swedish translator, specializing in digital marketing and localization. With a degree in International Marketing and background as marketing manager, she also shares her marketing knowledge and translator experience with other freelance translators as an award-winning speaker, trainer, consultant, author, and podcaster. She is involved in several translator associations as a committee chair, language chair, trainer, and mentor. In 2020, she was ranked among the top 50 world’s industry localization influencers.

June 15, Wednesday @ 2:00 pm CEST | 8:00 am EDT

LinkedIn Strategies That Work

Virginia Magrì shares her Social Media Marketing experience by revealing some tips to market your business on LinkedIn.

Virginia is an Italian translator and copywriter based in Spain and specializing in Digital Marketing, SEO and Localization. With a Degree in Translation and an MA in Marketing, she’s been in business since 2016, and she helps companies in the Fashion, Beauty, and HiTech/Software industries to communicate with their Italian and Spanish customers by creating and translating content meant to convert and increase sales.

June 15, Wednesday @ 2:00 pm CEST | 8:00 am EDT

Optimize Your Branding and Website

In this training session Nicole König reveals how to optimize our branding and website. Nicole is a translator, bilingual copywriter and sustainable marketing strategist. Her purpose: empower as many people as possible to do good and talk about it. Her goal: plant 1 million trees [100 for every project wrap, testimonial, and speaking gig] by the time she retires to an offline life of slow traveling and buying land to protect and rewild. Nicole is a recovered workaholic championing the 4-day workweek and sustainable business strategies. She loves helping fellow word nerds get to that sweet spot where passion meets purpose and profit. When she grows up, she wants to be Dolly Parton. Or Jane Fonda. Or David Attenborough. Until then, she's happy as a dog mum, cat lady, book buff, gardener, and Taco Tuesday advocate.

June 15, Wednesday @ 2:00 pm CEST | 8:00 am EDT

Create Your Portfolio

Martina Russo gives us detailed training on how to create our portfolio to gain more - higher-paying - clients. Martina is an Italian and Swiss Italian translator who specialises in digital & marketing translations and translations for the outdoors & action sports industries. She also runs Freelancer At Work, helping other translators and freelancers to advertise their services wherever they go through unique laptop decals. When she isn’t opening the doors of new international markets, Martina can normally be found somewhere online helping other translators and interpreters unlock the power of LinkedIn, or outdoors climbing a mountain and snowboarding down one.

June 15, Wednesday @ 2:00 pm CEST | 8:00 am EDT

How to Scale Your Translation Business

Maeva Cifuentes gives us a behind-the-scenes look at how she turned her freelance translation business into a full-service content marketing agency.
Maeva is a Barcelona-based translator-turned-agency owner. Having worked in translation since 2009, she now focuses the majority of her time growing her SEO and content marketing agency, Flying Cat Marketing, through which she helps scaling B2B tech companies organically grow and generate more inbound revenue. She occasionally writes on her blog, Maeva Everywhere, about personal and professional development as a freelancer and digital entrepreneur.

June 15, Wednesday @ 2:00 pm CEST | 8:00 am EDT

How to Get Press Coverage

Carolien Mertens shows us how to get press coverage for our business. She also clearly defines what she expects from conference interpreters when hiring for her events!
Carolien is an event planner who helps entrepreneurs create their dream one-day live events, multi-day conferences, and premium mastermind retreats. She has planned over 100 events for small businesses and Fortune 500 companies, serving over 10,000 participants. She works with entrepreneurs in Europe as well as worldwide to bring their event vision to life. She takes care of every last detail, negotiating the best prices, and creating an incredible participant experience.
 Carolien is a regular contributor to the Huffington Post and Thrive Global.

June 15, Wednesday @ 2:00 pm CEST | 8:00 am EDT

Make the Most of SEO and SEM

Joshua Erdman reveals the difference between SEO and SEM, putting them to work for us. Josh never leaves behind an opportunity to learn something new. He is a true ‘Jack of all trades’. He is always on the lookout for new ways to merge technology with the customer experience.
As CEO of a national Digital Marketing Agency he gets to combine his passion for learning and his talents in technology to design sales experiences worth talking about.
Josh volunteers with Softec, a non-profit advocacy group focused on improving high school education in software and Technology. He is also the local facilitator of the Central Coast’s CEO Roundtables, a confidential peer group where CEOs discuss business issues and share ideas.

June 16, Thursday @ 2:00 pm CEST | 8:00 am EDT

Create a Newsletter to Promote Your Business

Sarah Silva shares how she created her client-facing newsletter and how you, too, can use newsletters as a marketing tool.

Sarah translates chemical texts from German into her native English and has been doing so since 2008. Based in Kent in the UK, she’s in her element talking food chemistry, paints, coatings, and creative marketing for translators and interpreters. Sarah started publishing her client-focused newsletter in 2019 and attributes it with thousands of euros of translation and editing projects. She also has a weekly email newsletter with marketing tips for translators and interpreters.

June 16, Thursday @ 2:00 pm CEST | 8:00 am EDT

Expand Your Direct Client Base With Warm Emails and Paper Campaigns

Corinne McKay shows us how to apply warm emails, paper campaigns, and much more to attract direct clients. Corinne is an ATA-certified French to English translator based in Boulder, Colorado, USA. She has been a full-time freelancer since 2002, specializing in international development, corporate communications, and non-fiction book translation. In addition to her own translation work, Corinne writes books and teaches courses for other freelance translators: her book, How to Succeed as a Freelance Translator, has sold over 12,000 copies, and her blog, Thoughts on Translation - now renamed Training for Translators - won the ProZ community choice award for best blog about translation. Corinne served on the Board of the American Translators Association for seven years, culminating with a term as ATA president from 2017-2019.

June 16, Thursday @ 2:00 pm CEST | 8:00 am EDT

Finding Clients as a Literary Translator

Jeannette Bauroth reveals her secrets to finding clients as a literary translator. Jeannette is a certified English>German translator with a 14-year career and a love of books, especially humorous and romantic mysteries. She works for both publishing houses and self-publishers. Born and raised in Germany, she travels frequently and enjoys learning more about British and American culture, which she then puts to good use in her translations.

She is the co-founder of Indie Translations, which helps independent authors bring their stories to German readers. In 2019, she founded her own publishing company, Second Chances Verlag.

June 16, Thursday @ 2:00 pm CEST | 8:00 am EDT

Behind the Scenes at France’s No. 1 Translation Agency, acolad.

Yulia Ermakova takes us behind the scenes at France’s no. 1 translation agency, acolad., and reveals a project manager's selection process. Yulia is a Key Account Manager at acolad. The Acolad Group is the European leader in professional translation. Thanks to its 820 employees working in 14 countries (Europe, North America, and Asia), and a network of 15,000 specialized professional translators around the world, the group meets the language needs of businesses in all industries, and in all language combinations. With forecasted revenues of €122 million in 2018, the group has experienced a 2-digit annual growth rate for the past 10 years.

June 16, Thursday @ 2:00 pm CEST | 8:00 am EDT

Sell More Effectively to Corporate Clients

Jessica Lorimer reveals her sales strategies, so we can sell more effectively to direct clients - in a non-pushy way. Jessica is the UK’s most influential Sales Coach for service based entrepreneurs who are looking to sell their services to corporate organisations. Featured in Forbes, City AM, Good Morning Britain and a We Are The City ‘Most Inspirational Woman’, Jessica is responsible for helping thousands of business owners scale their businesses through simple, integrity based sales techniques in a sustainable and lifestyle focused way. With a successful corporate background as a top performing sales consultant and leader across EMEA and Asia Pacific, responsible for new business development in a variety of FTSE 500 companies, Jessica brings a unique understanding of new business development and fast sales growth in new markets to the table. Jessica is also the host of the Selling to Corporates Podcast and Author of #1 Amazon Bestseller, Smart Leaders Sell.

June 16, Thursday @ 2:00 pm CEST | 8:00 am EDT

Creating a Social Media Strategy That Works

Martina Eco reveals how we can create an effective social media strategy without wasting time online. Martina is a coffee-fuelled, pizza-loving Italian translator based in London. She's the owner and director of 3P Translation, a company that helps English-speaking SMEs in the food, tourism, travel and hospitality industries grow internationally by providing bespoke translation and interpreting services.
Martina also works as a business and marketing consultant at London South Bank University, and she supports other translators by giving workshops on marketing, business planning and business development in and outside of London.
When she’s not working, you will find her headbanging at a rock gig, or browsing through CDs in a charity shop.

June 16, Thursday @ 2:00 pm CEST | 8:00 am EDT

Use Cold-Calling to Build Your Translation Business

Virginia Katsimpiri shares her cold (and warm) calling strategies. We also discuss how to get referrals. Virginia is a certified English and French to Greek translator with more than 13 years of experience in law, finance, and aeronautics and defense. She holds an ΜA in translation and an executive MBA. As a certified translator and coach, Virginia teaches and practices translator mentoring methods. She has helped hundreds of freelance translators worldwide to attract international clients and rapidly build their profitable business through her Mentoring Programs.

June 17, Friday @ 2:00 pm CEST | 8:00 am EDT

LIVE: Ask Us Anything

Join us for this LIVE Q&A session with Virginia Katsimpiri! Ask us all your burning questions on anything related to marketing, finance, and business. Submit your questions in advance or via the chat function. Places limited to 100. Recording available for Professional Package holders.

Virginia is a certified English and French to Greek translator with more than 13 years of experience in law, finance, and aeronautics and defense. She holds an ΜA in translation and an executive MBA. As a certified translator and coach, Virginia teaches and practices translator mentoring methods. She has helped hundreds of freelance translators worldwide to attract international clients and rapidly build their profitable business through her Mentoring Programs.

June 17, Friday @ 2:00 pm CEST | 8:00 am EDT

What Money Type Are You?

Chris Lascor and I have a fascinating conversation about the money archetypes at play when we make financial decisions.

Chris is a French Certified Positive Intelligence and Money Coach helping business owners and professionals improve their relationship with Money. He has a background in IT and Finance in an international context. By showing why we do what we do with our Money through workshops and regular online events in French, English and Spanish, he is popularizing behavioral economics and financial hygiene in Europe and South America.

June 17, Friday @ 2:00 pm CEST | 8:00 am EDT

Smart Financial Habits for Freelancers

Susie Jackson shares her top seven financial habits for freelancers. Susie is a freelance copy editor and Spanish-to-English translator specializing in academic texts for the social sciences. She also mentors freelancers on pricing to help them figure out how much they should be charging and how to raise their rates with clients so that they can earn a decent living doing what they love.

June 17, Friday @ 2:00 pm CEST | 8:00 am EDT

Figure Out How Much to Charge

Moira Monney reveals the relationship between your pricing and your positioning, helping you appropriately calculate your rates. Moira is a Germany-based translator, copywriter and digital marketing consultant. Her boutique agency johnson communications focuses on helping nutrition brands increase their revenue and reputation through German/English SEO copywriting and translation services as well as B2C marketing advice.
Moira’s dedication to helping fellow translators create more successful businesses led to her initiating the Financial Success Summit for Translators.

June 17, Friday @ 2:00 pm CEST | 8:00 am EDT

Negotiate and Raise Your Rates Without Scaring Away Clients

Martina Russo unveils practical strategies for negotiating and raising your rates. This training session is exclusive to Pro Package members. Martina is an Italian and Swiss Italian translator who specialises in digital & marketing translations and translations for the outdoors & action sports industries. She also runs Freelancer At Work, helping other translators and freelancers to advertise their services wherever they go through unique laptop decals. When she isn’t opening the doors of new international markets, Martina can normally be found somewhere online helping other translators and interpreters unlock the power of LinkedIn, or outdoors climbing a mountain and snowboarding down one. 

June 17, Friday @ 2:00 pm CEST | 8:00 am EDT

How to Effectively Track and Manage Your Finances

Caroline Bries demonstrates how the right invoicing and reporting system enables you to efficiently manage your finances. Caroline is a freelance translator living in Brussels, Belgium. She has been a translator for 13 years, first in various translation agencies and, since 2016, as a freelancer. She works from English and Dutch into French. She’s also the co-founder of LSP.expert, an all-in-one tool that helps freelance translators and translation agencies manage their jobs, invoices, quotes, clients, suppliers, etc. in just a few clicks. The point of this tool is to help its users save time (time they can invest in something else) and keep a clear view of their activity (thanks, among other things, to a lot of interesting reports).

June 18, Saturday @ 2:00 pm CEST | 8:00 am EDT

Alternative Pricing & Project Structures

Joy Phillips shares her thoughts on pricing & project structures, with a particular focus on retainer agreements. Joy is a court-certified Dutch>English translator, author’s editor, copywriter and content synthesizer with 23 years of experience in helping fiction writers, researchers, companies, NGOs and government agencies convey their concepts to a broader international audience. Strong focus on climate and environment, IT and telecom, technology and innovation, public health and epidemiology, and creative design; fiercely dedicated to keeping her industry-specific knowledge up to par.
Joy is an inveterate bookaholic and irrepressible extrovert who has lived more than half her life over 9000 km from where she was born. To this day, she is fascinated by language, food, coffee & speculative fiction. Over the past few years, she has invested an improbable amount of time in establishing a small network of trusted colleagues, The Language Collective, to serve her customers better.

June 18, Saturday @ 2:00 pm CEST | 8:00 am EDT

Manage Your Cashflow & Ditch Feast-or-Famine

Moira Monney gives you practical strategies for managing your cashflow. Exclusive to Pro Package members. Moira is a Germany-based translator, copywriter and digital marketing consultant. Her boutique agency johnson communications focuses on helping nutrition brands increase their revenue and reputation through German/English SEO copywriting and translation services as well as B2C marketing advice.
Moira’s dedication to helping fellow translators create more successful businesses led to her initiating the Financial Success Summit for Translators.

June 18, Saturday @ 2:00 pm CEST | 8:00 am EDT

Investing for Beginners

Tim Hendrik Naumann explains the basics of investing and where to begin. Tim has more than seven years of experience in banking. He started his career in retail banking where he mainly focused on real estate financing and investment advisory. After three years, he switched to investment banking where he now works on Initial Public Offerings, capital increases as well as other equity financing related products. Tim holds a Master of Finance (M.Sc.) from Frankfurt School of Finance and Management.

June 18, Saturday @ 2:00 pm CEST | 8:00 am EDT

Planning for Retirement as a Freelancer

Jennifer A Harter outlines several retirement planning strategies for freelancers. Jennifer is a Financial Educator with a BS/MBA in Accounting and a background primarily in the not-for-profit and small business sectors. She provides individuals with the tools and knowledge they need to become financially empowered so they can make better fiscal choices, break free from the stress and uncertainty of living paycheck-to-paycheck, become debt-free, and have hope for the future. She uses her 30+ years of experience to help people achieve their dreams and goals without sacrificing their current happiness.

June 18, Saturday @ 2:00 pm CEST | 8:00 am EDT

Creating Passive Income Streams

Matt Spofforth is a French/German > English engineering and IT translator based in Liverpool, UK.

He really cares about helping translation students to become fully-fledged freelance translators through his online course "The Translation Toolbox", and is a big fan of using passive income streams to build wealth and loves teaching others about them.

Outside of work, he's a pretty good table tennis player, and enjoys spending time in local coffee shops.