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Poll: With how many new clients do you work per month?
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Giles Watson
Giles Watson  Identity Verified
Italy
Local time: 10:34
Italian to English
In memoriam
One new customer last year Feb 10, 2012

Even though my 2011 turnover was up on 2010, I only actually worked with one new customer, who probably won't be coming back.

It's not that my translation was bad (it wasn't), or that the finance-oriented client is dodgy (quite the reverse - very professional, prompt payer etc), but the job was a one-off wine translation and I have no intention of moving into finance

All my other work came from repeat cli... See more
Even though my 2011 turnover was up on 2010, I only actually worked with one new customer, who probably won't be coming back.

It's not that my translation was bad (it wasn't), or that the finance-oriented client is dodgy (quite the reverse - very professional, prompt payer etc), but the job was a one-off wine translation and I have no intention of moving into finance

All my other work came from repeat clients, some of whom have been "repeating" for twenty years now. ▲ Collapse
 
Kamil Zakrzewski
Kamil Zakrzewski
Local time: 10:34
English to Polish
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Fix the poll Feb 10, 2012

Not to be impish but the poll has Other N/A and >8, which doesn't really make sense
 
Stanislaw Czech, MCIL CL
Stanislaw Czech, MCIL CL  Identity Verified
United Kingdom
Local time: 09:34
Member (2006)
English to Polish
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I've answered other Feb 10, 2012

In practice it is one or less.

Cheers
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Caro Maucher
Caro Maucher  Identity Verified
Germany
Local time: 10:34
Member (2005)
English to German
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Other Feb 10, 2012

Usually less than one.
 
Gennady Lapardin
Gennady Lapardin  Identity Verified
Russian Federation
Local time: 11:34
Italian to Russian
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Other. Clients who? Feb 10, 2012

Those whom I get my subsistence from (clients of my purse), or final clients (clients of my CAT tools dictionaries and skills)? As for the latter ones, I am afraid they become less diverse.
 
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