Poll: For how many of your clients were you the first freelancer they had worked with?
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Maria Teresa Borges de Almeida
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Portugal
Local time: 14:23
Member (2007)
English to Portuguese
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I don't know (1?) Nov 7, 2018

As far as I know only one: my most long-standing client started working almost at the same time I did and we have been together since. As for the others, I prefer being the last freelancer they work with rather than the first one…

 
Marjolein Snippe
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Netherlands
Local time: 15:23
Member (2012)
English to Dutch
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at least 3 Nov 7, 2018

So far, I have had at least 3 clients who had not worked with freelancers before. All were private clients who had a one-off translation to be done.

Jennifer Forbes
 
Muriel Vasconcellos
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United States
Local time: 07:23
Member (2003)
Spanish to English
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Only 1 that I know of or remember Nov 7, 2018

He contacted me to see what a human translation would look like v a machine translation. I never heard from him again.

 
Mario Freitas
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Brazil
Local time: 11:23
Member (2014)
English to Portuguese
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??? Nov 7, 2018

Here's another example of a thoughtless question.
Do you really think your client will ever mention it to you? Maybe one or two, but in most cases you'll never know.
I've had two clients (in 30 years) who mentioned that I was their first freelancer. I also had some cases of private clients whom I know had never needed a translation service before.
Other than that, I may have been the first freelancer of several clients, but I'll never know.


 


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Poll: For how many of your clients were you the first freelancer they had worked with?






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