Poll: Most of my new clients first contact me via:
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Maria Teresa Borges de Almeida
Maria Teresa Borges de Almeida  Identity Verified
Portugal
Local time: 09:12
Member (2007)
English to Portuguese
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Email Aug 11, 2020

All my clients, old and new, contact me by email (even visitors of my website) and this is really how I prefer being contacted. I haven’t received a single phone call from a client for a long time and I have never been a heavy user of Instant Messaging.

Yetta Jensen Bogarde
Liena Vijupe
Thayenga
Francesca Grandinetti
neilmac
ahartje
Gibril Koroma
 
Merab Dekano
Merab Dekano  Identity Verified
Spain
Member (2014)
English to Spanish
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Email Aug 11, 2020

Occasional calls, but mostly email. I would say more than 99%.

Yetta Jensen Bogarde
neilmac
Philip Lees
 
Nikolay Novitskiy
Nikolay Novitskiy  Identity Verified
Russian Federation
Local time: 14:12
Member (2018)
English to Russian
Fax? Aug 11, 2020

I wonder, if anyone gets new offers from clients by fax now? It's allways such an intrigue when you are getting a fax. And you never miss it... I mean the sound.

Josephine Cassar
 
Aline Amorim
Aline Amorim  Identity Verified
Brazil
Local time: 06:12
English to Portuguese
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Email Aug 11, 2020

I have one client contacts me by WhatsApp.

 
Luiz Barucke
Luiz Barucke  Identity Verified
Brazil
Local time: 06:12
Spanish to Portuguese
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Email, please Aug 11, 2020

Almost all my clients contact me using email, and I consider it the best way, since it allows them to include all information about the project (field, type of content, volume, deadline, rates, reference files, etc.) in a single communication.

I confess I hate other ways for work-related contacts, such as Skype and WhatsApp. They generate a long conversation that can be solved with one first email, one reply and one confirmation.

Maybe I'm an old-fashioned guy...
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Almost all my clients contact me using email, and I consider it the best way, since it allows them to include all information about the project (field, type of content, volume, deadline, rates, reference files, etc.) in a single communication.

I confess I hate other ways for work-related contacts, such as Skype and WhatsApp. They generate a long conversation that can be solved with one first email, one reply and one confirmation.

Maybe I'm an old-fashioned guy
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Liena Vijupe
Becca Resnik
neilmac
Tina Vonhof (X)
Gibril Koroma
Muriel Vasconcellos
Ivona Nováková
 
Becca Resnik
Becca Resnik  Identity Verified
United States
Local time: 05:12
Member
German to English
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And a record Aug 11, 2020

Luiz Barucke wrote:

Almost all my clients contact me using email, and I consider it the best way, since it allows them to include all information about the project (field, type of content, volume, deadline, rates, reference files, etc.) in a single communication.

I confess I hate other ways for work-related contacts, such as Skype and WhatsApp. They generate a long conversation that can be solved with one first email, one reply and one confirmation.

Maybe I'm an old-fashioned guy


Agreed. I'm also a big stickler for using email for the benefit of having a record. In fact, if I have a phone call or any other communication, I always send a follow-up email as a record and to make sure that what I said is what they heard and vice versa.


Tina Vonhof (X)
Kaisa I
Gibril Koroma
Muriel Vasconcellos
Beatriz Ramírez de Haro
Philip Lees
 
neilmac
neilmac
Spain
Local time: 10:12
Spanish to English
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E-mail Aug 11, 2020

I don't usually answer phone calls from unknown numbers/contacts. I much prefer communicating by e-mail, as it gives me time to think about my responses.

Kaisa I
Muriel Vasconcellos
Simone Verdi Fronza
Beatriz Ramírez de Haro
Philip Lees
Alix Paupy
Becca Resnik
 
Gibril Koroma
Gibril Koroma  Identity Verified
Canada
Local time: 05:12
French to English
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Email Aug 11, 2020

I love email. I love silence, minus cell phone alerts, which are necessary.

 
Laurela Bruka
Laurela Bruka  Identity Verified
United States
Local time: 05:12
German to English
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via email Aug 11, 2020

I was contacted via email in most of the cases.

 
Maxi Schwarz
Maxi Schwarz  Identity Verified
Local time: 04:12
German to English
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e-mail or phone Aug 13, 2020

In that order of frequency.

 


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