 Hello from Charlotte, Charlotte, North Carolina. My wife just got a job here and so we've moved here and This is our new place. I'm actually at the business center at a conference room. So today. I wanted to discuss meeting other translators When you're a translator you kind of need to be in the world of Translation and a lot of it has to do with you know going online and obviously dealing with translations themselves Watching these videos and so you get ideas of how other translators handle issues and problems They might have but I think an essential part of being a translator is also Meeting other translators talking to them being surrounded by them face-to-face. Let's face it most of you probably have friends who work in an office who work nine to five and Maybe you still do too when you but you'd like to become a translator It's gonna be very hard to understand it really and to get that point of view if You don't talk to other people who work for themselves who are freelancers who are entrepreneurs More specifically ideally who are also freelance translators. I mentioned this because I just moved here But you know we moved here a few days ago And so I'm trying to get in contact with other people people like myself or potential clients Etc. I just trying to you know do the whole networking thing So I just wanted to give some tips and tidbits basically let you know what I've been doing and you know Maybe you have ideas of how this could be taken further and I'm all ears if you do because I just moved here So, you know, I'm trying to enter into the world and figure it out So my first recommendation would be to Join a meet-up you can basically go to meetup.com and they have meet-ups they have them in every city around the world and Chances are you can find a meet-up for entrepreneurs for freelancers for something along those lines in your city By the way, it doesn't have to be meet-up.com another big one is Internations if you go to internations.org I think they also tend to have the same type of meet-ups has a bit of a different feel I think internations is more top-down and so it tends to be more organized But also a bit more hierarchical while meet-up.com can be set up by anyone and organized by anyone So you get a bit of everything my first step would be to go to one of these websites or other similar ones and try to find Groups of people who are once again freelancers entrepreneurs Ideally freelance translators if they have those and then join these so you can meet other people Usually most these meet-ups tend to be after work hours, you know over dinner or a drink very casual And so it's a great place to meet other people and to meet up and to network The second one will be to search for groups online every city and every country in every region is different And like I said, there might be other groups that are just purely in your region in your area So I would look up if you live in a certain city say you live in Budapest search Freelancers Budapest freelance translators Budapest translators Budapest entrepreneurs Budapest if you just move there from somewhere else Then probably English will always be a lingua franca But otherwise try to search for these specific groups in your specific area Just do a Google search and see what pops up because you never know another method and one that I found myself doing More and more as I go to new cities is to find a local Chamber of Commerce Usually you can find the city's Chamber of Commerce and or a region Chamber of Commerce or something along those lines find events Usually they have events open also to non-members. I would look into joining these now I like these a lot because this is where I can find potential clients these tend to be let's say It's a step up in professionalism and formality from the meet-up groups. However, obviously you also find Entrepreneurs and freelancers and the ones you you find tend to be a bit more, you know Already on the road to success Let's say while in the meet-ups and and internations You'll find people in your same shoes who are trying to start out when you go to these Sessions that usually find people who can be possibly your mentors, you know Help you out show you the way give you some tidbits some tricks into entering this lifestyle in this city You're in or in the industry you're in I know that's what I look forward to when I start started joining these chambers of commerce I realized that I could get very different advice and Recommendations from these people as compared to the meet-ups another type of association You can join is one dealing with the language you translated now say you just moved to Budapest But you do I don't know Swedish to Hungarian translations Then you should also be joining the Swedish Chamber of Commerce or in the Swedish Association of Budapest or something along those lines like I'm here in the States and I'm going to be with you know my specific languages and so obviously if I'm dealing with Italian and English I'm gonna look into the Italian Chamber of Commerce a Swiss Chamber of Commerce I remember Atlanta they had a Swiss American Association and an Italian Association take your specific languages and the countries that they come from and then Or any country associated with that language and try to join these groups because you'll find people You know obviously if they if they're from one language and they happen to reside in the country of another one There's gonna be translation going on back and forth there So that can definitely help you out in that sense and another type of association to look for is the one in your specialization if you have a specialization if it's legal or if it's Financial you know marketing then try to see what's going on in that realm now say you are dealing with legal Translations and find some legal Association you can go meet them up and I know I've mentioned this before because it becomes more interesting for them because they're meeting lawyers You know at all these industry events and some of you meet someone who's not a lawyer And so you're gonna stick out in their mind and so it can be very interesting there to meet prospective clients and possibly also to get Your first client and last but not least if you've gone through all these and you can you still cannot find something that suits you between the meet-ups and the Internations and the the associations the chambers of commerce the different countries and languages involved if the region you are in Doesn't have anything along these lines then actually nothing really stops you from Setting one up yourself so you can easily go to well meet up calm or internations or any one of these places and just set up a group We're out even just go to Facebook say hey This is for translators or freelance translators or freelancers in this region in this area in this city at the beginning There might be two people in which case two of you can grab a drink and talk But chances are things like this will grow something like this happened when I was in when I first went to Taiwan I was looking for an entrepreneurship meet-up for people foreigners in Taipei Who are entrepreneurs and wanted to meet other like-minded entrepreneurs at the time? There was nothing I decided to join this other guy You know we just met who was interested in doing the same thing We're like hey, why don't we set something like this up, you know Probably no one will show up in which case we'll just grab a beer and you know hang out and talk We ended up getting 3,000 members in fact later We you know we kind of hand it off the reins now I moved so it still exists, but other people are taking care of it So anyway, it's just to say that if you don't find something of what you're looking for chances are there other people looking for the same thing So hopefully that helps out because I do think while it's Invaluable to get as much information as you can and you can't get all types of information now basically online You know joining the forums and the websites and watching the videos etc It also always helps to meet people face-to-face to meet other people like you so you can compare notes urge each other on and help each other out with all the issues that might pop up and Please don't forget to click like and don't forget to subscribe And you'll get more videos like this dealing with freelancing helping out with freelance translation anyway I'll talk to you next time. 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