 Hello Freelancers. So today I just wanted to share a quick video that I thought was quite interesting. So I recently, as you know, I'm a translator and I also have an agency where every now and then I, you know, need to work with other translators to for certain jobs. And recently I had this job that I posted on prose because I was looking for a translator there. The language combination was Italian to English. And as you might know, this is my language combination, but anyway, for various reasons I need to hire someone. So I just put on prose and I'll just go through what I did quickly just to give you an idea. I very simply wrote around 5,000 words business. I didn't write the language combination because when you write the post, it already comes out the language combination. So if people are also signed up for the prose.com email alerts, you know, they'll have already entered the language combination anyway. So there's no need to do it there. It's just very simple to the point. To all discretion, I have a file of around 5,000 words entitled quarterly assurance guideline law in Italian to be translated to English. If interested, please let me know your price as well as whether you'll be able to complete it by Monday end of day. Then in parentheses might have to split this up, but I don't want to. Then here at the bottom I have please write in quotation marks, Italian to English QA in your subject line. And I put it there in quotation marks to make it quite clear. And I sent this out, you know, there's some more information, the exact volume of words and the sample text. But I say translating is not required. It's just to give an idea so people have an idea when they apply. So as you can see here, I got 21 quotes for this job. And I want to show you something interesting. So here's what I did. It tie into English Q&A in your subject line. And, you know, it's just a very simple thing to follow that I like to add. And I'm going to show you the reason why I add this. I'm going to do this because I'm not very good at editing and I don't want to show people's names or anything. So I think if I do this, it should be fine. Yeah, there we go. So these are all the quotes, the 21 quotes that I received. And as you can see, they all have different subjects and different prices that they give and, you know, different prices per word, stuff like that. And, you know, this is why I want to hide their names. But I want to show you something interesting. If I do this find, trying to find on the page, it tie into English Q&A. I find, here it says it finds eight examples. Now, this is out of 21 quotes. However, the eight examples also include the part down there. So here out of the, in fact, so yeah, it's exactly half. But which means four results. Sorry, I'm talking a bit in circles here, but because I'm kind of thinking out loud. Anyway, these are the quotes. Then I don't want to scroll down too much because down here below you have the full quotes where they actually write down the full paragraph introducing themselves. These here at the top though, it just shows the subject and the price per word. And then also their name and some other information there to the left, but I'm not going to show that right now. So anyway, going back to this, remember I said, please put a time to English Q&A in the subject line. And, but look at all these subject lines. No one's put it in, except here, here, here. And that's it. Three. Yeah. So three people put Italian to English Q&A. I mean, because I see this Italian to English Q&A. Look, I'm going to count this as well because quite frankly. Yeah, I guess they just didn't copy and paste it, but whoever it is wrote it. But so we'll count for Italian to English Q&A in the subject line. No one else has it. Everyone else has, you know, other in fact here English to Arabic translator. I don't know why that will be relevant, but everyone else just has different things and obviously didn't read the instructions. So this, you know, this to me is a great litmus test because out of these 21 quotes now I only have four I need to consider because the other ones obviously are not paying attention to detail. And they're not really following the instructions. So what do I do here? I basically take these four ones that said Italian to English Q&A. Here's the first one. And, you know, that's the way per word. The second one with the way per word or price for translation plus free proof reading. Okay. And then, I mean, I kind of expect that from a translator, you know, it's, but anyway, yeah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. Italian to English Q&A here. There's no price entered, which by the way, do not do if you're, you know, when someone puts a job on pros, then that means that they, you know, they're ready to hire someone. They need to hire someone quickly. You don't want to add extra steps that they have to go through to figure out the price and all that. So, you know, this person is pretty much out as well. And then, and then here, here's the last one, which has quite a high price actually. Oh, probably because it's a rush draw of express delivery anyway. Also plus QA, I just wanted QA in the, in the title and it's because that's part of the title of the business document that needs to be translated. It's not that I wanted, I don't know what that means exactly anyway. So out of these four quotes, so out of the 21 quotes that I received, only four actually followed the instructions to have the title in. And I then after that I can still delete one because it didn't have a price per word. So only three out of the 21, that's one seventh of all the, of all the quotes I received are ones that I'm actually going to consider. And anyway, then I won't go into it because actually one of them didn't have correct grammar in their English. So that was easy to, you know, to take out and then there were only two left. So, and in fact, yeah, the one that gave a really high price was was too high and said, yeah, this is a high price for a rush job. But I mean, it's, it's too high that. And in fact, I think in his description, he's then says 0.15 euros. But look, my point is this, even before reading the full description of what they write, I was able to whittle it down so much just by having that simple instruction. So that's why I'm telling you, please follow the instructions just by following the instructions of what the people want when they're hiring. You know, will really put you above the pack and surprisingly so. And, and so, you know, simple things follow the instructions. And I've mentioned it's also before many times have correct English. You know, don't make spelling mistakes or grammar mistakes when you write to people have someone else look over it if you have to. But you know, this job is Italian into English, I need native English speakers. So if you're making mistakes in your English here, then forget it. And then, and then yeah, don't add extra steps that people have to go through. So, you know, don't do this, where you don't enter a price, you have to enter a price. You can later put in the description, say this is a rush job price or this is this is that price or whatever if there's flexibility, that's fine. But at least enter some sort of price. So, you know, we don't have to then ask you for it and all that because I did later check this person's description. Once again, I'm not scrolling down to descriptions because it will show their name and info and all that. But this person's description, you know, she didn't say any price, you know, she just gave a whole lot of information with no price. And so anyway, I just wanted to share this and just to show that just by making sure things are correct by doing a little bit of quality control before you send these emails out. And before you send these requests, you know, responses to request for quotation, like just a little bit can really put you ahead of the pack. Because here just literally following the instructions makes sure that you do better than, you know, it's better than six sevenths of the people, you know. And because only one out of seven actually follow the instructions correctly. So anyway, I just wanted to share that with you. I find it quite interesting and, you know, just to show you that, you know, by doing things correctly can really put you ahead of the pack. And of course, then later you need to do a good job with the translation and all that that goes without saying. But, you know, to make sure that you can actually follow instructions and you pay attention to detail that really helps me to see what kind of a translator you are. So you really should do stuff like that. So anyway, I just want to share that quickly. Hopefully you can find it useful when you're looking for jobs when you're replying to job requests, whether it be on pros or translators cafe or anything along those lines. And so yeah, that's it for now. And I'll talk to you in the next video. Okay, thanks. Bye.