 So I received a comment recently that was interesting. It asked me about a certain company I think it was 1hourtranslations.com and it asked what I thought about this company if it was legit if it was good if it Was bad etc and and I've and I've I've received a couple of these of questions like this in in the past people ask me about specific companies and Whether I you know, I've worked with them if I think they're legitimate or if I think they're scams or not Usually I never hear about these companies But then I search for them and try to get an impression and just let them know what I feel and I you know I let them know whoever asks I tell them I haven't worked with this company before but this is what I think so today I kind of just wanted to show you the process that I go through when I hear about a new company If it's a company that I'm gonna be working with or if you just ask me about the company or anything like that This is the process that I go through so from now on if people ask me about certain companies I'll probably refer them to this video Just so you can do your own research and that way you can get your own idea about any company that comes across your radar and And you have the tools necessary to evaluate if it's a company you want to work for or not so I think the best way to do this is to do a screenshot and Where you can see me go through the process of looking up a company. So let's do that So usually where I start off is pros. Yeah, actually it's the pros.com blue board And I've mentioned this before but first of all pros comm is the main translation website for freelance translators And the blue board is where they list all the companies and they give them a score in general The scores should be around five or high fours if it's anything lower like three and definitely 2.2 then that's That's a red flag. That's a bad sign For example, we'll take, you know, we'll take this one and see what it says this studio moreto group It has as you can see Lately So what it has is is well actually just desperate is it's all a bunch of bad ones at the beginning You can see actually start off with a bunch of fives Then there was just one one then another one here and then they've delayed our payment for years please cherish your reputation in the translation market and apparently they don't cherish it because a bunch of people have problems and So anyway, let's do this I want to do this again because I was contacted about a specific group called one-hour translation And I've seen this around quite a few times. So I thought it would be worth looking into here We go one hour translation right away. We see they have Their base out of Cyprus apparently and they have a 3.8 This is not very good. And in fact, we see lately They have a debt to pay me since August I posted a critical comment including a new hybrid translation And was banned from their website without notice although my last payment is still pending So it seems like they have issues with payment more than anything. Otherwise, these are all good Now usually most agencies will just have five And you know, that's kind of the standard on this website and you get a different feel for different websites How they work, but that's how it usually works here again didn't receive payment I advise them to redo a translation had to prove free the text was awful I was blocked as a vendor that doesn't seem very nice unethical unprofessional behavior And so yeah, these are the bad things. Obviously, they're good ones as well But to me, this is a red flag when you see 3.8 and past 12 months 3.2 This is not good. Once again, that you know, usually here, they're all five Someone will give even if one person gives a two or a one, you know, the rest will be five and That's usually how it happens. So this is actually quite bad Also, because once you give Once you give this you can actually change it So what happens is sometimes people aren't getting paid and they're like, oh, this company hasn't paid me in three months They're six months or whatever they give a one and then the company does pay them because they want to get rid of that And so they'll raise it, you know And they'll give it like a three or four and say oh the company finally paid me so I raised my rate So the fact that obviously this company one-hour translation hasn't even bothered to try to follow up or try to raise these That's also a red flag to me, right? So anyway, and if you're not sure about this what you can also do is check the forums to see if anyone's talking about anything pros.com has its own forums and Here you can search for one-hour translation. There you go until I did the search for him already and and then you get to see a bit, you know, what some people are talking about and You know, you can just scroll around and see what it says here Let's see what One-hour translation. There we go. I used to start working for low-cost translation websites such as one hour translation or the Spanish Bebe like blah blah blah, so basically a low-cost translation website It seems like one of those websites that don't pay you much. They obviously don't seem to care very much if they pay you or not and And yeah, so I don't know to me. It's a couple red flags Now if you're still not sure though because you know, it was kind of ambiguous There were quite a few fives and everything like that. Then there are there are definitely other places you can check usually for me the second place that I check is translatorscafe.com if it would load and Sorry about this lately. I've been having some issues. So and actually I should show you here one-hour translation I spelt it all attached. Maybe if you do like this now sometimes if you do various different variations of of the company name some other things pop up like let's try one-hour translation But no, these are all obviously different So yeah, and pros usually does a good job of combining them when they should be combined into into one company so here we go and First of all, this is a very confusing website to me. So you'll forgive me if but no first of all you can check the discussion forums and Never remember how to do out here. Do the search. I guess one hour translation. There we go Let's see what pops up Warrant scammers pretending to be Genco. I'm not sure Maybe they're pretending to be Genco one-hour translation.com. I've checked a little more And while the two agencies named Genco have more or less the same setup working methods and payment schedule the websites are dissimilar And I may have made a mistake thinking that Genco is also one-hour translation Well, they're not there are different companies I know that and actually there I would head back to here because as I mentioned The pros is usually very good at combining different websites, you know Even when sometimes they do try to be different or try to come up with a separate name because their first name has a bad reputation Pros comm is good at combining them, but here it shows it's a different company Genco. Yeah, I mean again quite heard of before so I do know and anyway So there you go. There's another place you can go if you want under translators cafe and If I find it I think it was under community as well There we go community. Oh Hall of Fame and shame. There we go And this is this functions pretty much just like the blue board under pros And here you can see one hour translation except as you can see they don't combine them and I don't know So it makes it kind of confusing also because here we have one star and you have five stars Now actually what so I've been going at this for a while So I can notice a certain red flag here And that's that this is an affiliate link an affiliate link means someone who gets paid to refer you to this company So if I click on this and then I use one hour translation and end up doing business with them. This gets tracked basically my You know my ISP or something gets tracked and this guy here gets paid So anytime there's an affiliate, of course, they're gonna give it five stars because they want you to click on this website and use it But here I see two users have rated this one and have both given it apparently one star So that's what I'm going to trust. I think more than anything You can click on it You can click on it and you get this it seems like I haven't paid my dues to translators cafe Translators cafe is actually it's a free website But yeah, you don't have access to everything when you don't pay I thought I had access to the Hall of Fame and shame, but apparently I don't because I'm not a master member So if you're a master member, you can see more details, but either way you can see the the rating they give Now before I sign off that usually this is all you need to more or less get an idea because these are both very Translation specific pros and translators cafe, but if you're still not sure that certain other things you can do You can just do exactly a search for one hour translation and review That's what I usually do And you'll have here you have two things you have glass door and Yelp So glass door is a website that rates them from the perspective of employees So if you're working there and it rates how it is to work there and that's 3.2 So that's what I would trust more than anything if you're going to work for For one hour translation Yelp as you know reviews it from the point of view as a consumer and here It's 3.5. So you can make of it what what you wish I don't know if I'm gonna you're I'll just click on it quickly just to Show you more or less How it works great company and people current employee anonymous employee So, you know, this person seems to like it used to be a great agency no more Amazing place to start a career Quality but it gives it three stars. So I'm not sure good, but should be employee inclusive good service messy management So, I don't know, you know here here. It's a bit all over the board. So And actually this shows you well because many times I mean look if it's a scam it gets quite obvious It's a scam one hour translation does not seem to be a scam But it does seem to be quite iffy and so it you know, it goes back to the low-cost Translations if it's low cost then maybe you can Go for it, but otherwise. I don't know Here there's one other place that I want to share with you Although I really don't have much luck with this here BB the this is a better business bureau. So this is for companies in the states It said it was based out of Cyprus, but for some reason they have it listed here Although it's not BBB accredited, but it gives it an A plus And then it has one negative review. So this literally could not be more confusing I don't know what's going on here composite score 3.68 Two customer complaints. I really don't know what's happening. Let's click on the customer review to see what it says And you'll get an idea beware of I guess like that the numbers just robbed me I've been working for blah blah blah blah blah and they give a comment your clearly a translator for one hour translation It's such a service provider suggesting you contact of translators. So anyway So this is precisely a translator worker for them to have a problem with them Let's look at the two customer complaints When you're go ahead document with 150 words translated by them Pre-estimate with four under words still paid blah blah blah. Anyway, this is a This is a client who had a problem with them I've purchased a certificate translation for this business and was given a time frame and then several mistakes They needed correcting and did not yeah, so you know again here just seems like a low-cost kind of thing So what's your conclusion the conclusion is always a judgment call right if you're desperate for cash and you're you know You'll want to work anywhere then sure look up one hour translation and see but it seems like they're not very reliable I would jump ship as soon as you can find someone else That's better here. I want to show you something that is a bit more and This is a company that I had problems with and so I'm going to show this just because I uh I want to give them negative publicity in the time I can I mean they're not in business anymore really But so here I was working for inter Trotto And you can see inter Trotto's seems to be doing very well It has five and this is out of spain but inter Trotto or Trado or whatever is uh, this one based in Italy has a very low score And it's run by this lady from Jessica genie And I mean it was basically a scam and uh, you you can see it has ones ones ones And it does have this five, uh, but this five, you know, because then I remember clicking on this guy one entry It's obviously that this is a fake account. There's some friend of hers who who, you know Wrote it up. But anyway, all the other ones gave one And uh, and they say yeah terrible experience such a tiny solvent. They basically means, you know, it's a company with no money Um, and I obviously also gave it a one And uh, so what you can see here is this outsource has been banned from posting jobs at pros.com And that'll that's what'll happen if you get too many bad reviews And uh, so anyway, I do think pros.com does a very good job And that's why the first place I go is always I check the blue board at pros.com And so if I were you that's the first thing I would do anytime you hear about a new company Enter the name pros.com Slash blue board and enter the name here and see what pops up Then you can do all the other research if you want to clarify it or or what have you but This is the first place to look so anyway, I hope this helps And uh, so anytime you hear of a new translation company or contacted by one I would go here first. This is literally what I still do all the time because it is an invaluable resources that they provide