Poll: Do you work mainly with local or international clients? Thread poster: ProZ.com Staff
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The large majority of my regular customers are based abroad, mostly in Europe. I only have two Portuguese clients: a lawyer with whom I work once in a while and a colleague with whom I work more often (split projects).
| | | | Tom in London
United Kingdom
Local time: 20:55
Member (2008)
Italian to English
"Do you work mainly with local or international clients?"
Yes.
This reminds me of something Mae West once said. "I only like two kinds of men: domestic, and foreign".
[Edited at 2021-11-06 10:29 GMT]
| | | | neilmac
Spain
Local time: 21:55
Spanish to English
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But my main client has branch offices in other countries and sometimes I work directly with them.
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| International | Nov 6, 2021 |
98%% of my clients are international agencies.
Partly because of my membership with ProZ.com, partly my own choice.
I like it this way, and my regular clients have professional and pleasant PMs.
| | | | | No local clients | Nov 6, 2021 |
The last time I had a local client here in El Salvador was about 10 years ago.
| | | | | International | Nov 6, 2021 |
It happens that most of the international organizations I work with have headquarters in the United States, where I happen to live, but I am at the diametric opposite corner of the country in Sunny San Diego, 20 minutes from the Mexico border, and life is so different in California that there is even a movement to secede. Furthermore, most of the authors I translate are working in the field, not in the U.S.
Over time, I've had clients from all the continents except Antarctica (one ... See more It happens that most of the international organizations I work with have headquarters in the United States, where I happen to live, but I am at the diametric opposite corner of the country in Sunny San Diego, 20 minutes from the Mexico border, and life is so different in California that there is even a movement to secede. Furthermore, most of the authors I translate are working in the field, not in the U.S.
Over time, I've had clients from all the continents except Antarctica (one was very close, in Tierra del Fuego). ▲ Collapse
| | | | | Most of my clients are local | Nov 8, 2021 |
Most of my clients are local
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