How to start a freelance multi-lingual translation business providing document translation services.

According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics Occupational Handbook, “Individuals classified as language translators or specialists in the Federal Government earned an average of $79,865 annually in March 2009.”

For small business owners looking to create a multi-lingual translation business, imagine the money you could make providing professional document translation services for global corporations online.

To create a profitable and successful document translation service, you’ll need basic small business and marketing tips to create your dream business providing freelance language services for telemarketing firms, call centers, advertising agencies and government agencies. Read the rest of this entry »

Should You Play the Role of June Cleaver or Miranda Priestly to Win at Work?

(Editor’s Note: If you are offended by the b-word, you might want to click away from this article.  There are a few choice curse words within this lesson. You nice girls might get a little offended.)

Whether women should play the nice girl role or act like a bitch in business is a debate as old as time itself.

As an empowered career woman you want your own slice of Aretha’s R-E-S-P-E-C-T pie.

But, you don’t know as a business strategy whether you should unleash your inner female dog or let your nice girl run free.

As more women enter the executive suite in record numbers, I ask you, who wins in business: the June Cleaver, baking-cookies-nice-girl, or the Miranda Priestly, Devil-Wears-Prada-acting bitch? Read the rest of this entry »