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Poll: In general, how much time do you spend preparing quotes for projects? Người gửi thông tin lên tuyến đoạn: ProZ.com Staff
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This forum topic is for the discussion of the poll question "In general, how much time do you spend preparing quotes for projects?".
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Mary Worby 
Vương Quốc Anh
Local time: 14:52
German to English
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I don't prepare quotes for projects! I have fixed per-word rates!
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Mary Worby wrote:
I don't prepare quotes for projects! I have fixed per-word rates!
Me too
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neilmac
Tây Ban Nha
Local time: 15:52
Spanish to English
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Per-word rate. I have regular clients. Sometimes they ask me for a budget estimate for their accounting depts before confirming a translation, but it's a formality. I rarely, if ever, bid or compete for work nowadays.
And my rates are still as low and value-for-money as they were last year and the year before
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EvaVer (X)
Local time: 15:52
Czech to French
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Even at the time when I had not enough work and prepared a lot of quotes (and prepared them carefully, as I really wanted the jobs), it was never 5 hours per week. Now I only quote on posted jobs if the subject is one of my main specializations or in a rare language pair that I translate. But it only takes a few minutes.
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Michael Harris
Đức
Local time: 15:52
Thành viên kể từ 2006
German to English
All of my customers know what we agreed and the pricing is based on that.
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Muriel Vasconcellos
Hoa Kỳ
Local time: 06:52
Thành viên kể từ 2003
Spanish to English
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| None except for new clients with PDFs | Jan 31, 2017 |
Same as everyone else so far.
The terms have already been agreed on with all my regular clients. They all do the word count on PDFs before contacting me.
I don't have much time to take on new clients. I usually start by telling them my rate. If they send me a PDF file for which they don't have a word count, I ask them to agree to pay me by the target count (in which case I give them a very rough estimate based on my rate per word).
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10 hours per week??? Who could possibly do that? It's more like 10 minutes per week, and only for the projects where you cannot count words in a straightforward way.
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Christine Andersen
Đan Mạch
Local time: 15:52
Thành viên kể từ 2003
Danish to English
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| It varies a lot | Jan 31, 2017 |
Most of my work is for agencies, and like others, I have more or less fixed word rates for each agency.
One does have two rates, and it depends on the client and type of work.
When I do work for a direct client or take on a job for a new client, I look carefully at the text and the formatting... whether there are any repetitions or benefits from using my CAT, or special requests from the client, and in fact I may spend an hour or more preparing a quote. I don't do that every w... See more Most of my work is for agencies, and like others, I have more or less fixed word rates for each agency.
One does have two rates, and it depends on the client and type of work.
When I do work for a direct client or take on a job for a new client, I look carefully at the text and the formatting... whether there are any repetitions or benefits from using my CAT, or special requests from the client, and in fact I may spend an hour or more preparing a quote. I don't do that every week, however.
I do NOT have fixed rates, although I do have rule-of-thumb rates for different types of text. I don't charge the same word rate for a leasing contract for a large shopping complex, for instance, with legal jargon and curlicues, as I charge for a press release or a folder of recipes.
In short, I try not to sell words by the kilo like groceries. (And even then, a kilo of cheese or coffee costs a lot more than a kilo of flour or sugar...) I sell a service and charge, basically, for my time and expertise. ▲ Collapse
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| In general, very little time | Jan 31, 2017 |
I have a regular client base and they know my rates. Over the years, some of them have asked me for an estimate once in a blue moon. I have to say though that quite recently a new direct client requested me a quote for a huge project with a tight deadline. It only took a few minutes to give my quote. I don’t know how many translators they contacted, but I got the job!
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Ventnai
Tây Ban Nha
Local time: 15:52
German to English
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Only one or two clients ask me to give a price but they often provide me with an analysis, so it's a question of copy and paste between Excel files - the client's or my Trados analysis and my rates sheet. The rest already know my rates although I will negotiate a higher price in special cases.
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Mary Worby wrote:
I don't prepare quotes for projects! I have fixed per-word rates!
exactly the same
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I don't submit quotes at all now, thank goodness!
All contractual details are already predetermined and agreed upon in a vendor agreement with the client. When they send an inquiry about a new job, all the information required is in the inquiry mail as required by Japanese law. The only things that differ are volume and job-specific requirements.
In the old days, I did have to prepare quotes and, quite frankly, it was a real pain in the derriere. For big jobs, clients w... See more I don't submit quotes at all now, thank goodness!
All contractual details are already predetermined and agreed upon in a vendor agreement with the client. When they send an inquiry about a new job, all the information required is in the inquiry mail as required by Japanese law. The only things that differ are volume and job-specific requirements.
In the old days, I did have to prepare quotes and, quite frankly, it was a real pain in the derriere. For big jobs, clients would want detailed estimates which were very time-consuming. I recollect the longest one taking over one and half days. In most cases, clients did not send me the work, anyway, because it was a tender and I was only one of those participating in bidding. I decided I would spend no more than 30 minutes per estimate. I also told clients that I would give them a detailed estimate only if it was their full intention to give me the work and they are not asking other companies for a tender. ▲ Collapse
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Ricki Farn
Đức
Local time: 15:52
English to German
Anton Konashenok wrote:
10 hours per week??? Who could possibly do that?
The business develop manager of a large translation agency? Maybe?
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| Less than half an hour | Jan 31, 2017 |
I won't repeat what has already been said, but more or less same situation.
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