Poll: How many new clients did you add to your list of clients in the first quarter of the year? 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 "How many new clients did you add to your list of clients in the first quarter of the year?".
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Paul Lambert 
Sweden
Local time: 15:24
Thành viên kể từ 2006
Swedish to English
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| Can be good or bad. | May 11, 2020 |
Of course, I am always happy to meet a new client; however, I find it ideal when I can get a steady amount of work from a solid core or repeat, well-paying clients that I get to know very well and on a personal level over the years.
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neilmac
Tây Ban Nha
Local time: 15:24
Spanish to English
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Not as far as I recall, although there may have been one or two new contacts, but from institutions which I have already been working with for some time.
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Ventnai
Tây Ban Nha
Local time: 15:24
German to English
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| Can't find any new ones | May 11, 2020 |
I mainly work in technical fields from German to English and I now find it almost impossible to acquire new clients despite marketing efforts on my part. The only offers I receive are at nowhere near a reasonable rate. Good agencies used to contact me via this site but I don't even remember the last time one did.
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| Between six and ten | May 11, 2020 |
Exactly 8:
January: 4
February: 1
March: 3
April: 0
One was a longish project (29,256 words), but most were short one-offs. Two came from colleague recommendations and the remaining through the directory.
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Josephine Cassar
Malta
Local time: 15:24
Thành viên kể từ 2012
English to Maltese
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Paul Lambert wrote:
Of course, I am always happy to meet a new client; however, I find it ideal when I can get a steady amount of work from a solid core or repeat, well-paying clients that I get to know very well and on a personal level over the years.
Especially if I like the texts they send. It can also work both ways as these clients would know me, can rely on me and know what I'm capable of delivering.
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The last thing I want is any more clients.
New clients are a pain in the neck. Repeat business rules.
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Ezequiel Fernandez
Tây Ban Nha
Local time: 15:24
Thành viên kể từ 2005
English to Spanish
As a result of the Covid-19 outbreak and the subsequent economic downturn in many regions worldwide, in terms of the language combination I work with, I'm finding trouble to keep up my usualy flow of orders, let alone finding new clients.
There might be other reasons behind this unwanted scenario, nothing to do with the pandemic though.
Ezequiel
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Aline Amorim
Braxin
Local time: 11:24
English to Portuguese
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| Between two and five | May 11, 2020 |
Between two and five
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...because I worked until the beginning of April this year for two literary clients (and still am for one of them) who have awarded me more than one contract, beginning with one of them five years ago.
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| Currently... | May 11, 2020 |
Between one and three. The pandemic has pushed customers back. 
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Mario Freitas
Braxin
Local time: 11:24
Thành viên kể từ 2014
English to Portuguese
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There are two types of new clients.
1. Clients you've never worked for before and actually sent a job and paid for it. I got three of those.
2. Clients that confirm your registration, or that you passed in their test, and request for documents and signature of an NDA, but still didn't send any jobs. I got three of those, too.
So I'm considering only the first three, of course.
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Yolande Hivart
Áo
Local time: 15:24
Thành viên kể từ 2016
German to French
| 4 to 6 depending on your way of counting | May 12, 2020 |
4 new for which I actually did a translation/proofreading, 2 of them for which I passed their testing and QA screening process but just on the database.
The most important work I currently have in corona days is for a recurring clients as a follow-up task. And preparing myself to be ready for the next big one from a recurring client.
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...And I don't want new clients. I'm happy with my current clients, the jobs they offer to me and the rates I apply to them, and I don't want to endure the time-consuming process of onboarding with new prospects. I consider myself lucky!
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