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Turn Your Second Language Into Cash: E-Book With New Accent on Starting Your Own Business in the Global Economy

By Anonymous

Mt. Airy, MD July 19, 2004 -- Do you want to turn your language skills into a career? Would you like to be your own boss? Have you been looking for a business opportunity that allows you to work at home? For a freelance translator, the answer to all three of these questions is “Yes.”

If you are among the growing number of people interested in starting a freelance translation business but aren't quite sure how to go about it, foreign language communications guru Denise Russell has written the downloadable e-book just for you. This no-nonsense, step-by-step guide is entitled Turn Your Second Language Into Ca$h: Seven Essentials to Becoming a Successful Translator. The download the book, go to www.languagemasters.com.

“Anyone who speaks another language in addition to English needs to look at the income-earning potential of becoming a freelance translator,” says Russell. According to the 2000 U.S. Census, there are more than 47 million speakers of a second language in this country. This includes heritage communities made up of the sons and daughters of immigrants who speak their parents’ language.

This is a “must have” guide to the world of freelance translation, says more than one veteran professional in this home-based business that is booming with the rise of the global economy. "I wish Turn Your Second Language Into Ca$h had been around 20 years ago when I started in this business. It will be invaluable for anyone who wants to know about translation,” says Rosalie Wells, a freelance translator based in Pennsylvania.

“The war on terror has boosted demand for foreign-language speakers and services,” Russell adds. That point was made emphatically, she says, by the Department of Defense at the National Language Conference she attended last month at the University of Maryland in College Park.

Russell, a former freelance translator herself who now operates the award-winning translation and foreign language communications company Language Masters, Inc., is in a position to offer invaluable how-to advice from two perspectives. First, she knows how to work with thousands of freelance translators around the world. Second, she runs one of the well-established translation companies in the industry.

Russell’s book targets two types of people who know a second language but who may or may not realize that they can draw some income from it. The book is perfect for people who would like to be self-employed yet are not sure they have what it takes to be a freelance translator. The book is also ideal for individuals who recognize the earning potential of their second language but have no idea how to start their own business.

Turn Your Second Language Into Ca$h provides an insider’s grasp of how the translation industry works. It tells what is essential for successful self-marketing as a translator, who is involved in the translation process at every step and how to work well with them as a team. The book also goes a critical extra step, offering advice on how to operate a successful freelance business. This includes how to appear professional when working from home, lists of essential home office equipment and strategies for effective networking.

The resources section of the book offers a wealth of information such as where to obtain degrees and certifications, translation associations to join for support and connections, a list of more 750 translation companies around the world for resume mailings and special resources for the self-employed.

Priced at $19.95, Turn Your Second Language Into Ca$h is presently available in Adobe Acrobat (.pdf) format. To download text, Acrobat Reader is needed. This can be downloaded for free from www.acrobat.com.

About Language Masters
Language Masters Inc., founded in 1996, has a client base of more than 80 companies. Based in Mt. Airy, Maryland, within the Baltimore-Washington business corridor, Language Masters (www.languagemasters.com) translates product documentation, software, marketing and other business communication materials into almost 50 languages from Arabic to Urdu.

Relying on a worldwide team of professional translators with diverse technical and linguistic backgrounds, Language Masters provides award-winning service to a wide range of manufacturing, medical equipment, high technology, pharmaceutical, consumer products and other companies. Language Masters’ translator network also develops the wide variety of foreign language verses for the International Expressions line of 61 all-occasion greeting cards the company introduced to the market in May 2004.

The company has been profiled by the Associated Press and leading national and regional business publications including Inc., Washington Post, Baltimore Business Journal, Working Mother and Frederick News-Post.

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