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Pricing Your Interpreting Services - Know Your Market for Language Professionals

Image by Timasu from Pixabay. No matter how many times I relocate to a new region, state, or county, I am always surprised by how different the interpreting landscape is. It is easy to think that interpreting in a single field (like healthcare or legal) would be the same across the states, and that you could continue marketing your professional services in the same way, but it is not. Even those of us that provide remote interpreting services (including remote simultaneous, video remote, video conferencing, and over-the-phone) need to consider if there are any geographic requirements for our existing projects/clients. Our client's geographic location, even for remote clients, will inevitably have some bearing on how we earn their business. As I prepared for yet another relocation, I take an opportunity to share some of the differences I have found in the very different markets I have had the good fortune to research, in this initial blog for this series I will venture into a slight...