Poll: 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
Paul Lambert  Identity Verified
Sweden
Local time: 15:05
Member (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.

Maria Teresa Borges de Almeida
Josephine Cassar
Christopher Schröder
Clement Cheung
Philippe Etienne
Amábile Deretti
Spyros Salimpas
 
neilmac
neilmac
Spain
Local time: 15:05
Spanish to English
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None May 11, 2020

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.

 
Ventnai
Ventnai  Identity Verified
Spain
Local time: 15:05
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.

 
Maria Teresa Borges de Almeida
Maria Teresa Borges de Almeida  Identity Verified
Portugal
Local time: 14:05
Member (2007)
English to Portuguese
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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.


 
Josephine Cassar
Josephine Cassar  Identity Verified
Malta
Local time: 15:05
Member (2012)
English to Maltese
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2 or 3 May 11, 2020

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.


Amábile Deretti
 
Christopher Schröder
Christopher Schröder
United Kingdom
Member (2011)
Swedish to English
+ ...
None May 11, 2020

The last thing I want is any more clients.

New clients are a pain in the neck. Repeat business rules.


Vi Pukite
The Misha
Robin LEPLUMEY
 
Ezequiel Fernandez
Ezequiel Fernandez
Spain
Local time: 15:05
Member (2005)
English to Spanish
None May 11, 2020

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


Ventnai
 
Aline Amorim
Aline Amorim  Identity Verified
Brazil
Local time: 11:05
English to Portuguese
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Between two and five May 11, 2020

Between two and five

 
Yetta Jensen Bogarde
Yetta Jensen Bogarde  Identity Verified
Denmark
Local time: 15:05
Member (2012)
English to Danish
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four May 11, 2020

to be exact

 
Barbara Cochran, MFA
Barbara Cochran, MFA  Identity Verified
United States
Local time: 10:05
Spanish to English
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None... May 11, 2020

...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.

 
Maria da Glória Teixeira
Maria da Glória Teixeira  Identity Verified
Brazil
Local time: 11:05
Member (2020)
English to Portuguese
+ ...
Currently... May 11, 2020

Between one and three. The pandemic has pushed customers back.

 
Mario Freitas
Mario Freitas  Identity Verified
Brazil
Local time: 11:05
Member (2014)
English to Portuguese
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Three May 12, 2020

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.


 
Yolande Hivart
Yolande Hivart
Austria
Local time: 15:05
Member (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.


 
Robin LEPLUMEY
Robin LEPLUMEY
France
Local time: 15:05
English to French
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None... May 12, 2020

...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!

Christopher Schröder
 


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