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Some very useful information for freelance translators who want to enhance their marketing, networking and blogging skills

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May is really a very special month in Sharp End Training. We are about to reach 1,000 members in our LinkedIn group called Marketing for Freelance Translators! So we thought and thought how to thank you for being with us and found two ways we can do that.

First of all, we are declaring May the social media marketing month. That means that every Tuesday at 5 pm British Summer Time starting May 14th we are going to have LIVE webinars on social media marketing for translators.

Here's a brief program:
May 14th - Jonathan Senior teaching about strategic use of Twitter. I've been through this training and I assure you it is extremely useful, especially if you feel you are drowning in the sea of information there and you are starting to forget your goals and your vision as a marketer of your own freelance business. The webinar is already announced. It costs 25 USD. You can register here: http://sharp-end-training.ru/how-to-swim-against-the-tide-in-a-sea-of-clutter-and-noise

May 21st - Sara Colombo's training session about using Pinterest for marketing your business. I am very much looking forward to this training because I don't use Pinterest, but I see how fast its popularity is growing, so it has a great potential for translators, too! More information about the course on sharp-end-training.ru very soon!

May 28th - My training session about Facebook as a networking and marketing tool for translators. It is my second favourite network after Twitter. At first I wasn't very successful in using it, but then I figured out what was wrong and now my business page is doing much better. In fact, even though the numbers there are still not very large I managed to reach a very good engagement ratio. I have also been studying what other successful marketers (both translators and other professionals) are doing to achieve success, and I want to share my conclusions with you. I am sure this info will be very useful for you and your business! More information soon on sharp-end-training.ru


Hope this info will be useful for you :) 
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