Lingo24 Translation Company Blog

Last Friday we reported our ‘Highly Commended Winner’ award for Real Business’s Customer Kings. Well, today we bring yet more Awards news…this time courtesy of International Trade!

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We reported on this fair blog back in January that we had been shortlisted for the Real Business Customer Kings Award, 2010.

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It’s what we’ve been saying all along. The internet is a goldmine for companies seeking to find new business in international markets.

Sheffield tyre company Longstone noticed an increasing number of orders arriving in from abroad and, more specifically, Italy. So what did they do? Well, to enhance the communications process and circumvent the language barrier, they translated their website into Italian. And it makes perfect sense.

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Lingo24’s search engine rankings have been doing rather well recently and a few of us in the office started joking that our relationship with Google was like a real-life relationship. So we wrote An Open Letter to G, Mon Amour: An SEO Valentines Love Story. We’re pleased to say that our friends at SEOmoz took to the story well…and you can read the piece by clicking on the image below:

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A job may once have been for life, but in the modern day business world it’s really not that uncommon for people to be looking to pastures new after only a couple of years in position.

So when personnel do stay on for longer, and when promotion is commonplace….well, that has to be a good sign. And that is the case here at Lingo24, with a number of promotions taking place recently.

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Yesterday, everyone at The Lingoplex (Lingo24’s office in Timisoara…) could spot a new face in their midst…in the form of Robert,  who is Lingo24’s brand new Collateralist.

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Following significant media interest in our investigation into how UK councils manage their translation spend, we want to clarify both the findings and Lingo24’s own view on how the situation could be improved.

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Author Michael LeBoeuf once wrote that the greatest asset of any business is its customers because without them, there is no business.

Indeed, it’s difficult to argue with this sentiment. Customers are all that counts when conducting business so the need to be flexible and adaptable to their requirements is paramount.  And it’s for this very reason that Lingo24 has been shortlisted for the Real Business Customer Kings Award, 2010.

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They say that imitation is the sincerest form of flattery…so when a translation company from China stole Lingo24’s website hook, line and sinker, perhaps we should’ve patted ourselves on the back for a job well done. After all, there are countless translation companies on the internet, so to choose our site to copy must mean that we’re doing something right.

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Lingo24 translated well in excess of thirty million words in 2009. This covered everything from marketing brochures, subtitles and websites, to legal documents, technical manuals and even menus for restaurants. Translators are often the unsung heroes of international business – without them, companies would struggle to communicate with their global customer base – Google translate can only achieve so much!

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