Always Fully Booked as a Freelance Translator
Mentoring Program by Dr. Sylva-Michèle Sternkopf
Fully booked by summer
Always Fully Booked as a Freelance Translator
Mentoring Program by Dr. Sylva-Michèle Sternkopf
Fully booked by summer
How to Get Fully Booked as a Freelance Translator within 7 weeks
Use your marvellous linguistic skills to create compelling texts that are read by thousands of people around the world. Make a really good living from the translation skills that you worked so hard to acquire and from the profession you love.
Our 5-step plan to
get you fully booked:
1
Positioning Check
What makes you stand out from the crowd?
What is your signature strength that makes clients WANT to work with you?
2
Client Check
What are the ideal clients for you?
Where do you find them?
What’s the right mix?
How to find the right balance between agencies and direct clients for you
3
Channel Check
Where do you find your ideal clients?
How do you connect with them?
How often do you contact your prospects?
How to follow up?
4
Message Check
What to tell and how to tell it?
How to turn your knowledge into stories?
5
Offer Check
What’s the right pricing for your services?
What additional (and better paid!) services can you offer on top of translations?
How can you build an irresistible offer that your ideal clients want to buy like nothing else – and that gets you out of the “time-for-money” hustle
What you get:
- on LinkedIn, Instagram and Facebook,
- in your CV,
- in your emails,
- on your website …
What you get:
- a ready-for-use list of ideas who are the right clients for you, where you find them and how you reach them
- a step-by-step guide for building up a loyal client base – both for agencies and direct clients
- the confidence to go for it!
What you get:
- one of the most comprehensive overviews of marketing channels that you can make work for you as a translator – comprising more than 100 different ways to market
- professional guidance from our marketing agency perspective which are the right channels for you
- a clear, easy-to-follow plan which 2-3 channels you focus on and how to use them to win the clients you want
What you get:
- my award-winning storytelling training TELL TO SELL
- a comprehensive and ready-for- use list of ideas for posts and mini-stories for more than 1 year
- a clear idea of how to turn your knowledge into stories
- a hands-on introduction to the art of social selling
- a clear plan of WHAT to tell WHEN to WHOM and HOW
What you get:
- in-depth information on translation rates from industry-insiders with 20+ years of experience
- a range of additional services you can offer as a translator
- a proven plan how to go beyond the limits of getting paid per word and to build up a proper, future-proof business as a linguist and entrepreneur
1
Positioning Check
What makes you stand out from the crowd?
What is your signature strength that makes clients WANT to work with you?
What you get:
- on LinkedIn, Instagram and Facebook,
- in your CV,
- in your emails,
- on your website …
2
Client Check
What are the ideal clients for you?
Where do you find them?
What’s the right mix?
How to find the right balance between agencies and direct clients for you
What you get:
- a ready-for-use list of ideas who are the right clients for you, where you find them and how you reach them
- a step-by-step guide for building up a loyal client base – both for agencies and direct clients
- the confidence to go for it!
3
Channel Check
Where do you find your ideal clients?
How do you connect with them?
How often do you contact your prospects?
How to follow up?
What you get:
- one of the most comprehensive overviews of marketing channels that you can make work for you as a translator – comprising more than 100 different ways to market
- professional guidance from our marketing agency perspective which are the right channels for you
- a clear, easy-to-follow plan which 2-3 channels you focus on and how to use them to win the clients you want
4
Message Check
What to tell and how to tell it?
How to turn your knowledge into stories?
What you get:
- my award-winning storytelling training TELL TO SELL
- a comprehensive and ready-for- use list of ideas for posts and mini-stories for more than 1 year
- a clear idea of how to turn your knowledge into stories
- a hands-on introduction to the art of social selling
- a clear plan of WHAT to tell WHEN to WHOM and HOW
5
Offer Check
What’s the right pricing for your services?
What additional (and better paid!) services can you offer on top of translations?
How can you build an irresistible offer that your ideal clients want to buy like nothing else – and that gets you out of the “time-for-money” hustle
What you get:
- in-depth information on translation rates from industry-insiders with 20+ years of experience
- a range of additional services you can offer as a translator
- a proven plan how to go beyond the limits of getting paid per word and to build up a proper, future-proof business as a linguist and entrepreneur
BONUS
The favourite Storytelling Training of 100+ happy clients who have easily reached solid 5-figure sales by applying my fun and simple “TELL TO SELL” formula
EXTRA VALUE: What you learn there comes in really useful for your work as a translator! Just apply the techniques you learn to your writing and transcreations – your clients will
love it 
.
THE OFFER
Duration: 7 weeks (from 24 April until 19 June 2024)
When: on Wednesdays, time to be arranged
Support: Weekly Zoom call in a supportive community of fellow translators providing input, feedback, knowledge and support
You will get all the Zoom calls as a recording.
+
All-you-can-ask flat rate in a messenger group
Guarantee: We will accompany you until you have reached the break-even point for your investment – i.e. until you have earned at least the amount the program costs from working with new clients or by winning new jobs thanks to this mentoring program
+ 30 days money back guarantee without asking any questions
Your mentor:
Dr. Sylva-Michèle Sternkopf, PhD, and the STERNKOPF team
Translators for 59 of the top 100 brands in the world
In our translation agency, we are a team of 3 inhouse translators and 2 project managers – plus a global network of 30+ freelancers. We have had a solid 6-figure turnover for the past 15 years. Many of the leading global brands trust us as their preferred translators. And we are fully booked every single day.
How did we get there? There was hard work, true perfectionism, authentic marketing, sometimes tears, often joy and always a huge amount of love for what we do. Let’s share this love for languages – and let’s make sure you earn a really good living from it! I can show you how 😊. And I promise: It will be fun!
“The progamme literally changed my life.”
Laura Timm, freelance translator and copywriter
“It’s been such a change!”
KristineMyrene, freelance translator
“I’ve learnt what I’m worth”
Britta Norris, freelance translator