Questions include:<\/strong><\/h3>\na) Name, email, word count, and start date.
\nb) If you have actual files, you can upload the document and a word count will be calculated automatically.
\nc) If you do not have a document, input metrics like word count, images requiring localization and languages to get started.
\nd) Do you need \u201cformal glossary development\u201d? This is creating a glossary of all important keywords related to the project such as technical terms or brand names, etc.
\ne) Do you need \u201cdesktop publishing\u201d \u2013 This is formatting the translated documents to match the source in terms of design, fonts, graphics, etc.
\nf) Do you need \u201cCopywriting\u201d This is authoring original content in another language and can sometimes be referred to as \u201ctranscreation\u201d which is translation + copywriting and is common for marketing or ad copy.<\/p>\n
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3. After you finish answering the questions, hit \u201cCalculate\u201d and a translation quote will be generated!\u00a0 The translation quote will include other useful information such as the exact tasks and steps performed in translating a document, approximate timelines, as well as the costs per language requested.<\/p>\n
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4. Presto\u2026 you have your budget! \ud83d\ude0a\u00a0 If you need to run into a budget meeting, just print or email yourself a copy of the quote with the push of a button.<\/p>\n
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HINT:\u00a0 <\/strong>It is easy to combine documents within one quote generation form if all your languages are the same. Or you can do a series of individual document quotes, print or email them and combine at the end. We find most people like to cost out individual documents or sets of documents as they may decide to not translate or to translate something based on the cost and can then easily remove or add it from the total budget planned.<\/p>\nHope you found this blog helpful! I look forward to sharing my next blog on \u201cEstimating Translation Costs for Websites\u201d<\/strong>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Each year, and for many each quarter, marketing departments, training departments, legal and documentation departments need to address their translation budgets.\u00a0 Planning for translation costs is key in building your budgets to ensure your required communications are paid for and published across languages and locales when needed. In this 5-part blog series, I am going […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":33569,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1797],"tags":[1343,302,1747,61,1748],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.globalizationpartners.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33542"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.globalizationpartners.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.globalizationpartners.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.globalizationpartners.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.globalizationpartners.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33542"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.globalizationpartners.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33542\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33592,"href":"https:\/\/www.globalizationpartners.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33542\/revisions\/33592"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.globalizationpartners.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/33569"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.globalizationpartners.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33542"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.globalizationpartners.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33542"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.globalizationpartners.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33542"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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