Translator's Blog

From "Save Money/Face: Hire a Professional Translator" by Stejskal, Jiri: "Hiring professional translators cannot only reduce costs for companies, but lower the likelihood of embarrassment and a loss of credibility, according to American Translators Association (ATA) President Jiri Stejskal. "Pro...

 From bloomberg.com:  "Arja Viitikko agonized before selling her home and land to Russians. Then she took the money. "I thought about it -- am I selling piece by piece the land my grandfather fought for?" said Viitikko, 45, who in November 2006 sold a 21-hectare (52-acre) island and, later, a hou...

I've started the list of Russian links for foreign real estate professionals interested in selling to Russian buyers: http://www.english-and-russian.com/russian-links.html There are listed so far: Russian search engines Analytic portals on buying real estate abroad for Russians Print media to pos...

 As I mentioned earlier, press releases distribution about your news (like a new website launched, a new report published, etc.) brings a lot of targeted traffic to your site. Here are some of the free PR distribution sites that I successfully used in the past: http://express-press-release.net/ h...

 Have you ever loooked at what kind of pages of your website show higher in search engines than your other pages? I just did it for my translation and marketing site http://www.english-and-russian.com Here's the result: the page http://www.english-and-russian.com/choose-translator.html "How to Ch...

From property.timesonline.co.uk Jan 30, 2009: "Oligarchs favour trophy homes of white stucco with their own parking in Chelsea, Belgravia and Mayfair, but the price must be right   "Economic chills, including large stock market falls, have severely diminished the once prodigious spending power of...

 I completed the e-book "Selling to Russians" in September 2008, created the dedicated page http://www.english-and-russian.com/selling-to-russians.html and started its promotion in October. Now, 3 months later, I'm the first on Google, Yahoo and MSN for the words "selling to Russians", both with ...