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Web site rethink...
Nov. 15th, 2012 09:47 amA rather strange request in a client's contract package requires me to provide three Web links to pages where I advertise my services. The only reason I can see for this is for the client to be able to make sure I'm not taking their name in vain or blabbing about their projects.
This has led me to—among other things—revisit my work blog, which has been dormant for over a year, and frankly, has been nothing but a magnet for comment spam.
I suppose some of my musings here on the nature of the translation racket might make good blog posts there, but even so, it seems to me that few people outside the racket would be interested (and that might even be "few people outside the racket who work in Russian").
One might think that a Web site would be a good place to "advertise one's services," and maybe it is, but I get quite enough inquiries from my presence on Proz.com (unfortunately, mostly along the lines of "we need War and Peace translated by tomorrow night, and we're willing to pay you seventy-five cents for the job sometime within the next year?"), and word of mouth appears to do the rest. Contrast this with exactly zero times the "request for quotation" page on my site has been used since I've put it up.
So I'm not at all sure the site is worth the trouble, at least the way it's set up now. It may be time to do a serious rethink.
This has led me to—among other things—revisit my work blog, which has been dormant for over a year, and frankly, has been nothing but a magnet for comment spam.
I suppose some of my musings here on the nature of the translation racket might make good blog posts there, but even so, it seems to me that few people outside the racket would be interested (and that might even be "few people outside the racket who work in Russian").
One might think that a Web site would be a good place to "advertise one's services," and maybe it is, but I get quite enough inquiries from my presence on Proz.com (unfortunately, mostly along the lines of "we need War and Peace translated by tomorrow night, and we're willing to pay you seventy-five cents for the job sometime within the next year?"), and word of mouth appears to do the rest. Contrast this with exactly zero times the "request for quotation" page on my site has been used since I've put it up.
So I'm not at all sure the site is worth the trouble, at least the way it's set up now. It may be time to do a serious rethink.
