How to Effectively Execute Your Multilingual Marketing Strategy

Complacency is easy and comfortable, but in marketing, it alienates consumers. Always ensure that your product and marketing materials are localized and match the tastes of consumers in your target market. If you find that your product still lacks resonance, reflect on your strategy and retool it. Allow yourself the fun and excitement of learning how to integrate your product into a new and interesting foreign culture. Who knows? You might even make some money in the process.

Why an In-Country Review (ICR) is So Important

An in-country review (ICR), also referred to as an in-house review, is an essential step in life science translations. With translations for industries such as medical, pharmaceuticals, and biotechnologies, accuracy is of the utmost importance. Generally, in-country reviews will be undertaken by someone on the client’s side.

Three Problems in the Translation of Chinese Websites

In general, the problems that exist across Chinese websites translations can be grouped into 3 types of errors: misspelling or misuse of words, incorrect syntactic structure, and cultural differences.

3 Ways to Improve your e-commerce localization strategy

3 Ways to Improve Localization Strategies in e-commerce

While a good portion of international spending comes from North America and Western Europe, e-commerce sales are estimated to grow 44 percent in the Asia Pacific region in 2014. Many global companies are improving their outlook and strategy with e-commerce in an effort to get on top. Engaging in activities like adding more languages, localizing mobile apps and much more…

Capitalizing on the Potential of the Global E-commerce Market

Ecommerce Translations: Capitalizing on the Potential of the Global Market

In 2016, e-commerce sales in the US reached $396 billion and are predicted to grow to 684 billion by 2020. In China, e-commerce is expected to outstrip the US’s with $1 trillion in e-commerce sales in 2016 growing to $2 trillion by 2019. In other emerging markets like Mexico, where internet and mobile penetration is growing, market potential is increasing.

Ecommerce Localization on your mobile phone

Ecommerce Localization: Why Global Retailers Should Look to China

In 2016, the Chinese Internet market expanded by 6.2% – meaning there are now over 600 million middle class consumers- most of which use their phones to shop online. So, what does this information mean?

Document Translations: Should Your Company Adopt DITA?

Darwin Information Typing Architecture, or DITA, provides a formidable toolset for creating and maintaining technical documentation across multiple products and services. DITA allows writers to consider each section in a document as one single unit, and allows writers to then edit individual units accordingly, eliminating the need to rework whole documents manually.

Benefits of Having Your Technical Writers and Engineers in the Same Place

Technical Writers and Engineers: Streaming Communications

China’s role in the global economy is a powerful one, especially in the R&D sector where it continues to show steady growth. As a result, China is now strategically placed in a prime location, serving as a platform for global enterprises wanting to explore R&D opportunities within Chinese borders, and equally for domestic enterprises wanting to explore opportunities abroad.

The 3 Models of Crowdsourced Translation

What do Wordpress, Linux, and Firefox all have in common? All of these successful projects are the result of crowdsourced contributions. As the Internet continues to connect us, collaborating on projects has become easier than ever. Even in the localization industry, crowdsourced translation solutions are helping to make translation services available to everyone and the advent of new technologies has brought about a few different methods of collaborative translation projects. Let’s take a look at three of the most popular models of crowdsourced translations.

The Challenges of Crowdsourcing Translations

It is important to understand the potential drawbacks of crowdsourced translation if an organization plans to invest in it and the industry and type of documentation are important. The following are some potential challenges to crowdsourced translation.

The Cost of Not Investing In Quality Technical Writing

Technical writing is often an unspoken, and sometimes unheard of, process across business and technology sectors. Many leading R&D centers are bursting with bright spark engineers, sharp-minded designers, and idea generators who make products and services come to life. However, this doesn’t mean that they can explain their product or service accurately or concisely.

Annual LocWorld Conference – Interview with Philippe Cao

The annual LocWorld conference is returning from February 28th to March 2nd with many influential speakers and topics to look forward to. Last year’s conference was a success, discussing topics such as how to engage global customers profitably and the importance of culture when connecting people around the world. To get a sneak peek into what to expect at a LocWorld Conference, we’ve asked our VP of Greater China Business and Global Operations, Philippe Cao, to share his experience from last year’s event.