Best Tools To Translate Your Creatives! (1)
No matter if it's online marketing or offline - advertising is all about sending an informative message to your targeted audience, and getting the feedback.
Talking to your audience, you need to speak it's language. Why? Because you want them to notice it, pay attention and remember.
Many affiliates continue using creatives with weak translation or no translation at all. It may sound obvious but, sometimes, even banner copywriting misspelling can have a huge impact on the performance of the campaign.
You always have to translate your banners, landers, and website, making sure they’re all written in the language of the country in which you wanna promote. In order for you to get the best results possible, you need to write everything in the right language!
One of the examples I give pretty often on the forums - imagine you've created the ads for Denmark. Danish people are really good at English, and almost everyone - older and younger generation, speak really well. But ask yourself: if they see your ad on a website, will they click? Or would they rather click on the ad written in Danish, THEIR OWN language?
You know the answer.
Google Translator is great, but not always great for such serious purposes as promo-material translation. Therefore we've prepared several tools for you here, that are definitely going to help you get your creatives translated with speed, quality and at a lowest price possible!
[Disclaimer: This post was originally published on mobidea Academy. All the missing information can be found in the full version]
1. Communities/Forums
As there are online communities and forums specialized in cars, games, or sports, there are a few which are specialized in translations as well.
These communities can boast about professionals and freelancers that work on translations every single day. The people who are part of these online communities take translations very seriously which means you’ve gotta pay for their precious support. Among such are:
Proz.com
These fellows claim to be the world’s largest translator network and can really help you create affiliate banners that contain the specific message you want to get across!
This community is directed at both translators and translation clients, taking advantage of the expertise of more than 300.000 professionals.
If you’re looking for a tough language combination (Arabic to Tagalog), dialect, or someone with a specific subfield of knowledge (Mechanical Engineering, Medicine, etc.) then Proz is a good place to look at.
The site offers a lot of resources for translators, both those people who are just starting out and those who’ve been in the business for a while.
The best part?
Registration is free!
Translators Café
Similar to Proz.com. Registration in this online community and forum is free and directed at professional and amateur translators.
The website is user-friendly and easy to navigate. In order to request a translation, you only need to create a job post, explaining what you’re gonna need and BAM – you’ll automatically receive offers from translators to perform the job.
There’s a bidding system involved, which you’ll use in order to get a translator, so you just need to find the perfect match between their bid and your budget!
WordReference.com
This website is mostly recognized for being the holy grail of free online language dictionaries. In fact, it’s the place to go when you need help with your translations.
However, what most people aren’t aware is that the page also has a forum section.
The forum is divided by language so it’s very easy to work with. In order to become an active member on the community you just need to register (which is free) and you can start posting questions right away!
Moreover, and in case you didn’t know, Alexa ranks the WordReference language forum as part of the Top 500 most visited pages worldwide. With more than 500 million users and 2 billion entries, this forum can be a very helpful tool if you need a quick translation for your banner promotion!
2. Social Networks Groups
One of the awesome things about the Internet is that you can connect with people from all over the world without leaving your couch.
Social Networks have millions of users and are probably the easiest and best way to get to know people from other countries and do business. By connecting with people from different nationalities, you can easily make new friends that can help you out with your linguistic problems.
For instance, let’s think about Facebook. Apart from being the most popular and used social network, it’s got groups that are specialized in translations. If you type on the Facebook search bar for “translations/language groups” it will show up lots of groups focused on this subject.
3. The Affiliate Network
If you need help or have any doubts while translating, your Affiliate Network’s Support Squad and Account Manager will help you out for sure! They may not be the Kung Fu masters of languages but we’re sure they’ll be more than glad to assist you and try their best.
Plus: don’t forget that – nowadays – most of these companies work in multicultural environments with lots of colleagues from other nationalities.
Wanna know what it’s like here at Mobidea? We are super multicultural! We’ve got more than 20 different nationalities in our offices. We’ve got members who speak Portuguese, Spanish, Russian, English, French, Chinese, German, Italian, etc.
We’ve got so many different nationalities it feels like working in the United Nations, and sure all this diversity will come in handy when you need help with your translations.
4. Freelance Websites
More and more professionals are taking their talent and skills to the digital field promoting their services in freelance sites for more appealing prices.
This opens up a whole new world of opportunities for people like you – folks who wanna make their affiliate marketing path more professional and profitable.
Below, you’ll find a small review of two of the best freelance pages.
Upwork
Upwork is a freelancing platform where businesses and independent professionals from all over the world can connect and cooperate.
It’s got more than three million jobs posted every year, twelve million freelancers, and five million registered clients.
On the website, you’ll find a wide variety of services, from programmers to designers, writers, customer support representatives, to translators.
In fact, this is a simple solution to translate your affiliate marketing texts and promotional tools.
You register on the platform, post a “job”, explaining your project and what you’re gonna need and then Upwork will get you an array of suitable freelancers.
You’re also able to browse profiles, create job proposals, and get an interview with your top candidates.
The payments are all done through the platform.
Moreover, you can also use Upwork’s Protection program, only paying for work you’ve previously authorized.
Fiverr
Fiverr claims to be the largest marketplace for digital services from writing, translation, graphic design, video editing and programming.
Indeed, you can find everything at a great price!
Prices begin at $5 per job and can go up to 500$, depending on the freelancer’s rate.
Fiverr is primarily used by freelancers that wanna offer services to customers worldwide.
It’s got more than three million services and each service offered is called a “gig.”
By registering as a buyer, you’ll have access to a global network of quality freelancers that can help your affiliate business grow to new levels.
These cool freelancers can either translate your promotional materials or help you design them according to your guidelines.
Hope you find it useful, and if you are looking for more information, check the full version of the article on our Mobidea Academy!
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