Poll: How many agencies do you work with? Thread poster: ProZ.com Staff
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I work very regularly (meaning every month) with 5 agencies, plus a good number of “occasionals" and one-offs...
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My customer base contains 49 agency clients with which I have had some sort of business over the past 8 years.
2019 to date: 5 agencies
2018: 11
2017: 10
Potentially: all agencies in the solar system
Philippe
| | | | Marjolein Snippe 
Netherlands
Local time: 02:09
Member (2012)
English to Dutch
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On average, I work with 10-12 agencies each month. Because not all of them send me work every month, I have 15-20 agencies I regard as regulars (clients I work with more than once or twice a year).
I had assumed this would be the norm (based on nothing but my own experience) - I find it fun and enlightening to see this is apparently not the norm at all!
I find the multitude of different clients makes for a nice diverse workload of different types of documents in different area... See more On average, I work with 10-12 agencies each month. Because not all of them send me work every month, I have 15-20 agencies I regard as regulars (clients I work with more than once or twice a year).
I had assumed this would be the norm (based on nothing but my own experience) - I find it fun and enlightening to see this is apparently not the norm at all!
I find the multitude of different clients makes for a nice diverse workload of different types of documents in different areas. ▲ Collapse
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Heinrich Pesch
Finland
Local time: 03:09
Member (2003)
Finnish to German
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| 18 last year | Mar 13, 2019 |
But most of my work comes from one agency.
| | | | | More than 10 | Mar 13, 2019 |
Much easier than to deal with direct clients. They take charge of the "annoying" part of the translation process, pay regularly and send constant jobs.
The bad part is: some of them propose meagre rates; the sad part is: a lot of colleagues accept those rates.
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| | | | Yaotl Altan
Mexico
Local time: 19:09
Member (2006)
English to Spanish
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More than 10 because I have 2 decades in the translation field.
| | | | Mario Freitas
Brazil
Local time: 22:09
Member (2014)
English to Portuguese
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| More than 10 | Mar 13, 2019 |
More than 10 for sure. There are 87 agencies I've provided services for since 2014. Many of them were "one-timers", but I do not enter in my client spreadsheet any potential clients or people who said "ok, you're part of the team now", but never sent any jobs. So 87 have actually sent me jobs and paid in the past five years.
Last year, I provided services to 28 agencies, but again, some of them were "one-timers".
This year, I have already translater for 13 agencies, but only 6 of th... See more More than 10 for sure. There are 87 agencies I've provided services for since 2014. Many of them were "one-timers", but I do not enter in my client spreadsheet any potential clients or people who said "ok, you're part of the team now", but never sent any jobs. So 87 have actually sent me jobs and paid in the past five years.
Last year, I provided services to 28 agencies, but again, some of them were "one-timers".
This year, I have already translater for 13 agencies, but only 6 of them are regular, meaning they send me jobs every month regularly, and 7 of them always show up sporadically, i.e. 3 to 10 jobs per year.
So, it's a bit hard to answer this poll with some accuracy, because "working for" an agency implies regularity. You can't consider an agency that sends you two jobs per year or one job in two years... ▲ Collapse
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Kay Denney
France
Local time: 02:09
French to English
Looks like I have billed nine agencies in the past couple of years.
Four of those are all part of the same group but I bill to different people using different systems so I count them separately.
Then there's another group I work for, I send the bills to the same address for both of them so I count that as one.
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