Poll: Have you ever traveled to another country to meet a client? Thread poster: ProZ.com Staff
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This forum topic is for the discussion of the poll question "Have you ever traveled to another country to meet a client?".
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| | | | Michael Harris 
Germany
Local time: 13:41
Member (2006)
German to English
| Yes, a few times | Oct 7, 2014 |
but mostly because I would be going there anyway:
Portugal
Austria
Switzerland
Hungary
The Netherlands
GB
Always interesting to meet the different people, have some lunch and get back to business.
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When visiting another country, I've contacted clients there to meet them there. Did it in the US, UK, and Canada.
Distances are an issue. Here in Brazil, I could drive long enough to cross, say, 3 or more European countries, and still be in my home state.
The funny thing is that once, many years ago, while on a trip I flew from Los Angeles to Dallas only to meet a client, while a more recent (~4 years) - yet quite frequent - client, which is located within walking dista... See more When visiting another country, I've contacted clients there to meet them there. Did it in the US, UK, and Canada.
Distances are an issue. Here in Brazil, I could drive long enough to cross, say, 3 or more European countries, and still be in my home state.
The funny thing is that once, many years ago, while on a trip I flew from Los Angeles to Dallas only to meet a client, while a more recent (~4 years) - yet quite frequent - client, which is located within walking distance from me, I've never met them! The Internet covers any distance nowadays. ▲ Collapse
| | | | Jessica Noyes
United States
Local time: 07:41
Member
Spanish to English
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| The other way around | Oct 7, 2014 |
The owner of a small agency in Colombia, whose agency was my first client when I started full-time freelancing, took me up on my invitation to visit last winter while he was in the U.S. He stayed at our house on the Canadian border for a few days, and experienced enough snow to last him the rest of his life.
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Henry Hinds
United States
Local time: 05:41
English to Spanish
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In memoriam
Yes. After all, I live on the US-Mexico border.
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but I would like to.
For example, next time I visit the US, where some of my best clients are based.
I wonder if I could show up unannounced?
[Edited at 2014-10-07 15:34 GMT]
| | | | Juan Jacob
Mexico
Local time: 05:41
French to Spanish
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Henry Hinds wrote:
Yes. After all, I live on the US-Mexico border.
...that doesn't count, Enrique.
| | | | Mario Chavez (X)
Local time: 07:41
English to Spanish
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...if we have any Proz members who live in Andorra, Monaco or Liechtenstein. I'm pretty sure they'd answer Yes, all the time!
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Balasubramaniam L.
India
Local time: 17:11
Member (2006)
English to Hindi
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SITE LOCALIZER
I was once contacted by a Belgium-based translation agency to provide Hindi language consulting services to one of its clients based in Paris. The Belgium agency funded my trip to Beligum and Paris and a week's stay in Paris during which the project was put into implementation.
It was a large multi-lingual project involving Hindi, Arabic, Korean, Chinese and Japanese languages and experts in all these languages sat together in Paris and thrashed out linguistic issues specific to the... See more I was once contacted by a Belgium-based translation agency to provide Hindi language consulting services to one of its clients based in Paris. The Belgium agency funded my trip to Beligum and Paris and a week's stay in Paris during which the project was put into implementation.
It was a large multi-lingual project involving Hindi, Arabic, Korean, Chinese and Japanese languages and experts in all these languages sat together in Paris and thrashed out linguistic issues specific to these languages with software developers.
It provided me a unique opportunity to mingle with hand-picked translators from other countries as well as a leading European translation agency.
Financially it was not much of a gainer for me, but I opted to go nevertheless for the exposure that I would get of working with international agencies.
While in Belgium, the agency also provided me with some training in the use of a few translation tools that it was using and also on its working procedures.
The interaction yielded a couple of projects for me on my return to India.
Regrettably, I later had to dump the agency on price-related issues and I am no longer working for them, but while it lasted, it was a very pleasant and educative experience for me. ▲ Collapse
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