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Poll: Considering your current client list, how many did you pitch to vs. those who found you?
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Maria Teresa Borges de Almeida
Maria Teresa Borges de Almeida  Identity Verified
Portugal
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Member (2007)
English to Portuguese
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Other Jun 1

They all came to me, some through Proz, most of them through recommendation (another client or a professional peer). I have been working with the same client base for some time, one of them for over 20 years.
 
Ian Keith Jones Williams
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Spain
Local time: 17:03
French to English
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Came to me Jun 1

The vast majority came to me, via Proz.com a long time ago, due to recommendations or project managers moving from one agency to another.

Josephine Cassar
 
Sebastian Witte
Sebastian Witte  Identity Verified
Germany
Local time: 17:03
Member (2004)
English to German
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Other Jun 1

Most found us through various provider profiles on service provider portals, including ProZ, and our websites. One real big fish (an authority at the national level) we caught through pitching. Quite a few came to us through referrals from fellow translators.

[Edited at 2026-06-01 11:04 GMT]

Maria Laura Curzi
 
Alexandra Speirs
Alexandra Speirs  Identity Verified
Local time: 17:03
Italian to English
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all came to me Jun 1

I've never had much success sending applications anywhere, even Proz has not been generous.
Most of my clients come from the grapevine, usually recommended by translators of other language pairs.
My oldest client came via an English friend who had been offered the job but preferred teaching, that was in 1987.
 
expressisverbis
expressisverbis
Portugal
Local time: 16:03
English to Portuguese
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I don't count, but what counts is... Jun 2

I don’t really keep track of that.
Whether clients find me or I contact them doesn’t matter much in the end.
What counts is keeping the good ones through reliable, high-quality work.
 
The Shredder
The Shredder
All came to me Jun 3

They all came to me, back in the days when that kind of thing happened.

Lost another one this week, probably due to the cost savings offered by AI.

Based on last year, I’m not expecting anything much now until February.

Ffs.
 


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