Whether you’ve just started your own business (congratulations!) or you’ve been at it for a while, you need to place yourself in front of your potential customers and educate them about your product or service. Networking is a proven way to do this. If you’re new to networking, let me be clear: it’s not about…
I’ve always loved to read, and when I was young I devoured women’s magazines. One of them – I don’t remember which – had a column called “I Knew I’d Made It When …” It featured a reader sharing a particular accomplishment she was proud of, and it was usually, but now always, a work…
There’s a saying I love. I saw it a few years ago in a book in Spanish written by the famous soccer coach Jose Pekerman. Not sure if he was the originator of the phrase, but here it is in English: If you want to go fast, go alone. If you want to go far, go together….
We get lots of requests from lawyers that go something like this: “We need you to translate a contract for us, but the translation must be done by a certified legal translator.” This is a perfectly reasonable and justified request. After all, a lawyer wants assurance that the work requested will be done by a…
This month of April, TransForma is celebrating ten years in business. During this time we’ve relished the good, survived the bad, and learned some valuable lessons along the way. Here are the ten most important ones. I hope you find them useful. 1. You don’t have to do things the way they’ve always been done….
This year, TransForma celebrates a significant milestone … our tenth anniversary. For ten years we’ve been providing worldwide translation services from our home base in Miami. But three years into our existence, we landed a project that we thought would serve as a gigantic financial and professional springboard for our company. As it turned out,…
An astounding 43% of the people in the entire world speak more than one language. In today’s global village, language and multiculturalism are more important than ever … so, to celebrate our ten-year anniversary, we’re sharing with you ten things you may not have realized about language and translation: 1. Not all Spanish is the…
Last month, we sat down with Elina Magaly Santana from Santana Rodriguez Law PA to share more information on TransForma Translation and how our services can benefit attorneys and their clients. For ten years, managing partner Carmen Hiers has provided professional translations to clients in Miami and beyond. In that time, we have seen attorneys from…
At TransForma, we take every translation and interpreting project seriously, but we have to admit that the translation of children’s school and medical records, including the translations of evaluations for special-needs children, really strike a chord in our hearts. During the last 20 to 30 years, society has become more aware that children with special…
If you were born in a country where a language other than English is spoken, and need a birth certificate translation for a visa to come to the United States, your work doesn’t end when mom or dad texts you to say “found it.” Now, you need to find a birth certificate translator to take…
