Description

When selecting a new translation supplier, it is incredibly important that you assess the quality of their multilingual work in order to make an informed decision. Sample, or test, translations will enable your in-house or in-country teams to assess the quality of the supplier's work early on. A small piece of text will be translated by a number of suitable professional translators, to allow your teams to identify which translators would be the perfect fit for your translation projects. 

This service can help...

When you are looking to select a new translation supplier.

When you want to assess the quality of work produced.

When you want to have control on who will be translating your content.

When you want to involve your in-house or in-country teams in the translation workflow.

As part of the initial briefing stage of a translation project.

When you want to assess alternative translators or change the translator working on your content.

What our clients say

Flexible and innovative approaches to meet demanding goals

Webcertain has been a valued partner of Portakabin for over 20 years, providing the expertise required to help us grow our business in multiple European markets. With a wide-portfolio of websites and products, as well numerous internal stakeholders, we require flexible and innovative approaches to enable us to meet the demanding goals of each business unit. Webcertain understands our needs and our brand, and this enables the team to deliver cost-effective, adaptable solutions across SEO, PPC and website development which have played a vital role in our international growth and success.

Evelyn Hodgson

Head of Brand - Portakabin

Adapted for each market for maximum impact

We work with Webcertain to increase our brand awareness across key European markets and help us drive brand growth. Together, we have created campaigns utilising multiple channels and adapted for each target market to ensure maximum impact and relevancy to our audience. Webcertain has a great support team, who are easy to reach and very helpful in providing information. They understand our needs and provide a flexible approach that enables us to meet our goals

Hazel Goesaert

European Associate Marketing Manager - Business Machines - Fellowes

Technical and strategic expertise

Webcertain's understanding of language nuance and local culture ensures our messaging is relevant and compelling in each market we target, while staying true to our brand and highlighting our USPs. We rely on their technical and strategic expertise to develop both organic and paid search campaigns which will resonate with our audience and drive results across Europe. The team understands our goals and is proactive in making recommendations for improvements and suggesting opportunities. We are very happy with the results and would recommend Webcertain as an ideal partner for any brand with a global reach.

Surpreet Bahl

Digital Marketing Manager - Esko

For international support, look no further than Webcertain

There are many challenges when running international campaigns and Webcertain has provided invaluable support to us when targeting countries as diverse as China, Japan and Russia, where both cultural and linguistic knowledge are paramount for success. This knowledge, combined with skills and expertise across all digital channels, enabled us to build tailored and targeted campaigns to inform and attract students from around the globe. If you're looking for SEO, SEM or translation support in multiple languages and countries, look no further than Webcertain.

Tim Jordan

VP Marketing Berlitz and ELS

Overview

When selecting a new translation supplier, it is incredibly important that you assess the quality of their multilingual work in order to make an informed decision. Without ensuring quality in the beginning then you may put yourself at risk of receiving sub-par translations later down the line. Sample, or test, translations will enable your in-house or in-country teams to assess the quality of the supplier's work early on.

A small piece of text will be translated by a number of suitable professional translators, each with expertise in your field or industry, to allow your teams to identify which translators would be the perfect fit for your translation projects.

By approving a small team of translators per language, you are ensuring that you select the translators that capture the essence of your brand in terms of style, tone of voice and terminology, resulting in consistency across all translation projects moving forward. 

How it works

The process begins by completing a briefing questionnaire to clarify your objectives. This briefing will be visible to all the team members involved with delivering the service and is the foundation for all our quality checks.

As part of the briefing you will be asked to provide a short piece of text around 200-250 words in length, as well as any additional reference material you may have such as brand guidelines, style guides &/or glossaries.

Your designated project manager will select 3-4 professional translators per language, who are best suited to your translation requirements and industry.

The chosen resources will translate the sample text to their best ability using any provided materials for reference. It is likely that the translators will raise queries regarding terminology etc. for which they will be asked to provide alternatives.

Your project manager will deliver the samples, asking you to share them with your in-house or in-country teams for feedback. In order to start establishing a small team of translators for each of your required languages we all also ask that you select at least two of the translators as a starting point.

Of course, as style is extremely subjective, your colleagues may not feel that any of the provided samples are suitable. If this is the case we ask that you provide feedback and we will endeavour to provide additional samples until the perfect resources are identified.

As part of our on-going Sample Policy, there is no charge for the first four samples for each new language combination requested. If you request additional samples for existing language combinations, or new types of content which differ from the norm, then a small charge will be applied per sample, per language.

Webcertain Group is passionate about generating business growth for its clients in any part of the world.

A team of native speakers of all the world’s major languages works together to achieve client objectives - no one understands working with different cultures and the nuances of language in the globe’s search engines better than the Webcertain multilingual teams. Webcertain can deliver translation in over 140 languages.

Benefits of working with Webcertain:

International specialist since 1997

Transparency and online portal management

No minimum contract period

No minimum order value

International know-how shared

Quick response times

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