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Showing posts with label Freelance Transcription. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Freelance Transcription. Show all posts
Wednesday, 26 October 2011
Sunday, 1 May 2011
The Secret Skill You Need to Become a Successful Freelance Transcriber
To be a successful transcriber you don't need to be the best transcriber. What you need to be is, the best-selling transcriber!
Selling is the only skill you need to become a successful freelance transcriber. This is also true for transcribers working for a company.
If you have the skills of negotiation, salesmanship and marketing, you will get better benefits, faster pay raises, better positions.
Successful freelance transcribers know this. They know where to get free publicity. They know where to advertise and how. They know how to communicate effectively with others; especially with their prospects and speak their language.
I'm sometimes amazed at how very skilled transcribers are only moderately successful or happy in their jobs. Some transcribers don't mind giving a 3-hour overtime every week in office; but spending 1-hour a week on their own business is unthinkable to the same transcribers. That is unthinkable to me.
So start selling.
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Selling is the only skill you need to become a successful freelance transcriber. This is also true for transcribers working for a company.
If you have the skills of negotiation, salesmanship and marketing, you will get better benefits, faster pay raises, better positions.
Successful freelance transcribers know this. They know where to get free publicity. They know where to advertise and how. They know how to communicate effectively with others; especially with their prospects and speak their language.
I'm sometimes amazed at how very skilled transcribers are only moderately successful or happy in their jobs. Some transcribers don't mind giving a 3-hour overtime every week in office; but spending 1-hour a week on their own business is unthinkable to the same transcribers. That is unthinkable to me.
So start selling.
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Sunday, 20 February 2011
Is There a Demand for General Transcribers?
The need for general transcriptionists is good. This is due in part to the fact you're able to take on a variety of different clients. Some transcriptionists choose to niche into a specific field such as real estate, insurance or marketing and still have plenty of work to keep them busy.
Whether you chose to concentrate on one specific field or transcribe for various fields, there are always plenty of opportunities to find clients. As with many other service-oriented businesses, many of your clients may come from recommendations from past clients.
By providing a high quality service and meeting the needs of your clients,you'll greatly improve your chances for success in this type of business. Here are just a few people may need your transcription services:
As you can see, there is a lot of general transcription work available; the key is to know how to find it and how to approach potential clients.
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Whether you chose to concentrate on one specific field or transcribe for various fields, there are always plenty of opportunities to find clients. As with many other service-oriented businesses, many of your clients may come from recommendations from past clients.
By providing a high quality service and meeting the needs of your clients,you'll greatly improve your chances for success in this type of business. Here are just a few people may need your transcription services:
- College Students - Students will often record lectures on hand-held recorders. Many times they like to have these lectures and recordings transcribed.
- Social Work Agencies - Government agencies often times record their meetings and need these transcribed. Some agencies have "on the record" interviews with legal witnesses or parents who are being investigated by the courts and will often need these recordings transcribed so the transcripts can later be used during legal proceedings.
- Realtors - Realtors may record a variety of letters which then need to be transcribed.
- Insurance Companies - Insurance companies need an accurate record of all claims made. The loss adjustors will often record notes about the claims and you will need to go through a standard template and transcribe these notes for the client's records.
- Charities and similar organizations - Many charities make an audio recording of their meetings and then like to have these transcribed for their official records.
- Book Publishers - Although book publishers often have personal letters and meetings they like transcribed, they also often have work to be edited. Good transcriptionists are also good at editing as it goes hand in hand with the job. Book publishers need people with a keen eye for detail to help edit transcripts.
- Life coaches, business consultants, online marketers/bloggers and speakers are just a few more busy professionals who also need transcription services. Many of these people like to maximize their content and will have their speaking events or client coaching sessions transcribed. With online marketers and bloggers, there are tele-seminars, coaching events, and audio products which can all be transcribed too.
As you can see, there is a lot of general transcription work available; the key is to know how to find it and how to approach potential clients.
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Monday, 7 February 2011
Essential Skills of an Audio Transcriber
Along with good typing skills there are a few other essential skills needed to be a good audio transcriber.
Essential skills of an audio transcriber:
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Essential skills of an audio transcriber:
- Ability to apply common sense. Often times you won't understand what the dictation is saying and you'll need to try to put the phrase into context to figure out what the speaker means.
- A keen eye for detail. This will help in proofreading and editing to ensure you turn in the highest quality work.
- Strong work ethics. You'll have to meet deadlines and be extremely reliable.
- Good organizational skills. If you have a lot of clients it's important to stay organized.
- Good communication skills. For marketing your business and dealing with clients.
- Professionalism and discreetness (often times you'll be transcribing very sensitive documents which require full confidentiality).
- Basic computer skills and the ability to get around a word processing program
- A good grasp of the English language, good spelling and grammar skills
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Monday, 31 January 2011
How to get Testimonials
Getting testimonials from clients is one of the most important things you can do in your freelance career or online business. It’s free endorsement from a happy client. It’s the most effective social proof.
Here’s what I did to get my first testimonial from my first client.
Over-deliver: I simply did more work than was expected of me. I was tasked to edit translation works. But, when Jes asked me to help her find more translators, I didn’t hesitate. I posted about the job on one of my websites. I emailed to a Yahoo! group where I knew there were people with the requisite qualifications. Two people actually contacted me right away. I then wrote to them explaining more about the job and then gave their names to Jes for her to decide whether she thinks they were up to it.
Ask: The best way to get what you want is to ask. And, that's what I did. I’ve been following quite a number of blogs on freelancing and one thing they tell newbies is to get testimonials. I simply asked Jes if she could be so kind as to give me a testimonial. Just like that. She did. Not only that, she gave me a bonus. Add 2 hours to your invoice she told me!
So, there it is.
Getting testimonials is easy when you over-deliver and ask for one.
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| The email containing the first testimonial I got! |
Over-deliver: I simply did more work than was expected of me. I was tasked to edit translation works. But, when Jes asked me to help her find more translators, I didn’t hesitate. I posted about the job on one of my websites. I emailed to a Yahoo! group where I knew there were people with the requisite qualifications. Two people actually contacted me right away. I then wrote to them explaining more about the job and then gave their names to Jes for her to decide whether she thinks they were up to it.
Ask: The best way to get what you want is to ask. And, that's what I did. I’ve been following quite a number of blogs on freelancing and one thing they tell newbies is to get testimonials. I simply asked Jes if she could be so kind as to give me a testimonial. Just like that. She did. Not only that, she gave me a bonus. Add 2 hours to your invoice she told me!
So, there it is.
Getting testimonials is easy when you over-deliver and ask for one.
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Wednesday, 19 January 2011
Why is a Virtual Assistant Business Good for a Work at Home Mom?
A VA business is often times the easiest way for a mom to become a work at home mom. And I don’t mean easiest as in an easy way to make a buck because it’s going to require a lot of patience, hard work, determination and perseverance. There’s no such thing as a quick buck.
Chances are that if you have been working in an office setting of some sort, you probably have some skill(s) that you can offer virtually or at least a skill(s) that will be beneficial in starting your own Virtual Assistant business.
Confused by that statement? Let’s look at it a little deeper, for example let’s say you worked as a bookkeeper. Bookkeeping is a highly specialized skill that many people are willing to pay someone to do for them. Many small businesses or work at home moms are in need of bookkeepers and it’s a skill they are willing to pay for to not have to deal with it themselves. This would be the perfect opportunity for you to offer your services as a Virtual Assistant.
Another example could be if you worked as a medical transcriptionist or legal transcriptionist. Again these are specialized skills that can provide you the foot in the door you need to start your own VA business.
What about the mom that hasn’t been working in a long time but is interested in starting her own VA business? The old saying where there’s a will there’s a way comes to mind. There are some basic type skills you can start out offering such as customer service. More than likely you know how to check email, reply to emails, make phone calls, etc. That’s pretty basic stuff and not surprisingly many small business owners outsource this stuff because it’s so time consuming.
Another option would be to look for an internship opportunity so that you can have someone take you under their wing and train in an area of specialty so that you can offer that as a service to your customers.
You’ll need to keep in mind that although a Virtual Assistant business is a great way for a mom to work from home, even possibly one of the easier ways; it’s time consuming and will require a lot of sweat equity on your part. It’s not something you can just throw up a website and expect the money to come rolling in tomorrow. It doesn’t work that way.
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Monday, 17 January 2011
How to Market as a Freelance Transcriptionist
Think outside of the box though.
Try some places that you wouldn’t normally think of like local charities or even your local radio station. Places like your government offices are probably in need of general transcriptionists also. Other places to look for possible clients would be any type of business that do conference calls, panel discussions, etc.
A quick overview of places to contact for possible transcription clients will be places like insurance companies, government offices, radio stations, businesses that do market research, places that have panel discussions, etc. And anywhere else you think that a general transcriptionist may be needed.
Another option you have as a transcriptionist is to market yourself via the internet. Blogging is a powerful tool in a freelance transcriber's hand. Writing relevant articles of interests to your potential customers could land you contracts that can bring more businesses.
Now that so many small business owners or work at home types know the value of content, many of them are hiring transcriptionists to transcribe podcast interviews, teleconferences, etc. Having these items transcribed into text format provides a way to add new content to their website.
Facebook, Twitter and Linkedin are other alternatives to blogging to starting marketing your transcription services online. Blogging may not be the best route for you. You may actually prefer writing short (120-word) tweets to 500 to 1000-word posts.
Either way you decide to market your business, offline or online, you will want to have a website. A website shouldn’t be an option, it should be a necessity. You will want a site so that people can find you and seek out your services. You will want to make sure that you have contact information easily available on your site along with services provided and your prices.
Another great and easy idea to put into use, to market your transcription business is utilizing the email signature. Most email accounts give you the option of creating a signature that will be attached to all your outgoing messages. You should take advantage of this setting and create your signature using your business name, your business website URL, your phone number, etc. In fact, make sure you include your website, phone numbers etc in every online profile you have whether Twitter, Facebook or MySpace, etc.
Other ways to market yourself are by joining forums/message boards. One thing to keep in mind is that you don’t want to just spam the boards meaning don’t just post about your business if they offer a free advertising day. You should be there to build relationships and then talking about your business will come naturally as you develop relationships. Most message boards allow you to have your business name & ULR in your signature.
There are lots of options available for marketing your general transcription business. The route you take will depend greatly on what your niche market is and whether you plan to work solely with offline/local clients or with online clients. No one can tell you what will work best for you; it’s entirely up to you and what you prefer to do.
Remember to be professional in your dealings - whether online or offline. Landing your first client is important to build up your reputation and make your name in your niche.
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Friday, 7 January 2011
Want to Work for $10 per Audio Hour?
I just posed the same question in one of my Linkedin groups.
A few days ago, I saw a company outsourcing transcription jobs (medical, legal and business) advertising at the rate above.
To the company's credit it may increase the rate to $15 per audio hour if your final transcript is perfect - without any grammar and punctuation errors or typos!
I readily commented it was too low for anyone to work at that rate on top of their very high quality expectations.
However, there were a few transcribers willing to take the job.
This led me to asking the following questions:
The interesting thing is, a group member who I later sent a private message told me he pays anything between $60 to $120 per audio hour to his transcribers. This level is acceptable to me.
And, there are more than one factor affecting transcription rates.
I believe sometimes we transcribers are selling ourselves short. We have to value our time (away from family or kids), our skills and our profession in general. My advice is: do not work for such low pay, it reflects too badly on ourselves.
What do you think?
Do you think everyone is simply entitled to their opinion and pay? Will YOU work for that rate? Chime in with your thoughts, I need to hear them!!
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A few days ago, I saw a company outsourcing transcription jobs (medical, legal and business) advertising at the rate above.
To the company's credit it may increase the rate to $15 per audio hour if your final transcript is perfect - without any grammar and punctuation errors or typos!
I readily commented it was too low for anyone to work at that rate on top of their very high quality expectations.
However, there were a few transcribers willing to take the job.
This led me to asking the following questions:
- Are transcribers that cheap?
- Don't we have enough respect and regard to our profession?
- Don't transcribers have enough respect for our time?
The interesting thing is, a group member who I later sent a private message told me he pays anything between $60 to $120 per audio hour to his transcribers. This level is acceptable to me.
And, there are more than one factor affecting transcription rates.
I believe sometimes we transcribers are selling ourselves short. We have to value our time (away from family or kids), our skills and our profession in general. My advice is: do not work for such low pay, it reflects too badly on ourselves.
What do you think?
Do you think everyone is simply entitled to their opinion and pay? Will YOU work for that rate? Chime in with your thoughts, I need to hear them!!
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Thursday, 9 December 2010
Make More Money as a Part-time Transcriptionist working from Home
I've written much about freelance transcription and its potential.
However, the truth is that freelance transcription work is difficult to find. Especially when there are so many scams and get-rick-quick-working-from-home sites.
A couple of months ago, I applied to a company called Cripton, a transcription company based in Mumbai, who employ freelance transcribers.
Fortunately, I was accepted and have now signed the contracts and started working for them.
If you are interested in making more money working as a freelance transcriber I highly recommend Cripton, especially if you are an Indian transcriber.
Cripton is highly professional and has high standards.
So, go to their website at Cripton.com and click on the button Openings for Home-based Transcription.
You will be taken to a page which has as below:
As a freelancer for Cripton, you will need to transcribe audios ranging from conferences, symposiums, seminars, interviews, online ads, song lyrics, movie subtitles, presentations, lectures/speeches, medical research files, focus group, and workshops.
DESIRED PROFILE:
You need to have:
BENEFITS OF WORKING WITH US
Good luck!
If you successfully applied as a freelancer with Cripton get in touch with me!
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However, the truth is that freelance transcription work is difficult to find. Especially when there are so many scams and get-rick-quick-working-from-home sites.
A couple of months ago, I applied to a company called Cripton, a transcription company based in Mumbai, who employ freelance transcribers.
Fortunately, I was accepted and have now signed the contracts and started working for them.
If you are interested in making more money working as a freelance transcriber I highly recommend Cripton, especially if you are an Indian transcriber.
Cripton is highly professional and has high standards.
So, go to their website at Cripton.com and click on the button Openings for Home-based Transcription.
You will be taken to a page which has as below:
As a freelancer for Cripton, you will need to transcribe audios ranging from conferences, symposiums, seminars, interviews, online ads, song lyrics, movie subtitles, presentations, lectures/speeches, medical research files, focus group, and workshops.
DESIRED PROFILE:
You need to have:
- Minimum of 3 years of experience as a transcriber (medical/legal/business)
- Good command over the English language—writing, comprehension and grammar
- A flair for handling accents from all around the world (esp. Southeast Asian)
- Good online referencing skills
- Strict adherence to deadlines
- A good home transcription setup with backup power and broadband internet connectivity backup (above 512 kbps)
BENEFITS OF WORKING WITH US
- There is no obligation to work solely with us. You are free to choose the amount of work you can handle at your own preferred schedule.
- We offer the best rates in the industry with highly attractive quality allowances.
- On-time payments.
- If you are interested, send in your resume along with a cover letter to.
Good luck!
If you successfully applied as a freelancer with Cripton get in touch with me!
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Sunday, 24 October 2010
Freelance Transcription: The Potential in Numbers (Make upto $6,600 per month!)
Freelance transcription is a promising career in terms of flexibility of lifestyle, how much money one makes and the prospect of potentially transforming your freelance transcription business to a full-fledged transcription business, employing other transcriptionists.
Friday, 22 October 2010
Freelance Transcription: How to work from home
Working from home has a lot of appeal with the increase use of internet the world over. A lot of women, especially married women with kids, can now stay at home and work from home because of the internet.Working from home or freelancing is an attractive option for any one who doesn't want to spend their lives working for the 'man'. Starting a freelancing career is really low cost and low-risk, if you plan for it.
Tuesday, 12 October 2010
How to become a Freelance Transcriptionist
In this age of outsourcing and crowdsourcing, there is tremendous prospect for the work at home types. Freelance work is more attractive than even before.
As I myself turn to freelance work from being a fulltime transcriptionist I thought it'd be useful if I jot down some thoughts on becoming a transcriptionist.
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