Understanding the Basics of CAT Grids and Why They Matter

Have you ever wondered about how pricing in translation is calculated? Although this question may appear quite straightforward, it’s actually more complex than it appears. Why? That’s because of an…

The Art of Sales in the Localization Industry

Connection. Authenticity. Trust. With over 10 years of experience in numerous aspects of sales, I have discovered that these are the crucial ingredients for sales broadly and in the localization…

Analysis and Dealing with Negative Feedback

Receiving criticism about your product or service can be heartwrenching because you put so much effort into it. But it does sometimes happen that there is a glitch and your…

Resolving Complex Multilingual Feedback

The number of transnational companies is rising, creating many opportunities for economic and business growth. Access to a wide customer base in a location that is not limited to an…

Vendor Management From a Vendor’s Perspective

Vendor management was one of the hot topics at this year’s Globalization and Localization Association’s (GALA’s) Annual Conference held in Dublin on March 13, 2023. And if you missed the…

Exclusive Insights: Yana on ELIA’s Focus on Executives 2023

Recently, the Chief Operating Officer (COO) of 1-StopAsia, Yana Dinchiyska, had the privilege of attending the ELIA Focus on Executives Conference. This prestigious event brought together industry experts and executives…

Language Processes for Korean Translation: A Case Study

If you thought that when referring to a language process, we are talking about one’s cognitive ability to process language using memory, attention, and other cognitive functions together – you’d…

Fixing a Low-Resource Language’s Quality Issues — Burmese

As a low-resource language, Burmese is a language that is native to Myanmar and parts of Bangladesh, India, China, and Thailand. There are around 33 million people who speak it…

Creating a Successful Complaint Management System

At 1-StopAsia, we fully understand the need for an effective complaint management system in place. Just like in any organization, feedback and complaints from customers are a natural occurrence. However,…

In-House Linguists: The Crown Jewels of Every LSP

During the last year or two, I’ve been reading a lot about the companies in our industry, and when I say that it is not only out of curiosity but…

Climate Change, Asia and Translations

When we mention Asia and climate change in the same sentence, people usually anticipate that the conversation will be about politics. But, to start on the right foot here, I’d…

Teddy’s Christmas Campaign

Today, at the most hopeful, wise, and wonderfully bright time of the year, we give the stage to our colleague Teddy (Teodora Todorova). She will tell you her own Christmas…

Specifics about Asian languages and CAT tools that only translators know

It’s well-known that Asian languages cannot be easily classified. They come with complex alphabets, sometimes no spaces between words, in other cases there is simply no punctuation. While Latin-based languages…

Sales Strategy for the Translation Industry

With the continued growth of the translation industry, there is a need for a new species of employees in almost every company we know. These are sales people and the…

CAT Tools: diversity matters

It doesn’t really matter if you’ve been in the translation industry for long or you only touched it briefly, the one thing that always gets stuck in your mind is…

Why should I sell Asian languages?

If you are the Executive Director of a translation company and one of your main goals is to continue and secure the well-being of all your employees along with maintaining…

PMs Perspective: top 5 questions about Asian languages

I’ve been thinking about this topic for a while now and the topic has undergone quite a few transformations. My favorites were along the lines of “Top 5 questions about…

Top 3 steps to add Asian languages to your portfolio

Truth to be told, while the industry is evolving and growth is something we are used to, the model of securing a successful lead flow into the company only by…

The Enigma: SEO & Asia-Pacific

Authors: Don Shin (CEO at 1-StopAsia) & Gergana Toleva (Global Marketing Manager) Note: The article was first published at Multilingual Magazine in their Issue on Asia-Pacific in 2020. It has…

WeChat meets Red Envelopes: Lunar New Year in China

When it comes to China there are so many controversies about it that one can hardly find a middle ground and the Lunar New Year in the midst of a…