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Alain Alameddine Lebanon Local time: 12:25 Member (2009) English to French + ...
Mar 31, 2023
Such as social media marketing, SEM or banner ads? If so, did it get you any clients?
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Dr. Tilmann Kleinau Germany Local time: 11:25 Member (2006) English to German + ...
I cannot advise you to do it
Apr 1, 2023
I have tried Google Ads for a few weeks. It cost me about 500 EUR and there were a few hundred clicks but it brought me no job offer. So I dropped it again. I think translation is too much of a niche job to be successful in SEA marketing.
Samuel Murray
Dalia Nour
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Rachel Waddington United Kingdom Local time: 10:25 Dutch to English + ...
Clicks
Apr 1, 2023
Dr. Tilmann Kleinau wrote:
I have tried Google Ads for a few weeks. It cost me about 500 EUR and there were a few hundred clicks but it brought me no job offer. So I dropped it again. I think translation is too much of a niche job to be successful in SEA marketing.
The clicks were probably all translators checking out the competition.
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Daniel Frisano Italy Local time: 11:25 Member (2008) English to Italian + ...
Unsatisfactory
Apr 2, 2023
A few years ago I did, and I did get some results, but all of them were occasional clients with tiny jobs, such as a marriage certificate for someone requiring naturalization, that kind of stuff. Certainly not the kind of response we're all after.
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The Google representative who was supposed to help me set it up was in a hurry, and just wanted my money.
He Also Told Me I Had To Write It Like This, which I told him looked stupid. Some people do this in the US, but nowhere else.
I got no responses, and wasn't able to see where the money had gone.
Afterwards, I got an email from a law firm saying did I want to join a class action against Google. I said yes.... See more
...and it was $200 down the drain.
The Google representative who was supposed to help me set it up was in a hurry, and just wanted my money.
He Also Told Me I Had To Write It Like This, which I told him looked stupid. Some people do this in the US, but nowhere else.
I got no responses, and wasn't able to see where the money had gone.
Afterwards, I got an email from a law firm saying did I want to join a class action against Google. I said yes.
A few months ago, I got my compensation. All $5 of it. ▲ Collapse
Kay Denney
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Kay Denney France Local time: 11:25 French to English
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Apr 3, 2023
Wow Phil that's some story, definitely enough to put anyone off!
Rachel Waddington wrote:
The clicks were probably all translators checking out the competition.
I remember light years ago paying for an ad in a newspaper for Americans living in Paris (this was before Internet had taken off). The only calls I got were people with a very strong American accent pretending to be French and asking about my rates. After the second call, I just systematically ended each one saying in English "the only calls I've had are from people like you, so good-bye".
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