MULTILATERAL NOTES

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TERP DUALITY 1: WE ARE PROFESSIONALS & BUSINESS OWNERS terpreneur thesavvyterp theterpreneurmethod

If I may be bold, I would like to say that interpreters are awesome!

We are.

At our job, no doubt. But at building and running a business, not so much.

This is our first...

TERP HARD TRUTH 3: IT'S NOT WHOM YOU KNOW, BUT WHO KNOWS YOU terpreneur thesavvyterp theterpreneurmethod

Networking is an incredibly important component of business development; so much so that I devoted an entire pillar of THE TERPRENEUR™ METHOD to it.

There are many...

THE ONLY CONSTANT IS CHANGE terpreneur view from the booth

Covid-19 has upended the way we do our job as much as our daily lives and now, as the dust settles after the big shake-up of 2020, it is time to assess where we are and...

TERP HARD TRUTH 2: YOU ALREADY HAVE A BRAND terpreneur thesavvyterp

In JUMP! A Very Practical Guide to Choosing Your Own (Interpreting) Adventure, I talk about how interpreters should manage our brands differently depending on whether we work...

TERP HARD TRUTH 1: YOU ARE A BUSINESS terpreneur thesavvyterp

During 2020, the restrictions brought upon by the pandemic changed the way we do our job – the actual interpreting, I mean.

But in 2021, as the dust sets and the new...

A TOAST TO YOU AND TO A FRUITFUL 2021 - TOGETHER! musings

A toast to us for having made it to the end of 2020 and a bigger toast to all the things we'll accomplish together in 2021!

Thank you for keeping your cameras on, your mics...