TRANSLATORSCAFE.COM MASTER MEMBERSHIP

Executive Summary

• High exposure.
• Top placement.
• Enhanced functionality.
• Access to jobs for Master members.
• Full access to the Hall of Fame and Shame and all other features.

You can use all the basic services of Translators­Cafe.­com free. However if you want to be at the top of search results, use other advanced features or if you simply want to support the site, you may wish to consider becoming a Master member. Your support will prove immensely helpful and enable us to develop the site further. Your Master Membership fee is invested mainly in marketing and development of means to advertise your translation services on the Internet.

Master members of Translators­Cafe.­com will have access to the following benefits which can help them to attract new clients:

Benefits of Master Membership

• Top placement of your name (see example) and your agency name (see example) in search results.
• Top placement on Who We Are pages (see example).
• High exposure in the Translator of the Hour and the Agency of the Hour boxes (agencies registered by Master members) on most of the site pages.
• Ability to download the My Agencies List (see example) that can also be used for sending your application to many agencies with one click using mail merging. The downloaded table will have the following additional information available from the database:
  • Agency Name
  • Postal Address
  • E-mail
  • HR Email
  • Web Site
  • Jobs Web Site
  • All your notes with dates
• Ability to download the results of an agency search—Selected Agencies Table (see example).
• Enhanced functionality when carrying out searches—fewer restrictions.
• You can add several self-promotion pages and upload any files, e.g. examples of your translations or screenshots that you would like to show (see examples: ). It is a simple way to create your own Web site.
• Ability to form teams and to send e-mails to all members of the team.
• Free verification of membership in various translators associations for which corresponding records will be placed in your profile (see example).
• Your name will be automatically shown to job posters if your profile matches a job (all members with matching profiles will be listed, however Master members will be first in the list).
• Savings on software through future agreements between TranslatorsCafe.com and software vendors.
• Referring direct TC clients to TC master members (TC receives several letters a day from direct clients with translation job offers).
• Full access to the Hall of Fame & Shame restricted forum to share and request information on payment practices and discussing good and bad clients.
• Access to the Recent Visits page that displays information about all visits to your profile, your self-promotion pages, your agency profile, your articles in the How-To Library and other personalized pages on TC (see example).
• Access to the My Bids page that displays information about messages that you have sent to the job posters (see example).
• free impressions of your Text Link Ad in the search results for translators (worth $, only for one-year upgrade). Just create your ad and send us your request asking to activate your ad.
• It takes time, sometimes several hours, to send job notifications. Master members are always at the top of the sending list, therefore they will get notifications almost immediately after any job has been posted and approved.
• Guaranteed response from TranslatorsCafe.com Help desk within 24 hours.
• Outsourcers may request sending job notifications and/or displaying job postings only to TC Master members. If this is the case, all other members will see such job postings with -hour delay. Approximately one- fourth of all job postings is intended only for Master members.
• Master members may enter up to language pairs into their profiles—this is convenient for translators who run their own translation agency.
• Search engine positioning program. Representation of Master members having full profiles in major search engines is much higher than that of standard members.
• Master members may ask to change their user name (if available).
• Master members can upload up to Kb of their files on the TranslatorsCafe.com servers. Examples of such files include your detailed resume, translation samples in doc or pdf format, your voice welcome message and voice-over demo files in mp3 format, your v-card in vcf format, images in gif, jpeg or png format showing you interpreting at a conference.
• Access to jobs RSS feed for your language pairs without delay.
• Master members can conveniently add notes to profiles that will be stored on TranslatorsCafe.com server. Only users who added notes will have secure access to them.
• Master members can create their Web sites hosted on TranslatorsCafe.com servers using free templates and images from TranslatorsCafe.com library of free images. Here's how you will build your own Web site.
• The Free Quote form is available to Master members. Links to this form can be found in the Contact Information of Master member and agency profiles. The Free Quote links are displayed only on profiles of users who are not busy.
• Master members will be first to use any new features of TranslatorsCafe.com.
• Master members who renew their membership before expiration date will get one month of Master Membership free. The new period will start from the end date of the old period. Therefore you can renew your membership at any time.