Peak Translations Insights

Author: Helen Provart

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COVID-19 precautionary measures

In light of the recent events surrounding Covid-19, I would like to take this opportunity to reassure you that the Peak team is constantly reviewing our contingency planning and precautionary measures to ensure that we can remain fully operational for our customers. The health and safety of our project team, linguists, customers and their families remain our absolute priority and our thoughts go out to all those affected by this unprecedented situation. As you may be aware, our normal mode

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Coronavirus and its impact on how you communicate as a business

As the impact of the Covid-19 virus becomes ever more real, how can your business weather the challenges this pandemic presents?  It’s widely accepted that 80% of effective crisis management is in the planning rather than the response. Effective planning of course involves identifying and mitigating risks but should also include a robust approach to clear communications.  If you are a company with customers or suppliers overseas, or with a foreign workforce, there are a number of areas to urgently assess:   Employing foreign nationals  As the BBC’s medical correspondent, Fergus Walsh, has pointed out on several

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Setting aside adequate time for translation

Failing to prepare is preparing to fail, as the saying goes. We all know that the most successful projects are the ones that are well planned. When it comes to international projects where there is likely to be a language requirement, however, it’s amazing how often the translation element is overlooked and must be squeezed in at the end. It is important to allow sufficient time for the translation phase of the project to be completed when planning your project

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How Apprenticeships are expanding Peak Translations

At Peak Translations, we are passionate about supporting not only the local community but also the next generation of linguists. By offering an apprenticeship in our field, we are allowing a student to combine working with studying so they can gain skills and knowledge in our translation field.  We have taken on numerous work experience students and apprenticeships throughout the years and in 2019 we began Charlie’s apprenticeship. Here is his story.   Charlie’s experience “As soon as I started

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How to get your message across to international customers

It’s the time of year when we all make new plans and resolutions, look at our business strategies for the coming 12 months and make sure we have everything on track for a successful year ahead. For those of you who trade internationally, this should also include looking at how you interact with your international customers. Communicating with your customers in their native language leaves no doubt that you’re committed to them. But it’s not enough to simply translate your

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We are hiring!!

Looking for a new opportunity?   Interested in joining our award-winning Project Management Team?   We’re hiring!!   We currently have a vacancy for a full-time enthusiastic, client-focused project manager with great attention to detail, to assist with our growing client base. We are a small yet ambitious company based in Whaley Bridge. Peak Translations is a specialist and prestigious language services provider, supplying translation, interpreting and other language services to a wide range of national and international clients. We

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Going global

How to make your overseas markets find your website

So, you want to grow your overseas sales, you’ve identified the target markets and decided to invest in a dedicated website in the language of the target audience. But how do you make sure you get maximum return on your investment? Quite simply, you need to make sure your website not only appeals but can also be found by your target audience, and the way to do that is by localising the content and ensuring the site is fully optimised

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Let’s focus on being more environmentally conscious. Let’s build a better world for our future!

In light of World Environment Day, an annual event held on 5th June, that brings to light the crucial state in which we find the climate across the globe and the grievous environmental concerns that have been affecting our planet for many years, including global warming, pollution and overpopulation, etc, it is certainly worth thinking about how businesses from all over the world can help shape the future path of our environment and bring us closer to nature. Like World

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Sporting Fans … an international sport!

The internationalisation of sport is a wondrous thing, whereby sporting events across the globe bring together an audience of varying cultures and nationalities every year. Like music gigs, sporting occasions cross all cultural borders to fulfil dreams of listening to and watching live performances for all kinds of people, as passions unfold before their very eyes. The love and excitement of witnessing live sport in all its shining glory is something that knows no boundaries. Spectators, whose appetite for sport

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Are you ready for the international sporting stage?

Are you ready for the international sporting stage?

Are you ready for this year’s international sporting stage? Every year, thousands of people from all walks of life of varying cultures and nationalities, cross cultural boundaries to enjoy their one unifying passion that is sport. This summer is set to be jam-packed with exciting sporting events including the Cricket World Cup, Wimbledon and the British Open and this will bring a flurry of international people to our doorstep (potentially an influx of a million visitors). Now is the time

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Are you ready for the international sporting stage?

Sporting fans … an international sport!

The internationalisation of sport is a wondrous thing, whereby sporting events across the globe bring together an audience of varying cultures and nationalities every year. Like music gigs, sporting occasions cross all cultural borders to fulfil dreams of listening to and watching live performances for all kinds of people, as passions unfold before their very eyes. The love and excitement of witnessing live sport in all its shining glory is something that knows no boundaries. Spectators, whose appetite for sport

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Can your language provider support you through Brexit?

Can your language provider support you through Brexit? As we move closer to the deadline for exiting the EU, many industries are looking more deeply into how they might be affected by Brexit and the language industry is no exception. In March, I attended the ATC (Association of Translation Companies) Networking Event in Leeds, where the focus was very much on issues impacting the language industry as a result of the UK leaving the EU. It was a very interesting

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