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Jul 2024
Translating For A Specific Market: Local Differences To Consider
Translating For A Specific Market: Local Differences To Consider Taking your business global can be an exciting opportunity. It does, however, come with a number of challenges you must tackle as a business owner. From understanding your target audience to being able to carefully localise your marketing messages, ensuring that it is culturally appropriate […]
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Feb 2024
How Global Brands Market to Foreign Audiences and How Can Translation Services Help?
Approaching foreign markets Trading within international markets is becoming increasingly beneficial for businesses in the modern, globalising world. Some of the most significant reasons for this are technology and internet developments. Nevertheless, technology can only allow you to extend your company’s reach whereas an in-depth understanding of the language and culture of your target audience […]
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Nov 2023
Localisation – Why is it so important for your business?
Is Localisation important for your business? If you’re considering expanding your business to a country where English isn’t a native language, in order to succeed, it’ll be essential to translate and carefully localise your marketing materials. Translation is important in business because people feel more relaxed using their own language. When consumers and B2B clients are […]
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Sep 2023
Is the U.S market a natural expansion step for UK based companies?
Should UK-based businesses expand to the US market? Assuming that marketing in the United States requires a very similar approach to the campaigns run for the UK market is very common, even by experienced business owners and marketing professionals. Although the language is practically the same and the cultures are seemingly comparable at a first […]
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Oct 2022
Transcreation vs. Translation – what are the differences?
The differences between translation and transcreation Transcreation and translation are two terms which interrelate on many levels, although the processes and final outcomes are different. Understanding what the specific differences between transcreation and translation are wouldn’t be possible without fully understanding what these terms mean independently. ‘Translation’ is a term generally known and understood and […]
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Dec 2021
Scotland’s linguistic landscape – Scottish Standard English and Scots
Follow Ashley on Twitter or by visiting her website here. Enjoy! Scotland’s linguistic landscape – Scottish Standard English and Scots Do you know your language varieties from your languages? Your dipthongs from your monopthongs? The difference between code-switching and bilingualism? Scotland’s linguistic landscape, made up predominantly of the language variety that is Scottish Standard […]
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Jul 2021
The Spirit of Scots
You can follow Ashley on her on Twitter or by visiting her website here. Enjoy! What Makes Scots, Scots… Scots is the Germanic language spoken in Scotland. It is closely related to English – both developed from the same Anglo-Saxon ancestor language – as well as to other West Germanic languages, such as German […]
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Jun 2021
The Brutal Impact Of COVID-19 On Cultures Around The Globe
The impact of COVID-19 on cultures around the world has been severe and, in some cases, devastating. Festival cancellations and other repercussions on the tourism sector are more obvious, than other, less prominent consequences of the pandemic. Today, we’ll talk about how COVID-19 is changing cultures all over the world. We’ll look at how Covid […]
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Jun 2021
Culture In Marketing: How To Successfully Globalise Your Brand
How do you market your business to people from various cultures and geographic locations? Let’s explore culture in marketing for your new, globalised brand. Imagine that a company plans to globalise its business with hopes of increasing its net yearly profit by millions. The calculations have been done based on market demand, and the business […]
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Mar 2021
Expanding Business To International Markets; Aspects to consider
International Business Expansion – What you need to know With the developments in technology and now widely available internet, numerous ways of reaching target audience are available to business owners. With the Brexit dust slowly settling down and Coronavirus solutions coming into place, an international expansion is the next step for many UK based companies. […]