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[#54] Your Bio Is Costing You Direct Clients
Published 29 days ago • 2 min read
I translate medical documents from French and Spanish into English. Read that sentence again. Now ask yourself: would a pharma project manager hire you off the back of it? No, of course they wouldn't. Because that sentence describes a service. It doesn't describe you. Here's the problem with most translator bios - they're an inventory, not a sales pitch. Language pairs. Years of experience. A CAT tool list nobody asked for. All true, none of it persuasive, because none of it answers the one...
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