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If you come to live permanently in a country, like Australia, and you have the visa to do so, you will be asked for some of your key legal documents which help to prove your identity before you are finally accepted for entry into the country. One of these is likely to be your marriage certificate.

If you were married outside your new country and that country does not share ... View More

Today, there are numerous businesses which are simply born into the global market as soon as they open their doors. This is in part due to the incredible reach offered by the internet and digital technology. There are around 3.5 billion daily internet users globally and it is growing all the time so there is no better time than now to go offshore with your business.

The estimates for the value of global ... View More

For all types of businesses, marketing to the global market is not taken lightly as it requires thought, time and investment. Taking time to research and understand the global market is vital before involving shareholders and other interested parties in expanding overseas.

One of the keys to success is gaining a thorough understanding of the targeted markets, including the potential role of any competitors and what is required in each of the targeted countries to ... View More

Not every business is large but there are smaller businesses that want to make an international presence so they can become known internationally. Start-ups can set aside localisation as part of their marketing budget and strategy just as much as larger corporations who have larger cash allocations for such marketing projects.

90% of purchasers conduct online product research before buying anything and this is especially true of those in the B2B area and software technology. If ... View More

Most businesses, when they begin to enter overseas markets, will need to get their website, promotional material and business documents translated into the targeted languages. The first thing a business may do is look around for an online translation tool some of which are free to do all their translations. No one would recommend this as a translation solution because it will deny the business a head start in the overseas marketing process for its ... View More

Mobile apps are becoming more and more in demand, so anyone who has developed a mobile app will want to attract as much interest in it as possible. To gain the most your app will need to be customized so that it will attract a great number of different users. This means going offshore and developing the app in a range of languages. This is typically called mobile app. localizing and is a way of ... View More

Legal documents are complex as they are made up of often complicated text which uses a language that is unique to that particular genre. To make it even more difficult for translators, legal language isn’t normally the same in different countries. This creates difficulties for legal document translators to provide accurate translations.  One thing anyone who needs to have a legal document translated should remember is that it takes more time to produce an authentic ... View More

Translation has become increasingly important today as people move around the world far more than they did in the past. With this movement comes the need to understand the languages of the countries visited. With 600 languages being spoken frequently there is little chance that anyone traveling to countries overseas, whether for business or tourism, is likely to be able to learn all the languages they encounter. This means in order to facilitate ... View More

Just a few decades ago an artificial language was invented, called Esperanto. It was considered to be the first constructed language, created by a Polish man, Ludovic Lazarus Zamenhof, who was trying to create a language that would make it easier to communicate in an international context. At the same time it would be easier to learn than many other languages. On a mass scale the use of Esperanto hasn’t spread as far and wide ... View More

Translation services are one industry that due to a surge in interest have grown rapidly. This means there is competition between these businesses for clients so translations are far cheaper than if there was no competition at all. There is a greater emphasis today by businesses to move into international markets. Hand in hand with this is maintaining good communication between the client and the translation provider. Countries use their own languages to communicate about ... View More