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This guide map will provide a comprehensive overview of translation cost and offer insight into which services are cheaper and which are more expensive. We will also dive into which languages are more and less expensive.

Many languages are shared across the globe, providing opportunities for business expansion into international markets. However, even when the same language is spoken, nuances of vocabulary, culture and history create barriers to success. At Upwords, our localised and accurate translations sweep these barriers away. With our products and services, your business grows while customer satisfaction ensures a continuing return on investment into the future.

Financial translation is the translation of any written material that includes financial terminology. That could be for instance your company’s income statements, bank statements, user interfaces, economic reports, leases, prospectuses, annual reports and so on. Even legal contracts can include a lot of financial jargon.

We bring you five tips to adapt your content strategy so that you sell more. Let’s face it: creating good content is not enough. Because you don’t create content for the sake of content — you create content in order to sell more of your product or service. So if you’re adding great texts to your website, but that does not have an impact on your conversion rates, it’s probably time to adjust your content strategy.

At Upwords, we want to help businesses that are expanding abroad. And we know that when you take your business to other countries, it’s important you speak to your foreign partners and prospects in their own language. We also know how tricky it can be to translate your content. So, that’s what we want to do for you.  How do we go about it? We look at the larger picture. Because in fact, translation is only one part of adapting your content to a foreign country. Translation is part of a larger process called localization — which means adapting all of your content (instead of only your text) to a specific locality. Now you may be asking yourself what else, besides translation, does localization include. So let’s have a look at some of the most common ways you can carry out content localization, adapting your content to another country, another culture, and another language.

Let’s start by defining cross-border ecommerce – it simply means selling goods online to buyers who are in another country. In recent years, cross-border ecommerce growth has been impressive. Online purchases across borders increased by 17% in 2020, and research indicates that in the next three to four years, they will make up one fifth of total ecommerce sales worldwide. This is huge. And it means there are a lot of opportunities for ecommerce businesses to expand internationally.

If you are having your elearning content localized into another language, you may well be asking yourself one of the questions below, just like some of our clients do. So, we’ll answer you as we answer them – with a few tips of best practices for elearning localization.

What are the greatest challenges to growing an ecommerce these days? There are many stumbling blocks on that way – and you probably know many already – so we’ll list only three: Getting relevant leads: you must tailor your content to your target audience, so as to attract the right people to your channels and have high conversion rates. Converting clients into customers: you must create a flawless user experience, so that your clients come back to you next time they need your product. Keeping customers happy: you have to keep up with evolving customer demands, while competing with huge retailers like Amazon, AliBaba, Ebay and the like.

We’ve seen what e-learning localization is in this article, but in case you missed that, let’s recap the main points: Localizing e-learning material means adapting it to your audience’s culture and way of life, so as to make it feel familiar to them. The goal of e-learning localization is to make learners as mentally comfortable as possible while studying, so that they can focus on what they need to learn. Localized courses help students learn more quickly and with greater depth. For you, the benefits of localizing your e-learning material are manifold: you save time; you show respect and improve communication with foreign customers, partners and employees; and you can even avoid potential lawsuits caused by poor performance due to faulty instructions. Translation is one element of localization, but there are several others. Besides written and spoken words, you can and should localize measurements, date and time formats, colours, content direction, images with geographical or cultural implications, etc.