When it comes to project management, you need all the help you can get. Fortunately, experts are at your beck and call, ready to take orders. As a project manager, you have a lot on your plate — however, sometimes you simply don’t have the resources or experts on hand to do your best work. Outsourcing isn’t what it used to be (thank goodness). Today, especially in the digital era with a global economy, it just makes sense to rely on third-party businesses, contractors or freelancers to fill in the blanks when your schedule is overloaded.
For example, it may not make sense to hire a permanent, full-time translator for your team. Reputable translators are certified, have been immersed in cultures where their language of choice is spoken natively and spent years honing their craft. In other words, these professionals can be expensive to hire permanently — but they’re the perfect fit for project managers looking to outsource.
Feeling overwhelmed by all the projects demanding your attention? Here are some of the key outsourcing options busy PMs like you need:
- Document translation: Globalization is real, and only being able to communicate effectively with fellow English speakers doesn’t give you a competitive edge. Whether creating documents for clients, potential investors or anyone else whose native language isn’t English, you need quality document translation services.
- Voice-over: This isn’t the embarrassing dubbing of movies from the old days. Voice-over services help you connect with your audience on multiple levels. Choose voice-over for videos, audio or digital photo collages in any language you need. Providing voice-over with images (and perhaps subtitles) is a great way to appeal to a global market.
- App localization: “There’s an app for that,” of course, but is it in the right language? Getting app localization takes experts who know the intended audience(s) and can speak (or write) to them in an authentic manner.
- Website translation: There’s a big difference between document translation and website translation, particularly thanks to search engine optimization (SEO). You don’t want duplicate content, which can lower your search engine rankings, but you may need websites flawlessly translated for various domains. For example, you might want www.example.com in English and www.example.in in Hindi, and you need fantastic experts to make this happen.
- Interpreting services: What do you do if you find the perfect customer, investor or partner but you can’t communicate because of a language barrier? Are you getting ready to entertain a big client from China, but nobody in the office speaks Mandarin? Interpreting services help you bridge the language barrier gap, putting everyone at ease. Plus, having an unbiased, third-party interpreter provides peace of mind, since these interpreters have no agenda.
You can even outsource project management services if you like. You may be a jack of all trades, but all isn’t always completely exhaustive. For language-based needs, call Verbatim Solutions and get your translations, interpretations and more taken care of by local experts.
