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		<title>Verballis:Translators:Kick-Off</title>
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		<description>Posts in the discussion thread &quot;Verballis:Translators:Kick-Off&quot; - Message sent to translators on 28-Aug-2007</description>
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				<title>Verballis:Translators:Kick-Off</title>
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				<pubDate>Thu, 30 Aug 2007 22:16:46 +0000</pubDate>
				<wikidot:authorName>Il0n Papp</wikidot:authorName>				<wikidot:authorUserId>29945</wikidot:authorUserId>				<content:encoded>
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						 <p>Dear All,</p> <p>I am sending you this email to confirm your presence in my Verballis:Translators distribution list.<br /> I also want to use this distribution list to communicate some information on Verballis.</p> <p>I started Verballis using input from my RL brother-in-law who works as a professional translator.<br /> As most of you have found on SL, translation rates are far under the RL market.</p> <p>Therefore we must:<br /> 1. be innovative in our pricing and services.<br /> 2. be able to propose decent rates for which SL companies are ready to pay for.<br /> 3. propose additional services such as cheap marketing campaigns to promote our customers.<br /> 4. add up our strengths and be able to propose multi-languages services.<br /> 5. work on quality and define a quality review process amongst ourselves.<br /> 5. keep our shareholders happy and pay regular dividends to sustain the share price.<br /> 6. promote the Verballis brand.</p> <p>On the prospects front:<br /> I have already issued half a dozen of offers, and contact a dozen companies.<br /> A few others are listed and I will need to find out who their contact person is to communicate our offer.<br /> It is definitely not a priority for CEO whose mother tongue is English to expand their business outside English.<br /> The general statement is 'People on SL are IT-literate and 90% of them will understand our business in English'.<br /> Let's work this out. It is obvious that the German and Brazilian communities represent big opportunities out there,<br /> and to be frank, going to some of their main islands I have never been able to communicate decently with them in… English.<br /> The market is enormous… Let's grab it… If one of you knows of a big RL company present on SL which would be interested<br /> in working with us,…</p> <p>On the translators front:<br /> This is the first message I am issuing to you.<br /> With you we can deliver translations in French/German/Italian/Spanish/Portuguese/Dutch.<br /> I have a contact outside that group who can deliver Slowaks, and I could 'easily' find one for Japanese.</p> <p>On the marketing front:<br /> I am not in favour to start big marketing campaign without getting a few decent contracts first.<br /> The capital raised during the IPO is still secured in case we need it.<br /> It represents 15% of the overall capital, so secondary IPOs are still an option ,<br /> although I'm not in favor of that approach to get funding.</p> <p>Comments/advices/… are welcome.</p> <p>Keep you posted.</p> <p>Il0n Papp<br /> CEO Verballis</p> 
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