How can I promote for free, translation and proof reading services on X and Instagram?

Why hire you because you will only charge $10.00. Someone in the US can go to Fiverr and pay less. You will also be lumped in with all the other who charge $10.00

If someone from the US wants quality they will not pay that small fee. There is an old saying you get what you paid for. A lot of the cheaper article writers do poor-quality work.

What is your time worth? $30.00 an hour is $0.50 per minute, versus $10.00 an hour worth approximately $0.16 a minute.

If you go to a site like Upwork you will be competing against thousands of writers selling the same service for $10.00 an hour or cheaper. It's a very tough place to even try to make a living. After the Pandemic it has gotten worse with more people than there is work.

You may be limiting yourself because of your location and
you need to work on that.

Again, ChatGPT translates including Romanian to English
and back again.

It also writes poetry and it even does nuances.

People here are trying to give you advice and guidance
in order to help you succeed, no one wants to discourage
you from doing your plan.

But if we see your plan is unlikely to make money for you
then we point it out so that you don't waste time chasing
your tail and spinning your wheels.

In my previous comment I told you to offer more complex
services and I am going to give you an example of one:

"I will write you a 50-page ebook on any topic, design an
eye-catching cover, list it for sale on 5 major platforms,
set up 3 social media accounts, and promote your ebook
for the next 6 months."

Which service do you think will get actual sales?

Let me start from the other end. Who hires Romanian-English or English-Romanian translators?


Where do these people live? I mean, what websites, forums, conferences do they go to?


Why do they want a translator?


You're staying, it seems, general. You need to identify your target audiences. For two reasons:
1. easier to find them
2. easier to convince them to hire you when you address them directly.


For instance, you want to target medical companies who need translator. And banks. You'd talk differently (and your samples would be different) for the two groups.



Google Translate got much better at translating. There's fiverr for the really cheap. You're positioning yourself about twice as expensive as fiverr but still cheap.


Why should I pay $30 when I can pay only $10? Trust. People charging $10 in my part of the world (USA, big city), seem too cheap. So cheap that they come across as not capable of doing a good job.


Your options are to have, as part of your sale pitch, a section where you cover the reason: The average Romanian makes $480/month. On minimum wage, working full-time, you make a bit over $2500 a month. You'd have to talk about that... and hope. Or charge what people in the area where you want clients from find reasonable.


People who are looking to buy a luxury car do not even bother to look at a Hundai. They look at Ferrari's and Lamborghini's. And vice versa: people who can only afford a $25000 car, will shop Hundai, Kia, that kind of car.


Which means, if you put a Kia offer in front of a luxury car buyer, that buyer will just skip over the Kia offer. You put an offer for a Lamborghini, the Kia-shopper will gawk at the photo but not call you to set up an appointment... unless as a joke.


So, one:
specialize (technical / legal / medical) translating is harder than general translating.

figure out who, within the specialized area, you want as your target audience (bitcoin companies will respond to marketing campaigns differently than international banks; dentists differently than hear-surgery researchers.


find out where online they live... and be there. They may have forums or facebook pages or linkedin groups.


You could also look up translator employment offers on sites like indded.com or craigslist.com or... Approach those looking for Romanian-English translators. Upwork.com has five ads for people looking for a translator who handles Romanian right now. Linkedin.com says they have them too, but I could not confirm, though at least one of the companies advertising is an international one, working in many countries.


Place ads, if you can afford. If not, participate. I mean, on Linkedin, create a profile, post stuff that someone looking for a Romanian-English translator might find useful. Connect with people who work for companies that hire translators... Most would, probably, be translation agencies.


I was going to suggest freelancer.com but I did not find any Romanian translator needed ads. I found this, however: https://www.freelancer.com/projects/...nian-technical

It's an ad for a marketer for their Romanian arm.

They may, or may not, need a Romanian translator. Contact them, and companies like this and find out.



Short of it, Cheap is not a great unique selling proposition. You need more.

Those numbers will grow and AI will displace people in
various industries, not just internet marketers, content
creators, publishers, copywriters, etc.

If you are an information-based business, you should
leverage AI to work for you or you will get left behind.

BTW, ChatGPT has written poems for me and it does

FANTASTIC!