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Five Reasons Multilingual UX Needs a Seat at the Strategy Table
May 13, 2025
Five Reasons Multilingual UX Needs a Seat at the Strategy Table
May 13, 2025

International organizations need multilingual UX as part of their digital approach. Learn more about how a multilingual UX strategy can help your business.

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May 13, 2025
The Rise of Multilingual Support: How AI and Human Expertise Are Redefining Global CX
Mar 13, 2025
The Rise of Multilingual Support: How AI and Human Expertise Are Redefining Global CX
Mar 13, 2025

Multilingual customer bases need multilingual support. See how AI, professional localization services, and translators can make it happen.

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Mar 13, 2025
Street Talk: Making Smart Cities Accessible to Multilingual Populations
Feb 27, 2025
Street Talk: Making Smart Cities Accessible to Multilingual Populations
Feb 27, 2025

Smart cities are all about making urban life better for everyone. These cities use technology to manage everything from traffic to public services more efficiently, but one vital element is often overlooked: ensuring everyone can use these technologies. That's where language comes in.

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Feb 27, 2025
How Social Media Can Bridge the Gap Between Local and Global Markets
Dec 24, 2024
How Social Media Can Bridge the Gap Between Local and Global Markets
Dec 24, 2024

A successful international market expansion effort must include careful consideration of the channels most effective in bringing your message—and your product—to new cultures and audiences. Any discussion of effective channels for bridging local and global markets, in turn, has to include at least some consideration of social media.

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Dec 24, 2024
App Localization: A Game-Changer for Global Expansion
Nov 29, 2024
App Localization: A Game-Changer for Global Expansion
Nov 29, 2024

The mobile app market is a global powerhouse. Tapping into that market requires more than just expanding your product on app marketplaces around the globe. Perhaps paradoxically, it requires going local.

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Nov 29, 2024
The Pros and Cons of Gating Content
May 16, 2024
The Pros and Cons of Gating Content
May 16, 2024

As businesses strive to outperform their competitors and captivate audiences, their strategies for distributing their content can significantly impact their success. The choice between gating and ungating content is pivotal, shaping the dynamics of audience engagement and information flow.

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May 16, 2024
Capturing the Benefits of AI-Human Collaboration
Apr 16, 2024
Capturing the Benefits of AI-Human Collaboration
Apr 16, 2024

By using data processing strategies that model human problem-solving strategies, artificial intelligence (AI) has achieved many significant milestones. It has become a prime focus for almost any digital service. Along with quantum computing, AI has become widely heralded as a harbinger of new technological vistas.

What matters most to businesses and audiences feeling the effects of this dawning technology is how to adjust their relationship with information technology.

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Apr 16, 2024
Emerging Trends in UX and UI in 2024
Jan 31, 2024
Emerging Trends in UX and UI in 2024
Jan 31, 2024

Any discussion about reaching your audience online must closely examine UX and UI, in other words, user experience and user interface. These two sibling concepts are essential to engaging digital users and converting them to your brand. Fortunately, because UX and UI have become such ubiquitous necessities, plenty of research suggests where to focus your efforts. These five trends in UX/UI can help drive your digital strategy for the coming year.

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Jan 31, 2024
6 Essential Features of a Well-Designed Multilingual Website
Jan 29, 2024
6 Essential Features of a Well-Designed Multilingual Website
Jan 29, 2024

A multilingual website has become increasingly necessary when reaching audiences from diverse demographics. It is crucial to approach with a focus on localization and user experience to ensure success. This guide can help you get started. Let’s focus on six essential features your online presence needs to appeal to audiences in multiple languages.

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Jan 29, 2024
Going the Extra Mile - Enhancing Global Sales Through Multilingual Strategies
Nov 23, 2023
Going the Extra Mile - Enhancing Global Sales Through Multilingual Strategies
Nov 23, 2023

Reach more significant segments of the global market with multilingual strategies. See how you can make your marketing more engaging and resonate with more audiences.

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Nov 23, 2023
How Language Processing Shapes Modern FinTech
Nov 7, 2023
How Language Processing Shapes Modern FinTech
Nov 7, 2023

FinTech and language processing algorithms have reached advanced stages of development in their own right. Together, they could potentially change the face of business and trade worldwide. Learn how NLP is automating routine tasks, improving user experience, and generating higher ROI in FinTech.

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Nov 7, 2023
How AI Can Help to Crack the Code of Digital Communication
Oct 16, 2023
How AI Can Help to Crack the Code of Digital Communication
Oct 16, 2023

Since its inception, digital communication has evolved at a rapid pace. With the advent of artificial intelligence, that pace has increased to breakneck speed. Against that backdrop, digital communication tools like social media and email are forever changing. AI holds undoubted promise, even and especially in the localization realm. But at the same time, its applications continue to be limited in other ways.

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Oct 16, 2023
Six Expert Tips for the Best Social Media Localization
Sep 14, 2023
Six Expert Tips for the Best Social Media Localization
Sep 14, 2023

Localization is a crucial part of your marketing strategy. It lets you personalize your content to users' needs from various geographic areas. As you manage your localization process, it's critical to remember your social media. Not only do you want to translate your content so that it's available for users in various geographic areas, but you also want to make sure you're localizing the content you provide. Follow these six tips for social media localization.

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Sep 14, 2023
Five Best Practices for Localization Testing
Sep 5, 2023
Five Best Practices for Localization Testing
Sep 5, 2023

Localization is critical to reaching a wide geographic area with your marketing and overall business efforts. As part of your localization platform, testing your processes and ensuring they meet your stated goals is essential. Consider utilizing these critical five best practices as part of your localization testing.

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Sep 5, 2023
How Sportswear Brands Can Leverage Localization
Aug 21, 2023
How Sportswear Brands Can Leverage Localization
Aug 21, 2023

The fashion industry, like many others, has become increasingly global. Localization is still essential to your overall strategy and connection to your customers. As a sportswear brand, you want to target your marketing materials for customers in distinct locations. Localization can take several forms, depending on how you approach this common strategy—and it can have impressive results.

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Aug 21, 2023
 How Email Localization Drives ROI
Aug 10, 2023
How Email Localization Drives ROI
Aug 10, 2023

When you spread to an international market, your marketing efforts must consider all your customers' needs, including those from very different areas than your home location. Email localization helps ensure that your content is relevant and current to all users, regardless of where they live. 

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Aug 10, 2023
The Importance of Branding, Marketing, and Multilingual Content
Jul 21, 2023
The Importance of Branding, Marketing, and Multilingual Content
Jul 21, 2023

Market research demonstrates that most global consumers value brand interactions in their native language over price when purchasing. However, most businesses promoting their products globally still require a multilingual content strategy. When done correctly, multilingual content connects directly to a more effective branding and marketing strategy. It is equally important in attracting, engaging, and converting audiences across markets and building crucial brand equity over time.

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Jul 21, 2023
The Importance of Industry-Recognized Accreditation
Jul 5, 2023
The Importance of Industry-Recognized Accreditation
Jul 5, 2023

Adhering to the highest quality standards is vital to staying ahead of the competition. While business owners may know they are producing top-notch products and services, proving this to partners, suppliers, and customers involves going the extra mile. Industry-recognized accreditation in the form of ISO certification is one of the most effective ways to demonstrate your dedication to quality and the highest standards. ISO-accredited organizations find that it can help streamline work processes, support innovation, and provide a competitive edge.

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Jul 5, 2023
Tips to Optimize Your SEO For eCommerce Localization
Jun 22, 2023
Tips to Optimize Your SEO For eCommerce Localization
Jun 22, 2023

Modern connectivity empowers retailers to reach potential buyers worldwide, regardless of location. If you sell internationally, you're probably aware of how localization impacts consumers in other countries' feelings about your brand. The ability to adjust your product offerings to connect with your audience through language and cultural nuances is essential for building strong relationships with international customers. This is true for digital, print, and direct communications.

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Jun 22, 2023
What are the Implications of AI for the Language Industry?
Jun 14, 2023
What are the Implications of AI for the Language Industry?
Jun 14, 2023

Aside from MT, the language service industry applies AI in other areas, such as natural language processing (NLP), sentiment analysis, text summarization, and speech recognition.  These applications have already revolutionized how language professionals perform their daily tasks. Yet as AI technology evolves, it poses a crucial question: what are its implications for the industry?  

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Jun 14, 2023
Why Paper Publishing is Still In Vogue
May 24, 2023
Why Paper Publishing is Still In Vogue
May 24, 2023

Studies have shown that millennials prefer printed reading material. A very nostalgic generation, print media takes them back to simpler times when the world was not completely digitized. Holding and turning the magazine pages gives the reader a break from the chaos of everyday life. Reading a magazine article will make the article much more memorable. The tactile process of reading a magazine provides the brain with more time to process the information. People tend to trust the information printed in a reputable magazine more than digital media. Here is a list of why paper publishing is still in vogue.

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May 24, 2023
Are You Using the Power of UX and Localization?
May 9, 2023
Are You Using the Power of UX and Localization?
May 9, 2023

UX and localization are closely related but must be linked more closely for too many brands. However, their combination can help your brand content stand out, and you can create a more integrated and successful experience for audiences across the markets you want to serve.

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May 9, 2023
How to Accelerate Your Business Maturity With Data-Driven Processes
May 3, 2023
How to Accelerate Your Business Maturity With Data-Driven Processes
May 3, 2023

For most businesses, there is more data available than ever before. That data makes it possible to make critical business decisions, from when to expand areas of the brand to when to scale back operations. It helps stakeholders decide how to ensure higher customer satisfaction. Many businesses need to figure out how to use that data best. This uncertainty can lead to lower overall business maturity and an inability to meet changing consumer demand.

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May 3, 2023
Rethinking the Intersection Between Localization and Content Design
Apr 21, 2023
Rethinking the Intersection Between Localization and Content Design
Apr 21, 2023

Modern technology allows businesses to reach global audiences. Interacting with a worldwide audience takes more than simply reaching customers. Users want to work in familiar languages and environments, and companies need to localize their digital content to match the cultures and languages of different countries. This article explores the current relationship between localization and content design and how changing the intersection can provide businesses with new opportunities.

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Apr 21, 2023
The What, Why, and How of Social Listening for Your Brand
Apr 11, 2023
The What, Why, and How of Social Listening for Your Brand
Apr 11, 2023

At its core, social media is an ecosystem of interconnected conversations about an untold number of topics. Most social media strategies rightfully focus on adding your brand's voice to that conversation, ideally leveraging storytelling value-based promotional strategies to engage your audience. But even the best social media strategy is incomplete without social listening.

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Apr 11, 2023
The Importance of Context From a Translator's Perspective
Apr 4, 2023
The Importance of Context From a Translator's Perspective
Apr 4, 2023

Accurate translation is more than simply transferring words from one language to another. Communication conveys meaning; without it, you might send a different message than intended. For example, many words in the English language have multiple meanings, and we use context in phrases or images surrounding those words to understand what words mean fully.

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Apr 4, 2023
11 Unique Branding Ideas to Consider
Mar 28, 2023
11 Unique Branding Ideas to Consider
Mar 28, 2023

Branding is a marketing task that only ends for some businesses. Establishing a solid brand position — and maintaining it — is vital to continued profitability. 

Many companies have found that getting creative with their branding initiatives leads to good results. Here are 11 unique branding ideas you may want to consider for your company.

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Mar 28, 2023
The Most Valued Marketing Skills For Your Business
Mar 21, 2023
The Most Valued Marketing Skills For Your Business
Mar 21, 2023

Marketing is an essential part of any successful business. It is an evolving process with many working parts that serve to identify customers and communicate with them in the best ways possible. Marketing teams combine multiple skills and methods to devise effective marketing campaigns that meet consumers' interests—knowing where to focus your efforts to achieve the best ROI. This list of valued marketing skills combines modern technology with critical research skills and techniques.

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Mar 21, 2023
11 Localization Ideas for Global E-learning That Go Beyond Translation
Mar 15, 2023
11 Localization Ideas for Global E-learning That Go Beyond Translation
Mar 15, 2023

Localized e-learning content is critical for ensuring that everyone who takes your courses or engages with your platform gets the same high-quality material, regardless of where they are. However, many platforms stop translating that content into the user's native language. Language translation services can help make that content more accessible. But they will need to go the extra mile in making it usefully localized for some users. Consider these key localization ideas when determining how you want to create and piece together your educational content.

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Mar 15, 2023
YouTube and Translation: Everything You Need to Know
Mar 3, 2023
YouTube and Translation: Everything You Need to Know
Mar 3, 2023

YouTube content battles for audience visibility. Ensuring that content is translated into the languages most used by the people watching it is pivotal.

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Mar 3, 2023

 

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