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I was reading a blog this morning about 10 people from the United States who quit their jobs to travel the world. The truth is, every one of us is secretly wishing that we can do the same, right? The idea of visiting other places on a regular basis is really mesmerizing. However, for those people who do not have the time or the money to travel, they contend themselves in reading relevant articles.

These are the people who you will be writing for when you create travel articles. It's important that you're able to capture their attention and that you can sustain their interest so you can get them to read your articles until the end and leave them well-informed and entertained.

Here's how you can supercharge your travel articles:

1. Use visuals. Don't just tell your readers the things that you've seen during your trip instead show them! I suggest that you invest in getting a high-end digital camera that will help you capture dramatic pictures that will help in engaging your readers. Post as many pictures as possible on your articles so your readers will get excited in turning each page. These pictures can actually help in promoting further reading.

2. Offer tips and secrets. These are what usually travel enthusiasts are looking for when they read travel articles. As they want their trip to be perfect, they read relevant travel articles ahead of time. Help them out by giving them tips that can help them make the most out of their adventure. Recommend the best places to stay and the best restaurants to visit for example.

If you were a customer, what would you want? This is a question that you should be asking yourself frequently. Your goal is to make things easy for your customers and to build solid working relationships. If you do not know what a customer wants, just ask. Seeing any business from your customer's point of view is a powerful tool. It is sometimes difficult to find the right balance between what you want and what your customers want.

One of the great pleasures of running your own business is that you do not have to accept every translation job that comes across your desk. If you worked in a traditional, non- entrepreneurial setting before, you surely remember having to do work for superiors, or even colleagues, whose ideas might not have been good or feasible, yet you had to implement them. Now you can decide if you would like to accept or decline a translation job. Neither decision will not cost you a pro­motion.

There are no vacation slips to fill out and no bosses to notify. Just turn in that urgent translation before you hit the road, notify all your clients, and if needed, take your laptop with you. The freedom to make your own decisions and to not have to rely on someone else's decision-making is very important to most freelance translators. Work does not have to be restricted to a specific time, place, or dress code. Feel free to reinvent the wheel: there are no limits to where you can work. The main exception to this is when you meet with customers. You should always dress professionally for face-to-face interactions.However, running your own business comes with a tremendous amount of responsibility.

First and foremost, you must remember that your success will depend on your ability to attract clients and to make them happy. Without clients, you do not have a translation job. Then you would have to put on a power suit, print out some resumes and look for a job as an in-house translator or interpreter. You would most likely work in a traditional office environment, with a boss, a hierarchy, office rules, gossip, and fridges full of moldy lunch containers with labels on them. If you do not want that, then keep your customers happy.

You should analyze each situation separately. Customers want professional translation services from a professional company. This includes answering the phone professionally and having a well-designed website. You should create an environment in which the customer can feel comfortable and well taken care of.

Do not beat around the bush. Answer questions truthfully and clearly. Give customers the information they need in order to make informed purchasing decisions. Customers want their deadlines met. Delivering quality translation work on time is the minimum requirement in any profession, especially if you would like referrals. Customers do not necessarily want to be educated, unless it is very gently. Think of yourself as a customer. Buyers of translation and interpretation services might not know what a source language is, nor do they need to know that. It is your job to clearly define the industry-specific terms that the client might not be familiar with, to explain how the process works, and to enable the customer to make good decisions. Make things simple and easy to under­stand for your customer.

Include as much information as possible in your written price quotes, such as delivery time, precise cost breakdown, documents needed from the customer to finish a translation project, terms and conditions, etc. All this should be put in writing for the benefit of both parties. Be sure to have customers sign the quote before you commence work.

Whatever your profession, or daily routine is; whatever your level of seniority, planning your work-day is an essential part of being as effective and productive as you possibly can be. However, daily plans are rarely completed in their entirety, necessitating either the need to extend your working hours into the evening or weekend, thus eating into your "quality time". Alternatively, you could carry forward the uncompleted tasks to the following day, which means that that day's planned tasks get more squeezed. It's a vicious circle. Set out below are four reasons why things don't get done as planned, along with suggestions of how to avoid falling into the traps they set.

1) Detestation

If you just hate doing a particular task, for any reason it is common to put it off, and off, and off, always finding something you enjoy doing to do instead. It does not matter why you hate doing something. Perhaps you find it too difficult, perhaps you find it boring. There are a multitude of reasons people hate doing particular things. However you have to be an adult and realize that everything needs to get done in the end.

Get the least enjoyable jobs done with and out of the way first. There are two advantages of taking this course of action. Firstly, while you are completing the least enjoyable tasks, you can look forward to relaxing a bit later in the day while you are completing the jobs you enjoy doing more. Secondly, while doing the more enjoyable tasks you can breathe a sigh of relief that that you have got those you detest doing out of the way early.

2) Over Optimism

When you set your mental or written daily plan it is very important to be realistic. Things are always going to take longer than you expect, you are going to get distracted by one thing or another. Leave gaps in your schedule for tea breaks, loo breaks, time to make or return telephone calls, answer or write emails, and a myriad of other things. If you complete all of your allotted tasks, go home, or leave your at-home office happy. If you have completed your list, never stop work thinking that you could have achieved more.

3) Taking Too Long

Often people take more time than they should to perform a particular task. This leaves less time for jobs that have to be performed later. Your mental or written plan should include an approximate time frame for each task. Buy a cheap kitchen timer for your desk and each time you start a new job, set it to ring five minutes before the end of the time you have allotted to the task. This will give you time to complete the task after the bell has rung.

The main reason for taking too long is distraction. Try not to get distracted so you can concentrate solely on the task at hand. If you are disturbed by telephone calls that are not directly relevant to what you are currently doing, be polite but tell the caller that you are currently busy and will call back shortly. Take a quick note to remind you to call back, and a number if necessary. Use one of the time spots mentioned under point 2 to make the call. Other common causes for distractions are office gossip and the ever present, ever tempting computer games.

4) Get Enough Sleep And Eat Breakfast

Following a demanding daily work plan takes a lot of concentration and hard work all day long. Concentration and hard work all day long requires a lot of energy. To fill your body with enough energy to enable you to complete your requirements, it is essential to get enough sleep and to eat a hearty cooked breakfast. Even if you work from home, a good breakfast is important to give you the energy that is required to put in a full, productive day's work.