{"id":9840,"date":"2016-05-05T12:19:00","date_gmt":"2016-05-05T12:19:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/musik.a-z-translation.com\/eggs-and-baskets\/"},"modified":"2020-01-03T11:36:38","modified_gmt":"2020-01-03T11:36:38","slug":"eggs-and-baskets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.a-z-translations.com\/es\/eggs-and-baskets\/","title":{"rendered":"Eggs and Baskets"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An interesting <a href=\"https:\/\/clairecoxtranslations.wordpress.com\/2016\/04\/25\/eggs-in-baskets\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">post <\/a>by Claire Cox on her <a href=\"https:\/\/clairecoxtranslations.wordpress.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">blog <\/a>regarding how translators &#8211; or really freelancers in general &#8211; allocate their eggs in their basket(s) got me thinking about what my customer base looks like.<br \/>\nI feel like I have a good mixture of both agency and direct clients, with larger and smaller ones on both sides, as well as a variety of services on offer, with the odd client or request once in a while. To stay with the image: I have several baskets of several sizes with all kinds of eggs spread throughout. And sometimes, I move eggs around, get a new basket or even resize one.<\/p>\n<p>Despite this, I have had some rough times where barely any work seemed to be coming in from anywhere, without any indications as to why. I gather from what colleagues say and write, though, that this is not unusual and happens to pretty much everyone at least once during their career.<br \/>\nI got through the slump, and not least because of my diversified customer base. I cant&#8217; and don&#8217;t even want to imagine what might have happened had I been dependent on only one or two clients&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>How about you? Do you have a sufficient number of eggs and baskets?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An interesting post by Claire Cox on her blog regarding how translators &#8211; or really freelancers in general &#8211; allocate their eggs in their basket(s) got me thinking about what my customer base looks like. I feel like I have a good mixture of both agency and direct clients, with larger and smaller ones on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[548,549,550,90],"class_list":["post-9840","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-unkategorisiert","tag-customer-base","tag-diversification","tag-eggs-and-baskets","tag-english","entry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.a-z-translations.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9840"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.a-z-translations.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.a-z-translations.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.a-z-translations.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.a-z-translations.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9840"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.a-z-translations.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9840\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10767,"href":"https:\/\/www.a-z-translations.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9840\/revisions\/10767"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.a-z-translations.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9840"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.a-z-translations.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9840"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.a-z-translations.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9840"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}