Message From Site Founder Regarding ProZ.com Membership

Dear language service provider,

ProZ.com is a translation workplace created and maintained for your benefit. We, the site's staff and moderators, are committed to providing as convenient and enjoyable an environment as possible for you to meet, get to know, and do business with colleagues and clients.

In order to maximize the opportunities for you to meet and cooperate with others in this venue, we provide a number of features free of charge. This open approach has made ProZ.com the leading source of jobs for translators, the most active venue for translator collaboration, and the largest community of language service providers on the web.

Given the fact that so much of the site is free, people often ask what allows ProZ.com to stay in business. The answer is simple: your support, in the form of ProZ.com membership.

By taking out an annual or bi-annual membership subscription to the site's advanced features, you make it possible for us to further develop and promote the site. In return, we provide you with specific advantages for your business.

Any translator or interpreter who registers at ProZ.com appears in the open directory. But as a ProZ.com member, your name appears among the first set of service providers shown to clients. Also, though any registered user can quote on jobs, as a ProZ.com member, your quotes appear first. In other words, investing in ProZ.com membership means that you are given the first opportunity to meet desirable new clients. As a result, most jobs passed via ProZ.com go to members.

When determining the value of ProZ.com membership to your business, please consider that unlike "marketplace" sites in other industries, at ProZ.com there are no fees or commissions when jobs are passed. All the money paid by a client goes to you.

When you meet a client or colleague here, you may work with that client for years, irrespective of your membership status. For this reason, meeting a single client, or doing a single day's work, may result in your membership investment being repaid several times over.


Increased client exposure is just one of the benefits of ProZ.com membership. As a member, you enjoy complete and immediate access to all site functions and data. This includes full access to the Blue Board database of clients with user feedback--so you'll often know with whom you are dealing before you begin working for a new client.

There are many more benefits to ProZ.com membership (in KudoZ, forums, and elsewhere--click the tabs above for details), and new features are being developed for members on an ongoing basis.

If you are already a ProZ.com member, thank you for helping us to make this site and service better. If you are not yet a member, thank you for considering an investment that will help both your business and this site to grow.

Sincerely,

Henry Dotterer
Site Founder