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Attached is a proud sponsor, exhibitor and attendee at the 2023 events listed below.
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Proud recipient of one of Adaptive’s Best Employer in Localization Awards!
Proud recipient of one of Adaptive’s Best Employer in Localization Awards!
Our mission at Attached – language intelligence is to guide and contribute to the personal and professional development journey of all our talent. This mission has now been recognized by Adaptive who awarded us with the BELA Award for Best Language Service Provider for Career Progression!
We achieved this award by creating a clear ‘career model’ that makes our talents’ paths more concrete. This model outlines a framework of the different career trajectories within Attached, which includes specialized directions, such as localization project management, content strategy and localization engineering. And we couldn’t be prouder that our efforts to support people in their growth and development have been recognized by Adaptive.
To check out Adaptive’s publication and see a complete list of BELA winners, click here.
To broaden our mission and in partnership with Localization Academy, we are excited to launch Localization Project Manager Bootcamps starting in February. These are designed to fill the gap for students and juniors who want to make the leap to becoming localization professionals and will enable them to learn the necessary skills to launch their career path in this direction.
A big congratulations to all the winners of the BELA Awards!
Quote Eveline van Sandick:
One of my many mottos is “A day without learning is a day wasted”. I firmly believe that continuous learning as well as a constant perspective on how you can progress in both your personal and professional life are essential ingredients to be and remain ready for whatever the future will bring. It is my responsibility to make sure that my team members are enabled to achieve this.
Holiday cooking at Attached
Holiday cooking at Attached
Here at Attached, we have a good smattering of cultures, and most of our conversations over the lunch table revolve around food from our native countries. And let’s be honest: nothing beats our own homeland’s cooking.
These conversations inspired us to compile some of our holiday favourites – whether it’s grandma’s recipe or new traditions – and share them with you this holiday season. They range from yummy baked goods to fun side dishes. And some are just so good, you can make them the whole year round.
In all our years working with language and culture, we’ve found that nothing defines culture or brings people together more than food and holidays. Gathering around a table full of good smells, tastes and cheer conjures memories of past holiday celebrations and the promise of more to come.
From the Attached family to yours,
have a very merry holiday season and a great 2022!
Eat and be merry – holiday recipes from Attached
Loyalty & Awards Dubai
We are looking back with great pleasure on all the nice meetups, presentations and activities at #loyaltyandawards in Dubai.
A few take-aways that inspired us:
Congratulations also to the winners of our Quiz during our workshop on Local Language Sells: Connecting with Your International Customers:
Folker Heim, Sayed Mohammed Aqdas and Ben Lipsey.
With a big Thank You to GlobalFlight for organizing this amazing live get-together again. We are already looking forward to next year’s event!
Localization:
More than just language
When moving your brand to new international markets, researching not only linguistic differences but also colours is a big ‘Do’.
Below you’ll find a few examples of the difference in symbolism in different countries and the importance of good localization techniques.
A subtle colour used mostly for accents in branding. It represents purity and cleanliness in many countries.
In some countries, like Japan and Indonesia, it is the colour of mourning and sadness.
Most used colour for international brands. Why? It has broad appeal by conveying positive attributes like trust, professionalism and security.
On the flip side, in some countries it represents sadness or depression.
In the West, orange represents energy, excitement and adventure and is generally a positive colour in many lands.
However, in the Middle East, orange is the colour of mourning and loss, and in Northern Ireland it has negative political connotations (see example).
Do your research when using red in some countries. In China, it’s good luck, so used for weddings and celebrations.
It symbolizes mourning and bloodshed in wars in South Africa. Western countries see it as excitement, passion and danger.
Localization Fail: Orange
Telecomm giant Orange ran a campaign in 1994 in Northern Ireland using the slogan: ‘The future’s bright… the future’s Orange.’ Sounds innocent enough, right? However, the campaign wasn’t performing as well as Orange had hoped until they researched the association the Northern Irish have for orange. It wasn’t the colour or the company but a protestant-operated organization called Orange Order. The campaign was inadvertently suggesting the future lies in protestant Britain. For the pro-separatist Catholic region of Northern Ireland, this brought up strong emotions and an aversion to this brand.
Not doing research on their brand in this specific market led to distrust and a major loss of revenue.
Localization Success: McDonald’s
When McDonald’s, the fast-food franchise, wanted to start opening across Europe, they took a look at how the colours in their logo would be perceived. In the US, the brand used red and yellow. To appeal to the European market, they substituted the iconic red for green.
What was the reasoning behind this decision? From their research, it showed that Europeans in general are more concerned with health and environment. Green was a better representation of this. Today, McDonald’s generates the most revenue of all the fast-food chains in Europe and is the most recognizable.
Easy conclusion: getting to know and studying new markets before they entered majorly paid off.
Want to make sure your message hits your target – in any language? Yet not sure where to start exactly with localization?
Here are 5 Do’s and Don’ts that you need to know.
5 Localization Do’s and Don’ts
Want to make sure your message hits your target – in any language? Yet not sure where to start exactly with localization?
Here are 5 Do’s and Don’ts that you need to know. We’ll be expanding each one weekly with more details and examples to get you on your way.
Stay tuned!
Localization: an intrinsic part of your communication strategy
Leave translation and localization until the end of your content creation process.
Include localization as a critical part of your internationalization strategy. This allows time to foresee opportunities and bottlenecks in an early stage.
Localization: more than just language
Focus only on the linguistic differences.
Take account of all differences between target groups. This includes not only the tone of voice, salutation, form of address, local dialects and information density, but also design elements such as visuals, colours, symbols and even numbers.
Differentiation: more ways than one to approach your language portfolio
Adopt a one-size-fits-all approach to your language strategy.
For all your content channels, opt for a differentiated approach to localization. Consider elements like visibility, duration of use, degree of creativity, planning and budget to determine the best type of localization, such as translation, transcreation or copywriting.
Pseudo-translation: an ideal way to prevent obstacles from popping up before it’s too late
Second guess character count in design elements.
Include pseudo-translation in the design phase to check if the translation will actually fit. This ensures that translations with languages that are longer still look nice in the channel used.
Local offices: essential for local company knowledge
Underestimate the importance of determining which content should be validated locally and which centrally.
Consult closely with your language specialist, so that they offer workflows with a review step in targeted local markets to combine the best of your company’s central and local expertise.
Localization – what, why and how
In September and October this year, we were honoured to write 3 guest blogposts for the women’s entrepreneurs network GroYourBiz. Our focus was on the ‘What’, ‘Why’ and ‘How’ of localization. For some, this is new territory so we were happy to share insights, information and tips about how localization – a very important element to effectively grow your business across the globe – can increase customer loyalty.
Below we’ve compiled the links to our 3 posts so you can also easily access them.
We’ve tried to keep them short and sweet, but as you can see, we could go on and on about localization.
If you have any questions or would like to share your thoughts, don’t hesitate to contact us. One of our experts would be happy to help.
Attached turns 20!
Attached turns 20! And we want to celebrate with you!
To show our appreciation to all our clients and partners for making these past 20 years so successful, we are offering 20% off your project ordered between October 1 to October 7, 2020! Check out the conditions below.
Thanks to all who supported us throughout the past 20 years.
Here’s to the next 20!
Conditions:
This discount applies to one project using our standard rates with a total project price of minimum €200 and ordered between October 1 to October 7, 2020. Use the code ATTACHED20 in your request.
To submit a request, you can:
- send an e-mail to ,
- use the quote request form via the button above, or
- call us on +31 (0)70 345 94 01.
Don’t forget to use the special code ATTACHED20 to get your 20% discount.
From localization to
loyalty: straight to the
heart
Loyalty ♥ Emotions ♥ Localization
One thing is certain: the impact of COVID-19 on the economy has underlined and bolded the word loyalty and emphasized that it is even more critical now to create active and dedicated relationships with all your partners. After all, returning customers, suppliers you can rely on and a loyal team are at the core of any business’ continuity.
But is it possible to maintain and/or expand your loyal base in these challenging times with decreased purchasing power and mobility? And if so, how do you do that? Most specifically, how do you retain and engage your loyal and devoted customers in the short term to ensure a more certain outlook in the long term?
In this blog, we are going to give you one solution to boost loyalty that is often overlooked in the customer experience chain. Yet, we think it is one of the most important when building a durable relationship with your client base.
Basics first
Although the circumstances have recently changed, the main benefits of loyalty have not. They are:
- A loyal client base lowers customer acquisition costs
- It increases the likeliness to be recommended to friends and family
- Loyal customers buy more and more frequently
- They are more forgiving
In this current environment, the last point is probably the most important. Your steadfast customers are now more likely to be forgiving when something goes wrong. And when it does, more likely to return when things are looking up again.
Loyalty ♥ Emotions ♥ Localization
So how do you create a loyal base? To answer this question, it is good to know the 3 main types of loyalty: rational, behavioral and emotional, with the most effective being the latter (Source: Loyalty Magazine, November 2019). Let’s dive a bit deeper into this one.
With more and more customers demanding an emotional connection to brands, a lot of research has been done on building loyalty on an emotional level and finding the most effective ways to engage to create that bond.
Such research also shows that customers who feel emotionally attached to a brand make exponentially more purchases or use of a service when reached on an emotional level. Or in numbers: 82% of consumers with high emotional engagement will always buy the brand they are loyal to when making purchase decisions versus only 38% of consumers with low emotional engagement (Source: Capgemini).
Since the most effective and lasting engagement with your customers is emotional, how do you best reach them? Simply put, in a language they understand best – their own.
English is great as a standardized option and may work well if you want to transfer basic information. But even individuals with a good level of English miss out on much of what is presented. A missed opportunity, we think, to really connect with existing and potential clients.
Therefore, we suggest adding a 5th building block to the 4 most common that we usually see for new markets’ launch plans:
- Creation of a great product/service
- Carefully chosen target markets
- Substantial investments in a marketing campaign
- Construction of a stellar website
PLUS
- Inclusion of localization into your strategy – to solidify an emotional reaction, make a bigger impact and closely bind your customers and other partners to you
Loyalty ♥ Emotions ♥ Localization
Localization increases the odds in a simple way, and as research shows, the majority of consumers prefer their user experience in their native language. For example, no less than 90% (!!!) of online users prefer to conduct transactions in their own language. They spend more time on websites in their own language and are much more likely to return and make repeat purchases. This is also true of users with a high proficiency in English. Users simply respond more positively if you are speaking their language (Source: CSA, Can’t Read, Won’t Buy).
What’s in it for you?
The above findings mean that if you are moving into new markets with your company while not adapting your content to the local audience, you are at serious risk of alienating potential purchasers or users by missing out on truly connecting them emotionally to your products or services.
Localization should be a given in any loyalty initiative. Yet, too often it is overlooked or an afterthought when planning customer loyalty strategies. This ultimately impacts the turnover.
Of course, we realize that hitting that sweet spot of an emotional reaction to build loyalty can be a challenge already in good times, yet it is even more important in today’s trying times. Let localization do the work for you and watch your customers’ loyalty and audience engagement increase.
Want to know more about how localization can support you? Then keep an eye on our next blogs, in which we get into the details about what localization is and other tools you can use to connect with your clients.
To be continued!
Shifting demand
The impact of COVID-19 has been different for all companies, of course. So we wonder: what impact do you see in your industry?
For us, translation and localization needs in the hospitality and aviation sector clearly temporarily decreased. But interestingly enough, we also see upticks in other domains. Take the legal sector: due to COVID-19 safety measures, many live court hearings could not take place, increasing the need for written legal translations.
What sets legal translations apart, and how do we best serve this type of client?
Three main points can be mentioned here:
- First, they require a high degree of confidentiality and security, so systems in place to ensure this are a pre.
- Second, a large volume of this type of content needs a quick turnaround, and the only way to do that is by having knowledgeable and experienced legal translation teams at the ready.
- Lastly, due to its sensitive nature, accuracy and dependability are very important.
When we deliver on all three, we create a partnership built on trust.
We would like to hear your thoughts on LinkedIn!