Nicole Schnell wrote:
Recently, which means during the past two weeks, I have been approached with several emails coming from this geographical area, all of them via ProZ.com. Applications for translation work, typesetting, a personal request for help with cover letters, a personal request for advice in regard to server and hard disk storage problems (I don't even know what this man is talking about) - I didn't realize that I was so popular there... ???????
Do I have to see a pattern?
Maybe you are popular.
As opposed to many people who are freelancers in this thread, you are a Corporate member and you run your own agency. It's not mysterious at all that you get such emails who are desperate to get jobs from agencies, isn't it not? I don't know if you outsource jobs to freelancers or not, but I think many people including myself get jobs from agencies, so the different people who sent you a couple of emails in the past two weeks or so were just marketing themselves to you (excluding the guy who asked you about servers and hard disk storage).