UKTI (UK Trade & Investment) recently launched a new initiative to help UK businesses start doing business on an international scale. Export Week (November 9th – 13th) consisted of 70 events with advisors from over 60 countries and revealed how the new UKTI program will help UK companies – if you didnât attend, hereâs what…
It used to be that Black Friday was exclusive to the US, but in recent years, itâs taken the world by storm. Even in the UK, shoppers vehemently compete with each other on the Friday after Thanksgiving (27th November 2015) for deals on electronics, toys, and anything else that represents a âdiscount!â Black Friday and…
Youâre a smart digital marketer. Youâve checked Google Analytics and you have traffic from around the world. Youâve steadily built up an email list with subscribers who speak many different languages and youâre using an email tool like Mailchimp which tracks recipient locations and time zones. You want to market to them, but you realise that…
Breaking into a foreign market – especially one with strict rules and regulations – can be a very daunting task. Often, business owners have the ambition to go international⊠theyâre just not quite sure where to start. Bubbles Translation Services is here to help. Over the last 12 years, weâve helped over 1,380 companies break…
Doing business with someone else in the UK is one thing. You both speak the same language and live within similar cultural circles. Itâs not hard to do – as long as you have conversational skills, youâre good to go. International audiences are much different. Itâs hard to communicate in general, and itâs even harder…
Youâre probably experienced in trying to get domestic press coverage – there are countless companies and services in place to get you into the eye of UK journalists and bloggers. But getting word out internationally is different – how do you get word out to everyone, regardless of location or language? It would seem like…
With nearly 1.4 billion people, expanding into China has almost certainly crossed your or your clientsâ minds. But doing business in China isnât simple – at all. In fact, by most, China is considered to be the most difficult country to break into. At the same time, though, due to its sheer size it could…
In past posts, weâve briefly mentioned the power of moving successful marketing campaigns from a domestic audience to an international one. If youâre making a profit at home, the next step should be making a profit abroad â assuming you already have the delivery infrastructure in place to do so. This is your pocket 5-step…
Spain is the fourth largest economy in the Eurozone and the 13th worldwide. In 2012 it was the UKâs eighth largest export market, receiving ÂŁ14.2 billion of UK exports. The population of Spain is about 47 million which makes it one of the biggest consumer markets in EU. Beyond the doom and gloom… The media…
As a translation agency, we see a lot of translations out in the wild that completely miss the mark. Sometimes, theyâre too good (or should that be bad) not to share. Every now and then, we publish the worst of what weâve seen. Out of all of the inaccurate translations weâve encountered, these are the…