Billion pound challenge

Due to our new industry leading customised Translation Management System we are now the most efficient translation company in the Industry and are therefore able to provide low cost translation and to beat the prices you are currently paying your translation provider by a whopping 10%, or if you have not been using another company, lower our prices to you by 10%.

And this is not just a short term measure, we will hold those rates to you for the next 12 months, and promise not to increase them by any more than 3% in the following 12 months.

And if you are still not quite sure here are 10 reasons why we think you should to use ASK for your translation:

• We are the UK’s leading Translation Company
• Providing high quality translations to ISO9001 & BSEN15038 accreditation
• We will beat the price you are currently paying by a whopping 10%
• We have access to over 10,000 translators working into over 100 languages
• Now in our 22^nd successful year of trading
• Unrivalled customer service and flexibility
• Industry leading In-house DTP studio working in all major packages
• Incredibly fast turnaround times including same day and overnight services
• Free advice and consultancy
• No job too big or too small!

If you have any questions whatsoever please do not hesitate to contact one of my Account Management Team on 0800 043 9831 or alternatively you may call me personally on +44 7734 154000.

As the UK’s leading translation company specialising in both high quality translation and low cost translation, we will be launching our new client login area very soon.

We have invested over £200k into our new system, which will be the leading translation management system in the world.

Here you will be able to:

• Login to your account
• Check your job status online
• Download completed and archived translations
• Live chat with our operators
• Upload files for translation in multiple file formats
• Have the system return an automatic word count and price
• Add colleagues and departments and setup privileges and even budgets to control what they can and cannot order and manage

Plus much much more…

I have a degree in Chemistry from Bradford University. I started ASK as a translation agency with my ex when I was 24, with £50 and a credit card. I jacked in my job working as an analytical chemist for a large American pharmaceutical company on the basis that with 50,000 employees worldwide, it was going to be a while before I was running it.

I had never read a book on business (and still haven’t to this day). In fact the only books I have read over the last 25 years that have helped keep me sane and certainly put the stresses and strains of life into context are the 5 Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy books by the late, great Douglas Adams. He predicted everything - my iPhone with Wikipedia on it would be the Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy if only it said “Don’t Panic” on the box!

I believed that all you needed to succeed in business was to be confident, competitive, ambitious, organised, a natural risk taker and hard working. My thoughts on that haven’t changed.

You don’t get a second chance at life so you might as well go for it and make of it what you can. If you are the sort of person who like things given to them, then you are not a natural business leader. I have been going for it since I was 24!

Our little translation agency grew organically and I purchased a few small translation companies along the way.

Today as a leading translation provider we turnover around £2 million with some huge clients. Although a translation company, we have an in-house studio performing typesetting, design and website work. I purchased our Head Office, which used to be a management centre, in 2000 and renovated it, we now rent out the ground floor and use the 2nd and 3rd floors ourselves.

Everyone who sees our translation agency website and translation company literature thinks we are 10 times the size we actually are.

I have always structured the company thinking as if we are already a large translation company.

Today is the first day of the rest of my Life.

I turned 43 today, moderately wealthy and successful and have been running my translation business for 19 years now. It has got me an Aston Martin and 4 acre 500 year old farmhouse, but it is a long way from affording me a luxury yacht, helicopter, golf course and desert island!

So how do I turn a £2 million turnover translation and print business into a £1 billion turnover business?