100 reasons to use Language Terminal

In case you need convincing here are 100 reasons why you should use Language Terminal.

1. You can share translation memories
2. You can share term bases
3. When you share translation memories one of the three people you share them with can have write access
4. When you share term bases one of the three people you share them with can have write access
5. You can import an InDesign file into memoQ via Language Terminal. 
6. You can manage projects on Language Terminal
7. If you are a translator you can advertise your services
8. You can find translators on Language Terminal
9. It is easy to sign up for – Just go here: https://www.languageterminal.com/LanguageTerminal/Register
10. It is available in Greece, even if the banks are shut
11. Trados users are welcome
12. You have heard that all memoQ users are incredibly good looking, brilliant clever and astonishingly successful
13. Kilgray are a cool company
14. Hungarians make good software
15. Language Terminal is a nice name
16. Márton Horváth of the Kilgray support team came up with the name      
17. Kilgray support is available 365 days a year
18. You like memoQ and could do more with it if you had a Language Terminal account
19. It is free
20. It looks good
21. In the Autumn (Fall in American, Q3 in business speak) it will look better
22. Tomorrow is the fourth of July and you want to give your American translator friends something nice – suggest they sign up
23. You can add your picture
24. You can even add the picture taken 20 years ago that does more justice to your beauty than the one taken last week
25. You can create an organisation Language Terminal account
26. You can add any number of users to your organisation
27. You can add price matrixes
28. You can choose who can find your account information
29. You sometimes get nice emails from Language Terminal telling you to update your profile
30. There are no ridiculous claims made by Kilgray about the return on investment (ROI) benefits of Language Terminal
31. Language Terminal has a 60000% ROI within the first two days
32. Did I mention Language Terminal was free?
33. You get free storage space on Language Terminal
34. You can archives your memoQ projects on Language Terminal
35. You can restore memoQ projects from Language Terminal
36. Language Terminal has an Alerts button and you can see all your missed deadlines
37. You never miss deadlines
38. You can add things like the languages you work with, specializations and your academic record on the Professional tab in your profile
39. You can add your clients to Language Terminal
40. You can add your vendors to Language Terminal
41. You can do quotes in Language Terminal
42. You cannot do your accounting in Language Terminal. (This is a good thing as accounting systems differ from one place to another.)
43. You can add business details to Language Terminal and let your customers pay you faster
44. Language Terminal looks good
45. If you want to complain you can email Kilgray CEO, istvan.lengyel [at] kilgray.com and you will get a quick reply
46. If you want to say something nice you can email Kilgray CEO, istvan.lengyel [at] kilgray.com and you will get an even quicker reply
47. You can store memoQ light resources on Language Terminal
48. memoQ has a “Do not press this button” button. (Sorry not strictly a Language Terminal benefit.)
49. You can see your Language Terminal project on the memoQ dashboard
50. If you are a project manager you can assign projects to your Language Terminal vendors through memoQ
51. You can see summary reports for all your projects
52. You can create advanced reports
53. With advanced reports you can filter by client
54. With advanced reports you can filter by tasks
55. With advanced reports you can filter by whether the project is Invoiced, Paid, Unpaid, Overdue, Billable or Agreed
56. You can create a project report based on costs
57. When creating a new memoQ project you just have to click a button for it to be also created on Language Terminal
58. You can create PDF quotes from Language Terminal which can be sent to your client
59. You can create price matrix for your clients and for your vendors
60. Kilgray are working on wonderful improvements to Language Terminal
61. Lots of great translators and great project managers use Language Terminal
62. Johnnie Depp uses Language Terminal when he wants to find translators (Sounds dubious but as Mr Depp is unlikely to be looking for a translator himself this is technically not a lie)
63. Language Terminal has a special app for guessing next week’s lottery numbers (This is technically a lie)
64. The Favicon (web page icon) for Language Terminal features a nice cheerful thumps up sign
65. Language Terminal is a cloud service
66. The Common Sense Advisory said that Language Terminal was the first in a new generation of cloudtop applications which will be the next wave of translation technology
67. Language Terminal is a web portal for language workers
68. You can set up memoQ cloud server from Language Terminal
69. You can manually activate memoQ from Language Terminal
70. Language Terminal has a an easy to read terms of use
71. Language Terminal’s privacy policy is also pretty straightforward and easy to read
72. Language Terminal tells you how complete your profile is at a glance
73. On the left hand side of Language Terminal you can see how many backup packages you have saved
74. On the left hand side of Language Terminal you can see how many documents you have processed on Language Terminal
75. On the left hand side of Language Terminal you can see how many resources you have saved on Language Terminal
76. On the left hand side of Language Terminal you can see how many project files you have on Language Terminal
77. On the left hand side of Language Terminal you can see how much storage space you have used and can use.
78. Language Terminal has a nice logo
79. Language Terminal still has the word “beta” on its logo – Good indication that Kilgray want to do far better than what is currently there.
80. Language Terminal has a send feedback button
81. Feedback from Language Terminal users is treated seriously
82. In the Language Terminal basic search you can find people by specifying activity and language pair
83. You can also enter keywords in the basic search
84. Language Terminal advanced search allows you to find all the translators who use Trados
85. The Search results has a neat filter functionality to help you be more specific about who you are looking for                                          
86. When you find the person you are looking for there is a button to add them to your list of vendors
87. When you find the person you are looking for there is a button to send them an email
88. Language Terminal allows users to specify experience in 16 different tools as well as memoQ
89. There are some brilliant experts in memoQ to be found on Language Terminal
90. You can directly open a backup project on memoQ by clicking on it in Language Terminal
91. When you do this you will be given the option to restore the project to memoQ
92. If the Language Terminal project you are restoring already exists in memoQ you will be option of whether you want to overwrite local resources 
93.  Language Terminal has a nice URL www.languageterminal.com
94. Language Terminal is new and innovative and you will be seen as a trend setter because you use it
95. Language Terminal was actually first released in 2012 so you are using software that has been around a while
96. Over 11,000 member of Language Terminal list translation as their core activity
97. Most translators who use Language Terminal come from Germany
98. The United States has the second largest number of translators on Language Terminal
99. There are no Maltese to Irish translators on Language Terminal.
100. If you work in these languages you are particularly welcome
101. You have read a list of 100 reasons why you should use Language Terminal. Thanks you for being that interested in this subject. You should definitely be using Language Terminal.