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Old 10-05-2007, 01:43 PM  
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Congrats Ben! Great article.

What really peaked my interest of course was this section of the article.

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THE LANGUAGE BARRIER
Another issue to take into account is how multilingual your site and billing is. If you have English-only sites then you are missing a ton of potential business. You wouldn?t agree to pay for a site if all the text was in Japanese. In fact, you probably wouldn?t be able to if you wanted.

Of the world?s Internet users, only 20 percent are from North America. So if roughly one-fifth of your possible customers speak English, you need to diversify your communications.
Being in the localization, and translation business myself I preach the fact that, if "your not targeting international communities in their dialect your really leaving money on the table". You being in the billing business know that these two aspects go hand in hand with each other.

You did a GREAT job in this article! and again congrats.

Anyone that needs any info regarding the localizations of your program, or sites feel free to hit me up and check us out Globally Translated[/QUOTE]
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