Why You Need To Research When You Are Transcribing [TeamBynes]

EDITED January 28 2018

Being a transcriber requires skill, talent and a passion for this kind of work. Being able to type isn't the only skill involved in transcribing. And settling for little nuances like not being familiar with unusual words is no excuse.

Today, we're going to shed a little light on the Importance of researching. To deliver quality results, you will need to search the internet [or current reference books] for correct spelling of important or stand out names, and/or the names of group affiliations. 

It can't be avoided that you will encounter
certain words that may be foreign or new to you. The worst thing you can do is hand the client back the completed transcript without doing your due diligence. We call this move a career killer, a disaster waiting to happen. In other words, this practice of not searching for information for validation could end your career as a transcriber.

Clients DO NOT WANT to have to go behind you to correct errors they paid you to do. You can guarantee they'll never call you again. 

Freelancers with web research experience prior to transcribing can use this to their advantage. You already have the skill of 'looking' and you'd know where to look as opposed to someone who hasn't a clue of where to begin. It's highly recommended to learn as much as you can about the transcription industry. Another thing to do would be to practice, practice. We're not asking you to practice for speed. This will come later. You're being asked to practice to increase efficiency and productivity.

With Bynes Transcript and Typing Services, it's imperative for the freelancers we work with to be efficient and have a high accuracy rate. We expect this from every single team member in our organization. 

CONSIDER THIS A GOLDEN NUGGET FOR YOUR NEXT PROJECT: Look first, do your research, practice, practice and practice.

Recommendations: We strongly recommend anyone NOT to get into this type of work just for the money. This reason has the propensity to affect work quality. We need focused and highly passionate folks who love what they do.

Coming up....The Reasons Why People Transcribe and How This Can Affect the Quality of Your Work

Congratulations Ronalyn and Ellen! [TEAM BYNES] Palm Beach County

Bynes Transcript and Typing Services is proud to acknowledge two great team members; Ellen Flores and Ronalyn Flores.

Thank you for an outstanding job on our most recent projects; 3 typing projects and a List Management/Data Entry project. With some setbacks, we were able to successfully complete the job, leaving the client happy.

Bynes Transcript and Typing Services appreciates the workmanship of our team members, so as much as possible, we go out of our way to recognize their skills and talents.

 Ellen Flores works as our Lead Administrative Assistant. She's been with us since 2013.

Ronalyn is our clerical assistant. She has been with us since the beginning of this year, 2017.

Thank you guys!! KEEP UP THE GREAT WORK

Take Our Survey! Should Freelance Transcribers Be Paid for Submitting Poor Work? #TeamBynes

Let's talk 'quality' for a minute.

Hello Subscribers. Thank you for taking the time to follow our blog. We've been pretty busy in our back office and haven't been consistent with our writing. However, I just had to take the time to post this survey.

Some time ago, we blogged several reasons why some freelance transcribers should step away from this industry. Here is the post. I honestly cannot believe that there are people out there posing as a transcriber simply to earn money. What I mean by this is there are people scouring the internet agreeing to work as a transcriber; they get hired, they turn in poor work and expect to be paid for it.

If you've been keeping up with our blog, you know that we are serious about our work. We are serious about the quality of work we present to our clients. Some of our posts talk about work ethics, the importance of listening and doing research when transcribing.

Sadly, in the past year, we've worked with transcribers who've generated sloppy work, turned it in and expected to be equally paid. And when i say 'equally' paid, I mean they expected full compensation as if the work was accurate and acceptable. It is a belief in our company that there are several factors that can influence payment. Come on, why should your client pay you for badly presented work? It's a misrepresentation on your part and it's not fair to them.

Here are several factors that can influence payment.

1. The work is presented to us in poor condition i.e. the formatting is not what we requested. 
2. The file is filled with errors, which we may present to you to show proof of our corrections. 
3. Submitting half of the work you originally agreed to do. 
4. If you miss deadlines.

You are a service provider! And like walking into a store or in a restaurant and not getting what you ordered. Well, it's the same here with transcription. It's not all the time that you get what you pay for specifically after you test a transcriber and they pass. I think it's only fair to pay for what is received. If you do shoddy work, you should be paid a shoddy rate.

Bottom line, DON'T EXPECT BYNES TRANSCRIPT AND TYPING SERVICES TO PAY YOU FOR POOR AND SLOPPY WORK.  

Please take this time to take our survey! Tell us what you think. 

I've communicated with a few transcribers that do not agree with our logic. They actually believe that I should cut them a check for a file that I had to re-do simply because they transcribed it. They'll live. However, I will say this: TeamBynes will pay you. However, it will not be at the full rate or the agreed rate. And to back this up, we have a billing policy that we have all transcribers sign before starting to work with us.


More to come on this topic.

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