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How do translation agencies get new clients?

Describe the companies you do your best localization work for, and Wisemation finds them, checks each one on its live website, finds the product or marketing lead with a verified email, and writes a researched email about their actual situation. You approve, it sends from the firm inbox, and you only pay for the ones that fit. Your first 10 are free.

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Sound familiar
  • For years the work arrived through past clients and the odd agency partner. This year the inbound slowed, and no one can name the month it changed.
  • A software company just posted a job for a country manager in a market where its product is still English-only. You would be perfect for the localization. You cannot find the other forty companies making the same move.
  • Every team meeting ends with "we need to be more consistent about new business." Then everyone goes back to the projects already in the queue.
  • Your conversion once a prospect gets on a call is excellent. Discovery calls booked this quarter: three.
How it works

The same four steps, every time

Every use case below runs through the same four steps. You only ever do the first and the last.

1
You describe the company you do your best work for.

The kind of product, the size, the localization work you do best. In your own words, not a filter.

2
Wisemation finds and judges.

It searches the open web and official registries, reads each company's site, and keeps the ones that match, each with the reason quoted.

3
It finds the person and writes.

The product or marketing lead, a verified email, and a researched email about their actual situation. In their language, if you want.

4
You approve, it sends.

From the firm inbox, follow-ups included. First conversations come back to you.

And if a company we called a fit turns out not to be one, you flag it and get the credit back. You only pay for right.

Use cases

Reach software companies right as they launch in a new market

A company deciding to enter a new European market suddenly needs its product, its site, and its docs in another language. That decision happens quietly, months before anyone starts calling agencies.

You describe exactly that moment: "software companies, 20 to 200 people, expanding into a new European market with a product still only in English." Wisemation finds them, checks each on its site, finds the product or marketing lead with a verified email, and writes about the launch they are preparing.

You reach them while the plan is still being made.

Build a pipeline that does not depend on being remembered

Repeat work and partner referrals are wonderful and invisible: you cannot see them slowing until they have. Every meeting ends with "we need more pipeline," then everyone goes back to the projects in the queue.

Wisemation owns the grind instead: "companies selling across three or more countries whose website is available in only one language." It finds them, checks them, writes to the right person, and sends from the firm inbox. You take the conversations that come back.

Reach the buyer in their own language, which is your whole point

A translation agency that pitches in flat English is undercutting its own promise. The first email is the demo, and it should read like the work you sell.

You describe the buyer once: "German e-commerce and SaaS companies, 30 to 300 staff, expanding into new European markets this year." Wisemation researches and writes every email in German, native level, opt-in per campaign, so the first thing they see is proof you can do it.

Turn your best account into a repeatable shape

You have one client that fits perfectly: right languages, right volume, a team that treats localization as part of the product. In years of work you found exactly one like it.

Point Wisemation at what made it work: "venture-backed SaaS companies that recently opened an office abroad and are hiring in-market staff." It finds the lookalikes, each checked and delivered with the reason it matches.

The one good account becomes a channel.

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Find your specialism

More specific than that?

Pick the version of your business that matches exactly. Each one has its own page, its own examples, and the same machine behind it.

What it handles

Most of the work happens without you

Every story above leans on the same machinery. Here is what it handles, so you do not.

01

Matching that reads websites, not filters

Every candidate company is judged on its live website: what it actually says it does, today. You get the reason it fits, quoted, before a single email exists. Weak fits get dropped, and if a miss slips through, it is credited back.

02

Contacts verified before anything sends

The right person at the company, with an email address verified first. Bounced lists burn domains; verified ones start conversations.

03

Emails written for one company at a time

Each email is written from what that specific company does. In the buyer language if you want it, matched to how business is actually written in their country, formal where formal is expected.

04

Real details or nothing

Nothing in an email is invented. When there is no real detail worth mentioning, it skips the line instead of faking one.

05

Buyers that are not in the databases

It reads the open web and official business registries, so owner-run firms, local trades, and niche companies show up alongside the obvious ones. Your market is bigger than any contact database version of it.

06

Sending that protects your name

From your own inbox, in your name, at volumes a careful human would send. Follow-ups included, and anyone who replies is automatically left alone.

You describe the client and take the conversations that come back. Everything in between is handled.

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FAQ

Questions and answers

How do translation agencies get clients beyond repeat work?

By adding a channel that does not depend on being remembered. You describe the companies you do your best localization work for, and Wisemation finds them, writes to the product or marketing lead with a researched email, and sends from the firm inbox. Repeat work keeps coming; it is just no longer the only thing filling the pipeline.

How do localization agencies find companies expanding into new markets?

You describe the signal in plain words, for example a software company entering a new European market with an English-only product, and Wisemation reads the open web and official registries to find matching companies, checks each on its site, and verifies the decision maker email before anything sends.

How do agencies do business development without a dedicated BD team?

The mechanical part of BD, finding the right companies, the right person, and a working email, is exactly what Wisemation automates. You stop owning the grind and just take the first conversations that come back. You only pay for the companies that fit.

Is this just a list of contacts I could buy elsewhere?

No. Lists are the easy 10 percent. Wisemation runs the whole chain: finding, judging fit on live websites, locating the right person, verifying the email, writing per company, sending from your inbox, and following up. The output is not a spreadsheet, it is conversations.

Does it send without my approval?

No. Nothing sends until you approve it. The emails go from your own inbox, in your name, at volumes a careful human would send, with follow-ups included. Replies come straight to you.

What does it cost to try?

Your first 10 matched buyers are free, with the reasons included. You see real companies for your real description before paying anything.

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