Various factors influence your seasonal website translation needs, for example, your company branding, the nature of your products and services, and your target audiences. And if there’s a seasonal slant in one or more of these categories, then there’s snow place like the present to get festive-ifying your website.
But what if you sell overseas? Then it requires a little more time and effort than uploading some token holly graphics, because your customers abroad might need different information about your –
- Gift Section
- Christmas Packages
- Featured Festive Products or Services
- Delivery Times
- Christmas Ts & Cs
And for this purpose, it’s worth enlisting professional help to ensure your seasonal website translation sparkles. A leading translation agency will also shield you against any faux pas that could damage your business long after the last pine needles have been plucked from the carpet fibres.
Be Safe or Yule Be Sorry
Your website festive-ifying efforts aren’t just about what’s going on in your business in the UK. So, a specialist in seasonal website translation will advise you on localisation. Additionally, they advise you about the state of play in the countries you do business in.
“At least 40 countries don’t have official public holidays at Christmas, though more than half of these nations do have at least some form of public observation, such as the occasional Christmas tree”, reported This Week, addindg that there’s a “…remaining 18 countries in which the populations do not observe Christmas in any way at all.”
The list includes Brunei, China, North Korea, Pakistan, Saudi Arabia and Tunisia, to name but a few.
And then there’s Black Friday and Cyber Monday. These dates have become behemoths of the western consumer calendar. But not in China, where Singles Day on 11th November is the Chinese equivalent.
At Accutranslate, we help many and varied businesses with Santa-approved seasonal website translation… not forgetting Papai Noel, Kerstman, Joulupukki, Weihnachtsmann, Babbo Natale, Hoteiosho, Swiety Mikolaj, too. Get in touch for an initial chat about options and rates.