Baran Keki wrote:
It might be a good idea to send emails to the PMs with whom you worked in the past and say something along the lines of "long time no see, why haven't you been sending any work my way" (that's the gist of it of course, you have to make it sound a lot better than that, and it also helps to have had some sort of banter with them in the past).
I did that today with two agencies with which I was working regularly in the past, but haven't been receiving any work in the last 4 to 6 months.
One of them replied saying that the business was slow in my pair, and they would keep me in mind in case that changed, and I believed them.
The other one didn't reply, and sort of confirmed my suspicion/hunch that they went with a cheaper translator.
In any case, putting yourself about this way might be more useful than posting/liking cheesy PC posts on LinkedIn.
Seriously, this is sound advice.
If you don't feel like being all that chatty, you can just send out an email saying that you are now available again, implying that you weren't available because of having too much work and you can't remember who you refused work from so you're just sending out a message to all your clients.
Implying you were busy is always a good thing, because if you're busy, it's probably because you're good at your job.
I remember at the agency, there was a translator who kept sending us messages to let us know about her availability. We didn't even know who she was, but she was obviously diligent. At one point my colleague googled her, found that she had specialist knowledge in a particular field. It so happened that one of our clients was branching out into that very field, so we outsourced that work to her. She turned out to be a good translator. A former colleague had apparently contacted her once but then forgot to add her to our database, which explains how she had our email address.