This article is being written to aid you on how to reach potential customers from Iran ? a very new market. To achieve this goal you must consider localizing your products/services to the following languages: Persian (Iranian Farsi), Afghan Farsi (Dari), Pashto, Tajik, Kurdish and Turkish. Persian (Iranian Farsi) is the native language spoken in Iran with over 80 million residents speaking this language throughout the nation, so no worries about the other languages because only 1% of the Iranian People speak them.

A very un-reached market: Iran

The Islamic Republic of Iran has undergone many economical and political embargos since the Islamic revolution in 1978 and only few major products have been promoted to Iran because of the USA embargo. But now after 30 years there is a chance for these products to be promoted to Iran and make their presence at an un-reached and very new market.

Persian (Iranian Farsi) localization:

There are various translation companies and freelancers in the world who offer high quality translation services from and into Persian (Iranian Farsi). Most translation companies provide English < > Persian (Iranian Farsi) localization services while few also work other languages such as French, German, Dutch, Spanish, Italian, Arabic, etc. While actively seeking such linguists/translation companies concentrate on the quality of the work. If you don't receive high quality work then you are not likely to achieve your goals. Don't need high quality translations? Then you may also use free online localization services from online text translators such as Parsian or other online translators on the net. You may also consider purchasing offline freeware such as Fars Translator. These online and offline transaltion freeware are good if you are not looking for standard quality translations.

How can I find these transaltion companies?

Very easy! You can go to Google.com and do a search for the terms ?Farsi Translators?, ?Farsi Translation? or ?English to Farsi Translation? replacing English with your primary language. You will find several of sites which offer the services you are looking for and you can decide which is better. You may also visit translation directories on the internet. The best of these online directories are ProZ, GoTranslators, TranslatorsCafe and Translatorsbase. GoTranslators is one of the largest translation directories and one can easily find tens of linguists for each language pair in their list of translation agencies/freelance translators. GoTranslators lets you chose whether to look for a freelance translator or translation agency.

Freelance linguist or translation agency?!

Freelance linguists offer lower prices than translation companies do, but if you are looking for a safe source for high quality translations, then you'd better select a translation agency. Who can one accuse if the work done is not up to the standards? With freelance linguists, the answer is ?no one?, but translation companies will offer you a signed contract which will guarantee that the quality of their work will meet your requirements.

Conclusion:

If you are looking for a very new market to sell your services or products, you can't find any better than Iran ? a third world country which is growing fast. To reach this new market you will need to localize your products to Persian (Iranian Farsi) with the aid of companies or freelancers offering Farsi translation services.