Multilingual support - interpreting and translations (Spanish, English, German, French, Italian and Portuguese) - in various areas - possible as well on business trips and trade fairs!
Personal assistance - customer and project support - internet research - proofreading etc.
Get in touch with MAKUMUSE to see if working together might fit with your business goals!
You reached your limit?
Makumse is there to help you!
With more than 28 years of professional experience gained in a variety of international companies, organisations, areas and countries,
I will be pleased to assist you!
Have a look at my range of services!
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Welcome to MAKUMUSE – Your Multilingual VIRTUAL ASSISTANT!
My name is Maria Kuhlage. As a flexible virtual management assistant from my home office or as a personal mobile assistant at your office or premises, it will be my utmost concern to assist you with your business operations and activities nationally or abroad, so that can you profit from the opportunity to care and push your core business.
Are you looking for a personal assistant, who helps you run your business by taking over a variety of tasks? For example, administrative and organizational support of day to day operations that take your time and can be outsourced to a qualified and reliable assistant.
I will be pleased to assist you as well with correspondence in several languages. My multilingual services include English, Spanish, French, Italian and Portuguese. I write and translate your business letters or E-Mails and care for your international customers. I can assist you with routine back office tasks, data entry, updating texts or translating existing text of your website in your CMS WordPress.
I offer my support as sales and marketing assistant, project and event assistant (webinars, promotional activities, trade fairs), executive assistant, private secretary or as an interpreter and translator for business and private purposes.
According to prior arrangement, I can take over various activities – even outside normal office hours – and without need to be tied by offering a permanent employment nor office premises or technical equipment.
Don’t try to do a FIVE person job, that might result in a lack of quality. Profit from my flexible service and have a look at my range of services.
For further questions, please do not hesitate to contact me. I am looking forward to working with you!
PS: The name MAKUMUSE is the abbreviated form/version of Maria Kuhlage – Multilingual Services.
My offer is targeted at:
- Freelancers, online entrepreneurs, small and medium-sized businesses, senior executives and private individuals who might need support in regard to administrative or organizational tasks.
- Senior executives and private individuals who might need support in regard to administrative or organizational tasks.
- Business centers in Germany or abroad, that might need help with translations or somebody who cares for the foreign language correspondence on behalf of their clients.
- Market research institutes or persons working in the field of journalism as well as musicians, who wish to have completed transcriptions in German or Spanish verbatim (word for word) or in a smoothed/literally form.
- Companies from Spain and Latin America that want to establish their business in Germany or already have settled and set up their business.
- Chocolatiers, exporters, cooperatives and cocoa plantations that might need support in establishing international contacts or connections within their sector for raw cocoa beans from Latin America and the Caribbean.
I will be pleased to assist you :
- with national and international projects
- with the planning and organization of business trips, preparing and attending trade fairs in Germany and abroad
- during bridging phases, when you are short staffed and looking for a new employee
- in case of staff bottlenecks
- in times of peak orders. I can support you as a professional multilingual all-round assistant
- as a substitute in times of vacation, illness or maternity cover
You can book my flexible virtual service on an hourly, daily, weekly basis or project related as needed.
- If you are located between Hamburg and Kiel and prefer a mobile service directly at your premises or office, that will also be possible.
- For interpreting purposes, you can count on my worldwide flexibility. To get a general idea of my range of services, please click on SERVICES or scroll down the page.
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International sales support and research
- Sales support in the languages: English, Spanish, French, Italian + Portuguese;
- Processing of inquiries and customer liaison and support of existing customers;
- General research and research of suppliers, potential contractors, etc.
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Multilingual Services – Interpreting and Translations
- Translation of business correspondence, e-mails, etc. (depending on the topic, where appropriate also web pages) from German to English, Spanish or the French language. I am able to translate to and from any of these languages as well as format and type related reports in the required languages. Depending on the text, translations from the Italian and Portuguese language to the German language are possible if required;
- Interpreting during business meetings and via Skype of conversations or discussions with customers and providers, project assistance, event management support;
Attention: Translations of technical, medical, economical and legal texts such as instruction manuals or contracts will not be provided;
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Personal Assistance, Private Secretariat, Executive Assistance
- Handling/Completion of private and business correspondence
- Interpreting during business meetings
- Translations
- Organization of meetings and business trips, hotel reservations
More…
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Social media and other services
- Updating, inserting/entering and translating texts into the CMS WordPress including blog posts and web pages;
- Proofreading
- Simple or verbatim (word for word) transcription of audio recording to texts, for example a final thesis, science and market research in German and Spanish
- Transcription of music texts in the German and Spanish language
- Language coaching for musicians; Providing assistance with the pronunciation of vocalized and spoken Spanish and French texts.
- Conversational support in Spanish language related to the preparation of assignments abroad for expatriate managers
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Industry-specific service related to raw cocoa beans
- Establishing contacts with exporters, cooperatives and plantations related to Latin America + the Caribbean) for chocolatiers and bean-to-bar producers or plantations with reference to the world of chocolate worldwide;
- Follow-up activities of business trips and conversations and follow-up measures with cocoa plantations, cooperatives etc.
My service / your added value (additional benefit)
- My flexible assistance on-demand will be for an alleviation for you – as you can outsource time-consuming activities. That means efficient relief and more time to focus on your main objectives – and getting MORE done in LESS time
- Working with a virtual assistant means that you will not need any additional office space, furniture or technical equipment
- Personally, you will not be committed to one person by a rigid contract as you can contract me for the time that suits you
- There are no fixed personnel costs (overheads) as with normal full-time employees and related social benefits such as health, pension and unemployment insurance or vacation do not exist. As a VA, I am an independent contractor and therefore, responsible for my own bookkeeping and taxes
- According to prior agreement, service completion is also possible on weekends or in the evening hours
- I offer flexibility also related to assistance with long-term projects in Germany or abroad
- Billing according to package prices or hourly rates
- Completion of tasks in multiple languages possible (Spanish, English, French, German, Italian, Portuguese).
- You can rely on a trusted and experienced contact person in terms of exchange of views/ ideas and consider me as a neutral adviser. Many freelancers and solopreneurs perceive this as a very helpful support.
- Professional communication and visibility by performing in the name of your company with reference to international customer care.
- Your customers have a permanent contact person. This ensures higher (increasing) customer loyalty.
- I am flexible on a worldwide basis to accompany a project successfully.
- You can go on a business trip or even take a few days off, and, this way combine and harmonize private interests with the requirements of your business.
- A healthy work-life balance and more free time will allow you more creativity and performance for your business.
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Are you interested in a cooperation? Do you have further questions? What can I do for you? I am looking forward to receiving your inquiry!
For the photos (slides) in the header of my homepage, I want to thank the following photographers:
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