It’s an excuse I have heard too often from small businesses. ‘it’s so much easier for the larger, more established businesses. As a small business, or a new business, we’re at such a disadvantage.’ Utter tosh, and here’s why.

As a small business, or a new business, it is not acceptable to blame problems, difficulties or challenges on the mere fact that the business is small, or new. Indeed, smallness and newness are very much advantages, or can be if you apply a little ingenuity, a little forward thinking and accept a little appreciation of the options available to you.

First of all, let’s consider the benefits a small business has over a large one. Yes, a small business really does have benefits compared to its much larger rivals. Think of a cruise ship and a speedboat driving at full speed at night. Up ahead is a large iceberg, although not easy to see until you’re up quite close.

The cruise ship spots it, and starts to veer to one side, although another iceberg is up ahead, meaning that regular adjustments need to be made. There’s an awful lot of frantic checking and calculating and steering and re-checking, and not a lot of very responsive changes in direction. Often it’s best to slow down a little, take stock and do things carefully step by step.

The nippy little motorboat however is able to adjust course very quickly, dodging obstacles and changing course rapidly to take advantage of new open pathways, and steering well away from any potential problems or dead ends.

You don’t need me to explain how that analogy works in terms of large and small businesses. But today with online technology and social media marketing new opportunities can open up with little or no warning, and it may take larger business very much longer to take advantage of those opportunities. Be on the lookout for opportunities and pounce on them in order to completely outmanoeuvre the bigger businesses.

What about newer businesses – do they have any advantage over more established ones? Yes, of course. Let me explain through another analogy. This time imagine a house that’s been standing for a couple of hundred years. Over time the land has shifted, the river has widened and the ground has become wetter. The old house is starting to creak and crack, and has had to be held together with metal poles, pushed up by metal struts and reinforced with buttresses.

On the other hand, consider the property being built on the same ground, but taking stock of the current conditions, and more aware of the likely direction the ground saturation will take in future. This house is built on raised stilts, and is fully capable of coping with the damp conditions.

Newer businesses are built within the context of present day opportunities and customer preferences. By developing businesses from the very early days within the context of the current climate it is possible to create a resilient, responsive and dynamic business presence which is not going to suffer under the weight of many years’ patching, fixing and adapting older businesses are having to cope with.

There are other excuses given by smaller or newer business too, including online businesses and even those who run their business entirely from home. I’ve heard excuses such as ‘it’s easier for more established or larger businesses because they have flashy business addresses, premises and offices,’ or, ‘larger businesses can afford to hire teams of telephone operators to answer the phones all day, whereas I have to do that as well as run my business,’ and even ‘larger more established businesses can afford accountants to do their bookkeeping, whereas we smaller businesses have to spend huge amounts of time trying to do it all internally.’

These excuses are by no means more than scratching the surface, but I utterly refute them all, as I do the very fact that a business is new, or small, or even both.

Even the most causal of searches online will reveal excellent virtual office service providers, offering very affordable and easily scalable business services such as a virtual office address, fully equipped meeting rooms as and when required, telephone answering services, mail handling services, invoicing and bookkeeping services and much, much more.

Being small or new is absolutely not an excuse for feeling that second place is the best that you can hope for. Grab the opportunities, overcome the challenges and steer a course through the inevitably interesting path ahead towards the success which will be richly deserved. All it takes is to stop making excuses and start taking the right action.

Legal documentations, even when in our native language, can greatly become mystifying or foreign-sounding. Actually, terminologies used within Spanish legal translation documentations are so intricate and specialised that the general public often fails to understand their implications.

When you are planning to translate some legal documents from Spanish to English (or vice versa), you can’t help worrying about how you’d ensure that you’re choosing the correct words and language. This is why you need an experienced and hospitable agency specialising in Spanish legal translation.

If you can find yourself a good company with English to Spanish legal translating services, you know you have found a way to get precise and authentic target text, which is like a transformed mirror image of the original.

A dependable legal translation service can be of great help, when you require Spanish translations regarding foreign trade bylaws for the import-export dealings you’ve just moved into.

People also need these types of agencies when their birth/marriage certificates are translated into English (usually for getting UK Visas). You can always have these agencies by your side when you need personalised services regarding English-Spanish legal translation on specialised translation needs.

It is an undeniable fact that virtually everything regarding legal systems, in the United Kingdom or elsewhere, is a daunting, sophisticated and stressful task to handle. But no need to worry when you have a dedicated and expert translation company to assist you on this.

You can have the peace of mind knowing your crucial legal documents rest in good hands. You can relax feeling that when you’re paying for the service, you’ll get a well-translated target document. In addition, a good translation company will always try to put your work into well-managed processes, which are affordable and efficiently streamlined.

Be it a Spanish legal translation task or an English translation job, in good hands, your documents will get their deserved attendance from the right translator(s) employed for your assignment.

Some final words…

Competent companies are never afraid or shy to take pride in their well trained staff and superb services. The story behind the success of most Spanish legal translation companies is in their ability to match the know-how of specific English-Spanish translators to the requirements of diverse legal documents.

Their legal translators posses a specific or subject-oriented skill-set when it comes to legal translations. The company you hire for your translation job must have an impeccable and extensive knowledge of Spanish and English vocabulary, along with the implications of different law terms or jargon.

Starting a home based business is a very appealing prospect for many people. But do you really have what it takes to make a success of a home based venture? Working from home takes a lot more than just buying a new computer and finding a great business idea.For most people who leave the home to work every day their routine is set for them by a boss or supervisor. They are told when to begin work, when to stop and when to take a break during the day. There are no such constraints on the home worker most of the time. You can work the hours that suit you and if you feel like taking a day off on a whim you can.There is a flipside though. The home based business owner is the company, if they do not work in a consistent and dedicated manner the concern is bound to fail. Running a business from home actually takes a lot more self discipline, organization and dedication than is required for those who work outside the home. No one is standing over your shoulder cracking the whip so you have to be able to stay focused on the tasks at hand just by the force of your own willpower.The successful home based worker will set themselves a schedule, just like they may have once had when they worked outside the home, and stick to it. This does not mean that you have to work twelve hours a day, seven days a week (although most home businesses, especially in the beginning, do require an investment of time that is usually greater than the average 40 hour work week.) It simply means that you commit to invest a defined amount of time every day to growing and running your business.The Internet offers a wealth of free time management tools, tips and advice for the new home based worker and taking the time to read such information and act upon it is a free and worthwhile way to make sure that a home based career really is for you before you take the plunge.