In a small business it's not financially sustainable to pay for bad advice, nor is it advisable, of course, to act on free bad advice. So how do you know when you are getting good or bad advice.

Here are a few tips about sorting out the wheat from the chaff.

What motivates anyone to start a small business? You are usually alone, without a lot of start up cash (hardly ever enough), without the full range of skills to make the business work and most often without sufficient knowledge of the market you are about to enter.

Despite all of these barriers to setting off in a small business we set sail, like a ship without adequate navigation, in search of something we want.