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The antidote to 💩 business advice. Helping business owners gain control and manage growth without working more hours through my 1-2-1 accountability mentoring programme UNleash! Business Mentor & Strategist🔥🤘🔥

Here’s some of the 💩 WORST business advice I’ve ever received. 📣 “Don't operate outside your county (Fife in Scotland)”. Stick with me, and I’ll give you three 💡 praktical tips when receiving business advice from ANYONE. Someone in the Entrepreneurial Ego-system advised me to operate in our region ONLY. The next part of this sentence, was UNsaid: “...otherwise you’ll be standing on our toes, and direktly kompeting with us”. 🤺 This was many years ago, when I ran my previous business, Acorn Enterprise. Klearly, they felt threatened 😱 by us (and they were right to be! 😜). Had I listened to this advice, Acorn Enterprise would not have run Business Incubators in THREE different 📍 regions (Fife, Dundee and Edinburgh). During 9 years, we worked with 120 business owners. In the final year of our programme (2019), the businesses we worked with in Dundee achieved total sales of £1.5 million 💸 (from 18 businesses trading). ⚠️ Just because someone gives you advice, doesn’t mean they have YOUR BEST INTEREST at heart! ⚠️ So, before you take business advice from anyone, challenge it 🧐 Ask these three questions ❓ to help QUALIFY their advice: 🔥 What experience do they have? 🔥 What have they achieved? 🔥 How relevant/kurrent is their business advice? In short, UNless they have relevant domain experience (e.g. they are a legal or finance professional), they run (or have run) their own business, or they’ve done what you want to do, you probably shouldn’t listen to them! 🙉 👉👉👉 What advice do you have on taking business advice? 😂 #UNpreneur #smallbusiness #smallbusinessowner Kallum with a K P.S. Pikture 📸 from the Acorn Enterprise Graduation of the 6th Business Accelerator Programme we ran at LibertySpace Rosyth Business Centre (June 2016).

  • Kallum with a K during Acorn Enterprise days. Graduation Ceremony at Rosyth Business Centre, 2017.
Linda Mercer

Flexible Workspace Solution Specialist

7mo

I’d love a follow up to see what the Acorns are doing now ?

Wendy Gibson

Advisor for First-Time Buyers | Property Transaction Expert | I help First Time Buyers get on the Property Ladder | An expert at Home Buying | I’ve completed 100s of transactions.

7mo

My mother's best advice was to no start my own business 🤦♀️ I'm sure she was well intentioned as it's not the easy path to tread, but I would have lost out on so much if I had listened. Thanks for the helpful post and the reminder, Kallum with a K ps: Fife is a stunning place, my family is from near there too.

Iain Campbell

Providing professionals in the construction industry with real-time actionable data from our aerial imaging platforms.

7mo

Having been a Coastguard Officer for 27 years before this picture was taken, I knew nothing about running a business. Acorn Enterprise helped point me in the right direction to launch my business and I'm still going strong!

The only experts in your business are you and your team. Advisors with pat answers are a waste of money. The best support will be those who ask you the right question to stimulate your own thinking and help you find your own answers

Karen Stewart

Managing Director at Nine Twenty Engineering & Manufacturing,

7mo

I suppose it depends on wether you listen to the advice or not I’m a believer in doing what feels right and reaching out for anything specialist that you need to know more about. It’s not just in business but family life etc. it’s full of other people’s advice and I just tend to take it with a pinch of salt

Peter The Speaker

Dragons' Den Victor. I currently write and deliver some of the most engaging, dynamic, entertaining and inspiring freelance business training and team building events you will ever attend.

7mo

Be wary of any advisor who judges you if you don't follow their advice.

Rebecca Bonnington

The Jedi Master of Business Coach Training. Qualify as a Business Coach in 12 weeks using our methodology, & get the support you need to succeed without paying stupid franchise/license fees. You keep 100% of your fees.

7mo

The best advice I was ever given was don’t take anyone’s advice! If you’re not operating globally as a service based business you’re not in the game. There’s no excuse!

David Gibson OBE

Professor/ Entrepreneur

7mo

brillant Kallum great lessons for us all

Michael Padhraic Lawlor

Electrical Services Engineer

7mo

Good points made

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