‘Best Business Advice Ever’ from b5 Biz Channel Bloggers!

If you are a business owner, or dream of becoming one, you need to find good sources for advice. Today, on b5media’s Business Channel, the biz bloggers are digging up the best business advice they’ve ever received and posting it - it’s a wealth of knowledge from an experienced group of professionals.

The posts are actually part of our ongoing channel challenge, an “apprentice” type challenge, where two teams have been brainstorming for solutions in one small business, a marketing endeavor for children’s aprons and hats.

If you haven’t been following along, you can catch up on the full, ongoing challenge by starting over at TaxGirl, run by our channel editor extraordinaire Kelly Phillips. You’ll be able to find all the links to today’s posts there as well or by surfing through the Business Blogroll here on Greener Assets.

So, as part of the b5media Business Channel Apprentice Challenge, my mission is to tell our small business owner “Kay” the best business advice I’ve ever received in 50 words or less. Mine is simple:

Listen to your gut.

No matter what business you are in, no matter what challenge you face or what decisions you need to make, when all is researched, said and done, listen to your gut before you make a move.

Business is not so different from survival in the sense that it takes instincts to survive. In my experience as a small business owner, which stretches well past a decade now, I have made decisions that weren’t aligned with my gut and regretted them later. I also look back and recognize that my best decisions were based on what my gut said was the right decision.

With a fair bit of hindsight, I can look back at these decisions, right and wrong, and realize fully that the simple business mantra “listen to your gut” is the best business advice I’ve ever received.