Luckily, a host of resources out there can fill the gap. Online communities and forums are brilliant for trading ideas and encouragement. And then there’s newsletters.

These, say Thomas Smale, founder of website brokerage company FE International, are “a treasure trove of information”.

“This is information you don't have to dig for and find yourself,” he writes in entrepreneur.com. “Someone else has done the work for you, and the only thing you have to do is make the time to consume the information so you can stay up to date in your industry and implement ideas that will help your company grow.”

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