Yes your right many people with experience have reached out to help, but there seems to be a stubborn factor involved.
As someone who built their own business from scratch, with no help from anyone, I understand the stubborn factor. It can be tough to take advice from others who haven't shed the blood, sweat, and tears that you have, to get where you are.
But, after twenty years of being in business, I've also learned that it can be fatal to become locked into certain mindsets and modus operandi that have become obsolete. I've suffered time and again, when I've failed to react quickly enough to changes in the marketplace or technology.
Live and learn, as they say. Those experiences didn't kill me, but made me stronger and wiser. Today, my normal operating basis includes a keen situational awareness of what's going on in my local market and my industry as a whole.