The business environment is full of ups and downs just as the world economy has its’ peaks and troughs. In the very same way each individual business will have its fare share of good times and bad.

There are some things in life that are supposed to be really complicated; being a parent, learning how to invest and running your own business.

I was speaking with a business owner recently about a number of topics and we got round to marketing and then on to Twitter.

When I was just starting out, a creepy old guy (about my age – mid-50s) told me life had a built in problem. He said “The problem with life is this.

Most technology startups start off doing something different than what they ultimately are successful at doing.

Which of these words are you using to run your business? Here’s a way to remember them – “Try” to strike them from your vocabulary, “but” if you “can’t”, you can “settle” for only using a few and make a “goal” of getting rid of the rest “later”, when you’re “alone” and nobody’s watching.