With all the doom and gloom of government spending reviews, cutbacks and business failures, sometimes it’s nice to hear a little good news.

Essex based software business Truckcom Systems has some very good news – this year its turnover is up more than 20% on last year, and profits are up by almost 40% making it the best year in the company’s history.

Truckcom have developed a unique and Read the rest of this entry

To say I was sceptical of the power of social media for business and of Twitter in particular would be an understatement.

If you’d asked me just a few months ago what I thought of Twitter – the answer was simple… Twitter, Twatter, Schmitter, Schmatter – what a complete waste of time. All I’d witnessed was, “I’ve had a cheese sandwich” ping. Who cares? What a waste of time. All Read the rest of this entry