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When we sold Barefoot Wine, we received the Wine Industry’s coveted Top Brand award for multiple years, sold 600,000 cases per year in 25,000 stores, were growing in all 50 states and 28 foreign countries, had no turnover for 10 years, and did it all with just 40...
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We're inviting you to a FREE online event called the GoTime Business and Tech Summit where you can watch 32+ short interviews (around your schedule) of some of the world’s top high growth entrepreneurs and experts. Kim interviewed both of us at the same time & also...
Entrepreneur – Networking Rule #1: ‘Take Off the Bib and Put on the Apron!’
As we celebrate another graduating class, we thought we’d give them some good advice to help them turn their dreams of business success into reality. We recently caught up with Ivan Misner, the founder of BNI (Business Network International), the world’s largest...
Acknowledgement, Confirmation, and Status Reporting Demonstrate Responsibility
Our friend recently graduated with an advanced degree in Nursing. To celebrate, we invited her and her friends over for a party. A week before the party we went to our friendly neighborhood grocery store where a young man does barbecuing out in front on the weekends....
Will the Predilections and Prejudices of your Employees Hurt Your Business?
Starbucks just found out the hard way. Their own people can take unwarranted, fear-based actions that marginalize an entire segment of the population. They found out that those actions can reflect on their company which relies on the entire population, not a single...
5 Entrepreneurial Skills You Learn in College
When you're in college, it’s not only what they teach that will enable you to be a successful entrepreneur, it’s the skills you acquire just to get through. About this time of year, many students are near completion of their college year and wondering if they should...
Has Life Become De-Valued in America?
We are set up to answer questions on Quora. It may not be a good match for us because our experience is in a relatively narrow niche, entrepreneurial brand building in the CPG space. Most of the questions have to do with things like, “How much money does Elon Musk...
Force Brands – Brand Building Secrets Interview
Founders Michael Houlihan and Bonnie Harvey didn’t set out with the intention of creating the world’s largest wine brand. At the time of Barefoot Wine’s founding in 1985, they both lacked the money and the industry knowledge necessary to launch a brand of any kind....
10 Questions Our Clients Ask
Our clients come to us because of our credentials as the founders of the largest wine brand in the world. They want to know how we began (in our laundry room), how we were financed (we assumed a debt which we traded for wine and bottling services), and how we overcame...
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