Michael Houlihan & Bonnie Harvey | The Barefoot Spirit

5 Tips to Sell More This Year

by Michael Houlihan & Bonnie Harvey | Business Blog, Contributed Article

Want to sell more this year? Of course, you do! Without sales, you don’t need production or even marketing. In fact, your whole company is supported by sales. We like to say, “Regardless of what their organization chart says, all companies only have only two...

Is Recycling Proving to be Too Onerous and Expensive?

WE PAY FOR PACKAGING - ONE WAY OR ANOTHER!

by Michael Houlihan & Bonnie Harvey | Business Blog, Environment

We recently read with great interest an article by Michael Corkery in the New York Times about the mounting waste crisis. Entitled “Recycling Efforts Stall as the Cost Skyrockets”, he thoughtfully examines a problem that is soon going to hit us all in the...

Women Make Over 80% of the Buying Decisions!

“WHAT’S FOR DINNER, HONEY?”

by Michael Houlihan & Bonnie Harvey | Business Blog

When her husband or significant other asks, “What’s for dinner, honey?” he’s really telling her to create menus for the week’s meals, write up a shopping list, go to the store, shop for food, make all the buying decisions, charge it on the credit card, come home, put...

Will 18-Year-Old Women End the Draft?

CLOSE TO HOME

by Michael Houlihan & Bonnie Harvey | Business Blog

We recently read with great interest that a Federal Judge in the Southern District Court in Houston ruled that an all-male draft was unconstitutional as it violates the equal protection principles. Even though no one has been conscripted for more than 40 years, all...

Garbage In, Energy Out: Synova Power Turns Waste Into Electricity

by Michael Houlihan & Bonnie Harvey | Business Blog

Remember in Back to the Future where Doc rummages through Marty’s garbage for “fuel”? He dumps it in to a home energy reactor called “Mr. Fusion” mounted to the back of the famous time-traveling DeLorean. Sounds like what we need now, given the fact that we are...