ICSB Guest Blog Post

  We are not professors of entrepreneurship, but we are real-life successful entrepreneurs. Rather than retiring with our proceeds from the sale Barefoot Wines, we are devoting our lives to sharing what we have learned, often times the hard way, from our experience starting and growing the world’s largest bottled wine brand. We are without […]

To Get True Entrepreneurial Culture, Corporations Must Pay for Performance

POWER TO THE PEOPLE

Some of the most popular search terms we see coming from the so-called C-Suite (top corporate executives) these days are, “entrepreneurial culture, employee engagement, and employee empowerment.” Nowadays it seems even the big corporations want to make the shift to a more entrepreneurial culture. So we put together a companion to The Barefoot Spirit  just […]

7 Steps to Infuse Entrepreneurial Thinking into Company Culture

REMOVE THE ROADBLOCKS

Every company wants to stay relevant and be in the forefront of their industry. This requires an imaginative staff creating new solutions and thinking outside the box.  But first you need to change your company culture. This is easier said than done. A positive company culture is what we relied upon when building the Barefoot […]

Success Magazine Interview

Michael & Bonnie were honored to appear in the July 2014 Success Magazine, next to Seth Godin! Their interview was selected to be inserted into the magazine as an audio CD. SUCCESS Magazine is a leading source for news and information for the entrepreneur, small business, and home-based business owner. To check out a snippet of their […]

You Can’t Teach Entrepreneurship Without Sales Training

KING OF SALES

At the recent International Conference on Small Business (ICSB) World Conference on Entrepreneurship  in Dublin Ireland, the Asian delegates gave Michael the nickname “King of Sales.”  Now we have to laugh whenever we receive an email with the salutation, “Dear King of Sales.” It’s not a title he feels he earned, but recognizes that it was […]