Brand

5 Missteps and Remedies for Building a Consumer Packaged Goods Brand from Ground Zero

Misstep #1: private label You need capital so you provide your product to a retailer as their house, control, or… Read More

3 years ago

Kirkus Reviews – The Barefoot Spirit

“An irreverent, eye-opening business memoir. Novice winemakers upend the industry’s pretensions while taking on the jungle of the retail beverage… Read More

4 years ago

Why Brand integrity Matters and How to Get It

There’s so much noise out there, you don’t have the luxury to try to be all things to all people.… Read More

5 years ago

Is Your CPG Company on the Right Side of History?

Because we successfully built a popular consumer packaged goods brand, now known the world over, we are often asked about… Read More

6 years ago

Work with Your Community to Create Advocates

Every time we speak, it never fails that at least one member of the audience comes up and asks, “I'm… Read More

6 years ago

Whatever Business You Think You’re in, Your Employees Should Be Oriented on Your Customers

We recently had the pleasure of spending the day with 65 MBA students from Nanyang University in Singapore. Twenty-five percent… Read More

6 years ago

7 Steps to Engage Your People (And Get the Results You are Looking For)

When we sold Barefoot Wine, we received the Wine Industry’s coveted Top Brand award for multiple years, sold 600,000 cases… Read More

6 years ago

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… Read More

6 years ago

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.… Read More

6 years ago

Are We Sacrificing Choices Just to Save a Little Time?

It seems so wonderful at first. You don’t have leave the house to go shopping anymore! Everything just shows up… Read More

7 years ago