Whenever you are depending on contractors, government organizations, or outside services, things can go wrong. When they do there is a great tendency to point a finger and find fault with the other guy. Here are some tips that will help your company improve and be more likely to get what you want in the future. [...]

Achieve Your Goals by Taking Responsibility for the Other Guy’s “Mistakes”
Posted on February 16, 2012 by Michael Houlihan & Bonnie Harvey in Business Blog

The Advantages of Being a Small Start-Up – Part 4
Posted on February 10, 2012 by Michael Houlihan & Bonnie Harvey in Business Blog
With all the challenges your small start-up faces, you still hold some impressive cards. If you play them right, you can have the winning hand! You face all the challenges of cash flow management, distribution management and personnel management, not to mention the competition, push back and resistance you get when you are new in the marketplace. [...]
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The Advantages of Being a Small Start-Up – Part 3
Posted on February 4, 2012 by Michael Houlihan & Bonnie Harvey in Business Blog
By focusing on your customer, and not your big time competitors, your small start-up has the opportunity to address the market with creative and relevant products. In this series we have examined some of the powerful advantages of being small, undercapitalized and able to turn on a dime. These days, with lawyers running the big corporations [...]
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The Advantages of Being a Small Start-Up – Part 2
Posted on January 23, 2012 by Michael Houlihan & Bonnie Harvey in Business Blog
This is the second installment in a four-part series designed to encourage small start-ups by recognizing some of their inherent advantages. Small start-ups face a myriad of challenges. They are undercapitalized, unproven and have no market traction. They are up against the status quo that will use its established power and influence in the marketplace [...]
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The Advantages of Being a Small Start-Up – Part 1
Posted on January 15, 2012 by Michael Houlihan & Bonnie Harvey in Business Blog
Today we need new products, new services, and new ideas to invent our way back to prosperity. Small start-up producers have always been the backbone of the economy, not just because they provide the most new jobs, but because they improve the very quality of our lives by bringing more good ideas to the market. [...]
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Dress for Success (Especially in the Office)
Posted on January 9, 2012 by Michael Houlihan & Bonnie Harvey in Business Blog
Many companies these days seem to think that they are giving their office staff some kind of a benefit by letting them dress any way they want. Business casual has become casual and casual has become downright scruffy. What happens when Mr. Big walks into your company and your people are dressed in a way [...]
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Positive Company Culture is critical to Growth and Survival – Part 3
Posted on December 31, 2011 by Michael Houlihan & Bonnie Harvey in Business Blog
This is the third part in the series about the original Barefoot culture. Culture really sets the tone, boundaries, and expectations the team has toward your company, your mission and your product. We’ve saved the best for last because having a common cause and a common challenge forges, more than any other single factor, positive company culture. When [...]
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Positive Company Culture is critical to Growth and Survival – Part 2
Posted on December 23, 2011 by Michael Houlihan & Bonnie Harvey in Business Blog
A company survives and grows due to sales and the loyalty of customers and staff. Sales are based on price, value, dependability, integrity, availability and perception. The basis of perception is image, networking, and more recently, the transparency of the producer. Transparency is what the brand stands for, its authenticity, its identification with higher values, [...]
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Positive Company Culture is critical to Growth and Survival – Part 1
Posted on December 12, 2011 by Michael Houlihan & Bonnie Harvey in Business Blog
Company culture has a direct bearing on sales, and the survival and growth of a company. We have mentioned it before but think it is such an important factor in company success that we want to expand upon it here in a three part series on the original Barefoot company culture that established the “DNA” [...]
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Making Mistakes Right
Posted on December 1, 2011 by Michael Houlihan & Bonnie Harvey in Business Blog
Everybody makes mistakes, so why not take advantage of them? If your company culture does not give permission to make mistakes, your staff will hide them. They’ll want to ‘fix’ it fast and hope you never find out. They may be the only ones who know how to fix it, and they, or someone else, [...]
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