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  • How Can you Adapt to Your Environment?

    How Can you Adapt to Your Environment?

    Helping others achieve an “ah-ha” moment is usually a gratifying experience in my line of work. Let alone 9 people, simultaneously. During a day’s session training a team at a large technology company that works with small businesses, they all of a sudden realized some times they were actually helping their clients be something they…

  • Six UnReasonable Steps to Raising Capital

    Six UnReasonable Steps to Raising Capital

    For the past few weeks I’ve been laser-focused on raising a round of capital for my seventh company, the Shift Group. And having done this many times before, I thought I knew what I was doing. That is, until I met up with Andrea Kihlstedt. Andrea has been a fundraiser for non-profits for many years. …

  • Quick Guide To Knowing Your Crucial Numbers

    Vince Lombardi was considered by many to be one of the best NFL head coaches of all time. The Super Bowl trophy is named after him. And whether you like American football or not, many of his strategies and principles are applied in business today. For example, Lombardi was famous for going into the locker…

  • Chicken Soup for the Entrepreneur’s Soul — Stefan Doering Interview for TV Show The New Yorkers

    Chicken Soup for the Entrepreneur’s Soul — Stefan Doering Interview for TV Show The New Yorkers

    In 2002 I was nearly killed in an assault on the street. After regaining consciousness from a coma, I had lost 95% of my vision, much of my hearing and almost all of my balance. Doctors announced I might never walk again. When I left the hospital, I decided to set a seemingly impossible goal…

  • My First Unreasonable Goal: From Coma to Running in Central Park Within 90 Days

    My First Unreasonable Goal: From Coma to Running in Central Park Within 90 Days

    Stefan Doering was crossing a busy Brooklyn street when he was hit by a man in a car. He careened backward and smashed the back of his head on the pavement. An ambulance ride, a skull fracture, a coma, and three weeks of memory loss later, Stefan found himself in a muted world, seeing double,…

  • How to Know When to Let It Go?

    How to Know When to Let It Go?

    Walking into that board meeting was one of the hardest things I had to do. Having spent the past six years working over 80 hours a week almost every day of the year, I was exhausted and feeling like a failure. While our company started off on a really great run, it was now losing…

  • Features VS. Benefits—the Key to Jolting Your Sales NOW

    Features VS. Benefits—the Key to Jolting Your Sales NOW

    One of the aha moments in my classes for entrepreneurs… almost any type of entrepreneur, is when we start discussing the art of selling their product or service.  Often we get raging debates soon followed with some super-cool tips on how to immediately impact their sales with little or no cost.  Many immediately rewrite and design…

  • BEST Coaches Client Ecologic Solutions Named “Best for the World – Environment Impact 2014”

    BEST Coaches Client Ecologic Solutions Named “Best for the World – Environment Impact 2014”

    EcoLogic Solutions Inc., a client of BEST Coaches, has been honored with the distinction “Best for the World” for environmental impact list created by B Lab. B Lab honors members of the B Corp (Benefit Corporation) community who have gone above and beyond their pursuit of a positive impact on the environment, their workers, and their…

  • How to Leverage Your Company Vision

    How to Leverage Your Company Vision

    Last week we managed to raise a large chunk of money for my new company, the Shift Group. Contrary to what many investors and funding experts may say, our company still doesn’t have a MVP (minimal viable product) nor did we get the money from friends and family (typically where the money comes from at…

  • Protesting Against the Keystone XL Pipeline

    Protesting Against the Keystone XL Pipeline

    I attended the “Reject and Protect” demonstration in DC to protest the Keystone XL pipeline. Here’s why. TransCanada, a Canadian company, intends to build an oil pipeline 2,000 miles long– spanning from Alberta, Canada to the Gulf Coast of Texas. This pipeline, known as Keystone XL, will transport one of the world’s dirtiest fuels: tar…