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Dan Waldschmidt

Dan Waldschmidt
Speaker, author, strategist, Dan Waldschmidt is a conversation changer. Dan and his team help people arrive at business-changing breakthrough ideas by moving past outdated conventional wisdom, social peer pressure, and the selfish behaviors that stop them from being high performers. The Wall Street Journal calls his blog, Edge of Explosion, one of the Top 7 blogs sales blogs anywhere on the internet and hundreds of his articles on unconventional sales tactics have been published.

It’s Always Your Fault.

If your team doesn't get along, that's your fault. If you sales team doesn't hit your goals, that's your fault. If you aren't profitable quick…

Stop Firing Lousy Employees.

Regardless of who you're leading, you have people reporting to you that should perform better. A sales team, technology professionals, the operations teams...

The Secret to Getting Busy Executives To Take Your Phone Call.

You've been there before. The phone rings — breaking you out of your concentration. You've been focused on a complex task. Trying to solve a...

Quick and Easy Isn’t.

The business solution you call "quick and easy" might actually be sloppy and superficial — especially from the perspective of the ones receiving your...

Why Clients Don’t Buy What They Say They Want.

You probably had to learn the lesson the hard way. Most of us do. You're in the middle of creating a service offering and...

Why You Can’t Grow Your Business Revenue.

There is nothing more frustrating as a business leader then to focus all of your efforts on revenue growth only to see your hard...

Why Asking Better Sales Questions Won’t Help You Close More Deals.

One of the most popular recent theories about business development is that if you ask better questions of your clients, you can uniquely uncover...

10 Reasons Why Outrageous Customer Service Is All That Matters.

The single most important focus of your business is to deliver an amazing experience for your client. That's it. There is nothing else more important...

17 Mistakes That Cripple Business Growth.

Most battles are lost, not won. That's the same behind enemy lines as it is the business boardroom. Mistakes, anywhere, have the same disastrous impact.…

Making Sense of the Changing Business Conversation.

Business is changing. But that's always been the case. In the early 1800?s, American adventurers traveled by foot and covered wagon to the West...

11 Game-Changing Companies Who (Successfully) Broke The Rules.

There are rules and guidelines that limit what is possible to achieve. Rules that we all somehow agree to. Rules about the cost of...

The Lie of Recurring Revenue.

One of the recently trendy business strategies over the last decade is the idea of creating "recurring revenue". The basic concept is that you can...

How Yesware Rethought Amazing.

Yesware presents an interesting case study about the business pursuit of getting it right. About starting. Rethinking. About finding success. It seems like it has…

The Secret Attitude of Super-Stars

Giving buyers more value than they pay for is the most effective way to create a delightfully memorable buying experience. To illustrate this point more...

Sorta Leadership.

Leading isn't easy. Under any circumstance, having a vision and motivating others to follow you is a feat of monumental proportions. As a leader, you're…

Why Your Business Strategy Doesn’t Work.

It is pretty common knowledge that people interpret what you say paying little attention to the actual words that you use. And while all the...

Changing a Sophisticrappy Business Cycle by Giving More.

Business strategy is any evolving science. The last thousand years of studied commercial history show a cyclical nuance that usually follows the path of reinvention,...

How Business Changed. What To Do About It.

The last decade of business has been a rapidly changing chronology of growth, struggle, confusion, and depression. The cornerstones of enterprise stability and growth have...

3 Extreme Behaviors That Produce Outrageous Business Growth.

Following the rules doesn't work in business. Even if you're doing it right, you're doing it like everybody else. Which is wrong. At the extremes…

Rewiring our Autistic Business Culture.

Much of what we know about the brain is only 4 to 5 years old. Recent advancements in science and technology show us how the...

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