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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 Dan and his team help people arrive at business-changing breakthrough ideas by moving past outdated conventional wisdom, social peer pressure, and the selfish behaviors that stop them from being high performers.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.

6 Awesomely Edgy Technologies You’ve Never Heard About Before.

You’re busy.  And sometimes when you look around it seems like you’re missing that one edgy solution that helps you past the headache you...

12 Winning Perspectives to Drive High Performance.

Everyone wants to be a winner. We like watching winners.  We like having winners as friends.  When giving a choice between winning and losing, we...

Why I Hired My Biggest Critic to Be My Coach.

We all need someone in our face telling us we can do better. Sure criticism stinks!  But so does not getting to your goal… In…

13 Ways to Turn Defeat into Success.

Ever find someone that always looks like he wins — no matter what he does?  You try and try (and try) and this guy...

Edgy Technology: Poyozo Feeds your Memory. Never Forget Anything.

Every forget something that you really wanted to remember? Who was that guy I bumped into yesterday?  Did I send that email already?  What was...

Edgy Conversations: Introspection, Nonsense, and Hoping for More.

Since when did sales come down to the fine art of improving your quarterly performance? To improving your quota by that 4% margin...

Edgy Technology: Get In Your Stribe. Connect Better.

If all this hoopla about the social graph and Facebook privacy settings hasn’t made you want to jump off a cliff, if you find...

3 Clues to Achieving the Impossible

There is no one secret formula to doing amazing things – to achieving the impossible.  Timing, a lot of effort, and good old-fashion “luck”...

Edgy Technology: Use Liaise. Get Things Done.

Getting things done is one of the hottest topics sweeping through the business world over the last few years. The quest for ultimate...

127 Ways to Make a (Huge) Difference

We all want to believe that who we are matters. We desperately want to know that what we do makes a difference. That’s not...

Edgy Technology: Competitious Compares Competitors Expertly

Your clients NEVER care how much you are the same with your competition.  They always want to know what makes you different. Special. Better...

Edgy Conversations: It Takes Effort. That’s Why It Hurts.

There is no Easy Street. Sure, growing up in Northern Virginia there was an actual road off Route 1 called Easy St. close to where...

Edgy Technology: LogMeIn Makes “Anywhere” Possible

You can’t be everywhere at all times.  You can’t even always be in the one place that you most want to be at the...

Edgy Conversations: It’s the Details that Matter.

Getting the big picture figured out is pretty easy. We call that “having a dream”… It’s the edgy details that determine our ultimate fate. ...

Edgy Technology: Meet Better. WebEx Brings *NEW* game.

Meet better? With WebEx?  Before you stop reading and assume you know what I am going to say: STOP. WebEx has just rolled out a...

How to be Authentic and Avoid Pretension.

Or as I like to say “PRETEND-tion”.  Get’s the point across better. How do you stay “you” in spite of all the pressure to conform...

Edgy Technology: MindMeister Maps your Mind.

Ever have a great idea and then forget it three minutes later when someone jumps into your office asking for help? Or how about the...

Edgy Technology: Quantcast Profiles your Audience

“Who really cares?” We’ve all asked ourselves that that question at one time or another.  Right? You are busy in your cause and sometimes it…

Edgy Conversations: Selfish Emails are Rude.

Have you ever had a moment where someone looked at you in mild disgust and said these words:  “Dude, Stop being so selfish”? How did...

Edgy Technology: Chocolate is Super Sweet from Chocri

It’s chocolate at it’s finest. Exactly the way you want it. Quite literally, in fact. And it’s all because of the wonders of edgy technology.…

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