Knowledge, Like Experience, is Slowly Gained By Dan Kahn My grandfather, Julian Kahn, was a born entrepreneur. The son of a German immigrant who came to America through Ellis Island, Julian grew up in Chicago and watched his father toil as a butcher. He decided to pursue a career in engineering, going to a technical…
Career advice from an arrogant kid with a crappy film camera By Dan Kahn I bought my first car when I was 14. A multi-colored and primer-covered Mustang fastback that I slowly rebuilt with my dad in his garage. Since I taught myself to read with car magazines, it was only natural that I wanted…
Think of any iconic brand, and the first thing that usually appears in one’s mind is its logo. Nike’s famous Swoosh, the Golden Arches of McDonald’s, the bitten apple of Apple, Gucci’s iconic double “G” and many others have become synonymous with the brands they represent. It’s no anomaly that some of the most well-known…
The most critical thing you can do for your business right now isn’t what you think By Dan Kahn I wasn’t much of a coffee person for the first quarter-century of my life until I landed a job at a dot-com in the early 2000s with (much to my shock) a full-time in-house barista. That…
According to a recent article by Forbes, the number of freelancers in the United States is the highest it has ever been. Whether it is because of changing priorities during the pandemic or part of the Great Resignation, a staggering 36% of the entire United States workforce has performed freelance work in the last 12…
Wasn’t this the year everything was supposed to get better? According to some, supply chain issues were merely temporary bumps on the road that would quickly vanish. Other prognosticators predicted that this was the year things would finally get better. Unfortunately, neither scenario is correct as nothing has really improved. It is hard to believe,…
According to gushing Tesla fans everywhere and some fawning members of the media, Tesla’s Cyber Rodeo was the biggest thing to ever happen to humanity since the invention of the smartphone. Held in celebration of the opening of Telsa’s latest Gigafactory in Austin, Texas, Cyber Rodeo had the vibe of a party mixed with a…
The wonders of the digital age produce advertising results that 20th-century marketers could only dream of. But there is more to marketing than just blasting out your message to as many people as possible and measuring clicks. Marketing has always been, and is still, a beautiful and chaotic mix of science, psychology, art and instinct.…
As countries put restrictions into place and the world shut down during the coronavirus pandemic, the gradual shift to online retail became a mad dash. Companies that did not have a robust online presence quickly scrambled to make one. What may have taken years in normal times was condensed into months. Creating an easy and…
Some like to reduce marketing to nothing more than ROI calculations and spreadsheets. Tracking marketing expenditures is vital as keeping within budget is a concern. And a savvy marketer is always going to look at the results of any campaign. But simply boiling down marketing to just numbers and data is always a mistake. There…