Don Kaplan
My blogs
| Gender | Male |
|---|---|
| Industry | Marketing |
| Occupation | Guru |
| Location | Marblehead, MA |
| Introduction | Briefly, I started as a teacher (history, social science, constitutional law, etc.) and loved it. However, I promised myself that I wouldn’t limit myself to one defining definition in my epitaph. I wanted to keep informing, teaching, and writing. So I got into publishing penny savers. Had to sell and create advertising to generate revenue. Customers liked the ads and asked me to do all their ads so I started my advertising agency Kaplan & Stuart Inc. Grew from one to ten people and worked with hundreds of clients over a 10 year period. I wrote all the copy, directed the creative, developed and produced TV and radio ads for my full-service advertising agency. In the early 90’s, I decided to expand the epitaph one more time and became a strategic marketing consultant. |
| Interests | My jazz trio Jazmen,guitar, writing, reading, movie buff, hiking, Tai Chi, history, social sciences, chess by email at almost all times, Italian, Spanish, (a little Russian, Hebrew, Latin), audio, sports, more. |
| Favorite movies | The Sting, The Usual Suspects, Last of The Mohicans,A Fish Called Wanda, A Bronx Tale, Outside Providence, etc. |
| Favorite music | Duke Ellington, George Gershwin, Barney Kessel, Kenny Burrell, Wes Montgomery, Thelonious Monk, Arturo Sandoval, Clifford Brown, Lockjaw adn Miles Davis, Jimmy Bruno, Howard Alden, Joshua redman, Cannonball, etc., etc. |
| Favorite books | Collapse, The Long Tail, Into Thin Air, authors James Lee Burke, Sabin Willett, William Goldman, David Baldacci, Krakauer, Sebastian Junger,etc. |