Kevin Daum is an American author, columnist, entrepreneurship coach, marketer, and speaker. He currently writes for
Inc.com and his columns have also appeared in the
Huffington Post
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, Leader2Leader Magazine, and Smart Business Magazine.
Background
Born and raised in
Los Angeles
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, Daum graduated from
Humboldt State University
California State Polytechnic University, Humboldt (Cal Poly Humboldt or Humboldt) is a public university in Arcata, California. It is one of Cal Poly (disambiguation), three polytechnic universities in the California State University (CSU) sys ...
in 1986 with a degree in theater arts.
Daum founded and operated Stratford Financial Services in 1989. In 1995, Daum founded and sold an entertainment venture, Mystery is Served. Daum then studied at the
MIT Enterprise Forum From 1978 to 2021 the MIT Enterprise Forum (MITEF) operated chapters in major cities in the U.S. and worldwide. The MIT Enterprise Forum was non-profit organization affiliated with the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) through MIT Technolo ...
and graduated from the Entrepreneurial Masters program in 2001.
The Stratford Financial Services grew to become an Inc. 500 company by 1999 and was sold it in 2007. Daum founded TAE International in 2008.
Career
Daum has authored several books including "ROAR! Get Heard in the Sales and Marketing Jungle" published by Wiley in 2010 and "Video Marketing For Dummies" published by Wiley in 2012. His book "Green$ense For the Home: Rating the Real Payoff on 50 Green Home Projects", co-authored with
Eric Corey Freed (Taunton), won an
American Society of Journalists and Author's (ASJA) Outstanding Book Award in 2011.
He has held board positions for the
Entrepreneur's Organization and was a founding member of its
Silicon Valley
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chapter.
In 2006, Daum was named Humboldt State University's Distinguished Alum of the Year.
Bibliography
*"What the Banks Won’t Tell You", Grady Parsons, 2004
*"Building Your Own Home For Dummies" with Peter Economy and Janice Brewster, John Wiley & Sons, 2005
*"Green$ense for the Home: Rating the Real Payoff from 50 Green Home Projects" with
Eric Corey Freed, Taunton Publishers, 2010
*"ROAR" Get Heard in the Sales and Marketing Jungle" With Daniel Turner, John Wiley & Sons, 2010
*"Video Marketing For Dummies" with Matt Scott, Bettina Hein, Andreas Goeldi, John Wiley & Sons, 2012
Notes
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American columnists
Living people
Year of birth missing (living people)
Journalists from Los Angeles
California State Polytechnic University, Humboldt alumni