Niche Media has created super niched-out events for over 12 years. We've helped pave the way for the era of boutique events that connect specific audiences and provide great educational, friendly and super-fun environments! This is what you would expect from a founder like Carl Landau, who became famous 20 years ago for "sending cats in the mail" as an ad sales campaign (not to worry, no cats were harmed in the promotion).

Carl has created a super-team of media experts who put on all Niche Events--Ryan Dohrn, Nancy O'Brien, Rebekah Darksmith, and Robyn Ireland. The "Super Nichers" have a combined 80 years of media experience. That's almost 600 years in cat lives!

Carl Landau
Grand Poobah

Carl is the perfect host. He's made millions starting and selling five niche magazines and two conferences & tradeshows in both the consumer and B-to-B publishing worlds.

Carl became famous 15 years ago for sending cats in the mail! He has taught his Camp Niche ad sales seminars to over 3,000 ad sales professionals. This has given him unique insight into the needs of the small-to-medium niche publishers. He started the wildly successful "Publishers Only" Niche Magazine Conference in 2007 and the fast-growing Niche Digital Conference in 2009. His latest super-niche projects are e-Newsletter World conference and Niche Yearbook directory.

Carl is bringing the niche media world together! Carl's most famous inspirational quote: "There's no "I" in Niche."
carl [at] nichemediahq [dot] com

Ryan Dohrn
Conference Director: Niche Digital Conference & e-Newsletter World

Ryan is now President of Brain Swell Media, an internet consulting firm focused on developing online revenue generating strategies for magazine publishers. Ryan currently works with over 35 niche publications.
ryan [at] brainswellmedia [dot] com

Nancy O'Brien
Conference Director: Niche Magazine Conference

With Nancy's training, you'll never fly coach again! Nancy got her start at Petroleum Engineer and has been on the publishing fast track ever since! She was a perennial million-dollar-plus ad sales star at Oil & Gas Journal and Electric Light & Power. As a publisher at Phillips Business Aviation Maintenance she transformed the publication into a multi-million dollar property.

Today she sells millions of dollars a year in ad sales as a part-timer for Aviation International News without breaking a sweat. She's an ad sales super star that is an expert at teaching how to use research and circulation to bag that big ad sales prize.
obrie [at] aol [dot] com

Rebekah Darksmith
Conference Manager: Niche Magazine Conference & Niche Digital Conference

Rebekah has worked in publishing for over 15 years, with experience in consumer, b2b, and academic periodicals. Rebekah is currently Sales & Marketing Director for University of California Press, Journals + Digital Publishing where she is responsible for 35 titles, several of which have circulation of under 500. (Talk about a niche!)

Back in the day, Rebekah was the first employee of Niche Publications and helped Carl launch Brew Your Own.
rebekah [at] nichemediahq [dot] com

Robyn Ireland
Conference Coordinator & Swiss Army Knife

Robyn has worked for Niche Media for over five years and has the bowling, golf, flower child, and baseball shirts to prove it! Anyone who knows the inside working here at Niche HQ knows that Robyn basically runs the operation. (Pay no attention to the man behind the curtain...Grand Poobah Carl is basically a figurehead.) Robyn oversees all conference logistics, edits Niched Out News, and administers the Niche websites.
robyn [at] nichemediahq [dot] com

The No-Nonsense Niche Team!