About Us - Camp Niche

Carl, Nancy and Ryan

ALL-STAR CAMP COUNSELORS AT THE BRAND NEW CAMP NICHE JAMBOREE!

You've got the best-of-the-best magazine publishing gurus around your campfire at this jamboree. We've got a combined 600 years (o.k., more like 60 years) of publishing experience and passion for those crazy niche magazines. Whether your magazine is Consumer or B-to-B, looking to sell print, digital, or integrated:

We're ready for you!!!



carl LandauCarl Landau:
Wild, Crazy, and Always Entertaining.

MagazinesCarl 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 Niche Digital Conference in 2009.


Nancy O'Brien:
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 Aviation International NewsLight & 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 Associate Publisher and part-time salesperson 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. 

Nancy is also the Conference Director for the Niche Magazine Conference.

Ryan DohrnRyan Dohrn: He didn't invent the Internet, but close!

360 Ad Sales TrainingRyan has been an innovative force in the marketing, promotion, and internet business since 1995. In 1996 Ryan created the revolutionary equine marketplace HorseCity.com, and later became General Manager of Morris Magazines Interactive, where he managed web strategy and online operations for 14 magazines.

Ryan is now President of 360 Ad Sales Training & Strategy, a sales consulting firm focused on developing online and print advertising strategies for magazine publishers.  Ryan is also the Conference Director for the Niche Digital Conference.