Taming The Ferrets

Taming the Media: Alan Neben

Taming The Ferrets

Show Notes

Welcome to Taming the Ferrets, New Zealand's "Most Awarding" Business Podcast!

Taming the Ferrets is hosted by Guinness World Record Holder, Investor, and Bestselling Author, Freddie Bennett.

Episode 2 reveals the secrets behind one of New Zealand's most powerful organisations.

Alan Neben is the owner of Bay of Plenty business news, and numerous other high-profile publications. Growing up in a publishing family, he describes the opportunities arising from the "Rivers of Gold" that flowed through the publishing industry...and the perilous pitfalls that now exist in the changing media landscape.

This hard-hitting and insightful episode reveals how entrepreneurs, businesses and individuals can profit and prosper using multiple forms of media, and why focusing on people & personalities, not just clicks and views is the secret to publishing success.

Alan holds nothing back in this global exclusive interview. For the first time, he takes us behind the curtain to reveal the ugly side of the modern digital media, the secret to overcoming imposter syndrome...and hacks that ANYONE can use to increase their public profile.

If you read the news, watch the news, are impacted by the news or want to be featured in tomorrow's news (for the right reasons)...this is simply unmissable.

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