{"id":14349,"date":"2020-04-22T10:56:03","date_gmt":"2020-04-22T17:56:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bensettle.com\/blog\/?p=14349"},"modified":"2020-04-22T10:56:03","modified_gmt":"2020-04-22T17:56:03","slug":"the-dead-newspaper-tycoons-secret-to-building-your-own-media-empire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bensettle.com\/blog\/the-dead-newspaper-tycoons-secret-to-building-your-own-media-empire\/","title":{"rendered":"The Dead Newspaper Tycoon&#8217;s Secret To Building Your Own Media Empire"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Next week I am publishing what I believe to be the single most valuable \u201cEmail Players\u201d issue of the 105 prior issues so-far published.<\/p>\n<p>And the reason why is because it\u2019s about building your own media empire.<\/p>\n<p>This is not only mandatory knowledge for anyone who wants to compete and conquer in what I believe the new Internet (Web 3.0) will be\u2026 but also for anyone who wants to simply protect themselves from this insane economy being run by even more insane bureaucrats, incessant de-platforming, social media algorithm shenanigans, privacy debauchery, and from having a business relying on an ever more intrusive big tech industry openly hostile to small businesses and solo entrepreneurs of all stripes.<\/p>\n<p>The irony:<\/p>\n<p>The model for how to do it is not Steve Jobs, Bill Gates, Zuckerburg, Murdoch, etc.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s someone who\u2019s been dead for 70 years:<\/p>\n<p>The infamous newspaper mogul &amp; media \u201cemperor\u201d William Randolph Hearst.<\/p>\n<p>For example, take this snippet from his excellent biography \u201cThe Chief\u201d:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>[Hearst] built the nation\u2019s first media conglomerate by extending his newspaper empire horizontally into syndicated feature, photo, and wire services; magazines, newsreels; serial, feature, and animated films; and radio. . .The opportunities were limitless for expanding his empire \u2014 and his audiences \u2014 and he capitalized on every one of them.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Decades before synergy became a corporate cliche, Hearst put the concept into practice. His magazine editors were directed to buy only stories which could be rewritten into screenplays to be produced by his film studio and serialized, and reviewed, and publicized in his newspapers and magazines. He broadcast the news from his papers over the radio and pictured it in his newsreels.<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>This is what the May 2020 \u201cEmail Players\u201d issue is essentially about.<\/p>\n<p>Just \u201cmodernized\u201d and adapted to my wily ways for using email and other media, and how to use them to potentially &amp; exponentially \u201cup\u201d your sales, your influence, your business&#8217;s economic security, and your ability to leave your \u201cmark\u201d on the world.<\/p>\n<p>A tall order?<\/p>\n<p>Is there any other kind?<\/p>\n<p>Whatever the case, the deadline to get this issue is coming up quick.<\/p>\n<p>Here\u2019s where to subscribe while you still can:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.EmailPlayers.com\"><strong>www.EmailPlayers.com<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Ben Settle<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Next week I am publishing what I believe to be the single most valuable \u201cEmail Players\u201d issue of the 105 prior issues so-far published. And the reason why is because it\u2019s about building your own media empire. This is not only mandatory knowledge for anyone who wants to compete and conquer in what I believe [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-14349","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-business-building"},"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bensettle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14349","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bensettle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bensettle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bensettle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bensettle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14349"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bensettle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14349\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bensettle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14349"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bensettle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14349"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bensettle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14349"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}