{"id":182,"date":"2008-03-20T19:50:47","date_gmt":"2008-03-20T23:50:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/siebenthalercreative.com\/blog\/?p=182"},"modified":"2008-05-16T14:01:22","modified_gmt":"2008-05-16T18:01:22","slug":"hartfiel-out-at-mpn-%e2%80%94-doh","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/siebenthalercreative.com\/blog\/hartfiel-out-at-mpn-%e2%80%94-doh\/","title":{"rendered":"hartfiel out at mpn \u2014 doh!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Good friend and industry icon Robin Hartfiel was abruptly let go yesterday by Athletic Business Publications, publishers of <strong>Motorcycle Product News<\/strong> where he&#8217;d hung his helmet as publisher\/editor since leaving the same position at Dealernews in October of &#8217;03 after 14 years of service to Advanstar.<\/p>\n<p>A self-described Luddite who nonetheless knows how to crank out the occasionally curmugeonly and always well informed copy regardless of the platform, Hartfiel&#8217;s powersports insight is both deep and wide, assuring the next company that wins the inevitable bidding war for his services a Rolodex of contacts and a lifetime of accumulated product knowledge gleaned from covering the industry for both consumer and trade pubs.<\/p>\n<p>Those same skills were responsible for breathing new life into a brand that was drifting when he grabbed the reins, quickly resulting in more sharply focused magazine that got the relationship with the dealer readership back on track.<\/p>\n<p>Whither now MPN? Good question, as Hartfiel&#8217;s pool of knowledge is matched by only a few in the business and they don&#8217;t seem likely candidates for a move &#8211; or move back &#8211; to Madison. The decision, coming as it does at a time when print in general&#8217;s hemoraging ad pages, could at the least encourage defections from an advertising audience in a down market that&#8217;s already nervous and in retreat.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Good friend and industry icon Robin Hartfiel was abruptly let go yesterday by Athletic Business Publications, publishers of Motorcycle Product News where he&#8217;d hung his helmet as publisher\/editor since leaving the same position at Dealernews in October of &#8217;03 after 14 years of service to Advanstar. A self-described Luddite who nonetheless knows how to crank [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[4,14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-182","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marketplace-news","category-powersports-industry-insight"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pfUeo-2W","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/siebenthalercreative.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/siebenthalercreative.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/siebenthalercreative.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/siebenthalercreative.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/siebenthalercreative.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=182"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/siebenthalercreative.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/siebenthalercreative.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=182"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/siebenthalercreative.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=182"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/siebenthalercreative.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=182"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}