About The Rise To The Top

The #1 Non-Boring Resource For Building Your Business. Smarter. Faster. Cheaper.

What started as a TV show on ABC, The Rise To The Top has expanded to include:

RISE

RISE is a non-boring online show for entrepreneurs and forward-thinkers to help you build your business without fluff (if you want some fluff, go pet a bunny) and includes:

-In-depth interviews with successful, unique entrepreneurs spilling the beans on how they built their businesses.

-Entrepreneurs and thought leaders teaching specific lessons and "how to" information based on their experience.

-Interviews with entrepreneurial authors teaching lessons from their book(s).

-Cool web tools for entrepreneurs (and interviews with the entrepreneurs behind them).

You can get RISE shows directly to your email by subscribing in the upper right corner absolutely free (you can also subscribe via RSS).

Resources

Looking to go even more in depth and improve your business? Articles, resources, step-by-step guides and more are available to RISE viewers in the Articles/Resources section of the website. Woohoo.

RISE Events and Workshops

Revolutionary Ideas Supporting Entrepreneurship. Held in St. Louis, Missouri, David hosts a select series of workshops and events for entrepreneurs, marketers and communications professionals of all ages and backgrounds.

Ranging from "Dinner and Discussions" to "Lunch & Learns" and now the always-sold-out RISE Lunches as well as hands on business building workshops, there is something for anyone looking to grow their business as evidenced by well over 1,000 different attendees since 2008.

About David Siteman Garland

Entrepreneur, mediapreneur, marketer, speaker and author David Siteman Garland is the Founder of The Rise To The Top, The #1 Non-Boring Resource For Building Your Business Smarter, Faster, Cheaper and upcoming author of Smarter, Faster, Cheaper: Non-Boring, Fluff-free Strategies for Marketing and Promoting Your Business (Wiley Publishing). He writes/hosts RISE, a a web show for entrepreneurs, forward-thinkers, business owners and marketers, as well as The Rise To The Top TV show on ABC.

His philosophy is simple: Money follows passion and not the other way around.

After starting and stopping several unique entrepreneurial adventures and dabbling in everything from radio to hockey, David became frustrated that he could not find a great resource (that wasn't a snoozefest) where forward-thinkers could learn more about building, marketing and promoting their own businesses by being smarter, faster, cheaper as opposed to dumber, slower and expensive. What was missing was a new kind of TV and web show, one that was entertaining and educational, and that was part of an online hub that resonated with forward-thinking entrepreneurs and others that struck out on their own without multi-million dollar budgets.

Since such a show and website didn't exist, David decided to build it himself by investing all of his savings, time and energy to create from scratch a TV show, online resource and community of entrepreneurs and marketers.

Like many ventures, The Rise To The Top was born through brainstorming in a coffee shop. David shared his idea for the show with friends, successful business owners and creative types, all of whom thought it was a great concept. The Rise To The Top quickly attracted a wide and varied fan base, including not only the targeted demographic of those in their 20’s, 30’s and early 40’s, but also more “mature” viewers.

The show and web resource now has over 100,000 monthly viewers and numerous syndication deals (with zero dollars spent on traditional marketing and advertising tactics) with a big focus on interviews and picking the brain of top entrepreneurs, forward-thinkers and authors including Gary Vaynerchuk (Wine Library), Chris Brogan (ChrisBrogan.com), Tony Hsieh (Zappos), The Millionaire Matchmaker Patti Stanger, Seth Godin and many others.

He has been featured on CNN, ABC, NBC, CBS, City TV, My Network Television, as well as on KMOX and in Alive Magazine, The Riverfront Times, Ladue News, and St. Louis Magazine. He has no idea why he has become a media magnet so early in his career, but he’s certainly not turning down interviews and requests for videos.

David contributes as a writer and business/entrepreneurial commentator to CNN, CBS Bnet, Small Biz Trends, The St. Louis Business Journal, Personal Branding Blog, Speaker Magazine, Small Business Monthly and Great Day St. Louis. He was recently selected by Speaker Magazine as one of the Hot Speakers Of The Year.

He also has guest lectured at Washington University in St. Louis, St. Louis University and Fontbonne University.

Looking for more? Perhaps interview David? Visit the Work With David Page.