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Today on The Rise To The Top: The #1 Non-Boring Business Show: Want to get more views on YouTube? Build a ridiculously awesome fan base? Become the go-to expert by building trust via video? Enter today’s guest, dating coach/consultant/web show host Vanae Tran, whose web show on YouTube has over 10,000,000 views (yes, 10,000,000!). In today’s show, Vanae reveals how she leveraged YouTube to create her dating empire (and how you can do the same for whatever topic you want to dominate).

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Today on The Rise To The Top: The #1 Non-Boring Business Show: A very special interview with the creator of IWearYourShirt.com’s Jason Sadler. So much to cover. We discuss how Jason is nabbing sponsors like hot cakes, his big plans for 2012, advice for personalitypreneurs and mediapreneurs, oh so much more.

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Today on The Rise To The Top: A little change up today on the show. Entrepreneur Mark Bland, creator of The Q Show, is in the house to pick my brain on how to build his audience and monetize his brand. Hope you enjoy the insights and pick up some ideas you can use for your delicious personality-based brand.

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Today on The Rise To The Top: The #1 Show For Mediapreneurs: Srinivas Rao from BlogcastFM is hanging out with us for a discussion on sponsorships, partnerships, engaging with your audience and much more. Srini just landed a MAJOR sponsor on his show (super props) and reveals many of the juicy details and oh so much more. Enjoy!

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Today on The Rise To The Top: The #1 Show For Mediapreneurs: The Podcast Answer Man, Cliff Ravenscraft, is in the house for a spirited conversation (to say the least)! We have a big time discussion on whether the term “podcast” sucks, and whether it is better to create/consume AUDIO podcasts or VIDEO podcasts and much more. Feel free to hop in below in the comments.

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Today on The Rise To The Top: The #1 Show For Mediapreneurs: Pat Flynn from Smart Passive Income is in the house talking blogging, podcasting and his super unique site where he actually discloses his income every month. How about that for transparency?

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I love how today’s guest, Ze Frank, describes what he does: He creates online play spaces.

He is the creator of zefrank.com, colorwars, The Show (one of the Internet’s earliest and most popular video blogs that inspired peeps like Gary Vaynerchuk), young me/now me, and many other online play spaces.

And he has a brand new project called Star.me.

And Ze has, to put this lightly, super fans. People that follow him (hopefully not in real life) and are … Read More »

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Yes, of course there is much more to it than that, but today’s guest Grace Helbig has a freakin’ awesome job. She hosts Daily Grace and is the in-house video blogger for My Damn Channel. I was lucky enough to hunt down Grace to give us all the inside scoop about who she is, what she is paid to do and all the work that goes into it, PLUS a few improv and “getting better on camera” tricks. Enjoy!

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Two big questions I get all the time:

1. “David, how do I land big time guests for my (blog, show, whatever)?”
2. “David, how do I get amazing press (for myself, business, blog, show, whatever)?”

So, I hunted down a great guy to share how he has done it (because that is what RISE is all about…teaching from experience, as opposed to fluffy theory).

Graham Bensinger is an interesting character (to say the least) and has a lot of insights and experience we can learn from (to say the least). A few … Read More »