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Today on The Rise To The Top: The #1 Non-Boring Business Show: Want to become a thought leader and rock star in your industry? A celebrity in your niche? Maybe speak at the top events in your industry and write cool books? All sounds dandy. But, what does it take to get there? When it comes to new media and digital media there are few more influential than today’s guest Brian Solis, author of the new book, The End of Business as Usual. Today, we dive into how he got there and how you can do the same (get ready to work your butt off!). Enjoy!

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Today on The Rise To The Top: The #1 Non-Boring Business Show: Are you dominating Facebook? Do you want to dominate Facebook? (The answer is yes, by the way.) We have the master here today, Amy Porterfield, to teach us three things:

1. How to grow your fan base, without begging for fans.
2. How to create MASSIVE engagement (get people talking).
3. How to turn fans into super fans (cape not included).

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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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You might remember my evil twin Carol Roth on this episode of The Rise To The Top. Since then, Carol has continued to dominate. In fact, her book The Entrepreneur Equation (affiliate) hit the New York Times Best-Seller List and #1 overall on Amazon.

One thing (among many) Carol has done extremely well is leverage herself into the media. She pops up everywhere…all the time. In this interview, I wanted to find out for all of us how she went about it and the results. Did she put a magic … Read More »

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When it comes to getting things done, Peter Shankman is more machine than man. For example:

• Peter is best known for founding Help A Reporter Out (HARO), which in under a year became the de-facto standard for thousands of journalists looking for sources on deadline, offering them more than 200,000 sources around the world looking to be quoted in the media. (Check out Peter’s first appearance on The Rise To The Top discussing how he built HARO.)
• Peter has completed

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NOTE: Michael was cool enough to be giving away a signed copy of his book Launch to a member of the RISE community (SWEET!). Whomever promotes this interview in the most creative way (and tells us about it in the comments) will get the book shipped to them. Let the fun begin.

Michael Stelzner knows a thing or two when it comes to building a passionate audience and building a successful media business. Already on the show once before, Michael is … Read More »

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I knew when I saw this video on YouTube from today’s guest Amy Martin, I had to get her back on the show to share some lessons with the RISE community. Amy is one of the FIRST guests I ever interviewed on Skype all the way back in 2009 and is someone that walks the walk and talks the talk. Amy herself has over 1,000,000 followers on Twitter (yes, 1,000,0000+), is the person responsible for Shaq being one of the early … Read More »

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When it comes to the world of YouTube celebrities, Michael Buckley is right at the top. He is one of YouTube’s original partners with his show “What The Buck” that has over 1,000,000 subscribers (in fact his SECOND channel has around 250,000 subscribers!!). I knew I had to find out more for all of us, and I was able to track down Michael for today’s episode. Enjoy!

About Today’s Guest, Michael Buckley:

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