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 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.
 | David Siteman Garland | 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, Siteman Garland 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, Siteman Garland 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. Siteman Garland 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.
Siteman Garland 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, Saint Louis University and Fontbonne University. |