Ralph Ruckman And Ryan Gray Speaking At iDate In L.A.

Ruck and I have been asked to speak at a session during this June’s iDate conference in Beverly Hills.  We’re going to be discussing how advertisers are leveraging SMS marketing with their mobile campaigns to sustain increased conversion rates and higher quality leads.  This will all be part of the “Advanced Mobile Marketing CEO Session” that includes speakers from Jumptap and Leadsmob.

Our session description:

Ryan Gray:

Ryan Gray is the co-founder of IMGrind.com a private community and blog for Internet Marketers including Affiliates, Advertisers, and Entrepreneurs.  Since 1998 Ryan has owned a number of different Internet start-ups including one of the world’s largest professional wrestling websites, a web hosting company, and a performance marketing company that leveraged revenues over $2.6 million a quarter with aggressive media buys.  Ryan is considered an expert in lead generation, traffic acquisition, and customer retention.  He holds a bachelors degree from West Virginia University in Business.

Ralph Ruckman:

Since 2005 Ralph “Ruck” Ruckman has been a serial Internet Entrepreneur in the performance marketing industry.  Quickly leveraging profits that exceeded six figures a month, Ralph gained immense experience in email, search engine, and social media marketing.  In 2008, he co-found one of the top CPA affiliate networks in the world (according to mThink), leveraging revenue to over $30 million dollars in under three years with over 2,000 active affiliates. Ralph is considered an expert in all facets of Internet Marketing and has consulted a number of different publishers to sustain profits exceeding a million dollars a year. He is currently co-founder of the IMGrind.com private community and blog for Internet Marketers.

Session Overview:

Ryan & Ralph will focus on how advertisers are integrating SMS marketing into their existing mobile lead generation campaigns to sustain increased conversion rates while maintaining a high level of quality.  They’ll cover the “must haves” when it comes to mobile lead generation and how to monetize leads over a period of time as well as the essentials to lead nurturing.  From selecting the best creative to writing the most effective message, Ralph & Ryan will show you how some companies are sustaining astronomical ROIs with these advanced methods using ground-breaking new traffic strategies.

From the iDate website:

Internet Dating Conference (Beverly Hills) brings you highly qualified experts in the internet industry to speak about all forms of management, technology, marketing and traditional marketing/advertising for the internet dating industry at this event. The presentations will be focused on topics concerning better management of an online personals site, improving profitability, increasing traffic and improving conversion rates. Each presenter will be both objective and neutral.

We are currently seeking speakers for this event. Only experts in business management of Internet Dating, Social Networking, marketing and advertising experts (both traditional and internet), new technology experts (ex software, mobile) as well as venture capital experts will be considered.

This is all going to go down at the SLS Hotel in Beverly HIlls on June 20th through 22nd.  Our session will be on Wednesday, June 20th, from 2:00 p.m. to 5:00 p.m. PT.  They have some pretty sick specials for pre-registering, so if you plan on coming, get in early.  We want to extend a personal thanks to organizer Marc Lesnick for reaching out to us.  We look forward to a very successful event!