Ingrid Ricks
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Ingrid Ricks, principal of RC Strategies Group, is a marketer, a journalist and an entrepreneur.

She started her career as a journalist, writing for The Seattle Times, Ladies Home Journal and other publications. She moved into marketing as a way to help her father build a telecommunications business. In her earliest marketing efforts, she developed a flyer that outlined why truckers needed personal 800 numbers and spent a year crisscrossing the country posting the flyers in truck stops - launching a business that grew into a $100,000 monthly revenue stream and served as seed money that built a $300 million...[more]

Ingrid Ricks, principal of RC Strategies Group, is a marketer, a journalist and an entrepreneur.

She started her career as a journalist, writing for The Seattle Times, Ladies Home Journal and other publications. She moved into marketing as a way to help her father build a telecommunications business. In her earliest marketing efforts, she developed a flyer that outlined why truckers needed personal 800 numbers and spent a year crisscrossing the country posting the flyers in truck stops - launching a business that grew into a $100,000 monthly revenue stream and served as seed money that built a $300 million telecom company.

Ingrid has a love for product development and innovative marketing strategies that drive sales. Her current focus is in the digital media space. She has created digital entertainment products for the promotional market and has launched her own line of Latino-focused mobile entertainment cards for the retail sector. She currently works as an e-marketing and digital promotions consultant, helping companies drive the results they want through cost conscious strategies that combine online marketing, social media, public relations and digital promotions strategies.

Ingrid is passionate about social issues. She has traveled twice to Africa to document the plight of AIDS orphans and children impacted by civil war, famine, disease and poverty on behalf of The African Children's Choir. She has also written numerous investigative pieces for The Advocate focused on the injustices perpetrated against the gay and lesbian community. [less]