Bob Bentz

Marketer, Professor, Author, Keynote Speaker





RELEVANCE RAISES RESPONSE and that is precisely why mobile marketing is the greatest advertising and marketing medium of all-time. Mobile offers the ability to laser target your audience by providing the best offer, at the best time, when the targeted customer is most likely to buy.
– Bob Bentz

ABOUT BOB

MARKETER, PROFESSOR, AUTHOR, KEYNOTE SPEAKER




Bob Bentz

Bob Bentz is CEO of mobile-first marketing agency  Purplegator. He also led Advanced Telecom Services from a start-up, with no outside financing, to $62.2 million in annual sales with offices in the USA, Canada, UK, Czech Republic, and Taiwan. He is the author of   Relevance Raises Response: How to Engage and Acquire with Mobile Marketing.

Purplegator has worked with an impressive client list, which includes AutoZone, M&M Mars, Papa John’s Pizza, Citi Trends, Huntington Learning Center, City of Pittsburgh, City of Knoxville, State University of New York, Maryland Public Television, and Baylor, Scott & White Hospitals.

Advanced Telecom Services, now in its fifth decade, is an automated, interactive telemarketing company co-founded by Bentz, in 1989. It grew from a start-up, with no outside funding, to $62.2 million in annual sales with offices in the United States, Canada, United Kingdom, Czech Republic, and Taiwan. It provides telecom solutions to companies such as ADP, Maine Public Television, World Wrestling Entertainment, and the United States Embassy.

Bentz is the author of  Relevance Raises Response: How to Engage and Acquire with Mobile Marketing (2nd edition, 2021) and  Opportunity is Calling (1993). He has been a frequent speaker at numerous industry events and has been quoted in many publications.

From 2015 to 2019, Bentz was an adjunct at the University of Denver where he taught the graduate level course in mobile marketing in the Communication Management program. He earned an MBA, with emphasis in marketing, from Marshall University, and is a graduate of the Perley Isaac Reed School of Journalism at West Virginia University.

Bentz is a baseball coach who has coached six players who have gone on to play professionally, including one who is currently in MLB. He is active in dog rescue and lives in St. Davids, Pennsylvania. You can find him at C3 in the Blue Lot at all WVU home football games.

BOOKS

BOB’S PUBLISHED BOOKS AVAILABLE ON AMAZON. CLICK HERE TO VIEW ALL BOOKS.

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MEDIA COVERAGE

BOB IN THE NEWS. PLEASE CLICK MEDIA LOGOS TO READ MORE.

Twenty Thousand Hertz
Agency Toolkit Podcast
Side Hustle
Rise 25
PathMonk
Morning Score
MyCorporation
LeeLine Sourcing
Delante
Pizza Media
Build Remote
DashThis

KEYNOTE SPEECHES

BOB HAS DELIVERED KEYNOTE SPEECHES TO THE FOLLOWING ASSOCIATIONS, ORGANIZATIONS AND CONFERENCES.

AMA
AMA PHILADELPHIA
WVU
UOD
MLB

CONTACT

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