Bob Bentz

Bob Bentz

Bob Bentz is president 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.