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About
Ingrid Ricks, who founded Ricks Communications in 2001, is a marketer, a journalist and an entrepreneur.
She
started her career as a print journalist and 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 entertainment 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 works primarily as a
marketing communications consultant, helping digital entertainment providers
and companies specializing in digital entertainment promotions to deliver their
message through branding, public relations, articles, Web sites, sales sheets,
e-newsletters and other marketing mediums.
Ingrid is also 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.
She lives, works and plays in the Ballard neighborhood of Seattle with her husband, John, and daughters Sydney and Hannah.
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