Eric Ruth

ERIC RUTH is an award winning, two-time Inc 500 business owner and has helped raise over $2 million for charity. Best known as a relationship and referral marketing specialist, Eric is the Founder of LocalByReferral.com and TheReferralChallenge.com. Eric is a student-practitioner of direct response marketing and an acclaimed copywriter. He teaches and coaches over 10,000 business owners who have invested in his products and programs. Eric got hooked on Louis L’Amour westerns as a child of US diplomats growing up in the Middle East. He credits his voracious appetite for books and prolific writing to those early days of being transfixed by words on paper. During college, Eric launched his first business, which failed within a year, but gave him the entrepreneurial itch that he continues to scratch to this day.