Backpack Trader

A $4.99 day-trading ebook engine. 1,553 buyers in 30 days at only $76 each, with the micro-funnel turning profitable alongside.
Growth Marketer — Tampa, FL · Remote-Ready
Master growth marketer with 30+ years of full-funnel execution and the hands-on builder's skill set to run every layer myself. Paid media, funnels, CRO, lifecycle, affiliate — measured in CAC, CPL, ROAS and closed revenue, not impressions. I've raised $20M in VC, launched a product from zero (Millrace), and built the AI-powered systems that let one marketer operate like a department. I don't hand off the hard parts — I run them.
const me = { role: 'Growth Marketer', mode: 'Strategy + hands-on execution', measures: ['CAC', 'CPL', 'ROAS', 'Revenue'], stack: { 'Acquisition': ['Meta', 'Google', 'LinkedIn'], 'Conversion': ['funnels', 'VSL', 'CRO', 'A/B'], 'Retention': ['email/SMS', 'lifecycle'], 'AI': ['agentic', 'automation', 'production'] }, output: 'Pipeline, not vanity metrics' };
01 — The Product I Built
I didn't just market it — I created it. Millrace is a live-transfer lead-to-meeting platform for high-ticket residential solar sales teams, solving the biggest open wound in appointment setting: no-shows. Qualified buyers connect to closers as live transfers with a one-tap virtual meeting launch. Zero no-show rate by design. Conceived, built, launched, and go-to-market — by me.
Booked appointments get a no-show list. Live transfers can't. Millrace connects qualified buyers to closers live, with the meeting launched on the spot — a hand-off that already happened can't ghost.
One integrated funnel: ingest → refine & staff → dial & qualify → live transfer. Managed campaign operations, personnel, and a custom dialer — built for your offer, exclusive by contract.
Every call scored. Setter ROI, campaign success scores, quality grades, live leaderboards, and payroll-grade earnings — one operating view from vendor to script to agent to DID.
02 — Client Results
Paid media, funnels, and CRO outcomes — every one with a measurable result and a case study one click away. This is what I mean by growth: revenue you can tie to the work.

A $4.99 day-trading ebook engine. 1,553 buyers in 30 days at only $76 each, with the micro-funnel turning profitable alongside.

Turned a $4.95 checklist into a 4×-ROAS funnel — micro purchases under $40 a buyer, feeding a $2,495 webinar offer.

Crushed the $200 CPA goal — booked calls down to $137.85 in 30 days, with a clear path to sub-$100. Real-estate coaching VSL funnel.

Booked security-service calls for $20 (target $200) — 'near me' + call-only Google Search ads feeding a qualified funnel.

Front-end VSL funnel plus a CRM call-screening middleware that warmed transfers to the floor — qualified SQLs around $20 each.

B2B call bookings around $120/booked appointment (peaks $75 after A/B testing and CRO) — with a $45K MRR portfolio at zero churn.
03 — The Growth Engine
Acquisition, conversion, lifecycle, and the data that ties it together — run as one system with one accountable number at the end: revenue. This is the stack I operate and the layer I own.
Meta, Google, LinkedIn, YouTube, TikTok. Budget allocation, dayparting, lookalike audiences, retargeting, and performance creative — managed to CAC and ROAS, not clicks. $2M in annual ad spend managed across client accounts — mid-size budgets are familiar ground, targeting ROAS of 10-20 sustained cross-channel.
Landing pages, VSL and webinar funnels, lead magnets, A/B testing, and offer positioning. Built and tested in-house — every lift measured against the control.
Email/SMS lifecycle automation, lead scoring and routing, nurture sequences, win-back flows — so the funnel compounds instead of leaking.
04 — Proof In Screenshots
The dashboards, the call intelligence, the pay and performance views, the ads — working systems from live deployments, all built hands-on as part of the growth engine.








05 — Résumé & Contact
Not a manager who delegates the hard parts — a 30+ year growth marketer who writes the copy, builds the funnel, runs the ads, and reads the data himself. Deep experience across every channel, plus AI-powered execution that multiplies what one marketer can ship.
Updated September 2026 · ATS-friendly · tailored for Growth Marketer roles.
Tampa, FL · remote-ready · walt.rines@gmail.com · (904) 444-0398
A growing company doesn't need a growth team and a data swamp. One marketer with three decades of mastery and AI-powered execution runs the whole engine — and is accountable to the revenue number at the end of it.