About Us

behind the scenes at Ranking Trainer

Our story

Our Founder, Richard Gaustad, started to build Ranking Trainer in 2017 after numerous Affiliates, colleagues, contractors and friends urged him to begin teaching what he knows so other can benefit too.

After 2  years of development, we started actively promoting Membership sales in early 2020 and continue to add new courses, lessons, income platforms and build our community.

Mission Statement

First is to provide the finest SEO and Website Design services anywhere, and to do it at reasonable prices so even the smallest companies can affort the best.

Second, is to become the leading e-learning source for people seeking  a Do-It-Yourself method to perform theswe services for themselves,.

Parent Company

Ranking Trainer is a division of Mr. Gaustad’s telecom services, which he started in March 2006. This International telecom service, at the time of this writing (Winter 2020) processes millions of calls daily and reaches more than 220 countries.

B2B Servivces

Ranking Trainer provides Web Design and SEO services for local, national and international Clients. We’ve been doing this for many years and our clients have had great success!  Contact us at any time for a fee quote on your project.

B2C Services

B2C means “Bsiness-to-Consumer.” We provide 2 different services for consumers:  Our Membership training platform and Voifone UCS (“Unified Communication System”). Voifone UCS is very similar to WhatsApp, except it has more VoIP features and also pays its users for sharing the app with others who also use it. Incomes can be significant. (See disclaimer in footer below.)

Online Income Platforms

Ranking Trainer is unique because we have integrated training with our Affiliate program so users not only learn to build their OWN income-producing websites, but they can also sell Ranking Trainer memberships and all Voifone services because all Members are also registered as Affiliates.  Our Affiliate program is capable of providing incomes ranging from part time to professional level incomes.  (See disclaimer in footer.)

Your Dream. Our Mission.

We Believe Everyone should build an online income

We train our Members to be financially self-sufficient with WordPress and SEO training, YouTube marketing, mobile marketing and our own proprietary Affiliate and Voifone UCS income platforms.

Regardless of age, education, economic status, religion or country of origin, we help our members achieve their financial dreams and goals.

A Tough Loss Ends With A Win

How A Hard Experience Inspired Me To Start Ranking Trainer

Handicapped Distributors, Inc. (HDI) was started by our founder, Richard Gaustad in the late 1980’s.  It was eventually subjected to wrongful prosecution in 1991.  But the silver lining was that the company’s investors sued the government and the end result was the case was dropped and a front-page article in the hometown newspaper where Mr. Gaustad lived at the time, disclosed that the government never had a case in the first place.  The HDI investors instructed him to restart the business. He did so. The newly restarted company eventually grew to nearly double the original $18M annual revenue to about $30M. The original promo video for this company, plus the front page newspaper article exonerating Mr. Gaustad and the company are presented below.  This is a great example of the classic story Three Feet From Gold” (a 3-minute read – well worth it) as told in the book “Think and Grow Rich” by Napolean Hill. The videos and article below provide insight into Mr. Gaustad’s lengthy business history and the tenacity required to build any business, even YOUR business. 

This experience along with the subsequent losses expressed in “My Personal Business Story” above, provided the inspiration to start the enterprise I have now been running for about 17 years.  I’ve been helping companies succeed online, providing communications services and helping anyone who wants to increase their income to achieve their goals since 2006.  It has been a thrilling ride!

It appears that my current enterprise will have several times the annual revenue of my previous largest company before I sell it to a larger firm.  In the meantime, I expect our current rapid growth will continue and increase because the services I provide are badly needed all over the world.

When you work with any of my companies, Ranking Trainer, RTECH or Voifone, you get nothing but the best in product and service.

Here's Some Content Showing Previous Success and Exoneration

Lessons learned in 1991 apply today

Original VHS Promo Tape for HDI 1991

Front Page, Mesa Tribune, February 14, 1994

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