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Dan Soschin

Co-Owner & General Manager at The Pilates Krewe

@dansoschin Tampa, FL joined Apr 2021

dansoschin.com github.com/DanSoschin Slack: @Dan Soschin

    Bio

    Tampa, Florida, resident by way of Northern Virginia and San Francisco, Dan first found WordPress when exploring content marketing back in 2009, and it was love at first “site.” Dan and his family of four spend their weekends biking around Tampa, searching for the best donuts and pizza, dodging hurricanes, visiting one of the many amusement parks in the area, collecting all sorts of things, building Legos, beach-going, walking, and laughing until they cry.

    Dan and his wife (originally from Saratoga, CA) own three Pilates studios in Tampa, so he has no excuse not to stay in shape!

    Dan has 25 years of experience in marketing, communications, and technology.

    Dan graduated from the University of Virginia and attended Thomas Jefferson HS for Sci/Tech in Annandale, Virginia.

    Interests

    Family, outdoors stuff (biking, hiking, scooting, climbing, rafting, beaching, walking), movies, coins and memorabilia, travel, games, laughing.

    WordPress Origin Story

    In 2009, I was the head of performance marketing at a large university. Back in that day, schools really did not do a lot of online marketing – especially blogging and content creation. However, I was focused on growing online enrollments and believed we could create blogs/content for each school at the university. Looking over the shoulder of my web developer one afternoon, I saw that he was fiddling with one of the new sites we were just about to launch, focused on homeland security news/opinion. I asked what he was using to create the website/blog and he said, “WordPress”. For me, it was love at first “site”. The rest, as they say, is history…

    Badges

    CODE
    3 badges
    Core Contributor '22 Core Team '22 Meta Contributor '24
    CONTENT
    5 badges
    Documentation Contributor '24 Marketing Contributor '24 Marketing Team '24 Media Corps Contributor '24 Media Corps Team '24
    COMMUNITY
    1 badge
    WordCamp Organizer '21

    Current Job

    Co-Owner & General Manager
    Present
    The Pilates Krewe