Biography
Dan Stratford is an accomplished digital marketing expert with extensive experience in SEO, social media, programmatic advertising, conversion optimization, strategy development, Google paid search, email marketing, and more.
Dan optimized his first website to rank at the top of search engines Lycos and Excite back in 1997.
Dan was among the first few hundred people in the U.S. to achieve Google AdWords Advanced Certification in the early 2000s.
He has built and sold 2 agencies and consulted for businesses in the most competitive industries , including home services, warranty companies and the legal industry.
In 2020, he left the agency side to start a national auto warranty company, which grew from zero to over $100 million in yearly revenue within two years, despite launching at the beginning of the COVID pandemic.
Dan purchased a national 3v3 soccer tournament company in March of 2025 to follow his lifelong passion of soccer after playing college and professionally, and coaching his children
He still provides digital marketing consulting for large firms and other competitive industries, and provides expert witnessing services for Digital Marketing related cases.
On the personal side, he’s a dad of five grown children, has four grandchildren, an awesome Rottweiler named Modric, and enjoys snowboarding, auto racing, mountain biking, dancing, plays bass guitar and sings in a band.
Proudly and clinically diagnosed as ADHD in 1970 by one of the leading Doctors in the US studying the topic, distractions are always a challenge.
He also likes to brag that he’s just over $1 billion away from becoming a billionaire.