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Community Highlights: Meet Santiago Padin of Guía de Compras Orlando

Today we’d like to introduce you to Santiago Padin.  

Hi Santiago, thanks for joining us today. We’d love for you to start by introducing yourself.
We are Argentinians living in Spain and huge fans of traveling and especially to Orlando. We visit this amazing city every year since 2011 and we went there for the first time on 1998. We love Orlando, the theme parks, and spending our vacations with our family there. 

On 2015 we wanted to start doing something online about our favorite place to visit and decided to start writing about shopping in Orlando. At that time, we were the first Spanish-speaking exclusive dedicated website to write and advise about shopping in Orlando. On this year we launched Guía de Compras Orlando, the number one Spanish-speaking blog specialized in shopping tips and information about Orlando, Florida. 

Our aim is to provide full information about how to organize and take the biggest advantage of doing shopping in Orlando. 

We are Shoppers, and we love shopping in Orlando! Many years of experience as regular shoppers, gave us the expertise to give the best advice, help to organize, and get the best discounts and tips to our readers and followers. 

We’re constantly in touch with our readers. We always research all the possible options to be updated with the last Sales, Coupons, Clearances, and best places to buy anything in Orlando. 

We give personalized advice on the best places for each interest. 

Throughout these 7 years, we developed a website (visited by over 2.000.000 people), blog, YouTube Channel, Twitter, Facebook Page (+37.000 fans) and Group (+27.000 active members), Instagram, and a large email community. We helped hundreds of thousands of people on their trip to Orlando making them save a lot of money and have lots of fun. 

We love to help and interact whit our followers and we want to continue with this adventure for more and more years! 

I’m sure you wouldn’t say it’s been obstacle-free, but so far would you say the journey has been a fairly smooth road?
It was not easy to get here. At the beginning, there were many sleepless nights to create the content that today has our website. We have spent hundreds of hours researching, experimenting, and testing all the tips we give to our followers. We had to insist a lot at the beginning so that the main stores and shopping malls would pay attention to us, but it was worth it. 

This enormous effort led us to become the number one in our field. 

Thanks for sharing that. So, maybe next you can tell us a bit more about your business?
Guía de Compras Orlando is not our only activity. In fact, we are dedicated to other professional activities that are our main livelihood, and Guía de Compras is a hobby, not very remunerated, that we are passionate about. 

We’d love to hear about any fond memories you have from when you were growing up?
We have a lot of memories, but in my case, I remember dreaming about visiting Disney World and Universal Studios. I could accomplish these dreams on 1998 for the first time, and I still love going again and again. 

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