Summary
Mary Baum is the founder and owner of RacquetPress, a niche digital agency serving the tennis industry that blends WordPress core contribution with hands-on marketing, event publishing, and photography. With over three decades of creative experience and 11 years focused on web and brand work, she builds WordPress-powered sites while still driving measurable sales through print collateral, direct mail, and event programs. An active WordPress core contributor and 2022 core team representative, she helps shape the platform that runs a large share of the web. Mary pairs strategic branding sensibility with practical production skills—selling ad inventory, managing print deadlines, and even shooting tournament photography herself—so clients get both creative vision and gritty execution. Based in Missouri, she brings a rare combination of semiotics-informed design thinking and boots-on-the-ground marketing know-how to niche sports and small-business clients.
10 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Semiotics, the theory of signs and symbols, Semiotics, the theory of signs and symbols at Brown University
BFA, Graphic Communications, BFA, Graphic Communications at Washington University in St. Louis
French, css, php