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Gina Smith

Florida SBDC at USF, Tampa
Specialty: Website Design, SEO

As a marketing practitioner, Gina Smith and her team have developed search engine friendly websites for a variety of industries including healthcare, legal, government, education, tourism, specialty products and a number of small businesses. She also specializes in ongoing SEO and content development. Gina Smith conducts website evaluations and delivers website reports on behalf of the Florida SBDC at University of South Florida. The reports are a comprehensive analysis, examining the overall performance, user experience (UX) and search engine optimization (SEO) of client websites. Her previous experience includes seven years providing strategic consulting, public relations and marketing consulting services for Berkeley County, South Carolina and more than four years managing large-scale events for the Mid-Florida Chapter of the National Multiple Sclerosis Society. Smith graduated from the University of Central Florida with degrees in motion picture technology and journalism (specializing in advertising and public relations) and a minor in sociology.

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Joe Pfeiffer

Florida SBDC at USF, Tampa
Specialty: Growth Acceleration

Joe Pfeiffer has more than 30 years of experience helping businesses of various types and sizes nationwide identify and resolve business problems that maximize efficiency, profitability, customer satisfaction and the market value of the business. He currently assists Florida SBDC at USF Growth Acceleration clients with operations evaluation and plans. Pfeiffer had a 22 year career at UPS with management positions in operations, training and industrial engineering at the district office and in the corporate office as air IE ground handling operations, international marketing, and pan-euro acquisitions IE project manager. Each of these roles managed projects involving $100M to $500M. He has held senior management positions working for various mid-sized companies. For the past 15 Pfeiffer has been focused on using his experience as a designer of training programs, facilitator and presenter of a variety of workshops and innovation sessions, business coach, business analyst and management consultant to assist businesses of all sizes and industries. His education includes earning a bachelor of science in business from Indiana University, an MBA from Butler University and a certificate in entrepreneurship from Clayton State University.

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