Meet the Group 5 Web Marketing Team

Celeste is the owner and founder of Group5Web. She moved to Tampa, Florida 4 years ago to work with the web development department for a local Marketing, Design, and Advertising Agency. She was repeatly approached by small business owners who needed inexpensive marketing solutions and were overwhelmed by the cost of effective advertising on the web—a little brainstorming—and CheApOWebDesign was born.

CheApOWebDesign was commited to helping small business owners tackle the daunting task of creating an effective online pressence inside their budgets.  While CheApO's websites were well-priced solutions they were never "cheap." The focus was that regardless of how little money you spent, if you don't get results from your efforts it was wasted money.  CheApO grew quickly, and in January of 2009, Celeste started Group5Web.

Group5's goals were the same and by bringing in outside experts in the disciplines Celeste felt were critical to success on the internet she was able to create a firm that could get great results.  Celeste will remain committed to serving the needs of small businesses in the coming years, and is excited that Group5 now offers a spectrum of well priced, benefits driven solutions to small business.

In 2003, Nikki Patrick decided to go into the graphic design field. She quickly advanced as a graphic designer for The Employment Guide while still in college. She wanted to set herself apart from the rest of the crowd and decided to change gears and go into the web design. She found her niche when she landed a job with the Tampa SEO Training Academy. There she helped to teach and to certified people in Search Engine Optimization & Internet Marketing. She was invited to serve as an expert on SEO panels for major shopping cart companies. She has writen internet marketing training e-books and runs a successful blog (www.TheSEOQueen.com) that helps small business owners learn how to properly market their businesses online.

Lisa went to the University of Texas at Austin where she studied creative writing and marketing. She was a visual merchandiser for GAP, INC for several years, then worked in Sales and Marketing for Sprint Nextel. She owned her own small business in Downtown St Petersburg for two years. During that time she became painfully aware of how quickly marketing was changing much more than a small business owner could keep up with.

Upon closing the business, she got a job with a web company in downtown St Petersburg where she learned the basics of marketing on the internet. A year and a half later, she joined Celeste and Nikki at Group 5 Web to become more involved in the production process and to offer more flexible solutions to businesses of all sizes.

Lisa’s passion is public speaking. She is a resource for SCORE and teaches Internet Marketing related classes at the City of St Petersburg Business Assistance Center.