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Ann Hill is a communications visionary. Her creativity and leadership, coupled with her methodical approach to communications, helps to ensure the success of each and every AHC project.
Hill’s approach to marketing communications and advertising has been strongly influenced by key industry leaders, particularly David Ogilvy. Like Ogilvy, Hill believes that there are certain humanistic factors that are fundamental to achieve successful outcomes for clients. She has built her award-winning reputation and successful business by adhering to these beliefs.
Hill believes that every communications and advertising program must be solidly grounded in research. For Hill, the first step to achieving successful outcomes is to have a thorough understanding of each client, their products and services. This understanding defines the components of each campaign, including target audience, messaging, and positioning, and ultimately helps to ensure successful brand development.
Hill attributes her many public relations accomplishments to her experiences in journalism and as a political consultant. Hill graduated magna cum laude from Ohio State University with a Masters in Journalism/PR. Hill developed her award-winning writing style as a feature writer and investigative reporter with the Dayton Daily News and other daily newspapers.
In addition to receiving numerous PR writing awards on behalf of her many clients, Hill is also the recipient of the Mead Writing Award for her brochure entitled University Community. She is also the author of Appalachian Culture: A Guide for Students and Teachers.
Among her many successful PR campaigns are projects for the renovation of the San Francisco Opera, the historic renovation of San Francisco City Hall, pioneering of PR for e-learning, and initiatives on behalf of the Global Café to use the Internet and e-learning to reduce teenage violence.
Following her journalism work, Hill founded her first marketing and public relations agency, Hill & Zoog, in Columbus, Ohio in 1978. The agency was primarily engaged as a political consultancy for Ohio House and Senate. Hill’s accomplishments while in Ohio included a record number of successful political campaigns, including the election of Ohio’s youngest senator.
Hill was also responsible for the creation of Ohio’s Women in Politics campaign. This enormously successful campaign resulted in the training and election of hundreds of women to Ohio’s political offices, including the future speaker of Ohio’s House of Representatives.
As principal of Ann Hill Communications, Hill has been responsible for leading AHC’s efforts in the creation and implementation of award-winning communications campaigns. Her leadership and vision have enabled the company to provide clients with highly successful public relations, investor relations, and marketing campaigns, resulting in higher awareness in the public mind of her clients’ point of view. This work has resulted in numerous writing and graphic design awards.
As Hill’s clients have come to appreciate, Ann Hill is unique in her ability to provide clients not only with the necessary big ideas, but also to combine the practical and methodical research-based follow through that turns big ideas into highly successful campaigns with positive results.
Another defining quality that Hill’s clients value is her comprehensive understanding and strategic guidance within the areas of public relations, investor relations, and marketing communications. Hill is conversant with the principles behind each of these disciplines—an uncommon strength—and is able to help clients implement totally integrated communications programs.
Hill is also an unusually versatile and gifted writer. She provides clients an array of writing capabilities, including the strongest possible feature writing, technical writing, news writing, op-ed columns, and corporate communications writing, along with expertise in the crafting of advertising copy and company collateral materials.
