The GH team is acutely aware of how your audience’s expectations and needs are rapidly evolving — we can show you how to keep them happy.
We’re a PR firm that stays ahead of the shifting communications landscape with discovery-led public relations and marketing strategies that distill and then amplify your brand’s strengths.
With our game-changing discovery process leading the way, GH’s services cover you from every angle – including those you might not have recognized yet.
Our niche professional services are always finely tuned to meet your PR, brand, reputation, or marketing challenges.
“GH excels at creating persuasive content for a multitude of marketing and fundraising platforms, including news, web, social and email campaigns. Our relevance and name recognition measurably improved because of their strategies.”
– Dr. Lynn Morrison, CEO of Brandywine Counseling & Community Services
GH will design and implement your results-led public relations campaign. As formidable and proven leaders in strategic PR, we discover your story, and then tell it with creativity, passion and targeted messaging. You draw on our extensive suite of well-honed PR services including media relations, speechwriting, brand positioning, digital solutions, creative and video production. The goal is to enhance your brand and reputation and build success.
GH’s integrated approach to your brand’s media management is a clear differentiator and a proven roadmap to standing out from the crowd. Our full, cohesive media management service will recommend, devise and manage your comprehensive media plan and placements, from strategically positioned publicity and hard-core news, to social media posts and YouTube videos.
GH’s early advantage strategies secure community buy-in for new projects, products or public engagement initiatives. We put your brand or issue in a positive spotlight. Our tactics include audience analyses, community and key influencer outreach, project branding, earned media targets, advertising, social media management, town hall meetings, events and workshops.
In a crisis the GillespieHall PR team is your first responder. Our core services include crisis scenario preparation, media and stakeholder training, simulation and management. Our swift, knowledgeable response guides clients through potentially devastating situations. We focus on short- and long-term essentials, creating messaging strategies that launch and navigate a clear recovery. GH’s founding partner Bridget Paverd is a sought-after crisis consultant and teaches on the topic at the University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton Business School.
Need a business brand refresh or an entirely new brand? GH’s research will find your core value proposition and create a fitting visual identity. We design logos to be bold, memorable and relevant in communicating your business persona. What’s more, our designs scale smoothly across media.
“GH produced a new brand to align perfectly with our marketing objectives, medical philosophy and business goals. Our former image has been converted into a sleek, sophisticated and highly-customized brand identity that resonates with staff and patients.” – Gary Dix MD MBA (Neurosurgeon)
Redefine your personal brand for greater success. GillespieHall’s Executive Branding Suite (EBS) is our personalized, digital PR service. EBS is designed to position professionals to achieve career goals, rise to the next level or change course entirely. We consolidate and strengthen your personal social media profiles, and create a powerful message to connect with the right people.
GillespieHall was the first PR agency to integrate social media into our campaigns – back in 2006! We help you leverage essential digital and social media marketing platforms. From Facebook and Twitter advertising, to content creation and managing your social footprint, we design, implement and report on PR, branding and marketing campaigns in the digital space. Our online prowess extends to SEO strategies, social account design and management, and activity monitoring and response.
At GillespieHall we bring powerful ideas to life. Whether it’s your product, your service, your mission or your passion, our creative marketing team engages audiences and draw them into the story. GH’s graphic design professionals turn captivating concepts into brilliant print, advertising, promotional and digital collateral. We have launched hundreds of logos and corporate identities.
GillespieHall helps you create, utilize and manage your website to position it as a welcoming entrance to your brand. Our services work to ensure your website is a powerful marketing tool. We can structure it to increase visits, sales and leads, and keep it updated and fresh. We help your business with SEO tactics, pay-per-click ads, strategic targeting and search engine marketing (SEM) techniques using customized PR strategies.
At GH we’re seasoned presenters. From crisis communications and public speaking skills, to social media responsibility, our topics are relevant, engaging and valuable in very practical terms. Our audiences cover professional organizations such as PRSA, NFPW, business schools and universities, family-owned businesses and public corporations, plus nonprofits such as The Philadelphia Bar Association, The American Lung Association, Christiana Care and Nemours.
GillespieHall has a powerful understanding of building and retaining audiences through dynamic and enjoyable blogs. We write award-winning blog posts that capture and keep audience attention. Blogs forge a strong connection between your brand and your target audience, and we’re known for achieving this for clients through our attention to creating valuable, thought-provoking content in a design that brings readers back.
Our GillespieHall clients are passionate about what they do. And so are we.
Our clients are in finance, healthcare, biotech, education, consumer services, IT, agriculture and social services. We work with famous authors and politicians too—life is never dull at GH!
GH clients span the globe from Philadelphia to London. We’re proud and humbled to work with successful corporations, family-owned businesses, non-profit organizations and individuals.
Teaming with GH brings clients face to face with our discovery-led approach to building brands and organizations. This process produces strategies perfectly designed to meet our clients’ goals. It’s a commitment that delivers an edge on your competition.
“We prefer to have your back instead of being out front.” – Bridget Paverd, GH Partner
"GH was involved in every detail of launching and sustaining our new school: they designed a new website and managed all the social media and recruitment messaging. CTA exceeded enrollment goals by almost 30% the first year we opened. GH is a diverse, effective, fun firm to work with."
Dr. L. Henderson
Executive Director, Cedar Tree Academy Public Charter School DC
"GillespieHall has aligned our brand and helped us grow and maintain the largest digital footprint in our industry. They are truly our marketing partners."
Matthew S.
Business Owner, Service Industry, Delaware
"GH’s early advantage strategies played a significant role in having our communities and stakeholders understand and support our project."
Executive, Large Power Company, NY
"No detail left to chance, GH created a new corporate identity for our company and introduced us to the world of digital marketing. GH directed us through the brand transition and created a healthy online corporate profile."
John Hartnett CPA
CEO Capital and Worth
"GH’s knowledge and understanding of the digital environment is exceptional, and that, combined with their solid talent for PR strategy and messaging, has made this a hugely successful ongoing endeavor."
L. Seaman
Director Digital Strategies AAA
"GillespieHall is an extraordinary international award-winning marketing, branding and e-commerce firm. They have the unusual talent mix of exquisite visual market positioning and the business impact analytics expertise to measure impact, connect with strategy, and help revise appropriately."
Mike Bowman
President, Delaware Technology Park; Associate Director Office of Economic Innovation and Partnerships (OEIP)
"Smart messaging, passionate storytelling and beautiful visuals generated by GillespieHall have consistently brought the American Lung Association's mission into the hearts and minds of people in the Mid-Atlantic, strengthening our brand, our relevance, and our visibility."
Deborah P. Brown
CEO, American Lung Association of the Mid Atlantic (DE, NJ, WV, PA, DC, VA, MD)
"We entrusted GillespieHall with our online messaging and search engine optimization, and are truly impressed with the results. The GH team has taken the time necessary to understand our discipline and our audiences, and positioned us accordingly."
Peter Todd
Chairman, Osiris Mauritius
"GH has been our communication partner for over 6 years. They have worked with us to launch new programs, escort in new laws, and save thousands of lives. The GH team is responsive, pro-active and has created a BCCS brand that is synonymous with service, care, integrity and strength. GH makes sure our message is known, respected and supported. They are truly our partners."
Dr. Lynn Fahey
CEO, Brandywine Counseling & Community Services
"We hired GH to strengthen our online brand. The growth was exponential, and in less than a year we had a digital community of supporters that grew 260%."
Craig Boggs
VP Marketing, Row Eleven Wines
"GH taught me the value of meticulous discovery; their process provided a clear way forward for my development team."
Brad W. Clason
"Our brand recognition went from 52% to 89% in six months thanks to the GH designed and implemented awareness campaign."
CEO, national fixture manufacturer
"What sets GH apart is the firm’s ability to marshal a truly impressive understanding of the possibilities of the fast-paced digital marketing space to consistently create and deliver high impact PR campaigns."
Carl Maugeri
Sr. Associate Director, Wharton Communication Program