Teri Hansen honored by PRNEWS as one of America's top business entrepreneurs

FORT MYERS, Fla. - April 18, 2025 - PRLog -- PRNEWS, a national media hub for communications and marketing, has honored Teri Hansen, APR, for the third time through its 2025 Top Women Awards.

Hansen, president and chief creative officer at Priority Marketing, was among 13 women honored in the business entrepreneur category. Overall, PRNEWS recognized 110 professionals nationwide who are driving progress, shaping the industry and inspiring others across communications.

The business entrepreneur category honors founders and leaders who are blazing trails with new ventures or scaling their own independent firms.

Hansen and Priority Marketing have been the impetus behind thousands of business success stories for some of the region's best-known brands, including Norman Love Confections, Sunshine Ace Hardware, Margaritaville, Ocean Prime, Mark Loren Designs and hundreds more. Priority Marketing also has become the go-to firm for nonprofits, including organizations like Lee Health Foundation, Better Together, Kids' Minds Matter, Builders Care and others while serving as the driving force behind Market Trends of Southwest Florida, Industry Appreciation Awards, the Community Prayer Breakfast and dozens of other special events and signature fundraising galas. Under Hansen's direction, Priority Marketing has helped raise hundreds of millions of dollars to support local nonprofits' missions while also providing more than $6 million in pro bono and discounted services.

The firm partners with clients across a broad spectrum of industries, including hospitality and tourism, retail, health care, senior living, construction, legal, financial, government, education, locally owned businesses and charitable organizations. Over the years, the firm's list of professional services has expanded to include public relations, brand development, web services, social media, creative services, media buying, video production, digital marketing and event planning.

She has earned a multitude of notable individual honors and awards, including a Lifetime Achievement Award from the Florida Public Relations Association, Silver Medal Lifetime Achievement Award and Advertising Hall of Fame Honoree from the American Advertising Federation, and Business Hall of Fame Laureate from Junior Achievement of Southwest Florida. Hansen serves on the board of directors for Lee BIA Builders Care and SalusCare, and on an advisory board for Better Together. She previously was on boards for Habitat for Humanity of Lee and Hendry Counties and Lakes Park Enrichment Foundation.

Under Hansen's leadership, Priority Marketing has won hundreds of local, state, national and international awards. The firm is the only agency in Florida Public Relations Association history to sweep the three highest honors at the organization's Golden Image Awards. GrowFL named Priority Marketing to its prestigious Companies to Watch list and PRNEWS named the agency to its Agency Elite Top 100 firms in the nation. Additionally, the firm has won national and international awards through the Academy of Interactive and Visual Arts, American Advertising Federation, Association of Marketing & Communications Professionals, Print Industries of America, Davey Awards, Telly Awards and other associations.