About Us

Clark Marketing is an independent marketing services firm focused on helping businesses and professional agencies meet their overflow marketing needs.

We focus on building success for our clients. Our work—whether it is creative, for collateral materials, or more long-form and strategic—is informed by research and backed by experience. From strategy to detail, we’ve developed an approach that has proven successful for our clients—whatever the goal.

We have helped our clients
• Communicate internally and externally
• Build training programs
• Support new product development
• Perform—and make decisions based on—competitive analysis
• Support the sales function with materials and process refinement
• Benefit from primary and secondary research
• Achieve goals for growth or brand position
   —and much more

In a relatively short amount of time, Clark Marketing has worked with a wide range of organizations, including:
• A.G. Edwards
• Advanced Technology Services (ATS)
• Alliance Library System
• American Express
• cmfi Group
• Caterpillar
• iceCentric
• Medical Marketing Group
• Methodist Medical Center
• PeoplePC
• Peoria Chiefs Baseball
• Peoria Civic Center
• Ross Creative+Strategy
• Simantel Group
• Steak n Shake

Our approach is simple. By matching goals with desired results, we help our clients move forward. With commitment to quality and attention to detail, we routinely exceed expectations. The collaborative relationships we build with our clients keep our focus where it should be—on achieving the right outcomes.

Clark Marketing’s success draws on the nearly 20 years of marketing expertise of owner/principal Valerie Clark. A skilled writer and strategist committed to achieving solid outcomes, Valerie’s portfolio is filled with communication, planning and program implementation success stories. In addition, Ms. Clark shares more than 40 years of combined marketing experience and success with frequent collaborator, M. Kitty Ryan, of Ryan MarCom.