Practical and Commercial Marketing Advice for Professional Services & B2Bs

Be the advisor your clients call first

A need to win the right new clients, competition, regulation, pressure on fees, technological change — when the list of issues you have to cope with day-to-day pushes marketing and business development down the agenda, it is time to seek expert help. Would you like to attract more clients for your portfolio or accounting firm? Accountants, would you like to ensure your target audience can find you?

There is a move in the profession towards visible sector or service specialists, are you wondering where to start? Marketing for accountancy firms is specialised, having lead the marketing teams in a number of top ten firms I know that very well.

Marketing Clever provides strategic and practical guidance for accounting firms who:

Need to improve their branding, website or social media.
Wish to build sector or service expertise and profile.
Are losing clients to competitors.
Have difficulty articulating their expertise.
Want to build value for a future sale or merger.
Need advice on business development, marketing and communications.
Need expert coaching, mentoring or training for their leader/leadership team.
Carefully maximise communication strategy during a merger/acquisition with another firm.
Need ambitious professionals to develop into directors or partners.
Help partners and management with business development skills.

What We Do

Strategic marketing for ambitious professional services firms.

Marketing Leadership Business Development & Growth AI for Professional Services Brand, Positioning & Transaction Communication Training & Speaking

2nd Floor, 13 Upper Baggot Street, Dublin 4, D04 W7K5.

+353 1 9081611 +353 86 8227228

Marketing Clever Ltd, Office One, 1 Coldbath Square, Farringdon, London, EC1R 5HL

+442038703300

Monday to Friday: 9am - 6pm

mary@marketingclever.com

I take on a small number of new clients each year. References available on request, partner to partner.

In my experience working in collaboration with Mary has consistently been a very positive experience. She is a clear and strategic thinker with an ability to bring people together across an organisation to deliver priority business objectives. Her ability to influence at all levels is very obvious when you work with her and she has an uncommon ability to keep people focused on the important issues. Her deep expertise and pragmatic approach to business strategy is refreshing and she is unfailingly generous with advice and her network of world-class contacts across multiple industries. I wouldn’t hesitate for a second to recommend Mary to a client or business associate.

Olive Stephens, Communications Director, EY Ireland

With a strategic commercial approach combined with a practical, creative and driven skill set, Mary has a unique understanding of the ambitious professional services firm. If you want to maximise your firms marketing efforts, I highly recommend working with Marketing Clever.

John Glennon, Managing Partner, RSM

Mary Cloonan is a strategic thinker and marketing expert. Mary understands professional services, and she will quickly understand your client proposition. If you want to market your services in a compelling way, call Mary Cloonan.

John Donoghue, CEO, IFAC Accountants

If you are an business with growth ambitions, want to figure out how to develop an effective market strategy, devise and implement a market programme or just simply prepare your company well to be ‘best dressed’ for the market, then you need look no further than Mary Cloonan to partner with. Mary worked with me in Russell Brennan Keane as our Market Director for 7 years as Head of our Market and Business Development functions. In a contracting economy, we managed to successfully navigate new markets, promote the Firm’ services nationally and find the new business we needed.

Liam Rattigan, Director, RBK

CPA Ireland have worked with Mary over the past number of years, from speaking at events, writing articles and providing advice to our members. Mary’s expertise in the area of marketing strategy and execution, particularly in the area of financial services is invaluable.

Gillian Peters, Director – Business Development, CPA Ireland

Let’s Work Together

Feel like you and your team could benefit from the experience of a market development professional who has worked with a number of top ten firms?

Find Out More

18/08/2026

CMO Roundtable Dublin: Guardians of Strategic Intelligence | PM Forum

Most firms invest heavily in thought leadership and expert content. Few have a reliable view of what that public evidence says, or what it returns commercially.

17/08/2026

The invisible expert: making your best people visible where the work is

Firms ask their best people to develop new business while the wider market knows very little about them. Visibility is a commercial issue, not a social media one.

13/08/2026

Growth, Retention and the Role of Marketing in the Age of PE and AI

More firms are taking private equity investment and AI is changing how business services work. What does business development look like in that world?

11/08/2026

Your last transaction should help you win your next one

Corporate finance teams spend months on a transaction, then reduce it to a logo announcement. The expertise is already there. The marketing job is to extract it.

Get In Touch

Wondering where to start? Call or email to have a chat.