
DBB Software
Built the marketing function from zero — website, SEO, paid, AI search — from 166 to 2,513 monthly clicks and 3 enterprise deals won.
- 28 SQLs from zero
- 3 deals won
Your buyers do not shortlist on your AWS or Azure badge — every competitor on the list has the same one. They shortlist on whether you can be trusted with production infrastructure and a cloud bill that already scares their CFO. We have marketed for 60+ B2B tech companies and know how cloud architects, platform leads, and finance evaluate a partner — so XQL builds the positioning, proof, and demand that turns that scrutiny into CRM-tracked revenue instead of another commoditized RFP.
AWS Premier, Azure Solutions Partner, Google Cloud Partner — the certification that gets you into the room is the exact thing that makes you indistinguishable in it. Every firm on the shortlist has the same tier, the same competency badges, and the same 'certified engineers' line on the homepage. Partner status is table stakes, not differentiation. The hard part is sounding like the obvious choice for a specific workload and a specific buyer when the credential everyone leads with is identical.
Cloud consulting buyers have watched a 'simple' migration turn into a monthly invoice nobody can explain, and the CFO remembers it. The anxiety driving the evaluation is rarely 'can you lift-and-shift' — it is 'will you leave us with runaway spend, lock-in, and an architecture we can't maintain.' Marketing that sells speed and certifications while ignoring cost governance, FinOps, and what happens after go-live talks past the very fear that decides the deal.
A migration is a one-time project; managed cloud and optimization are recurring revenue — and the same homepage is usually trying to sell both to two different buyers with two different time horizons. The result is a muddled message that converts neither: the project buyer can't tell if you'll disappear after cutover, and the managed-services buyer can't tell if you're a long-term operator or a body shop. Most cloud firms never resolve which motion the marketing is actually for.
Partner-sourced leads, marketplace listings, and co-sell motions feel like a growth engine right up until the hyperscaler reprioritizes, a competency lapses, or the partner manager changes — and the pipeline you didn't build yourself dries up overnight. Many cloud consultancies have no owned demand at all; they are renting distribution from AWS or Microsoft and calling it marketing. That dependency is invisible on a good quarter and existential on a bad one.
Letting a consulting partner into your cloud accounts means root-level access, security exposure, and a single point of failure for systems the business runs on. Buyers gate that decision on signals they can verify — partner-tier validation, well-architected and security competencies, named reference architectures, SOC 2 posture, and proof you've operated at their scale — long before features or price. Marketing that races ahead of the credibility you can actually evidence reads as a red flag to the platform lead doing the vetting.
Cloud architects and DevOps leads vet capability and can smell marketing fluff in a sentence; finance scrutinizes the run-rate; an exec sponsor weighs risk. And the obvious keywords — 'cloud migration,' 'AWS consulting,' 'cloud cost optimization' — are dominated by AWS, Microsoft, and Google's own documentation and a handful of global SIs with enormous content budgets. Generic high-volume content cannot win there. You have to attack the workload-, platform-, and outcome-specific queries the hyperscalers don't bother with, with content precise enough to survive a senior engineer reading it.
We have spent 9+ years marketing to technical and executive buyers across 60+ B2B tech companies — IT outsourcing firms, platform and Salesforce consultancies, DevOps and product studios, and cloud-services providers — so we do not open a cloud-consulting engagement by learning the category. We start with a point of view: which themes attract buyers with a live migration or a spiraling bill versus the engineers who only ever read your blog, which proof a cloud architect and a CFO each need before a first call is worth taking, and which motion fits a partner-influenced, infrastructure-trust, often CFO-gated sales cycle. Then we wire every activity back to CRM revenue, because in this market the question is never 'did traffic go up' — it is 'did this become pipeline that survived the security review and the cost conversation and closed.' Across the portfolio that discipline produced $30M+ in CRM-tracked, marketing-led revenue.
A default stack, sequenced so you stop competing on a partner badge everyone shares and build demand you actually own — not co-sell leads you rent from a hyperscaler. We rarely run all of it at once. We adapt it to your platform focus, your project-versus-managed mix, and your sales cycle, and every layer reports into one CRM-attributed view of revenue.
Before spend, we fix positioning so you stop sounding like every other Premier partner: we choose the workload, vertical, or cost outcome you own, resolve whether the message leads with project migration or recurring managed services, and map the buying committee — cloud architect, platform lead, exec sponsor, and the CFO watching the run-rate. We set the channel mix against your ACV and stage and put CRM attribution in place. Everything downstream inherits this; without it, more traffic just lands you in more commoditized RFPs.
We rebuild the evidence a cloud buyer gates on: partner-tier and competency validation framed as outcomes, named reference architectures and case studies that lead with the spend reduced and the risk removed, security and compliance posture, and a clear 'what happens after go-live' story. In this market credibility assets convert better than any campaign, because they answer the platform lead's trust question and the CFO's cost question before the first call.
We own the buyer-intent queries the hyperscalers and global SIs ignore — specific-stack migration, FinOps and cost optimization, well-architected reviews, platform comparisons, modernization — with Jobs-to-Be-Done content and a case-study and service-page architecture engineered to rank and convert. This is the durable, compounding core of the system and the demand that does not depend on a partner manager's quota.
We make sure that when a buyer asks ChatGPT, Perplexity, or Google's AI overview for the best migration or cost-optimization partner, your name comes up — before they open the AWS or Azure partner directory. We optimize for buyer prompts and the assets these engines cite, capturing demand at the new top of the funnel before your competitors realize it moved.
SEO and AI Search harvest demand that exists; funnels and expert-led content create pipeline now and reduce your dependence on co-sell. We build the landing pages, offers, and paid funnels that turn interest into booked, sales-ready meetings, and we turn your cloud architects into the credible voice this technical market trusts — all routed into the same funnel and CRM, with tracking that ties every click to a meeting, an SQL, and a deal.
We connect every touch to your CRM and track deals through the stages cloud deals stall in — security review, the CFO's cost conversation, partner registration — so a long, committee- and partner-influenced cycle still reports on one revenue line. Reporting answers 'what closed and what should we double down on,' which is how 2.4x organic traffic in 9 months becomes tracked revenue instead of a nicer chart.
Strategy first, channels second, sales feedback always. We measure by the qualified demand and revenue we can trace back inside the CRM.
The same standard applies to every market we work in: we measure marketing by qualified demand, accepted sales conversations, and revenue traced back to marketing inside the CRM.
Thanks to XQL Group's efforts, we've seen a 207% increase in web traffic and an improvement in domain rating from 12 to 45. The team has successfully optimized our SEO strategy and gained around 160 backlinks. Overall, they're responsive and thorough in their project management.
Since working with XQL Group, our domain rating has improved from 27 to 44. In addition, we've seen a 15% increase in monthly traffic within nine months. The team completes work on time and within the agreed budget. Moreover, their subject matter expertise is highly impressive.
XQL Group's efforts have resulted in 44 leads from paid campaigns and improved web traffic from Germany by 5x. The team is responsive, quickly surfaces issues, and communicates regularly through chats and virtual meetings. Their expertise and proactiveness have impressed our team.
Organic traffic has increased by 10–15% each month, and we have started receiving our first inbound requests. XQL Group's optimization tips have also helped improve keyword rankings, and internal stakeholders are impressed with the team's collaborative approach.
XQL Group has successfully defined a clear marketing strategy and established our company's unique value proposition. The team has also helped hire critical specialists for our marketing team. They are communicative and organized, and their expertise in the tech industry is impressive.
Thanks to XQL Group's efforts, we have defined our marketing strategy and hired key developers for our website. The team has launched retargeting campaigns on LinkedIn and developed a strong content marketing strategy. XQL Group's marketing expertise is a hallmark of the engagement.
They were not just talking about AI search in theory; they knew how to approach it practically.
What impressed us most was their deep specialization in working with software development companies.
They've brought structure, strong execution, and constant initiative to improve outcomes.
They operated with the discipline and initiative of an internal senior marketer.
Their ability to combine strategic vision with hands-on execution was particularly valuable.
Their focus on results and true interest in making things work set them apart.
XQL Group's project management was exemplary.
The quality of their work is consistently high.
Not by leading with your AWS or Azure partner badge — every firm on the shortlist has the same one. We start with GTM strategy that picks a specialization the shortlist can't all claim: a workload, a vertical, or a proven cost outcome, and a clear decision about whether you're selling one-time migration or recurring managed services. Then we build the proof layer that answers the platform lead's trust question and the CFO's cost question, capture workload- and cost-intent demand with SEO, get cited in AI Search, and stand up appointment funnels and founder-led content so you own demand instead of renting co-sell leads. The non-negotiable is wiring all of it to your CRM and tracking deals through security and cost review, so you're judged on revenue, not traffic. That discipline has produced $30M+ in CRM-tracked, marketing-led revenue across 60+ B2B tech companies.
You stop treating the badge as your differentiator, because it isn't — it's table stakes. Premier, Solutions Partner, and competency badges get you into the room; they don't win the room when every competitor has them too. We reposition you on something the shortlist can't all claim: a specific workload (data and ML, FinOps, security, modernization), a vertical where you've shipped repeatedly, or a measurable cost outcome. Then we frame your partner validation as evidence of outcomes rather than a logo wall. The goal is to be the obvious choice for a defined problem instead of one of five indistinguishable certified partners competing on price in an RFP.
Head-on, because the cloud bill — not the migration mechanics — is usually the fear that decides the deal. The CFO remembers the last 'simple' migration that turned into an invoice nobody could explain, and the platform lead is judged on it. We make cost governance and FinOps a front-and-center part of your positioning and proof: case studies that lead with the spend you reduced, a clear 'what happens after go-live' story, and content that speaks to optimization and lock-in, not just speed and certifications. Marketing that sells migration velocity while ignoring the run-rate talks straight past the person who has to live with the bill.
First we resolve which motion the marketing is actually for, because trying to sell both from one undifferentiated homepage converts neither. A migration is a one-time project; managed cloud and optimization are recurring revenue — and they speak to buyers with different time horizons and different fears. We segment the message: the project buyer needs to know you won't disappear after cutover, the managed-services buyer needs to know you're a long-term operator, not a body shop. Usually that means distinct service pages and funnels per motion, sequenced by which one pays back fastest for your stage, all reporting into one CRM-attributed pipeline view so you can see which motion is actually generating revenue.
Because partner-sourced and marketplace pipeline is distribution you're renting, not demand you own — and it can dry up the moment the hyperscaler reprioritizes, a competency lapses, or your partner manager changes. It feels like a growth engine on a good quarter and looks existential on a bad one. We don't replace co-sell; we build owned, compounding demand alongside it — buyer-intent SEO, AI-Search visibility, appointment funnels, and founder-led content routed into your CRM — so you have a channel you control when the partner channel softens. DBB Software came to us with marketing built from zero and we stood up a full growth engine to 28 SQLs and three won deals in a year; the point is to own the engine, not lease it.
You won't beat AWS's own documentation or a global SI's seven-figure content budget on 'cloud migration' or 'AWS consulting' head-on — and you shouldn't try. We target the workload-, platform-, and outcome-specific queries the hyperscalers don't bother optimizing for and the global firms ignore: specific-stack migrations, FinOps and cost optimization, well-architected reviews, platform-vs-platform comparisons, and the AI-answer surfaces none of them have figured out. That is how Synebo hit #1 on Google with no link-building and 500% more SQLs, and how we've consistently turned modest authority into compounding, buyer-intent traffic that books real meetings instead of attracting researchers.
Your buyers now ask ChatGPT, Perplexity, and Google's AI overviews to recommend a migration or cost-optimization partner before they ever visit your site or open the AWS and Azure partner directories — and the answer often skips the traditional search results and the directory entirely. If your name isn't in that recommendation, you're invisible at the new top of the funnel. We optimize for those buyer prompts and the assets these engines cite, and across our work we get clients recommended in AI Search at roughly an 80% success rate — a gap the hyperscaler directories and content farms haven't closed.
By surfacing the trust signals a platform lead verifies before features or price, and making them impossible to poke holes in. Letting a consulting partner into your cloud accounts means root-level access and a single point of failure for systems the business runs on, so buyers gate hard: partner-tier and security competency validation, named reference architectures, SOC 2 and well-architected security posture, and proof you've operated safely at their scale. We build that evidence layer as the foundation the whole funnel rests on, because in infrastructure consulting credibility assets convert better than any campaign — they remove the first reasons to disqualify you, which is what gets a first call worth taking.
We instrument it. A cloud deal pulls in a cloud architect who vets capability, a platform lead who owns the trust decision, an exec sponsor who weighs risk, and a CFO watching the run-rate — and it can stall in security review, a cost conversation, or partner registration for a quarter. Marketing's influence is real but easy to lose across that path. We track the full journey — first touch, content engagement, meeting booked, SQL, won deal — in your CRM and follow deals through the exact stages they stall in, so marketing is reported as revenue influenced rather than vanity traffic. That attribution is what keeps marketing funded through a long cycle instead of cut in the middle of one, and it's how we've sustained 133% SQL growth per quarter.
It depends on the channel. Appointment funnels and paid can produce booked meetings within weeks — Intelvision saw a paid program return 28.9x on ad spend and turn into a flagship enterprise deal ($240K revenue, 257 leads, 100 meetings booked). SEO and AI Search around workload and cost themes compound over 6–12 months into the cheapest durable demand you own — we've driven 2.4x organic traffic in 9 months and, for Synebo, 500% more SQLs — and cloud's security and cost reviews mean deals often close later than in other B2B tech. Either way we report against your CRM: pipeline created, SQLs, and closed-won attributed to channel and tracked through review, not traffic for its own sake. We usually run a fast channel and a compounding channel in parallel so you see near-term wins while the durable engine builds.
Bring your offer, channels, and revenue goals. We'll show you where the biggest growth constraint is and what to build next.
For B2B tech companies selling complex expertise to serious buyers.

I’m Danylo, founder of XQL. For 9+ years I’ve helped B2B tech companies turn technical expertise into pipeline — 60+ clients and $30M+ in CRM-tracked revenue.
30 minutes, no deck. Bring your offer, channels, and revenue goals — I’ll come with a read on where your biggest growth constraint is and what to build next.