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ABM for B2B tech companies that need to win named accounts and their buying committees, not collect more leads.

Account-based marketing built around a short, defensible list of accounts you actually want — and the four-to-ten people who decide each one. We select accounts on real fit and intent signals, build campaigns that reach the whole committee on the channels they trust, and track engagement account by account in your CRM so you can see which target accounts are warming, which deals ABM moved, and where the next dollar should go. Built for high-ACV, long-cycle B2B tech, measured in CRM-tracked revenue, not lead volume.

B2B tech companies worked with
60+
Years marketing to technical & executive buyers
9+
CRM-tracked marketing-led revenue
$30M+
AI Search recommendation success rate
80%
  1. Build and prioritize the target account list with your sales team — selecting accounts on real fit and intent signals, not aspirational 'dream logos,' and tiering them into one-to-one, one-to-few, and one-to-many treatment by value and winnability.
  2. Map the buying committee for each account or segment: the economic buyer, the technical evaluators, the end users, and the likely blockers in security, finance, or procurement — so no decision-maker is left unaddressed.
  3. Run deep account research that turns each priority account into a market of one — the initiatives, tech stack, hiring signals, and trigger events that give every touch a real reason to exist.
  4. Create the account-based content and offers: personalized assets, executive-relevant points of view, and webinar or roundtable formats credible enough to earn respect from technical evaluators, not templated outreach blasted at scale.
  5. Orchestrate multi-channel, multi-threaded engagement across the committee — LinkedIn, expert content, webinars, one-to-one assets, sales outreach, and tightly scoped account-level ads — sequenced from warm-up to activation.
  6. Align marketing and sales on shared account plays: who reaches which contact, when marketing hands off to sales and back, and what 'this account is ready' actually means before an AE invests time.
  7. Instrument account-level tracking in your CRM so engagement, committee coverage, opportunities, and closed revenue are all attributable account by account — not buried in lead totals.
  8. Run a structured account review each cycle and report on account engagement, committee coverage, pipeline created, and revenue influenced — in language a revenue leader can take to the board, with a clear recommendation on which accounts to keep, add, or drop.
How the system works

How the ABM system works

  1. Diagnose the market

    We start with your economics and your sales reality: ACV, sales-cycle length, who actually sits on the buying committee in your category, how many accounts your team can genuinely work, and what your current pipeline tells us about where good-fit accounts stall. We map any existing account efforts to find where committees go unaddressed or champions get stranded.

  2. Compare against known B2B tech patterns

    We hold your situation against the account-based programs we've run across 60-plus B2B tech engagements. That tells us quickly whether your real constraint is account selection, committee coverage, content credibility, or sales capacity — and which tier model (one-to-one, one-to-few, one-to-many) actually fits your account count and ACV, so the plan is benchmarked rather than guessed.

  3. Choose the right growth path

    We commit to the target list, the tier model, and the channel mix that fit your buyer and your sales capacity — and we deliberately scope it down. A focused one-to-one program against the accounts that move your number beats a thin one-to-many sprayed across a list no one can follow up on. We decide where the first effort goes and which accounts lead.

  4. Build the service system

    We stand up the program as a system: the prioritized account list, the committee maps, the account research, the personalized content and offers, the multi-threaded engagement sequences from warm-up to activation, the sales handoff rules, and account-level CRM tracking. Then we launch against named accounts — with every touch tied to a real account and a real person on its committee.

  5. Optimize against CRM + sales feedback

    Each cycle we combine account-level CRM data with direct sales feedback on which accounts and which threads moved. We drop accounts that show no signal, double down on the ones warming across multiple committee members, refine the messaging the room actually responds to, and adjust which contacts we pursue. The program compounds because it's optimized against account engagement and closed revenue, not lead counts.

The XQL difference

Why XQL runs ABM differently

  • 01

    Market memory

    We've run account-based campaigns for B2B tech companies across 60-plus engagements and spent 9-plus years marketing to technical and executive buyers. So we don't build your target list or your committee map from a blank page. We already know which roles really sit on the committee for an infrastructure purchase versus a SaaS one, which signals separate a winnable account from an aspirational logo, and which personalization a skeptical CTO reads as relevant rather than as a mail-merge — before we touch your account list.

  • 02

    Faster diagnosis

    Before we launch a single play we diagnose whether ABM is even your constraint. Sometimes the target list is right but deals stall because only the champion was ever engaged; sometimes the accounts on the list were never winnable and the real fix is account selection; sometimes you don't yet have the sales capacity to work named accounts and a different motion fits better. Because we've seen these failure patterns repeatedly, we usually find the real bottleneck in the first weeks instead of running personalized campaigns at the wrong accounts for two quarters.

  • 03

    Smarter channel selection

    An account-based program reaches the committee through whatever they trust — LinkedIn for tightly targeted account and title engagement, founder and expert content the evaluators actually respect, executive webinars and roundtables, one-to-one personalized assets, sales outreach, and tightly scoped account-level ads. But not every account gets the same mix. A one-to-one program for ten strategic logos looks nothing like a one-to-few program across a hundred Tier-2 accounts. We choose the channels and the tier model that fit your account count, ACV, and sales capacity, and we leave out the ones that just add cost without reaching the room.

  • 04

    Sales feedback loop

    ABM is a marketing-and-sales motion or it is nothing, so the loop with your sales team is the program, not an afterthought. We build the account list and the committee map with your AEs, review every cycle which accounts engaged and which went quiet, read which threads opened inside an account and which stalled, and listen to what the room actually pushed back on. That feedback rewrites the next cycle's targeting, messaging, and which contacts we go after — so the program engages the real decision-makers, not just the friendly contact who answers first.

  • 05

    CRM attribution

    We instrument ABM at the account level in your CRM, not as a pile of lead metrics. We track engagement account by account — which target accounts moved from cold to engaged, how many committee members each one activated, how account engagement maps to opportunities created, and how ABM-touched deals close versus the rest. Across our book that account-level discipline is part of how we've tracked $30M-plus in CRM-tracked, marketing-led revenue — and it's how we tell you honestly which named accounts are genuinely warming and which logos to drop from the list.

Why XQL vs alternatives

Why XQL vs the alternatives

DimensionTypical approachThe XQL way
ABM platform / software vendorSells you a six-figure intent-data and orchestration suite, then leaves you to figure out the accounts, the committee, the content, and the plays — the tool is not the program.Runs a lean program built on account selection, committee mapping, credible content, and a tight sales loop, using the CRM and channels you already have — software added only when it earns its cost.
Lead-gen / paid agencyOptimizes to lead volume and cost-per-lead because that's what the dashboard rewards; has no concept of the buying committee, so it 'converts' one contact and ignores the rest of the room.Targets a named account list, engages the whole committee, and reports account-level engagement and revenue in your CRM — accountable to accounts won, not leads collected.
Generalist marketing agencyRuns the same broad campaign for a dev shop and a dental SaaS, with no read on B2B tech ACV, technical evaluators, or how complex committees actually decide.Builds account-based programs specifically for B2B tech, using committee and signal patterns from 60-plus engagements selling to technical and executive buyers.
In-house marketerTalented but solo — building account lists, committee maps, personalized content, and the sales loop alone, with no cross-company benchmarks for what a winnable account looks like.A senior team that has run account-based programs across dozens of B2B tech companies and knows the tier models and signals before committing your list.
Advisory-only consultantHands you an ABM strategy deck and an account-tiering framework, then leaves you to research the accounts, build the content, run the plays, and measure it yourself.Owns the build and the execution — account list, research, content, multi-threaded plays, sales loop, and account-level CRM measurement — not just the framework.
Commercial outcomes

Proof from the same playbook.

Strategy first, channels second, sales feedback always. We measure by the qualified demand and revenue we can trace back inside the CRM.

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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.
Volodymyr H.COO, DBB Software
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.
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SolarSparkCEO
What impressed us most was their deep specialization in working with software development companies.
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They've brought structure, strong execution, and constant initiative to improve outcomes.
KitrumLead of Marketing
They operated with the discipline and initiative of an internal senior marketer.
ComputoolsCOO
Their ability to combine strategic vision with hands-on execution was particularly valuable.
Hoverla SoftCEO
Their focus on results and true interest in making things work set them apart.
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XQL Group's project management was exemplary.
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The quality of their work is consistently high.
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Lead generation casts wide and counts contacts: it tries to maximize the volume of people who fill in a form, then hopes good-fit accounts fall out of the pile. ABM starts from the opposite end — you name the specific accounts worth winning and treat each as a market of one, engaging the whole buying committee rather than a single contact. The practical difference is what you measure and what you optimize: lead gen manages cost-per-lead and total volume, while we manage account engagement and committee coverage on a named list, and track it account by account in your CRM. For high-ACV, long-cycle B2B tech, that focus is usually what moves revenue — a handful of the right accounts can outweigh thousands of leads.

No, and we'll push back if you're about to sign a six-figure suite before you have a program to run on it. Effective B2B ABM comes from disciplined account selection, a real committee map, genuinely personalized content, and a tight marketing-and-sales loop — not from the tooling. We work with the CRM and channels you already have, instrument account-level tracking inside them, and add intent data or orchestration software only when it will clearly pay for itself in better-targeted, better-covered accounts. The tool is never the program; the program is the program.

We build the list with your sales team and select on real fit and intent signals, not aspirational 'dream logos.' Fit means the firmographics, tech stack, and profile that match where you actually win; intent and trigger signals mean initiatives, hiring, funding, re-platforming, or other events that suggest an account is reachable now rather than someday. Then we tier the list — one-to-one treatment for the few strategic accounts that justify deep personalization, one-to-few for clusters that share a problem, one-to-many for a broader segment — so effort matches value. A target list everyone agrees is winnable, and that sales will actually work, beats a long wishlist no one follows up on.

In B2B tech, four-to-ten people typically decide a deal — the economic buyer who owns the budget, the technical evaluators who judge whether it works, the end users who'll live with it, and the blockers in security, finance, or procurement who can quietly kill it. Multi-threading means engaging more of that room rather than betting everything on one champion. We map the committee for each account or segment and build plays that reach the different roles with content relevant to each — so when the deal reaches the table, more of the people in it already understand and trust you. It's the single biggest reason ABM-touched deals stall less often in committee.

We measure at the account level, not the lead level. From day one we instrument your CRM to track which named accounts moved from cold to engaged, how many committee members each account activated, how account engagement maps to opportunities created, and how ABM-touched deals close versus the rest. We won't claim a single LinkedIn touch caused a deal — but we can show you, account by account, which target companies are genuinely warming and which aren't, and how the program influences pipeline and win rate. Across our clients that account-level discipline is part of how we've tracked $30M-plus in CRM-tracked, marketing-led revenue, and it's how we tell you honestly which logos to keep on the list and which to drop.

Be honest with yourself about the horizon: account-based programs match long B2B sales cycles, and in high-ticket B2B tech a program typically takes around six to twelve months to deliver clearly measurable revenue. You'll see leading indicators much sooner — target accounts moving from cold to engaged, more committee members activated, and warmer, faster sales conversations within the first one to two cycles. Because we benchmark account selection and committee coverage against patterns from 60-plus B2B tech engagements, we usually fix the limiting constraint early rather than running personalized campaigns at the wrong accounts for two quarters. The compounding comes from working the right list properly, cycle after cycle.

Both, by design — ABM is a marketing-and-sales motion or it isn't ABM. We build the account list and the committee map with your AEs, agree who reaches which contact and when marketing hands off to sales and back, and define together what 'this account is ready' actually means before a closer invests time. Marketing warms and activates the committee with content and personalized engagement; sales works the threads that open; and every cycle we review which accounts and threads moved and feed that straight back into targeting. The whole point is that marketing and sales work the same named list against the same definition of an engaged account, instead of arguing about lead quality.

No. ABM is about concentration and committee coverage, not budget size, so it scales down well — and it's often the highest-leverage motion for a smaller team precisely because you can't afford to waste effort on accounts that will never close. A lean program might run one-to-one against ten strategic accounts and one-to-few across a couple of well-defined clusters, using the CRM and channels you already have rather than expensive software. The discipline — name the accounts, map the committees, personalize for real, track at the account level — is the same whether the list is ten accounts or two hundred. What changes is the tier model and the number of accounts you work at once.

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B2B tech clients
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Revenue generated
$30M+
Danylo Fedirko, Founder of XQL Group
Danylo FedirkoFounder, XQL Group
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