Media & marketing strategy first
Before a dollar is spent, we map your market, margins and customer journey. Your commercial goals set the plan, not a channel sales target.
Melbourne-based • Founder-led • Limited client roster
Your marketing should be your most profitable investment.
DBC Solutions is a founder-led digital marketing agency built on 15+ years of senior experience driving exceptional, award-winning results for Australian brands. The founder who shapes your strategy stays on your account, hands-on from strategy through implementation, optimisation and reporting across paid search and social, SEO and AI visibility, CRO, content, web and media strategy.
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We only take on clients we know we can grow, so your brand stays a priority.
15+ yearssenior digital marketing experience
1,000+brands supported across Australia and beyond
Direct founder accessthe strategist shaping the plan stays on the account
Limited rosteryour brand is treated as a priority, not another account number
The DBC model
One senior strategist. Hands-on, end to end.
The person who develops your strategy is the person responsible for making it work. No hand-off from a senior salesperson to a junior account team. No separate channel departments optimising against different goals.
The founder stays directly involved across your media, SEO, AI visibility, customer journey, reporting and growth strategy. DBC deliberately works with a limited number of clients so that level of senior attention remains possible.
One ownerOne person sees the complete commercial picture.
One strategyEvery channel supports the same growth goal.
Your priorityLimited clients means genuine senior attention.
Your brand is the priority.
The problem
Your ads are running. Reports arrive. So why isn't revenue moving?
Most marketing problems are not isolated to one platform. They happen in the gaps between strategy, traffic, website experience and measurement.
- You're paying for clicks that never turn into customers
- Your "account manager" changes every six months and knows less about your business each time
- Your agencies blame each other: ads blames the website, SEO blames the ads
- You get reports full of impressions and rankings, with no idea what any of it did for revenue
Here's the uncomfortable truth: channels don't fail in isolation. An ad is only as good as the page it lands on. Paid media and SEO are only as valuable as the enquiries and revenue they convert. When marketing is split across juniors and siloed agencies, nobody owns the whole outcome.
DBC Solutions exists to close that gap.
How it works
One connected growth system.
One senior strategist. Every channel. One commercial goal. After 15+ years leading strategy behind award-winning agencies and APAC and Global Search Award-winning teams, DBC has distilled the disciplines that actually grow a business into one connected system.
Capture demand
Reach buyers actively looking for what you sell across Google, Meta and emerging AI advertising surfaces, with campaign structure and creative aligned to qualified action.
Be found wherever customers search
Traditional search is only one front door. We build visibility across Google and AI-assisted discovery such as ChatGPT and Gemini while protecting technical SEO fundamentals.
Convert more of the traffic you already have
We improve websites and customer journeys around the friction that stops relevant visitors becoming enquiries, bookings and sales.
Content that supports action
Content is built around customer decisions, search intent, trust and distribution so every channel reinforces the same proposition.
Measure what matters
Tracking · Reporting · Commercial analysis
Cost per lead. Cost per sale. Revenue. ROI. If a metric cannot be connected to a commercial outcome, it does not lead the conversation.
Results
Real businesses. Real revenue. Real results.
Commercial results should be visible at a glance. Enquire for a case study specific to your industry.
Hospitality · restaurant group
17.84x
Modelled ROAS from a connected paid-media and conversion strategy.
Booking growth
+251.5%
increase in booking volume year on year.
Global eCommerce
$22.5M
increase in new customer revenue in under 12 months.
National retailer · 60 storesIconic national retailer
15xROAS, 3-month campaign
26,000+leads & 25,000+ store visits
60%Revenue YoY, record profit period
Hospitality · restaurant groupNational Italian dining group
251.5%increase in booking volume, year on year
17.84xmodelled ROAS
13.72xROI
Global eCommerceGlobal fashion brand
$22.5Mincrease in new customer revenue in under 12 months
7-Figuremulti-channel media strategy
Exitgrowth facilitated sale to an international conglomerate
eCommerce + showroomsMelbourne bathware retailer
32%eCommerce revenue growth
390%non-brand organic traffic
4x → 11xPinterest ROAS after relaunch
High-ticket retailMelbourne jewellery retailer
9xROAS after historically negative returns
800%purchases attributed to Meta
33%client-reported growth in paid-ad purchases
Hospitality · national restaurant brandNational restaurant brand
12.11xblended ROAS
9xtotal ROI
-73.7%Cost Per Purchase
DBC. connected performance system
Senior oversight, every day
The strategy doesn't disappear after the pitch.
DBC is deliberately structured so senior thinking stays close to the work. The founder remains the hands-on strategist across the full customer journey rather than passing your account down a chain of account managers.
01Strategy, platform decisions and budget allocation remain founder-led.
02SEO, AI visibility, paid media, CRO and web decisions are evaluated together.
03Reporting focuses on qualified actions, revenue and ROI, not channel vanity metrics.
Who we work with
Built for businesses ready to grow.
Retail & multi-location
From national retail campaigns to local area marketing that drives foot traffic, leads and sales, store by store and suburb by suburb.
Service businesses
Trades, professional services, hospitality, property, health, education and home services that need a reliable flow of qualified enquiries rather than more low-value traffic.
eCommerce
Brands ready to scale profitably with paid media, SEO, AI visibility, CRO and customer experience working as a connected growth system.
Fit matters
DBC takes on a limited number of clients at a time. If we're not the right fit, we'll say so on the first call rather than sell you a service you don't need.
The difference
DBC Solutions vs. a typical agency
| DBC Solutions | Typical agency | |
|---|---|---|
| Who runs your account | Founder and senior digital marketing strategist, hands-on end to end | Sold by a director, delivered by junior account staff |
| Experience | 15+ years' senior experience, including leading APAC and Global Search Award-winning teams | Your day-to-day account manager may have only a few years' experience |
| Channels | Paid Search, Paid Social, ChatGPT Ads, SEO, AI visibility, CRO, customer experience, media strategy, content and web development under one strategy | Channel silos optimise their own reports and compete for budget |
| Contracts | Month to month. We earn your business every month | Commonly 6–12 month lock-ins |
| Continuity | One senior strategist, no account-management handovers | Revolving account teams and internal handovers |
| Reporting | Cost per lead, cost per sale, revenue and ROI | Clicks, impressions and channel-level vanity metrics |
| Capacity | Deliberately limited client roster so your brand stays a priority | Growth often depends on adding more accounts per team |
About
15+YEARS
The experience behind DBC Solutions
Most specialist consultants can run one channel well. DBC Solutions was founded on a bigger idea: real growth happens when every channel works together, under one senior strategist who is accountable for the commercial outcome.
DBC's founders bring over 15 years of senior experience at the top of Australian digital marketing, building and leading strategy departments of award-winning agencies and guiding more than 1,000 brands through holistic digital growth. That work spans local operators building their first reliable lead engine through to national retailers and global brands scaling into new markets.
The approach has never been about a single channel. Paid media, SEO and AI visibility, CRO, creative, content and web development work as one connected plan, measured in enquiries, sales and revenue rather than clicks and impressions.
That breadth is the difference. A single-channel specialist can only fix their channel. At DBC Solutions, the Founder is your go-to senior strategist across the full digital picture, and every channel answers to the same growth goal.
Your first 90 days
What happens when we start?
Weeks 1–2
Deep dive
Full audit of your ads, SEO, AI search visibility, website and tracking. Market and competitor analysis. We agree the commercial targets that define success.
Weeks 3–6
Build & launch
Rebuilt campaigns, conversion-focused landing pages, tracking that measures leads and sales, not clicks. Quick wins ship early.
Weeks 7–12
Optimise & scale
Double down on what's producing revenue, cut what isn't, and build the next growth roadmap from real customer and performance data.
FAQ
Frequently asked questions
Do you use juniors?
Your account is led personally by the founder, a senior digital marketing strategist with more than 15 years of experience. The founder stays on your account from strategy through optimisation and quality control, with specialist support used only where it genuinely adds value.
Service or eCommerce: which do you prefer?
Both. Service businesses needing qualified leads and eCommerce brands scaling revenue are where we've done some of our strongest work over the past 15+ years.
Why limit the number of clients?
Because personal attention is part of the product. DBC deliberately limits the client roster so each brand receives direct founder involvement and remains a priority.
How fast will I see results?
Paid media improvements typically show within the first 30–60 days; SEO and AI visibility compound over 3–12 months. You'll get an honest timeline in your strategy session, not a sales pitch.
Where are you based?
Melbourne, working with brands Australia-wide.
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Apply for your free strategy session
We're currently taking on a limited number of new clients. In your session, you'll get:
- An honest audit of where your current marketing is leaking money
- The strategy we'd recommend for your business, whether or not we work together
- A clear 90-day plan with commercial targets