About us

People. Strategy.Technology.

Building better businesses starts with understanding how they actually work.

ABC Digital Marketing was built around a simple observation: businesses don't operate in separate departments, so their systems shouldn't either.

Marketingcreates attention.
Salesturns opportunity into revenue.
Operationsdelivers the experience.
Technologyconnects it all.

But too often, these parts of a business operate in isolation. Leads are generated but not followed up properly. Customer information sits across different platforms. Processes rely on people remembering what needs to happen next. Teams spend time doing repetitive work that technology could be handling.

We believe there is a better way.

Where itstarted

With more than a decade of experience across marketing, events and digital platforms, we saw the same problems appearing again and again.

Businesses were working hard. They were investing in marketing. They were generating enquiries, but somewhere between the first interaction and the sale, things were breaking down. Follow-up was inconsistent. Systems weren't connected. Valuable customer information was difficult to access. Marketing activity couldn't always be linked back to genuine business outcomes.

The problem wasn't a lack of effort. It was the system around the effort, and that became the foundation of ABC.

Theshift

We started building systems that connected the parts of the customer journey that had traditionally been treated separately. Marketing into lead capture. Lead capture into CRM. CRM into follow-up. Follow-up into sales. Sales into customer experience and retention.

The goal wasn't to add more technology. It was to make the technology businesses already had work harder, while creating better processes around it.

As AI evolved, that created another opportunity: not to replace people, but to make the systems behind them considerably smarter.

What we believe

AI should work behind the brand,not become the brand.

We believe the future of business isn't human versus AI. It's people working with better technology. Your people are still your most important asset. They're the ones with the expertise, relationships, experience, personality and judgement that make your business different, and that's what your customers should see.

Your brand should still sound like you. Your content should still reflect your experience. Your customers should still feel like they're dealing with real people. AI belongs behind that experience. It can analyse information, identify patterns, help make decisions and communicate with the technology running your business. Automation can then execute the repetitive processes, move information between systems and make sure the right things happen at the right time.

The face of your business is you. The intelligence behind the system is AI. That's the distinction that matters to us.

Human first. Technology enabled.

We don't start with AI.We start with the business.

We look at how you're attracting customers, how enquiries are captured, how your team manages opportunities, where follow-up happens, how information moves through your business and where customers are being lost or delayed.

Then we determine where strategy, process, automation or AI can create the biggest improvement. Sometimes the answer is more marketing, a better CRM, fixing a broken process or automating manual work. Often, AI can make the entire process significantly smarter.

Technology is the tool. Your business is the strategy.

From marketing to the whole customer journey

A lead is only valuableif something happens with it.

Traditional marketing often focuses on getting someone through the door. We became interested in what happens after they arrive. That's why ABC brings marketing, customer acquisition, CRM, sales processes, content, automation and AI together around one connected customer journey.

  • Attract
  • Capture
  • Nurture
  • Convert
  • Retain

We look at the journey as a whole, identify where opportunities are being created and where they're being lost, then build the systems that help your business move people through that journey more effectively.

Larissa Mahony, founder of ABC Digital Marketing, smiling at her laptop

Meet the founder

LarissaMahony

Founder & Systems Strategist

Experience across
  • FST Media
  • Corinium
  • Cirrus Media
  • iQ3

After more than a decade working across marketing, events and digital platforms, I became increasingly interested in what happens behind the marketing.

I've seen businesses spend thousands generating leads, only to lose opportunities because a follow-up wasn't made. I've seen teams manually move information between systems, manage enquiries from multiple inboxes and spend hours doing work that technology could handle.

I've also seen what happens when those pieces are connected properly, and that's what led to ABC.

I don't believe businesses need more technology for the sake of having it. They need better systems that work around the way their business actually operates. My role is to understand the business first, then bring together the right combination of marketing, strategy, people, technology, automation and AI to make it work better.

Because I don't just want to generate another lead. I want to understand what happens to it next.

Our philosophy

People. Strategy.Technology.

Peoplecreate the connection.
Strategycreates the direction.
Technologycreates the scale.

The strongest businesses don't choose between people and technology. They use technology to give their people more time, better information and better tools, while keeping the human experience at the centre of the brand.

AI can analyse, automation can execute and technology can connect, but your people give your business its voice. That's something we don't think should ever be automated away.

Local. Hands-on. Business first.

Sunshine Coast based.Australia-wide.

We're based on the Sunshine Coast and work with businesses across Australia. We're not interested in becoming another faceless technology provider. We work closely with our clients to understand their business, their customers, their team and their commercial goals.

That means looking beyond individual marketing channels or software platforms and asking the bigger question: what would make this business work better? From there, we build the strategy and systems around the answer.

Let's find it

Ready to build a businessthat works better?

Let's look at what's happening behind the scenes.

If your marketing is generating attention but you're not confident that every opportunity is being captured, followed up and converted, there may be more growth sitting inside your existing customer journey than you realise.

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