In this episode, your hosts Suzi Dafnis and Michelle Falzon chat about a topic that is near and dear to their hearts… it’s something they so regularly find themselves needing to support other women business owners to do… AND to remind themselves to do… that we they thought it was high time they did an episode on it. Today’s topic is all about tooting our own horn. Because here’s the thing… it’s been scientifically proven that women self-promote less than men do. We’re far more likely to downplay...
Nov 02, 2020•33 min
One of the big milestones many business owners have in mind when they are first starting out is to hit that 6-figure mark. In this episode your hosts, Suzi Dafnis and Michelle Falzon chat with an entrepreneur, author and business owner who is passionate about helping people reach that milestone. Her name is Shaa Wasmund and she is the author of the number one bestsellers Do Less , Get More and Stop Talking, Start Doing . She has been a lifelong supporter of encouraging more women into business. ...
Oct 19, 2020•56 min
We’re not sure how often someone has decided naming their podcast with the word BORING in it is a good idea, but that’s exactly what we’re about today… you’ll hear us often talk about fabulous strategies and big ideas and new innovations, but today, we’re waving the flag for the often unsung benefits of doing the BORING stuff. In this episode your hosts, Suzi Dafnis and Michelle Falzon celebrate the mundane… because while boring can be, well “boring”, it’s rarely praised when it comes to content...
Oct 05, 2020•50 min
While print magazines are in decline, there ARE some amazing opportunities to add a DIGITAL magazine to your content strategy. In this episode your hosts, Suzi Dafnis and Michelle Falzon chat with innovative publisher and serial entrepreneur, Dale Beaumont, who is pioneering a very different, very modern take on the online magazine, known as www.mobimag.com , the world’s first made for mobile publishing platform. Listen to this episode to hear more about: The limitations of “speaker” vs “publish...
Sep 21, 2020•32 min
What to do with your Content Marketing when things get tough? Of course, it doesn’t have to be a global pandemic, like what we’re seeing now for times to get tough… all of us at one point or another are going to experience those difficult times… Whether it’s a downturn in our industry, the loss of a big client that creates cashflow issues, a personal health crisis, issues with your team and perhaps losing a key team member or not being able to find the right support team. Really, the list is end...
Sep 07, 2020•59 min
If you have an online course or you are thinking of creating an online course, there’s growing evidence that you need to elevate the EXPERIENCE your course takers have beyond the everyday to become something amazing that they love taking part in AND that they learn a lot from. In this episode your hosts, Suzi Dafnis and Michelle Falzon speak with online course “Experiencification” expert, Marisa Murgatroyd about the specific things you can do to transform an “ordinary” course into an extraordina...
Aug 24, 2020•44 min
There are a bunch of reasons why you might want to offer an online course. Everything from wanting to create a core product that you offer as one of your main revenue producing activities, through to providing a free or low cost entry level course that gets people into your world and introduces them to your higher dollars programs and much, much more. In this episode your hosts, Suzi Dafnis and Michelle Falzon tap into their decades of experience creating successful online courses to give you so...
Aug 10, 2020•55 min
PR (Public Relations) is a topic we touched on a couple of episodes ago and we are going deeper into practical ways you can use publicity to get known in your market, be the person journalists call and build your authority as an expert. In this episode your hosts, Suzi Dafnis and Michelle Falzon chat with PR maven, Monica Rosenfeld, Managing Director of WordStorm PR, a boutique-sized PR agency she founded in 2000, about how you can tap into the curiosity of journalists so you get more exposure i...
Jul 27, 2020•55 min
Pivot is definitely a word that’s been REALLY overused in recent months, considering how many businesses have had to change direction and reinvent themselves due to Covid-10 and the various restrictions in place. One area where those restrictions have been well and truly felt is in live gatherings. With many businesses having to rethink and reinvent the way they approach live events. In this episode your hosts, Suzi Dafnis and Michelle Falzon share their top tips for pivoting from a Live Event t...
Jul 13, 2020•1 hr 6 min
We’ve all likely felt that feeling of overwhelm or a deadline approaching and there’s just TOO much on our plate, whether it be a new webinar we are writing and doing slides for or a Facebook LIVE we committed to or a speaking engagement, podcast interview, email campaign - you name it - there are countless sources of “content stress.” In this episode your hosts, Suzi Dafnis and Michelle Falzon discuss how very often the cause of this content stress can be traced back to one key habit they call ...
Jun 29, 2020•38 min
A strong Public Relations strategy can radically increase your exposure and authority by being seen in the media and alongside other go to experts and influencers in various platforms. This is often money-can’t-buy brand awareness for you and your business and when done strategically, can result in increased sales and opportunities for you as a thought leader. In this episode your hosts, Suzi Dafnis and Michelle Falzon share a special “from the vault” training delivered inside the HerBusiness Ne...
Jun 15, 2020•36 min
Having a great bonus strategy can be one of the single biggest needle movers when it comes to your sales results. And often people either leave out including a bonus in their offer altogether or they add a bonus that doesn’t really do the heavy lifting that is possible when you really nail your bonus strategy. In this episode your hosts, Suzi Dafnis and Michelle Falzon put the spotlight on how to use Bonuses STRATEGICALLY to get more sales, even from your “fence-sitters.” Listen to this episode ...
Jun 01, 2020•38 min
The photographs and images you use of yourself on your website, in social media and elsewhere are a major influence on the way your personal brand is perceived… and yet, this is an often overlooked or misunderstood content medium. In this episode your hosts, Suzi Dafnis and Michelle Falzon chat with pioneering personal branding photographer, Jamie Swanson, about why your branding photographs are MORE than just a headshot. Listen to this episode to hear more about: Why you might want to consider ...
May 18, 2020•44 min
Content Momentum is the idea of keeping people in momentum from the point they first join your email list or click on your Facebook ad, or download your lead magnet, all the way to the point where they BUY from you. The problem is, people often design marketing funnels where they are not thinking about momentum at all - they let leads and customers fall out of the process or they put unnecessary gaps, pauses or BLOCKS on their customers moving forward and buying from them. In this episode your h...
May 04, 2020•25 min
Evergreen Webinars enable you to run one pre-recorded webinar over and over again to new leads coming into your marketing funnel. When done well they can be AWESOME, operating as an “online salesperson” for you 24/7. When done badly they can be complex, misleading and downright icky. In this episode your hosts, Suzi Dafnis and Michelle Falzon share their love/hate relationship with Evergreen Webinars (it’s more love than hate!) plus the various strategies and ways of making your evergreen webina...
Apr 20, 2020•52 min
You might start out really enthusiastic about your content plans, but within no time you can be left feeling overwhelmed, disinterested and out of ideas. In this episode, your hosts Suzi Dafnis and Michelle Falzon give you a shot in the arm of motivation and inspiration to help you get back on the content horse if you feel like you’ve fallen off, got off track or run out steam. Suzi and Michelle share three of the most powerful ways they’ve found to stay motivated when it comes to creating conte...
Apr 06, 2020•36 min
Have you ever mapped out your Customer Journey? Have you ever written down the journey someone takes step by step as they go from not knowing about you through to being your customer and beyond? If you HAVE then you know what a game-changing experience it can be. If you HAVEN’T then maybe by the end of this episode we will have inspired you to take a look at that as something you might want to do. In this episode your hosts, Suzi Dafnis and Michelle Falzon not only talk about getting clear on yo...
Mar 23, 2020•34 min
Ever felt “icky” about having a sales conversation or making an offer? Being vulnerable to the pang of rejection or having to ask people to “buy your thing” can feel intimidating… and often when we are presented with buying objections - we can freeze up or feel rejected or stutter and stumble not knowing what to say. In this episode your hosts, Suzi Dafnis and Michelle Falzon introduce you to Bari Baumgardner, one of the world’s leading authorities on using live events as a way to grow your sale...
Mar 09, 2020•1 hr 26 min
When it comes to growing e-commerce stores, Susan Bradley of The Social Sales Girls knows her stuff. She’s grown and sold ecommerce businesses and has taught thousands of people how to find their audience and turn website traffic into paying customers. In this episode your hosts, Suzi Dafnis and Michelle Falzon, pick Susan’s amazing ecommerce brain for strategies for using content to grow your eCommerce business. Listen to this episode to hear more about: The “go-to” lead magnet type all e-comme...
Feb 24, 2020•1 hr 2 min
There’s almost nothing we love more than a content marketing campaign that really converts! One of the first things you need to make that happen is a strong hook that is going to immediately get people’s attention. Whether that’s for a Facebook ad, an email subject line, the topic of your lead magnet, your sales video, your webinar, your YouTube video… you get the picture… you need a catchy idea that is going to be relevant and interesting and attract the attention and curiosity of your IDEAL cl...
Feb 10, 2020•42 min
We’re talking to someone who has recently had 66% engagement in her Facebook Group. That’s a pretty amazing number… and as we found out on the show… she’s actually JUST updated those numbers to a whopping 90% engagement (that’s 9 out of 10 of her members have engaged with her in the last month!). Fiona Keary is a business owner we LOVE - she is a long time member of the HerBusiness Community and the HerBusiness Marketing Success Mastermind and we’ve seen her go from strength to strength year on ...
Jan 27, 2020•59 min
Amanda Farmer of Your Strata Property, a one-stop-shop for information and education about strata living shares with us how she converted 23% of her prospects from a small email list of just over 300 people into her PAID membership. It’s quite extraordinary what she’s been able to do with a small, very strategic list and in this episode you learn just how special this list was and what she did to get those kinds of mammoth conversion rates. 23% - that’s almost one in 4 of the prospects on her em...
Jan 13, 2020•39 min
One of our most popular episodes was way back in 2017 when we shared some of our favorite books of the year… so we decided to do it again! Between us we read a LOT of books and these are our TOP picks when it comes to content marketing books for 2019. Listen to this episode to hear more about: The HerBusiness Book Club and why it’s one of Suzi’s favourite things What we’ve learned from Seth Godin (and the amazing way he was able to distil online marketing to just a few lines) The book that had M...
Dec 30, 2019•51 min
As we near the end of the year we were thinking about how we’d like to round things out and one of the things we’ve done over the past year that was really popular was to share some of the top Marketing tips from the very talented women in our Marketing Success Mastermind… and so we’ve decided to do that again! We recently asked our Masterminders to share the #1 content marketing strategy or tip that is most effective for them in their business right NOW... so you know it’s relevant and actually...
Dec 16, 2019•45 min
We’ve just been to see Lady Gaga LIVE in Las Vegas! And boy, did she have us in the palm of her hand. Standing ovation after standing ovation as she made her way through some of the world’s most-loved Jazz songs. The entire evening was a masterclass in how to create a connection to your audience, know your message and be unapologetically true to yourself. We thought there were SO many lessons we could apply to our marketing and communications that we decided there were a “million reasons” (see w...
Dec 02, 2019•29 min
That’s a wrap on the 2019 HerBusiness REACH Retreat in Hawaii. WOW what a week! So we thought we’d pull the curtain back on the marketing we used to fill this high end retreat (you’ll notice many of the strategies we’ve already shared on this podcast were key to our success). Listen to this episode to hear more about: Why you need to focus on the pleasure and pain of your offer WAY more than the features of your offer. The copy approach we used to get our ideal clients applying How we used Faceb...
Nov 18, 2019•40 min
We’ve just concluded the annual HerBusiness REACH Retreat in Hawaii (A-Mazing!). And one topic we discussed was how to communicate your value. It brought up some REALLY fascinating conversation about what stops us from really charging what we’re worth and owning the value we bring… so we thought we’d continue the discussion (and some tips on how to overcome those blocks) on today’s show! Listen to this episode to hear more about: Why you’re not alone if you sometimes feel like a “fraud” The BIG ...
Nov 04, 2019•47 min
Online presentation platforms are AWESOME (think Zoom Calls, Facebook LIVEs, Webinars). It’s an ideal way to reach a lot of people in a really powerful, easy way to deliver trainings, create connection, sell stuff and get people using your product… BUT… One of the BIG problems we see is that even though there are LOTS of opportunities to create a dynamic back and forth between you and your audience - most people really end up offering a decidedly ONE way conversation in their online presentation...
Oct 21, 2019•31 min
Ever get stuck part way through a content project? Sometimes find it difficult to even get started with a new piece of content? Always having to come up with new ideas and finding that a challenge? Take it from us… we’ve seen just about every content block, obstacle and unreasonable deadline there is… and we’ve developed some hacks that help us work better, faster and break through procrastination and other blocks. In this episode your hosts Suzi Dafnis and Michelle Falzon share their top person...
Oct 07, 2019•36 min
In this episode, your hosts Suzi Dafnis and Michelle Falzon talk with Amazon marketing expert and multi-million dollar Amazon seller, Dylan Frost about how different types of businesses (large and small, service-based and product-based) can find new customers on Amazon. Listen to this episode to hear more about: Some of the WEIRDEST things people have ever bought on Amazon Dylan’s TOP 3 Content Strategies for succeeding on Amazon How Amazon strategies can map over to other parts of your business...
Sep 23, 2019•1 hr 4 min
