It’s our Annual Content Marketing Tools Episode! In today’s show, your hosts, Suzi Dafnis and Michelle Falzon share the Content Marketing Tools they are loving right now! Listen to This Episode to Hear More About: -> The tool that’s recently added a bunch of AI functionality that you want to revisit! -> The “stupid simple” tool Suzi uses EVERY day that radically increases her productivity. -> The revolutionary way to create short video clips from longer videos (and why, if you currently...
May 06, 2024•29 min
In this episode, your hosts, Suzi Dafnis and Michelle Falzon chat with online advertising expert, Stacey Hughes about how to determine your ad budget when just getting started with paid traffic. Listen to This Episode to Hear More About: -> Why paid ads are just one piece of the marketing puzzle (and won’t solve all your problems!). -> The 3 parts of your funnel you should focus on and build specific ad campaigns around. -> Where engagement ads fit into the process (and why you need the...
Apr 22, 2024•40 min
In this episode, your hosts, Suzi Dafnis and Michelle Falzon are discussing your business model and how to choose the right one for you. Plus, we’re looking at the direct impact your business model has on your marketing choices. When you get those choices wrong, it can be challenging to reach your money goals. PLUS Get the BONUS Volume/Value Matrix Free Download! This simple 4-part framework demystifies how to match your marketing to your business model and explains WHY you might be struggling t...
Apr 08, 2024•46 min
Whether you have a podcast, or you’re thinking about creating one, or even if you may never have a podcast but you create regular content that you would like to monetise in some way… today’s episode is for you! In this episode, your hosts, Suzi Dafnis and Michelle Falzon speak to massively successful podcaster, Omar Zenhom. Omar is the founder and host of The $100 MBA Show. The $100 MBA Show is ranked as a top business podcast in over 30 countries. With over 200 million downloads and over 2,400 ...
Mar 25, 2024•1 hr 1 min
BIG changes are coming that will impact every business that uses email marketing. In this episode, your hosts, Suzi Dafnis and Michelle Falzon speak to email automation expert, Cheryl Rerick, about the looming changes being made by Google, Yahoo, Microsoft that have a direct impact on the deliverability of your emails! These are some of the biggest changes to happen in email marketing for 20 years and you need to get ahead of the changes to ensure your emails remain compliant and that you can co...
Mar 11, 2024•53 min
In today’s show, we’re sharing a MANTRA that is making a BIG difference with our students and clients when it comes to having a Marketing Breakthrough. Sometimes, a marketing breakthrough can be doing something new, and sometimes, it can be what we’re STOPPING doing that creates it. Sometimes, it’s BOTH – we have to stop one thing so we can do another. But change can be daunting. Whether you’re delving into new territory, turning off a part of your business to focus on another, or launching or c...
Feb 26, 2024•30 min
Your niche is the market you serve. And we’ve all heard the advice that “you’ve got to have a niche.” But it’s not enough to have a super clear niche and really great messaging that speaks directly to them. The missing ingredient that we’re seeing a lot in the content marketing of small business owners is that they’re not really OWNING (in a deep and profound way) the niche they’ve chosen. In this episode, your hosts, Suzi Dafnis and Michelle Falzon explore what it means to really take “ownershi...
Feb 12, 2024•38 min
One tactic that could be really helpful for you if you are offering an online course, a challenge, a live event or some other kind of workshop or program is to offer a VIP Ticket Option. If you’re not currently offering a VIP option, this can be a real game changer! And if you ARE already giving your customers a way to get a VIP experience, we’ve got some tips that will make it more effective for you! Your hosts Suzi Dafnis and Michelle Falzon share their top tips for what to put in your VIP off...
Jan 29, 2024•57 min
Over the years there’s been a lot of buzz around this idea of “10X-ing.” And with the release of the book “10X is Easier Than 2X” by Dan Sullivan and Dr Benjamin Hardy Suzi and Michelle got to thinking about this idea of 10X and especially how it relates to women marketers and business owners. Is it all hype? Is 10X REALLY easier than 2X? Or is there even any merit in comparing the two? Do we actually need BOTH? If you’ve ever been “turned off” by the “bro marketer” take on 10X, then this is the...
Jan 15, 2024•48 min
It’s time for our annual review of the books we’re recommending for the new year! Join your hosts Suzi Dafnis and Michelle Falzon as they share books they’ve loved and learned from that can help you be a more effective content marketer in 2024 (plus get your hands on our NEWLY UPDATED and hugely popular Content Sells Recommended Reading List!). Some books featured on today’s show are brand “newies” and others are classic “oldies” Suzi and Michelle have pulled out of the vault because they’ve bee...
Jan 01, 2024•43 min
Well, it’s episode 225 and we figured it was about time we shared how we produce this podcast! Your hosts Suzi Dafnis and Michelle Falzon have had numerous questions from listeners over the years about various aspects of the podcast and how it gets made. In this episode they pull back the curtain on their process from end-to-end. Including how they come up with podcast episode ideas, how they batch their recordings, what to think about when recording, tools and software and processes they’ve fou...
Dec 18, 2023•1 hr 13 min
This episode is all about Exploding Mountains. Your hosts Suzi Dafnis and Michelle Falzon talk you through the 5-point checklist for knowing whether you need to stop delivering a particular product or service (even one that is profitable!). Listen to this episode to hear more about: -> What a Marketing Mountain is and why you need to understand this concept to have a successful business -> How “turning the funnel upside down” can be a game changer for your marketing -> The “hand drawn” ...
Dec 04, 2023•1 hr 10 min
Proactive marketing involves anticipating future trends, your customer needs, and market changes and strategically planning your marketing in advance so you can achieve the goals you really want to achieve. Whereas reactive marketing can mean you never really get to your goals because that’s not what’s driving your marketing. Instead, with reactive marketing, it’s less about where you want to go and more about being driven by what’s happening right now. You’re very often responding to immediate ...
Nov 20, 2023•57 min
MVP stands for Minimum Viable Product and it’s all about getting to market with the bare essentials of your product or program and testing the idea is actually what the market wants, BEFORE you over invest and create the entire fully fleshed out bells and whistles version of the product. Once you know “it flies” THEN you launch it. Your hosts Suzi Dafnis and Michelle Falzon talk you through how to adopt the MVP mindset and give you case studies and examples of how you can get to market quickly a...
Oct 30, 2023•32 min
This episode is all about how you can get literally HOURS back each week by adopting some simple but powerful marketing systems. Your hosts Suzi Dafnis and Michelle Falzon share 3 marketing systems that are do-able and don’t need a lot of tech AND can save you from doing a bunch of stuff you don’t need to be doing. Listen to this episode to hear more about: -> What one of the biggest “red herrings” in Content Marketing is and why it’s keeping you distracted, exhausted and frustrated. -> Th...
Oct 09, 2023•48 min
In this episode we’re talking about something that’s a bit of content marketing “chestnut” – there was a time whenever you saw a content marketer on a speaker lineup, they talked about this… but, while we’ve touched on it in numerous ways, and we’ve done a couple of interviews with people who are doing this… we’ve never actually done a show, just you and I, dedicated to this idea… That “ol’ chestnut” your hosts, Suzi Dafnis and Michelle Falzon are talking about is “Repurposing Content” and in th...
Sep 18, 2023•1 hr 4 min
We’re covering a topic that can make a massive difference to your results… and that’s getting more referrals. And while we all love a good referral, in many businesses, it tends to be something that happens organically. In this episode, your hosts Suzi Dafnis and Michelle Falzon cover 6 specific things you can do to cultivate and systemise your content marketing to actually encourage more referrals on a regular basis. Listen to this episode to hear more about: -> The type of referral that has...
Aug 28, 2023•57 min
Striving for perfection is often what keeps us from launching our new product, sending that email, putting ourselves out there for that opportunity, reaching out to that amazing strategic partner, putting our hand up for that media opportunity, opening that new store, or any other great thing that you might be holding back on because you don’t yet have things perfect enough! In this episode, your hosts, Suzi Dafnis and Michelle Falzon’s big message is to EMBRACE what’s IMPERFECT in your life, yo...
Aug 07, 2023•54 min
There’s a strategy we have long loved and wanted to cover on the show… and that strategy is all about how you can boost your authority, grow your audience and own the space by publishing a report. Now, what do we mean by a report… Well, the dictionary defines a report as: An account given of a particular matter, especially in the form of an official document, after thorough investigation or consideration by an appointed person or body. And that’s a pretty good definition for what we’re talking a...
Jul 24, 2023•38 min
Your Sales Funnel is a process or series of steps for taking someone from not knowing about you or your offer to actually buying the specific product or service you want to sell. And we’re seeing a LOT of obsession about this BEFORE people launch their Sales Funnels, but then they launch and there can be this sense of “TICK” – that job is done. When really, you’re just at the STARTING line and your work is just beginning. In this episode, your hosts, Suzi Dafnis and Michelle Falzon, share the “o...
Jul 10, 2023•52 min
Not getting the results from webinars like you used to? Have you ever considered offering a low-priced workshop into the mix as a way to attract BUYERS right from the start of your sales process and open the door on your higher priced services, courses or products? In this episode, your hosts, Suzi Dafnis and Michelle Falzon, share WHY you might want to use this strategy of adding a PAID low-cost workshop as well as where, when and HOW it might fit into your marketing mix. Listen to this episode...
Jun 26, 2023•40 min
Imagine being able to go from “Tired & Trapped” with your marketing and business model, to achieving “Freedom & Flexibility” where you are able to unhook your income from your time and make more by doing less – sound like a pipe dream? If you’re a coach, consultant, course creator or other type of expert, best-selling author and 6-time Inc 5000 CEO, Ryan Levesque, has spent more than a decade decoding the exact steps you can take to do just that. In this episode, your hosts, Suzi Dafnis ...
Jun 08, 2023•51 min
Get the low-down on the Content Marketing Tools We’re Loving in 2023! These are tools that are helping us be more productive, more creative, more efficient and there are so many exciting things happening right now in terms of new tech! In this episode, your hosts, Suzi Dafnis and Michelle Falzon, revisit a topic they covered around this time last year as they share an UPDATE on their favourite content marketing tools (and a LOT has changed in just 12 short months!). You can check out ALL the too...
May 29, 2023•1 hr 5 min
It’s Q&A Time! In this episode, your hosts, Suzi Dafnis and Michelle Falzon, have are answering recent listener questions! We absolutely LOVE it when you ask questions and if you have something you’d like us to cover on a future show, go over to our Facebook Page and let us know! Listen to this episode to hear more about: -> What to do if you’re struggling with creating content for your email list. -> Suzi’s “email plan” tip that can save you hours! -> How to know if you’ve put too ...
May 15, 2023•57 min
Applications work great for high ticket products and services because higher dollar sales typically require a bit more 1:1 connection and more personalized, high touch support in order for people to feel ready and confident to move forward and make the purchase. In this episode, your hosts, Suzi Dafnis and Michelle Falzon, are talking about how you can sell high ticket items and premium products and services using an application process. The application process is something we’ve used very effec...
May 01, 2023•53 min
We know many of our listeners have some form of recurring revenue in their business model – whether that’s a membership site sharing information, or a repeatable service, a high dollar coaching program, or even a retainer arrangement – these are all recurring revenue models and you want to RETAIN as many of your recurring customers as possible. In this episode, your hosts, Suzi Dafnis and Michelle Falzon, are diving into their many years of experience with memberships to give you their best idea...
Apr 17, 2023•55 min
Anyone who’s listened to this show for a while will know what big fans we are of both DOING customer surveys and gathering customer language. It’s one of the best ways you can deeply understand your market… and ALSO create powerful marketing language. So we thought it was high time we did an episode dedicated to giving you some frameworks for doing just that. In this episode, your hosts, Suzi Dafnis and Michelle Falzon, share how you can write slam dunk marketing copy using your customer’s own w...
Apr 03, 2023•1 hr
In this episode, your hosts, Suzi Dafnis and Michelle Falzon, are shaking things up and for the first time ever, are interviewing not one, but THREE guests as they talk about their breakthroughs when it comes to the MONEY part of Marketing! This is a topic we’ve touched on at different times over the years, but it’s the first time we’re approaching it like this bringing in 3 people who’ve had money breakthroughs in 3 important ways that relate to how we do our marketing: -> Mindset Breakthrou...
Mar 20, 2023•1 hr 15 min
AI is here to stay and it’s changing the marketing game for small business owners. In this episode, your hosts, Suzi Dafnis and Michelle Falzon, deliver their first AI-related show (it won’t be the last!). They discuss the importance of crafting great prompts to get the best out of AI and share a simple “Prompt Crafting” framework you can follow to optimise the results you’re getting from AI. They also discuss the incredible opportunities available to small business owners through the use of AI ...
Mar 13, 2023•1 hr 6 min
Today, we’re talking about the elements of a successful sales page. A sales page is a web page where you’re… selling something! And while that might seem obvious, there is definitely a science and an ART to creating a high converting sales page. In this episode, your hosts, Suzi Dafnis and Michelle Falzon, draw on their decades of experience creating sales pages to share their checklist of 16 Essential Elements of a High-Converting Sales Page. Listen to this episode to hear more about: -> How...
Mar 06, 2023•1 hr 5 min
