Content Sells: Attract, Convert & Keep Your Ideal Clients with Content Marketing That Works

We're talking about the "Features Trap" that most business owners get stuck in. We're all in love with our own product and we can become obsessed with all the "things" that make our product great… but guess what? Your market is not interested in your product or services FEATURES! They want to know about its BENEFITS! In this episode, your hosts, Suzi Dafnis and Michelle Falzon share how you can re...

In this episode we're doing something that's become a tradition! It's our annual Best Content Marketing Books episode! Your hosts, Suzi Dafnis and Michelle Falzon LOVE talking books and they've got some GOODIES to share! Plus we've released our newly updated 2023 Content Sells Reading List which you can get here! Listen to This Episode to Hear More About: -> The book Michelle read early in the yea...

It's our 200th Episode!!! When we were talking about how to celebrate this milestone moment, we decided it would be fun to go live, invite some of our cherished listeners to the show and do some celebrating, reminiscing and sharing of some of the top strategies we've covered here on the show! And that's exactly what we're doing! Join your hosts, Suzi Dafnis and Michelle Falzon (and Special Guests)...

We're covering a topic that's made a massive difference to not only our own marketing results, but also to our Marketing Success Masterminders, who we've been working pretty closely with over the last year or so to really double down on this… In this episode, your hosts Suzi Dafnis and Michelle Falzon share the idea of creating a RUNWAY for your marketing and how that Runway can actually help you...

We're digging back into a topic that's super important and that we haven't touched on in a while - and that's CASE STUDIES. In this episode, your hosts Suzi Dafnis and Michelle Falzon share 5 Easy Ways you can use case studies to tell your customer stories. Listen to this episode to hear more about: -> 5 formats your case studies can take so more people see them, love them and are motivated to mov...

We have an amazing guest today! The inspiring Skye Anderton, founder & CEO of jewellery and lifestyle brand Ruby Olive. In this episode, your hosts Suzi Dafnis and Michelle Falzon chat with Skye about how she's built her successful ecommerce business and they dive into her top content marketing strategies, including Video Storytelling (which she's masterful at!).   **SPECIAL OFFER FOR CONTENT SELL...

Even though we spend a lot of time talking about getting more STRATEGIC with our marketing, it can be really easy for "one-off" tactics and "bright shiny objects" to sneak into our marketing that aren't very strategic at all! In this episode, your hosts Suzi Dafnis and Michelle Falzon share the idea of "Campaign Thinking" where you focus on a marketing initiative that's directly related to one of...

Successful strategic marketing comes from being really deliberate about your planning and clearly choosing what goes on your calendar and what does not. Poor planning means you have to expend MORE energy, and it costs MORE in terms of money, time and also lost opportunity. In this episode, your hosts Suzi Dafnis and Michelle Falzon share how to stack momentum in your annual marketing plan so that...

Not only is a competition a great way to get more leads and incentivise people to take specific actions, it's also a really wonderful way to crowdsource content AND have that content shared to a much wider audience than you might normally be able to reach. In this episode, your hosts Suzi Dafnis and Michelle Falzon talk about Competitions and how you can use them effectively in your Content Market...

You might have many of the ingredients of a successful Facebook Group… a great idea, an engaged crowd, a big launch, a steady traffic stream… but it can still fall flat if you don't have some fundamental systems in place. In this episode, your hosts Suzi Dafnis and Michelle Falzon share the essential systems and processes you need to ensure you have a successful Facebook Group. Listen to this epis...

Something we know many business owners struggle with is building your own personal profile. While we might all conceptually think, "Yes! That's what I want." Often when it comes down to tooting your own horn or being seen, we can clam up and want to hide. In today's episode, your hosts, Suzi Dafnis and Michelle Falzon share 5 super simple content strategies you can use to start building your profi...

So often we see women in business who either DON'T KNOW what their "lane" is – that is they don't have a clear plan. OR they keep getting thrown off course by zig zagging all over the place, chasing bright shiny opportunities, or thinking they have to do it like this other person in their field. When really, the KEY is finding what it is YOU have to contribute, what it is YOU want to do and create...

Feel like you're putting a ton of effort into your marketing and getting nowhere? Imagine putting in LESS effort and getting MORE results. Sounds like a pipe dream! But in this episode, your hosts Suzi Dafnis and Michelle Falzon chat with Denise Duffield-Thomas, author of the best-selling (and newly re-released) book, Chill & Prosper , about how she's done EXACTLY that. Growing a multi-million dol...

Ever wondered if your fledgling business could ever become a multi-million dollar success story? Perhaps that's what you dream about and what you're working towards. In this episode, your hosts Suzi Dafnis and Michelle Falzon chat with Lorraine Dallmeier of Formula Botanica, who took a tiny business with 200 students and turned it into a global success story with more than 40,000 students worldwid...

So much of what we do as marketers has a design element. Whether it's your branding, your website design, the lead magnet you're sending, your Facebook ads, the style of your social media posts, the brochure you leave with clients, the look and feel of your online course or membership – so much of what we do requires DESIGN. In this episode, your hosts Suzi Dafnis and Michelle Falzon thought of bu...

Does everything in your business feel like it's falling on your shoulders? Many small business owners get stuck in that trap of feeling like they have to do everything themselves (especially if cashflow is tight). But then it's hard to grow because you become the bottleneck in your business. And then you can't take any breaks because you have to keep everything going all the time. So then you get...

We know getting more sales from EXISTING social media followers can be a challenge for many business owners. Perhaps you've experienced this – you've built up a healthy following on Instagram or you've got hundreds or perhaps even thousands or more people in your Facebook Group, or you've expanded the number of connections you have on LinkedIn… but how do you turn those followers into buyers? In t...

In this episode, your hosts, Suzi Dafnis and Michelle Falzon, are talking about something they haven't done before on this show, which is to dig into some of their favourite marketing software and tools! That's right! While always being focused on getting the latest tool or software can be a bit of a distraction, there ARE some tools that we've used and love that we wanted to share with you! PLUS...

Price can be such a tricky issue – not only from a strategic, tactical point of view in terms of how you position yourself in your market and what your pricing strategy is, but also from a MINDSET point of view. In this episode, your hosts, Suzi Dafnis and Michelle Falzon share 5 strategies for raising your prices and making more money (without losing customers). PLUS BONUS Download Click Here for...

Are bright shiny objects ruining your business? Are you skipping from idea to idea, but finding nothing seems to "stick?" Are you so busy always making "new" stuff that you're missing out on the benefits of, shock horror, focusing on FEWER things that you do over and over? In this episode, your hosts, Suzi Dafnis and Michelle Falzon ask these exact questions, along with sharing how the idea of a "...

Are you being too bland and broad in your business? If you're not getting the results you want, chances are a LOT of it comes down to the fact you're throwing your net too wide and being too general with your messaging and marketing strategies. Many people really STRUGGLE to get specific with their messaging; their niche; their strategies and more… And it's costing money, time AND opportunity. In...

A lot of our listeners have told us they want to know MORE about how to write great COPY. And in particular, how to use that copy to attract and build relationships with key strategic partners or influencers. That's why, in this episode, your hosts, Suzi Dafnis and Michelle Falzon chat with Copywriting Expert, Bernadette Schwerdt about how to write better copy to get more clients and to connect wi...

Are you making it TOO HARD for people to buy from you? You've gotta be REALLY CLEAR and REALLY OBVIOUS about what it is you're offering, what your core message is, what you want people to do next. And if people don't see that right away when they land on your webpage or read your Facebook Ad or click to open your email – they lose interest pretty quickly. So you've spent all this time, and in many...

Imagine having a way to FUND your marketing. Often people tell us that PAYING for traffic feels out of reach or they've been burned in the past by spending precious dollarson marketing that didn't work. But what if there was a way you could get a return almost right away, instead of having to wait a long time to maybe get something back much later in the sales process. In this episode, your hosts,...