264 - The Content CEO: How to Shift From Doing It All to Leading a Marketing Machine
Content Sells: Attract, Convert & Keep Your Ideal Clients with Content Marketing That Works
Release Date: 06/16/2025
Content Sells: Attract, Convert & Keep Your Ideal Clients with Content Marketing That Works
If you’ve ever felt like your marketing is almost working — but not quite clicking — it might not be your funnel, your content, or your offer that’s the problem. In this episode, your hosts, Suzi Dafnis and Michelle Falzon explore a different perspective: What if you’re attracting the wrong leads? Because when the wrong people are entering your marketing ecosystem, it doesn’t matter how well-designed your strategy is — your content won’t convert, your sales conversations will feel heavy, and your offers won’t land. Listen to This Episode to Hear More About: -> The...
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If your marketing success is dependent on you doing everything — writing every email, scheduling every post, fixing every tech issue — this episode is for you. Because it’s time to shift from doing it all to becoming the Content CEO in your business. This week, your hosts, Suzi Dafnis and Michelle Falzon, share the 3 key shifts you can make to move from overwhelmed content creator to strategic content leader. Listen to This Episode to Hear More About: -> The real reason your content feels inconsistent and exhausting—and how to fix it with one powerful mindset change. -> Why...
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Big partnerships aren’t the only way to grow your audience or boost your visibility. In this episode, your hosts Suzi Dafnis & Michelle Falzon explore how easy low-tech, low-cost, and low-lift alliances — like co-promoting with a local business or doing an email swap with a peer — can actually move the needle in a big way. Whether you’re just starting out, or looking for fresh ways to expand without adding complexity, these mini but mighty collaborations can create major momentum and growth in your business. Listen to This Episode To: -> Discover the 'Peaches and Cream'...
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It’s our Annual Content Marketing Tools Episode! Sharing the Content Marketing Tools we’re loving each year has become a bit of a tradition here at the Content Sells Podcast. In today’s show, your hosts, Suzi Dafnis and Michelle Falzon, give you the rundown on 8 tech tools that have made a real difference to their content creation and marketing this year. Some are cutting-edge AI-based tools and some are “old school” platforms with exciting new applications. PLUS you can download our FREE and NEWLY Updated Content Marketing Tools Guide. This Free Guide includes a comprehensive list...
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Creating high-quality content takes time — whether it’s crafting emails, mapping launch sequences, analysing survey data, building frameworks, or preparing visuals for a workshop. And while many people are using AI to generate more content faster, that often comes at the cost of quality, voice, or effectiveness. In this behind-the-scenes episode, your hosts Suzi Dafnis & Michelle Falzon share exactly how they’re personally using AI right now — not to replace their thinking and creativity, but to amplify it. You’ll hear six practical and strategic ways they’re using tools like...
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You’ve got clients. You’re delivering results. But maybe you’re starting to feel maxed out… or wondering if there’s a smarter way to grow. In this episode your hosts, Suzi Dafnis and Michelle Falzon, dive into 6 powerful questions to help you know if it’s time to introduce a higher-priced product or service into your product suite — and how to do it in a way that increases your profit, deepens client transformation, and adds spaciousness to your business. If you’ve been sitting on an idea for a premium offer — or not sure what it would even look like — this is the episode...
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You’ve created a solid offer. You’ve put in the work. You know it delivers value. But when it comes time to promote it… crickets. Or maybe you get some buyers, but you know there were people on the fence who just didn’t tip over into a “yes.” What if the missing link wasn’t in the offer itself… but in the bonuses? In this episode of the Content Sells Podcast, your hosts Suzi Dafnis and Michelle Falzon dive deep into how to use bonuses strategically — not just as a “nice extra,” but as powerful conversion tools that help your buyers move past the objections that are...
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Is your free content getting you caught in the “Friend Zone”? In this episode of the Content Sells Podcast, your hosts, Suzi Dafnis and Michelle Falzon, delve into the art of guiding your audience seamlessly from free offerings to paid products and services. Listen to This Episode to Hear More About: -> Why your content might be getting you stuck in the “friend zone” with your audience (and how to fix this!). -> The number 1 reason why your amazing free content still isn’t converting. -> The real reason people aren’t buying (and it’s not what you think). -> One tiny...
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Imagine turning your Instagram account into a lead-generating powerhouse—without spending a cent on ads! In this episode of the Content Sells Podcast, your hosts, Suzi Dafnis and Michelle Falzon are joined by Instagram marketing expert Nicole Burke of Gardenary, who has built a massive 1.2 million+ following and leveraged Instagram to grow a multi-million-dollar business. In this episode Nicole shares her exact strategy for turning Instagram followers into engaged buyers, including: -> How she tripled her followers in a year and doubled her revenue—twice! -> The #1 decision that...
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Are you undercharging for your offers? If you've ever hesitated to raise your prices because you're worried about scaring off clients, feeling “salesy,” or questioning how to define and charge for the value you bring – this episode is for you! Your hosts, Suzi Dafnis and Michelle Falzon, are joined by Dr. Claire Zammit, founder of the Women-Centered Coaching Institute and creator of Feminine Power, to explore the hidden costs of undercharging—not just for your business but for your clients, too. Claire has helped over 70,000 women break through their invisible barriers to create...
info_outlineIf your marketing success is dependent on you doing everything — writing every email, scheduling every post, fixing every tech issue — this episode is for you.
Because it’s time to shift from doing it all to becoming the Content CEO in your business.
This week, your hosts, Suzi Dafnis and Michelle Falzon, share the 3 key shifts you can make to move from overwhelmed content creator to strategic content leader.
Listen to This Episode to Hear More About:
-> The real reason your content feels inconsistent and exhausting—and how to fix it with one powerful mindset change.
-> Why batching, briefing, and building systems is your new superpower (even if you’re a solo operator).
-> The 3 key shifts to becoming a Content CEO—and how to start making them today.
-> How to get 80% of your content done by someone else—and still have it feel 100% like you.
-> What to do when you feel like “no one can do it like me”—and why that belief is keeping you stuck.
-> The surprising truth about delegation: Why handing off tasks isn’t enough—and what to do instead.
-> The 3 high-leverage roles every growing business needs (and how to know which one to hire first).
-> Why your first hire doesn’t need to be full-time—or even permanent—to make a massive difference.
-> The “Who Not How” principle that unlocks freedom, focus, and faster growth.
-> How to stop being the bottleneck in your marketing—and start building a machine that runs without you.
-> The one question to ask yourself this week to start stepping into Content CEO mode.
-> And so much more…
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Belinda Weaver – Copywrite Matters
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Dan Martell – Author of Buy Back Your Time
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Dan Sullivan and Dr. Benjamin Hardy – Authors of Who Not How
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Amanda Paul – Brand Injection
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