93 - 5 Pro Tips for Choosing Video Backgrounds
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Release Date: 11/05/2018
233 – How Your Business Model Impacts Your Marketing and the Money You Make
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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 to get results right now. Listen to This Episode to Hear More About: -> The 8 types of business...
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232 - How to Monetise Your Podcast Even if You Don’t Have a Huge Audience - with Omar Zenhom
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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 episodes, Omar knows a thing or two about what works (and what doesn’t) when it comes to...
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231 - Navigating The Biggest Change in 20 Years with Cheryl Rerick
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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 continue get your message into the inbox of the people on your email list. Listen to this episode to...
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230 - The 3-Word Mantra For Marketing Breakthroughs
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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 closing down a product – this simple 3-word Mantra could be a powerful tool for you!...
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229 - Own Your Niche
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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 “ownership” of your niche and WHY that’s crucial for the growth (and survival) of your...
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228 - When and How To Offer a VIP Ticket Option for Your Online Course, Challenge or Program
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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 offer, when and how to offer the VIP upgrade and more! Listen to this Episode to Hear More...
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227 - Content Marketing: Is 10X Easier than 2X?
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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 episode for you. Your hosts Suzi Dafnis and Michelle Falzon share their views...
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226 - Best Books for Content Marketers – 2024 Edition
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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 been re-reading them and recommending them to clients and students so much recently....
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225 - How We Produce This Podcast
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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 found useful and so much more. So, whether you already HAVE a podcast and you’re looking for some...
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224 - Exploding Mountains! (When To Stop Offering a Product or Service)
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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” business model that can take you just 2 minutes but save you YEARS of trial and error ->...
info_outlineMany of us are finding ourselves on video a lot more than we used to - even if we aren’t making content videos to put on YouTube, maybe we are being seen on camera more with our clients on Zoom Calls, Webinars, Skype Meetings etc.
And while you might have thought about your makeup and spent time mapping out what you’re actually going to say… very often people overlook one VERY important part of their video - the BACKGROUND!
It makes up the majority of the shot and can REALLY impact how long people watch your video and what they think of your brand.
In today’s episode your hosts, Suzi Dafnis and Michelle Falzon are talking about how to make your videos look great!
Specifically, what you can do to make your backgrounds and your settings look great - as well as some tips on relatively inexpensive equipment options that will make a massive difference to how fabulous you look on screen.
FREE DOWNLOAD: Plus, we’ve got this FREE resource for you Pro Tips for Choosing Video Backgroundswhich you can download here.
Listen to this episode to hear more about:
- How to avoid looking messy, bland or washed out on your next video
- How a few well-placed props can boost your “Authority Bling” and get people seeing you as a leader in your field
- How even a simple nook in your home can be transformed into your own personal film studio
- Why you want to think about putting yourself in a real-life work situation when recording your videos
- How shared workspaces can be a boon for your videos and spice up your backgrounds
- Why you might want to think about using a large screen TV as part of your backdrop (plus a cheaper alternative if that’s all too hard!)
- How to get your backgrounds looking different even if you are regularly filming in the same space (and why it’s CRUCIAL you add some variety to your video set)
- What you need to know about “depth of field” that will get your video looking like the pros in no time
- What to do with pesky blinds, pictures, and other “set destroyers”
- Is a “custom backdrop” something you should check out?
- Suzi’s “dream set” and how you can get a similar feel for a fraction of the budget
- Much, much more...
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