Copywriter Chanti Zak (aka Chantelle Zakariasen aka the Queen of Quiz Funnels) joins us for the 54th episode of The Copywriter Club Podcast. Chanti started her career as a food blogger, racking up more than 50,000 regular visitors and a big email list before transitioning to copywriting for coaches and other wellness-based businesses. During our interview, she tells us about:

•  how she went from moderately successful food blogger to in-demand copywriter

•  the biggest differences between blogging and copywriting

•  quiz funnels—what they are and what they do

•  how a quiz can segment an audience—and they don’t even realize it’s happening

•  how she’s packaged her services to be appealing to different kinds of clients

•  how she pitches and cold emails clients successfully

•  what she does to make her emails stand out and get a response

•  how she batches her pitches to use her time more effectively

•  website shame and what she did to overcome it, and

•  the three things she invested in to upgrade her web presence

We also asked her what she would do differently if she had to start over and where she thinks copywriting is headed (hint: interactivity seems to be a big thing these days). Plus we wanted to hear more about her stay in India before she started writing and how that experience has impacted the way she approaches her business today. To hear what she told us, click the play button below, or scroll down for a full transcript.

The people and stuff we mentioned on the show:

Sponsor: The Copywriter Accelerator

Chanti’s food blog

Cosmopolitan

Buzzfeed

Pinterest

Ryan LeVesque

ChantelleZakariasen.com

Wordpress

ChantiZak.com

Kira’s website

Rob’s website

The Copywriter Club Facebook Group

Intro: Content (for now)

Outro: Gravity

Full Transcript:

Kira: The Copywriter Club Podcast is sponsored by The Copywriter Accelerator a three-month program with six core business components designed to help new copywriters lay their foundation for a successful business.

Rob: Participants receive in-depth training, coaching, and feedback from us, which means you get access to us in a private community. Registration is now open and the early bird rate ends on October 27th. Learn more at TheCopywriterAccelerator.com.

Kira: What if you could hang out with seriously talented copywriters and other experts, ask them about their successes and failures, their work processes, and their habits then steal an idea or two to inspire your own work? That’s what Rob and I do every week at The Copywriter Club Podcast.

Rob: You’re invited to join the club for Episode 54 as we talk with copywriter and quiz funnel expert, Chanti Zak, about creating quizzes that hook potential customers, and to make them want to share going from in-house writer to freelance and finding clients fast, pitching podcasts, and how studying yoga in India has made her a better copywriter.

Kira: Chanti, welcome.

Chanti: Thank you for having me. I feel so honored.

Rob: It’s awesome to have you here.

Kira: Yes-yes, so I think a great place to start is with your story. How did you end up becoming a copywriter?

Chanti: Well, I started a food blog randomly enough. I had this paleo food blog when my son was a newborn baby, and I really quickly grew it to like 50,000 unique visitors per month, and I was getting featured on like Cosmopolitan and BuzzFeed and all of these really big publications, so from there this whole online world opened up to me and I started getting writing work as a direct result of my food blog, so what I did is I used it as a portfolio of sorts, and that’s sort of how I started freelance writing and copywriting.

Rob: I’m really curious you started a blog and grew to like 50,000 people.

Kira: That’s a big deal.

Rob: Yeah, that’s a dream that a lot of bloggers have been working for years to do. How did you do that? What did you do to grow?

Chanti: Well, I think it’s easier with food than it is with a l...