The Entrepreneur’s Ecosystem

By Chanti Zak & Dawn Petrin

The Entrepreneur’s Ecosystem is your go-to source for digital marketing real talk — aka. nuanced and personalized conversations with business owners who all have one thing in common: they say no to

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The podcast currently has 47 episodes available.

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August 08, 2023 Demystifying Email Deliverability and The Processes That Increase Sender Reputation with Matt Brown
Having deliverability problems with your email campaigns and automated messaging might seem like a mind-numbing pain or even a cruel troll-like riddle, but in Matt’s eyes, these are fundamentally objective problems, which are always the best kind to have. These are the problems that simply need the right plan and appropriately applied process in order to guarantee a productive solution.

Today, we welcome back the amazing conversion copywriter and email deliverability tech guru Matt Brown -- a man with a plan that knows exactly how to take any deliverability nightmare and transform it into a functional email system and strategy best suited for the health and growth of a business.

Tune in and listen to episode 47 of The Entrepreneur's Ecosystem. Matt has endless insight and wisdom for all of you out there that are actively emailing your audience, using email marketing as a core strategy for driving connections that lead to conversions, and struggling a bit to find the right sending practices for sustaining a healthy email system with seamless deliverability.

In this episode, you will learn:
Matt’s experience with migrating 90,000 people from Kajabi to Active Campaign (8:56)
The difference between a deliverability problem vs a placement problem (15:32)
The 20% of things we can do that lead to 80% of the positive results (24:15)
The ultimate litmus test for your email list and the importance of list scrubbing (33:25)
Determining the real and accurate open rate (36:22)
How to find out where your emails are going (50:05)
Matt’s words of wisdom around deliverability problems (1:02:13)

Tell us what you want us to talk about:
www.chantizak.com/feedback

Find Out Your Own Unfair Advantage:
www.chantizak.com/unfairadvantage

Connect with Matt:
Instagram
Twitter

Interact:
Interact blog
Interact podcast
Quiz Collective

Connect with Chanti:
Website

Connect with Dawn:
Website

Some of our quiz funnels:
https://horizonfound.com/quiz
https://learn.kaysemorris.com/ceo-teacher-type-quiz
https://www.consciousconversion.com/quiz/

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1h 20min
June 27, 2023 Tap Into The Freedom and Flexibility of VIP days with Hannah Lipschutz
Are you looking to work on your own terms? Or maybe you’re just ready to build your schedule around the lifestyle you're cultivating for yourself rather than vice versa? Today’s guest has mastered the art of working to live and refusing to live solely for work. She offers VIP days of concentrated assistance in helping her clients produce the most impressive sales copy for their businesses within an accelerated time frame.

Today, we welcome Hannah Lipschutz, email strategist and conversion copywriter. She currently runs a specialist agency that uses email to expand the revenue growth of e-commerce brands, and she works with freelancers looking to create VIP offers that will provide them with what they want most.

Tune in and listen to episode forty-six where Hannah explains what a typical VIP offer consists of, how she made that framework her own, and what all freelancers and service providers should know about VIP days.

In this episode, you will learn:
What the typical VIP day rate looks like (4:15)
How Hannah has re-imagined the day rate business model on her own terms (11:21)
Advice on how to configure your VIP day offer (20:34)
What freelancers and other service providers should know about VIP offer work (25:45)
The importance of seeing the value in your time and unique abilities (30:28)
Hannah’s checklist for accepting a project on a VIP day offer (34:41)
How VIP days can be an opportunity to work outside of your niche (36:16)
What full research on behalf of a potential client means to Hannah (38:38)
How Hannah’s VIP day clients have found her (39:45)

Find Out Your Own Unfair Advantage:
www.chantizak.com/unfairadvantage

Connect with Hannah:
Linkedin
Hannah’s Website

Interact:
Interact blog
Interact podcast
Quiz Collective

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Connect with Chanti:
Website
Facebook
Instagram

Connect with Dawn:
Website
Instagram
LinkedIn

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46min
May 23, 2023How to Nourish Your Creative Process with Carla Contreras
Do you feel out of alignment in your business? Or maybe you get burnt out easily when it comes to creating content on top of everything else you have to do for your day-to-day business operations? For today’s guest, she has mastered nourishing creativity while not lacking in any other areas and she’s teaching her clients to do the same.

Today, we’re welcoming Carla Contreras, food stylist and content creation coach. She is the host of the Show Up Fully podcast. She competed on Chopped! on the Food Network, and her work has been featured in publications like Apartment Therapy and Well+Good.

Tune in and listen to episode 45 where Carla is talking about diversity within content creation, the act of balancing within your business, and her $38,000 lesson.

In This Episode, You Will Learn:
How diversity lends itself to content creation and coaching (7:51)
Balancing everything in business (15:02)
Carla’s creative process (21:03)
Tuning into your intuition within your business (25:28)
Carla’s $38,000 lesson and knowing how to pivot (37:26)
What the role of a coach is (49:19)
What Substack is used for (55:42)

Tell us what you want us to talk about:
www.chantizak.com/feedback

Find Out Your Own Unfair Advantage:
www.chantizak.com/unfairadvantage

Connect with Carla:
Website
Instagram
Substack
Podcast
Giveaway
The Creative Act

Interact:
Interact blog
Interact podcast
Quiz Collective
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Connect with Chanti:
Website
Facebook
Instagram

Connect with Dawn:
Website
Instagram

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1h 6min
March 21, 2023 Unstoppable: Bust Through Plateau Into Your Greatness with Linda Perry
Do you ever feel like you’re making progress and then suddenly you plateau? Or perhaps you have expectations for how your success is going to go and when it doesn’t end up how you thought it would, you get stuck? Our guest today has made a name for herself by helping others get through their plateaus and onto greater things.

Today, we’re welcoming Linda Perry, a success strategist who combines mindset tools with strategic implementation to help small business owners crack the code to greater success. After working with hundreds of business owners, Linda believes that the key to uncovering freedom, making more money, and buying back your time begins with a Mindset First approach and she shows clients how to ditch their head trash to get ahead.

Tune in and listen to episode forty-four of The Entrepreneur’s Ecosystem. Linda is talking all about plateaus, why awareness isn’t the end-all, and how powerful the idea of maybe is.

In This Episode, You Will Learn:
The parallel between traveling and running a business (10:27)
How being a recovered lawyer and copywriter has led Linda to her business (17:27)
The beauty in plateaus (20:27)
How a family member’s plateau can affect you (34:49)
Why awareness isn’t enough (39:47)
The power of ‘maybe’ (49:57)

Tell us what you want us to talk about:
www.chantizak.com/feedback

Find Out Your Own Unfair Advantage:
www.chantizak.com/unfairadvantage

Connect with Linda:
Website
Instagram
LinkedIn
Podcast
The Gap and The Gain

Interact:
Interact blog
Interact podcast
Quiz Collective

Connect with Chanti:
Website
Facebook
Instagram

Connect with Dawn:
Website
Instagram
LinkedIn

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1h 7min
February 21, 2023 Blogs Are Dead – Start a Newsletter Instead with Dylan Redekop
In today’s day and age, connecting to your audience is more important than ever before––especially if your career depends on those connections. People have grown tired of dealing with the constant stream of ads on blogs, so that’s why you might want to look into creating a newsletter about a topic you’re passionate about, and curating your audience that way.

Today, we’re welcoming Dylan Redekop, creator of the Growth Currency Newsletter, a newsletter where he shares how he has monetized his newsletter and you can, too.

Tune in and listen to episode forty-three where Dylan is talking to us about how a newsletter differs from email marketing, the basics of starting a newsletter, and how to find your niche.

In This Episode, You Will Learn:
What makes a newsletter different from email marketing (7:21)
Dylan shares some impressive stats about popular newsletters (14:26)
Dylan discusses the basics of starting a newsletter (30:54)
The different types of platforms for newsletters (38:23)
How to find your newsletter niche (41:27)
Using newsletters as blog posts (47:28)
Monetizing a newsletter (51:20)

Tell us what you want us to talk about:
www.chantizak.com/feedback

Find Out Your Own Unfair Advantage:
www.chantizak.com/unfairadvantage

Connect with Dylan Redekop:
Twitter
Instagram
Free course
Subscribe to Dylan

Interact:
Interact blog
Interact podcast
Quiz Collective

Connect with Chanti:
Website
Facebook
Instagram

Connect with Dawn:
Website
Instagram
LinkedIn

Some of our quiz funnels:
https://horizonfound.com/quiz
https://learn.kaysemorris.com/ceo-teacher-type-quiz
https://www.consciousconversion.com/quiz/

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1h 6min
February 09, 2023What’s Your Growth Type with Chanti and Dawn
Have you been putting off adding quizzes to your business? If you have, then this is your sign to start doing it. Chanti is sharing all about her new quiz AND how you can join her live workshop that will teach you exactly how to create a quiz that resonates with your audience.

Today, it’s just us two, Dawn and Chanti. Chanti is giving us the exclusive on her 1,000-page document quiz “What’s Your Growth Type?”

Tune in and listen to episode forty-two of The Entrepreneur’s Ecosystem. Chanti is telling us all about how she plans to use quizzes in 2023, how you can learn from her, and why it’s important to segment your audience.

In This Episode, You Will Learn:
How Chanti’s new quiz is going to help entrepreneurs grow in their business (7:06)
The difference between the paid version and the free version (10:13)
The importance of segmenting your audience (16:38)
Why Chanti wants to get more specific with her messaging (25:13)
Using the quiz as a organizational center point of your business (32:39)
Zero first party data and what it is (46:02)
All about Chanti’s live workshop teaching you how to create quizzes (51:42)

Tell us what you want us to talk about:
www.chantizak.com/feedback

Find Out Your Own Unfair Advantage:
www.chantizak.com/unfairadvantage

Interact:
Interact blog
Interact podcast
Quiz Collective

Connect with Chanti:
Website
Facebook
Instagram

Connect with Dawn:
Website
Instagram
LinkedIn

Some of our quiz funnels:
https://horizonfound.com/quiz
https://learn.kaysemorris.com/ceo-teacher-type-quiz
https://www.consciousconversion.com/quiz/

Links we mentioned:

What kind of quiz does your business need
Quiz Class

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57min
December 20, 2022Team Growth Real Talk and AI Predictions for the Future of Copy
Have you ever been curious about how to get more deals in your business? Or perhaps you’ve been curious about growing your team? For most people, it’s a lot of trial and error. But if you listen to the advice of our guest today, you might just be able to skip past a lot of those trials.

Today, we’re welcoming Joel Klettke, founder of Case Study Buddy, a company that helps businesses create and scale case studies and video testimonies so they’re able to close more deals. Joel is known for being an OG in the copywriting field.

Tune in and listen to episode forty-one of The Entrepreneur’s Ecosystem. Joel shares why he went full-time with Case Study Buddy, how to build a team of writers, and his thoughts about where copywriting AI will be in the next few years.

In This Episode, You Will Learn:
Joel tells us what Case Study Buddy is and does (9:11)
How to build a team of writers (13:05)
How having children changes your business (30:43)
Why Joel got into running (35:04)
Joel shares his thoughts on the use of AI in copywriting (46:02)

Tell us what you want us to talk about:
www.chantizak.com/feedback

Find Out Your Own Unfair Advantage:
www.chantizak.com/unfairadvantage

Connect with Joel:
Website
LinkedIn

Interact:
Interact blog
Interact podcast
Quiz Collective

Connect with Chanti:
Website
Facebook
Instagram

Connect with Dawn:
Website
Instagram
LinkedIn

Some of our quiz funnels:
https://horizonfound.com/quiz
https://learn.kaysemorris.com/ceo-teacher-type-quiz
https://www.consciousconversion.com/quiz/

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1h 10min
December 06, 2022 Raw Milk and The Power of “I Wrote the Book on That” with Chris Orzechowski
Have you ever set down a path only to realize after getting to your destination that it is absolutely not what you want? A lot of people might just accept their fate or hope it gets better as time goes on. But for our guest today, that was not the case. Instead, he decided to grind until he got to where he wanted to be.

Today, we’re welcoming Chris Orzechowski, email copywriter, author, and owner of an agency. He boasts having sold over 100 million dollars of product through email copywriting.

Tune in and listen to episode forty where Chris shares why he left teaching, what his reasoning is for writing books, and why others may hate you.

In This Episode, You Will Learn:
Chris’ origin story as a teacher and why he left (14:27)
Why Chris decided to start writing books (22:02)
What social media platform Chris prefers as a copywriter (25:24)
The reasons people may hate on you (33:47)
How sending daily emails has affected Chris’ business (43:59)

Tell us what you want us to talk about:
www.chantizak.com/feedback

Find Out Your Own Unfair Advantage:
www.chantizak.com/unfairadvantage

Connect with Chris:
Books and Courses
Website
Instagram
YouTube
Twitter
Gorilla Mind

Interact:
Interact blog
Interact podcast
Quiz Collective

Connect with Chanti:
Website
Facebook
Instagram

Connect with Dawn:
Website
Instagram
LinkedIn

Some of our quiz funnels:
https://horizonfound.com/quiz
https://learn.kaysemorris.com/ceo-teacher-type-quiz
https://www.consciousconversion.com/quiz/

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59min
November 22, 2022How To Get Results So Good Other Publicists Want To Steal Your Strategies with Stephanie Lee
Do you ever wonder how unknown businesses get featured by Forbes or The Washington Post? Do you want that type of social proof for yourself? For most people, the secret is hiring a great PR team. And the proof is in the pudding with our guest today, considering she is our first ever accepted cold-pitch.

Today, we’re welcoming Stephanie Lee, founder of Clout Monster, a company that helps creators and business owners get featured in a multitude of different publications. Her specialty is being able to find an opening, an advantage, and your story so you’re able to break into the media scene.

Tune in and listen to episode thirty-nine of The Entrepreneur’s Ecosystem. Stephanie is talking to us about the parallel between PR and copywriting, different media types, and how to find your story.

In This Episode, You Will Learn:
The parallel between PR and copywriting (10:25)
How to present the angle you want journalists to write about (20:01)
The different media types (28:10)
At what stage in business Stephanie thinks you should go for press (33:06)
Stephanie explains how to find your story (41:25)
How to know what publications fit your story (48:43)

Tell us what you want us to talk about:
www.chantizak.com/feedback

Find Out Your Own Unfair Advantage:
www.chantizak.com/unfairadvantage

Connect with Stephanie:
Newsletter
Website
Bonus pitch

Interact:
Interact blog
Interact podcast
Quiz Collective

Connect with Chanti:
Website
Facebook
Instagram

Connect with Dawn:
Website
Instagram
LinkedIn

Some of our quiz funnels:
https://horizonfound.com/quiz
https://learn.kaysemorris.com/ceo-teacher-type-quiz
https://www.consciousconversion.com/quiz/

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1h 1min
October 25, 2022Unlock your online course's earning potential with Jay McGrane
Online courses, educational tools, email funnels, quizzes, and more are an incredibly valuable tool for entrepreneurs, however it’s so important to implement a copywriting strategy that will help you create real, valuable conversions.

Today, we’re excited to be joined by Jay McGrane. Jay combines educational techniques with persuasive copywriting to boost student engagement and conversions for her clients. She’s been called the “course creator's best friend” because of the incredible results she has gotten for her clients, such as 41% open rates and 9% click-thru rates. Jay’s expertise is exciting to learn from and her tips will help you to begin unlocking your online course earning potential.

Tune in and listen to episode 38 of The Entrepreneur’s Ecosystem. Jay talks with us about what she has learned about creating amazing copywriting conversions for her clients. She shares why she thinks that completion rates are a vanity metric, what her advice is for understanding your audience, why it’s important to create smaller milestones for your online course, and so much more.

In This Episode, You Will Learn:
Jay’s personality quiz types (3:34)
Why Jay says that completion rates are a vanity metrics (7:55)
About the role feedback loops play in online courses (13:27)
Jay’s advice for people to uncover a Learner’s Journey (32:08)
To break down your course goals into smaller milestones (47:34)

Connect with Jay:
LinkedIn
Instagram

Tell us what you want us to talk about:
www.chantizak.com/feedback

Find Out Your Own Unfair Advantage:
www.chantizak.com/unfairadvantage

Connect with Chanti:
Website
Facebook
Instagram

Connect with Dawn:
Website
Instagram
LinkedIn

Some of our quiz funnels:
https://horizonfound.com/quiz
https://learn.kaysemorris.com/ceo-teacher-type-quiz
https://www.consciousconversion.com/quiz/

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1h 8min

FAQs about The Entrepreneur’s Ecosystem:

How many episodes does The Entrepreneur’s Ecosystem have?

The podcast currently has 47 episodes available.