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In this episode of Beyond the Systems, I interview Josh Haynam, co-founder and CEO of Try Interact, a platform for creating quizzes. We explore how quizzes have evolved from simple personality tests to powerful tools for meaningful customer engagement. Josh shares how the quiz landscape dramatically shifted in 2024, moving away from viral "what shrimp are you?" style quizzes to more intentional, value-driven experiences that help solve specific problems.Some key moments from the episode:"Things change slowly and then all at once" - Josh perfectly captures how quiz marketing transformed in 2024. The days of 5-question viral Buzzfeed-style quizzes are over. Today's successful quizzes create personalized journeys through your content and expertise.Josh breaks down an excellent example of a modern quiz - an English language assessment with 13 thoughtfully crafted questions that demonstrates the creator's expertise while mapping to specific pain points. Each result delivers a customized content journey addressing the quiz-taker's exact needs.When asked whether quiz creators should focus on being positive/affirming or pointing out what's wrong, Josh reveals that in 2025, people overwhelmingly want quizzes to identify their problems first. As he notes, "If you don't start by acknowledging that something is off, I'm not going to listen to you."The conversation dives deep into the psychology of asking questions and why many businesses overcomplicate quiz creation instead of simply recreating their most helpful customer conversations.For business owners considering adding quizzes to their marketing mix, Josh emphasizes that successful quizzes sit at the intersection of three elements: a compelling topic (like personality or spirituality), personal relevance to the individual taking it, and a clear connection to your business offerings.Together we discuss the rise of branching logic quizzes - while they require more backend work (sometimes mapping out 128 different possible outcomes!), they deliver an almost magical experience where just 4-5 targeted questions can lead to pinpoint accurate results.As Josh shares, nothing beats personal conversations for conversion rates. Only turn to automation tools like quizzes when you've had enough customer interactions to truly understand the journey.This episode is perfect for business owners looking to understand how quizzes can create meaningful connections with their audience while delivering real value. Josh's conversation provides both strategic insights and practical tips for creating quizzes that resonate in 2025's more intentional digital landscape.Resources from this episode: TryInteract: https://get.tryinteract.com/systemswithsam if you sign up free you can get a free quiz strategy callMore about Josh Haynam: The co-founder and CEO at Interact, a software for creating list building quizzes. Since co-founding the company in 2013, Josh has worked with the world's leading brands on quizzes ranging across every industry and use-case imaginable.Connect with Josh Haynam:Website: http://tryinteract.comInstagram: instagram.com/tryinteractLinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/jhaynamConnect with Sam:Website: https://www.systemswithsam.com/services Instagram:

Quick: While you have the chance, join Interact's FREE Quiz Mastermind, happening from October 11-13!Let me ask you a question for a moment. Have you ever taken a personality quiz? Do you remember the days of grabbing your monthly Cosmo subscription from the mailbox and scanning through to find out what type of "insert personality type" you were. Or, maybe your last quiz wasn't that long ago. Maybe you find yourself scrolling through the popular Buzzfeed quizzes or taking the Myers Briggs or Enneagram to find out more about who you are and how you operate so you can step into your strengths and become aware of what might be considered weaknesses.Enter quizzes for business: the marketing tool you (maybe) didn't know you needed.Quiz creation is a great idea for almost any business. I've written quizzes for service providers and B2B SaaS companies. The quizzes can be silly and fun or serious and educational.And, if interested in list building quizzes can be a lot easier way to get new leads on. your list than offering other lead magnets that may collect dust immediately in their inboxes.Today, I'm excited to talk with Jackie Aguglia from TryInteract, one of the leading quiz creation companies...and the one I actually use in my business and recommend to my clients, all about quiz creation and how quizzes can fit into your marketing funnel.Meet our guest expert:I'm Jackie

Jackie is the Quiz Coach at interact and Community Manager of the quiz collective by interact. Interact's mission is to empower digital entrepreneurs, creators, and brands to grow their businesses through empathetic listening, deeper understanding, and true connection... at a human level. In the “real world” you get to know your prospects personally; you can ask them questions and develop true empathy towards their needs and aspirations making it way easier to actually help them reach their goals. An Interact quiz helps you do the same thing. And the connection, understanding, and personalized touch you create with your quiz will help you stand out in your industry – so you can attract more leads with less effort, increase your sales, and have a bigger impact. Learn more and meet the whole team here: https://www.tryinteract.com/about/Sign up for Interact now at TryInteract.comTake the QuizWhat's your magnetic marketing archetype? QuizFind Interact online:PodcastInstagramTwitterYouTube

Susan Storm founded Psychologyjunkie.com in 2015, and is now a six-figure business owner selling courses and ebooks to an audience of nearly a million website visitors every month. In October 2019, after four years of considering using a quiz she took the leap and put one on the home page of her website as her main lead magnet, and since that day just six months ago she has generated 28,439 new email subscribers, leading to increased revenue both from ad sales and ebooks/courses. In this episode she shares her story of how she created the quiz and what advice she has for others looking to get started. To check out Susan's quiz, head to psychologyjunkie.com Podcast Transcript Josh Haynam: Hi everyone. I'm really excited today to be here with Susan Storm. She is the founder of psychologyjunkie.com and is using quizzes in so many cool ways that I just want to hear about how she's doing it and what it's doing for business. Thanks for coming on, Susan. Susan Storm: Thanks for having me. I'm really excited to talk this over with you. Josh Haynam: Yeah. Let's just kick things off. How did you start using quizzes? What's the origin story of all that? Susan Storm: Yeah, so I'm an MBTI practitioner. If anyone's new did that, it's I'm certified in Myers-Briggs typology. And if you ever heard of extroversion or introversion, sensing or intuition, these four letter codes that people get, like INFJ or ISFP, these are Myers-Briggs types. And as a practitioner, I created a website where I talk about the Myers-Briggs types in depth as well as enneagram types and how you can improve your life by knowing your type. And for the longest time I knew I needed to create a quiz. It was something that was really important to me, but a lot of the quiz builders that I found out there were just too simplistic for what I was trying to do or they were too complicated for me to figure out because I'm not a tech wizard by any stretch of the imagination. Susan Storm: I finally found TryInteract and I loved how much you could tailor it to exactly what you needed. There were so many options from, you could do the visual tests or you leave them as questions, you could put unlimited options in there and just set it up so that you could have a funnel directed to the specific results people got. And I spent a really long time on a complicated test and then I realized, you know what? It actually worked out better when I made it simpler anyway, and the test was great. I created a Myers-Briggs type test, now this isn't the official. If you want to get the official Myers-Briggs tests taken you have to actually go to a practitioner or take it from their official site. But I made the best test I could create for people. Susan Storm: And on the first, I think so far we've gotten 28,439 leads since we launched the test back in October. I think it was October 19th. And it more than doubled our email list. We also have a child's personality type test, so if you want to know your child's Myers-Briggs personality type, you can take that. And that one I haven't publicized as much, there's a lot more I need to do as far as promoting the test, but I've brought in 881 leads from that and that's only been, I think that's only been probably for a few months now. It's been a lot of fun. It's been great. TryInteract has definitely helped us to grow our email list quite a bit and get us closer to our customers. Josh Haynam: Wow, that's incredible. That number 28,439, right? Susan Storm: That's right. Yeah. Josh Haynam: Wow, that's crazy. That's amazing. I think for a lot of our customers and potential customers, it's like, oh, that's awesome. That sounds incredible. I would love to have that kind of result. But then it's almost like, I don't know if this happened to you in school, but when you've got a math problem...

Susan Storm founded Psychologyjunkie.com in 2015, and is now a six-figure business owner selling courses and ebooks to an audience of nearly a million website visitors every month. In October 2019, after four years of considering using a quiz she... Susan Storm founded Psychologyjunkie.com in 2015, and is now a six-figure business owner selling courses and ebooks to an audience of nearly a million website visitors every month. In October 2019, after four years of considering using a quiz she took the leap and put one on the home page of her website as her main lead magnet, and since that day just six months ago she has generated 28,439 new email subscribers, leading to increased revenue both from ad sales and ebooks/courses. In this episode she shares her story of how she created the quiz and what advice she has for others looking to get started. To check out Susan's quiz, head to psychologyjunkie.com Podcast Transcript Josh Haynam: Hi everyone. I'm really excited today to be here with Susan Storm. She is the founder of psychologyjunkie.com and is using quizzes in so many cool ways that I just want to hear about how she's doing it and what it's doing for business. Thanks for coming on, Susan. Susan Storm: Thanks for having me. I'm really excited to talk this over with you. Josh Haynam: Yeah. Let's just kick things off. How did you start using quizzes? What's the origin story of all that? Susan Storm: Yeah, so I'm an MBTI practitioner. If anyone's new did that, it's I'm certified in Myers-Briggs typology. And if you ever heard of extroversion or introversion, sensing or intuition, these four letter codes that people get, like INFJ or ISFP, these are Myers-Briggs types. And as a practitioner, I created a website where I talk about the Myers-Briggs types in depth as well as enneagram types and how you can improve your life by knowing your type. And for the longest time I knew I needed to create a quiz. It was something that was really important to me, but a lot of the quiz builders that I found out there were just too simplistic for what I was trying to do or they were too complicated for me to figure out because I'm not a tech wizard by any stretch of the imagination. Susan Storm: I finally found TryInteract and I loved how much you could tailor it to exactly what you needed. There were so many options from, you could do the visual tests or you leave them as questions, you could put unlimited options in there and just set it up so that you could have a funnel directed to the specific results people got. And I spent a really long time on a complicated test and then I realized, you know what? It actually worked out better when I made it simpler anyway, and the test was great. I created a Myers-Briggs type test, now this isn't the official. If you want to get the official Myers-Briggs tests taken you have to actually go to a practitioner or take it from their official site. But I made the best test I could create for people. Susan Storm: And on the first, I think so far we've gotten 28,439 leads since we launched the test back in October. I think it was October 19th. And it more than doubled our email list. We also have a child's personality type test, so if you want to know your child's Myers-Briggs personality type, you can take that. And that one I haven't publicized as much, there's a lot more I need to do as far as promoting the test, but I've brought in 881 leads from that and that's only been, I think that's only been probably for a few months now. It's been a lot of fun. It's been great. TryInteract has definitely helped us to grow our email list quite a bit and get us closer to our customers. Josh Haynam: Wow, that's incredible. That number 28,439, right? Susan Storm: That's right. Yeah. Josh Haynam: Wow, that's crazy. That's amazing. I think for a lot of our customers and potential customers, it's like, oh, that's awesome. That sounds incredible. I would love to have that kind of result. But then it's almost like, I don't know if this happened to you in school, but when you've got a math problem...

The Ultimate Guide to Email Marketing, Part One Fact: Your Email List is the only audience building asset you own in your online business. So why are reviews on Email Lists so mixed? Do you really need it or can you just double down on Facebook Groups and Instagram? If you remember the Facebook Privacy Scandal of 2018 and the Instagram Crash of 2019 you can see the problem of building your business on the backs of other companies. Entrepreneurs who only communicate with their audiences on those platforms were silenced. That’s the power of Email Lists, you can reach your ideal customers in one place no matter what. The algorithms can’t stop you, you won’t get lost in the scroll, and you can take your list with you wherever you go. Plus when the time comes to sell, statistics show that, while your audience interacts with you on social media, they buy from your emails. Today I’m letting you in on why Email Lists are so important, how to use them, what role they play in your online income stream, and what needs to be in place before you create your opt-in. Email Marketing Services MailerLite  Opt-In Design canva.com Creativemarket.com TryInteract

This episode of The Kate Show is brought to you by TryInteract.com. When they reached out a few month ago and asked if I would join their influencer program, I was overjoyed. This amazing online quiz platform has the ability to grow any business owner's mailing list, and they already have template quizzes created for interior designers. Whaaaat?! Interact was co-founded by small-town-boy-turned-Cali-entrepreneur Josh Haynam. Today on The Kate Show, I talk with him about the nitty gritty details behind online quiz creation and why human psychology plays an important role in its effectiveness.  Our conversation covered his entrepreneurial journey, how small town life prepared him for success, the role faith plays in running his start-up and, of course, some handy tips on how to create an online quiz that your potential clients just can't resist.

This episode of The Kate Show is brought to you by TryInteract.com. When they reached out a few month ago and asked if I would join their influencer program, I was overjoyed. This amazing online quiz platform has the ability to grow any business owner's mailing list, and they already have template quizzes created for interior designers. Whaaaat?! Interact was co-founded by small-town-boy-turned-Cali-entrepreneur Josh Haynam. Today on The Kate Show, I talk with him about the nitty gritty details behind online quiz creation and why human psychology plays an important role in its effectiveness.  Our conversation covered his entrepreneurial journey, how small town life prepared him for success, the role faith plays in running his start-up and, of course, some handy tips on how to create an online quiz that your potential clients just can't resist.

We’ve all spent a few minutes taking an online quiz. Maybe you wanted to assess your strengths as a business owner or couldn’t bear not knowing what piece of IKEA furniture you are. Entertaining or informative, people love quizzes. They’re interactive, personalized, and can reveal something about themselves — usually for the price of an email address. If you’re thinking quizzes sound like lead generating gold, you’re spot on.   Josh Haynam is cofounder of Interact Quiz Builder, a platform for creating interactive quizzes that grow businesses. To date, he’s helped 40,000 companies generate a combined total of 7 million leads using quizzes. In this episode, Josh answers important questions about utilizing quizzes in marketing and sets you up with a quiz structure you can use to connect with your audience and generate targeted leads for your business.   Episode Discussions: Josh’s biggest takeaway after working with 40K companies How to scale using quizzes The two main reasons quizzes work so well in marketing How consumer sophistication is forcing authentic marketing Josh's experience helping a global brand market to their 11-million-person email list Quizzes are a boring industry’s perfect marketing weapon How and why smaller brands are gaining the upper hand in the market The sales tip to increase close rates you’ve never heard of The perfect amount of quiz questions to ask How to formulate, segment, and promote a quiz that gets results How to use quizzes to get leads from Facebook for cheap Which type of quiz is most effective and how to customize the template to fit your business What part of the funnel to use a quiz Why quizzes are here to stay   Josh’s story: A serial entrepreneur Started 1st company at 15 and three more since Current company is a platform for creating quizzes Has helped 40,000 companies generate a combined total of 7 million leads using quizzes 4:50 Why quizzes work so well They tell your audience something about themselves and let your audience express themselves. It's different from most marketing.   5:35 "People like to talk about themselves and people like to learn about themselves and applying that to marketing has been a monumental shift." 6:41 People are more aware than ever that much of what's on the internet can't be trusted. Now they trust brands less than consumers.   7:30 Adding an interactive piece to marketing is a way to bring yourself to an individual level, make a one on one connection, and be memorable.   10:48 One way to get people talking is by asking them questions about themselves. The same concept applies to quizzes.   11:46 A Time Magazine study found 40% of the words we say in our lives are about ourselves. We also experience a dopamine release.   12:39 "Nothing has come close to being as effective a sales tool as asking those questions and letting prospects speak. A quiz is a great way to do that. You ask a question, you let them answer." 13:07 Sales win tip: Close rate is significantly higher when a prospect talks more than 50% of the time. They become more invested the more they talk.   15:11 Josh's experience helping a global brand effectively market to their 11-million-person email list.   16:34 How to structure a quiz with segmentation Start with the concept of the quiz Begin with your buyer personas (4-6) Title your quiz   Formulate your questions to get results Create 7 questions Filter people depending on how they answer Write a call to action for the email capture form at the end Connect it to your autoresponder or email list (integrates with most) Segment according to quiz results and assign appropriate sequence Connect it to quiz system Subscribers are sent to given sequence   20:10 Promote your quiz: Use software to create a website pop-up Use software to create announcement bar that goes along the top of your website Share it on social media directly or set up as a Facebook Ad   20:46 Do quizzes play nice with Facebook Ads? Integrating quizzes with Facebook Ads can save you money on targeting. Broaden out your audience and use the quiz to filter traffic and capture targeted leads.   22:32 Specific quiz titles that are delivering good results 'Which _____ are you?' or 'What type of _____ are you?' Titles that promise to reveal something about that person are extremely effective.   23:46 "It's crazy to me because we created this platform but at the same time, it still works on us." 25:19 Where does a quiz fit into a funnel? Top of funnel works best, especially in social media Use further down to segment   26:31 Stats: Cost per lead comparison and conversion rates Facebook Ads: Typically drops CPL by 50% Opt-in rate: 50% conversion Effective conversion rate is potentially higher   28:20 Josh's marketing prediction: Quizzes will dive even further into the personalization aspect of marketing More emphasis on making every person's experience with your brand completely unique. "We want quizzes to be an incredibly easy entry point into that world of personalization."   Mentioned in this episode: TryInteract.com Twitter @JHaynam LinkedIn   Click here to subscribe via iTunes Modern Marketing on Stitcher Modern Marketing on Pocket Casts 

Today I am speaking with Josh Haynam the founder of the interactive quiz builder: TryInteract.com. Josh struggled to grow his business for 3 years before hitting a key turning point & growing by 300% within 10 months. He is going to be sharing what has worked for him & his business as well as sharing more about his own product where you can create custom quizzes on your website to capture user info. Music: BenSound.com

Trying to get prospective customers to engage with you on Facebook or your website?  Josh Haynam of TryInteract.com suggests you ask people questions which help them learn something about themselves.    Polls and quizzes allow people to talk about their favorite subject, themselves.  At the same time, they let you, the business owner learn more about them so you can personalize your marketing.    More than a few words is a production of Roundpeg, a digital marketing firm, which just might have a few questions for you. 

Today I'm joined by a man who claims he's seen more quizzes than pretty much anyone in the world. He’s the founder of a quiz builder used by 30,000 brands including The American Red Cross, Tony Robbins, and LUSH Cosmetics. Welcome to DMR, Josh Haynam. [You can find Josh over at TryInteract.com.] On this episode of Digital Marketing Radio we discuss whether online quizzes be part of your digital marketing strategy, with topics including: Why quizzes? Why do businesses like to use them? Why are quizzes better than other forms of lead capture? What are some of the better practises for creating a quiz? What’s the best length of a quiz? Does this change if more people using their mobile device to participate in the quiz? Is it best to offer incentives for people to complete a quiz? What are some of the mistakes that businesses make when creating a quiz? What are some of the first steps for businesses to get started? [Tweet ""Everything starts and ends with a connection between 2 people." @JHaynam @tryinteract #Marketing"] Software I couldn't live without What software do you currently use in your business that if someone took away from you, it would significantly impact your marketing success? Close.io [Sales CRM] Trello [Priority management] WordPress [Blogging platform] Photoshop & Canva [Graphic creation] Google Calendar [Diary management] What software don't you use, but you've heard good things about, and you've intended to try at some point in the near future? Piktochart [Infographic creator] My number 1 takeaway What's the single most important step from our discussion that our listeners need to take away and implement in their businesses? I think that everything starts and ends with a connection between 2 people. Whether it's a business and a customer or a business and a partner - whatever it is - everything needs to come down to some sort of connection. And those connections can not necessarily be rushed or forced or anything like that. And with marketing a lot of the time we try to force things by blasting out more and more messages - but I think at the end of the day there's a lot more value to putting in the time, putting in the work and actually taking the time to care about whoever it is you are connecting with, whether it's through a quiz and figuring out who they are before you get on the phone, or it's when you are making a call to somebody and you take the time to figure out what their interests are before you hop on the call. Whatever that is I think that its very valuable to establish those connections, and continue establishing those connections. And that's a universal thing that works literally any business.