The Art & Business Of Ghostwriting: How To Make $10,000+ Per Month Writing For Other People Online

the 8 ghostwriting gigs that are most in-demand (in no particular order), and where I would encourage you to start: Ghostwriting Social Media Accounts (Twitter, LinkedIn, etc.) Ghostwriting Landing Pages & Sales Scripts Ghostwriting Startup Pitches & Pitch Decks Ghostwriting Thought Leadership Articles Ghostwriting Educational Email Courses

The best ghostwriters don’t actually get paid to write. They get paid to stress-test the client’s thinking. They get paid to ask thoughtful questions, present different perspectives, and sharpen ideas down to something easily digestible. This is what’s “valuable” to the client.

This is the first big thing you need to understand when it comes to maximizing your pricing: you should never be in the business of selling “things,” and you should always be in the business of selling “outcomes”—and then explaining how the “thing you do” easily and quickly unlocks that outcome for the client or customer.

Cold Lead Outreach: The third, and most lucrative way to grow your 1-person ghostwriting business, is to literally just DM and email prospective clients and pitch them directly. There’s no other way around it. The more people you reach out to (who would benefit from your service), the more likely you are to land clients. Period. Everyone wants to a

The easiest way to resolve this is by clarifying the headline (or hook), first.

Here are the 5 archetypes again, with a 1-sentence summary of their “superpower”: The Storyteller: Tells a story to give the reader real-life examples of what they’re about to learn. The Opinionator: Shares a “controversial” opinion that gets the reader’s attention. The Fact Presenter: Backs up their opinion with a memorable stat or research-backed

What clients are looking for, and what will make it easy for clients to find you, is proof that you speak their language. Which means your own content strategy isn’t really you writing about how you’re a ghostwriter.

Our pitch was simple: if you are someone with true expertise, you probably don’t have time to share your insights, stories, and perspectives online. Why? Because you’re too busy building companies, leading teams, creating systems, and developing products.

The people you want to work with—the good clients, the fun ones, the smart ones, the ultra-connected ones—all respect people who push that boundary. Because they’ve pushed that boundary themselves. Whereas anyone who “gets upset” at you raising your prices is, 100% of the time, the sort of person you shouldn’t have been working with in the first pl

I have connected with so many decision-makers, so many higher-ups at global companies, that I have built enough “relationship equity” to protect my career for decades. Here’s