Nicolas Cole

Ghostwriters:

Here is a simple framework to raise your rates:

• 2x the price
• Pitch bigger creators or companies
• Scale up from $5,000 to $7,500 to $10,000

Try this with every new client—you soon find the service's price ceiling.

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Nicolas Cole

When I turned 30 years old I had just:

• Shut down my first business

• Fired 20 people on 1 Zoom call

• Fired 70 clients (kept 8 to pay the bills)

• Lost $250k in crypto (COVID crash)

• Started playing World of Warcraft again

Felt like a total failure.

But a year later, I'd started 2 new businesses and was a liquid millionaire.

So, yes:

Life is a rollercoaster.

Time to strap in.

My first business was a thought-leadership ghostwriting agency for founders.

I shut it down because I lacked the skills to build a profitable business.

When my co-founder and I closed the doors, we each walked away with about $5,000 in our bank accounts.

Insanity after nearly 2 years of pouring our entire lives into the business.

(I literally developed shingles.)

But since then, I've built the skills to scale a new email ghostwriting agency to $1,000,000.

And since January, it's already generated $181,000 in revenue with an incredibly small team.

So, I wrote a 5-day Premium Ghostwriting Blueprint to help anyone get started as a ghostwriter.

Get it for free here: yt.premiumghostwritingblueprint.com/?el=ColeCommun…

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Nicolas Cole

5 styles every writer should master:

• Essays
• Short-Form
• Personal Stories
• Curated Insights
• Sales Copywriting

You can't just be a "writer"—you need to be a multi-dimensional Digital Writer.

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Nicolas Cole

I say this all the time with writing:

Just because you took the time to write it, doesn't mean anyone owes you their time to read it.

Effort and output are irrelevant.

The same is true for technology.

The only thing that matters is the value it provides to someone else.

Measure your success as a writer by the degree of new thinking you provide readers.

It's why I'm a big supporter of ghostwriting.

Ghostwriters help industry experts scale their knowledge online:

• The client has an abundance of knowledge, but a scarcity of time

• The ghostwriter has an abundance of time, but a scarcity of (expert) knowledge

The client can scale their knowledge and the ghostwriter gets paid to learn.

Win-win.

Ghostwriting is also how I hit $20,000/month in less than 60 days.

So I wrote a free, 5-day email course to help you land your first high-paying writing client.

Click here to get started (for free!): yt.premiumghostwritingblueprint.com/?el=ColeCommun…

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Nicolas Cole

The hardest growth is the kind you can't see on a daily basis. If you can measure it in 24 hours or less, it's incremental. Whereas anything exponential must be measured over longer time horizons. Trust the process.

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Nicolas Cole

Back in 2017, when I started to scale my ghostwriting agency, our single biggest expense was something that now costs $0:

Paying for call transcription.

At our peak, we had ~100 clients on retainer.

We were ghostwriting more thought leadership articles than Inc Magazine and Forbes were publishing each month (combined).

100 clients x 1 call per week per client = ~400 recorded calls per month.

We then sent each call recording overseas to get transcribed, which cost us thousands and thousands of dollars every month.

Today?

You can do all of that for next to nothing.

Fathom AI (the tool we use internally) is $0 and has unlimited recordings + transcriptions.

But you can pay ~$20/month for more AI features to help you ghostwrite more content, faster, and with higher quality than ever.

Which is why I'm convinced there has never been a better time in history to be a ghostwriter.

And AI isn't going to replace ghostwriters.

It's just going to continue to make them more efficient and scalable.

And the flywheel goes like this:

1. Business owner/founder/exec has lots of knowledge locked inside their brain—but understands the value of sharing it/wants to build their personal brand.

2. They don't have time to sit down and write. They have a company to run! (And even if they had the time, their time would be better spent elsewhere inside their biz.)

3. They hire a ghostwriter to help.

4. Ghostwriter helps them "scale themselves" online.

5. Client is happy. Look, leverage! So they want to produce even more content, across more platforms.

6. Ghostwriter using AI can help them scale, faster and cheaper.

7. Client is happy. Look, leverage! So now they want their co-founder(s)/exec team doing the same. More content, across more platforms.

8. Ghostwriter using AI can help them scale, faster and cheaper.

9. And so on

And the best part?

Right now, you can get PAID to learn & master AI.

How?

By ghostwriting on LinkedIn.

Most of those business owners are not posting on this platform (despite knowing they should be).

Ghostwriting their content is a fantastic way to:

• Get your foot in the door
• Earn their trust & prove your skills
• Find areas where AI can improve in their business
• And then charge them a premium to build those systems

Becoming a ghostwriter is how I hit $20,000/month (in less than 60 days).

So, I put together a free, 5-day email course with everything you need to get started.

Click here to get (free) instant access: yt.premiumghostwritingblueprint.com/?el=ColeCommun…

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Nicolas Cole

AI isn't replacing you as a writer. Instead, it's forcing you to ascend to higher-leverage work (strategic thinking vs "doing"). Stop complaining and get to work.

3 days ago | [YT] | 42

Nicolas Cole

Everyone thinks the highest-paid writers:

• Ghostwrite books
• Create social content
• Craft speeches for leaders

But the highest-paid ghostwriters I know write something people hardly ever talk about:

Email.

In the last 5 years, email has been the channel that's helped me generate over $20,000,000 in sales.

And it's the one marketing channel MILLIONS of businesses desperately need help with.

So I packaged my entire email system into 5 plug-and-play Claude Skills.

Inside, my Email Ghostwriting Claude Skills Pack you'll find:

1. Welcome Sequence Skill. Onboards new subscribers and primes them to buy.

2. Pre-Launch Sequence Skill. Fixes the "Education Deficit" so that subscribers are ready to buy once you send the Launch Sequence.

3. Product Launch Sequence Skill. The money-making sequence that uses customer psychology (bonuses, testimonials, urgency) & more to sell any kind of product.

4. Abandoned Cart Sequence Skill. This dismantles price, time, and readiness objections for people who are about to buy.

5. Book-A-Call Sequence Skill. Turns interested leads into booked calls for SaaS and service companies.

Want all 5?

Click here and I'll send them across ASAP: emailskills.pgaresources.com/?el=LM48-YT

3 days ago | [YT] | 35

Nicolas Cole

You don't "find" time to write.

You make time to write.

4 days ago | [YT] | 46

Nicolas Cole

The fastest way to build a side hustle income and quit your job in 2026:

Ghostwriting.

If you:

• Write for your job (think emails, decks, reports, social content)

• Have spent years building up real experience in your industry & profession

Then you already have the 2 things you need to earn a serious income on the side:

1. Writing skills
2. AND industry expertise

But most people just never realize they can put the two together (and get paid well for it).

This is why ghostwriting is one of the most lucrative (and easiest) side hustles you can start in 2026.

I’ve seen people from every profession use ghostwriting to scale their income (and even quit their jobs to become full-time ghostwriters):

• Baristas
• Consultants
• French teachers

You name it.

Which is why I'm hosting a new free, live Masterclass:

Writing As A Side-Hustle: How To Turn Your Day Job Skills Into An Extra $3K-$9K Every Month (While Only Working 10 Hours A Week)

It's happening on Tuesday, June 23rd at 7 PM ET.

Here's everything we're going to cover:

• The Little-Known (But Lucrative) Side Hustle To Start In 2026

We'll help you identify the "invisible skill" you've been building for years at your day job—the one that you can combine with ghostwriting to build a highly lucrative income stream for yourself.

• How To Attract Dream (And High-Paying) Clients

We'll reveal the 1 positioning shift that turns your existing expertise into a high-ticket client magnet—and how to land your first ideal client in days, not months.

• The Anti-Burnout Method

Doing ghostwriting "the manual way" is the fastest path to a meltdown—so we'll share the AI workflow that lets you keep your day job while delivering work clients happily pay premium rates for.

And tons more!

Want to join me and Dickie live?

Register for free here: learn.premiumghostwritingacademy.com/sh-masterclas…

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