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Ghostwriting is one of the most lucrative ways of making a living as a writer.

Many people see ghostwriting as a mysterious and sexy career path.They think of high-profile ghostwriters like Mark Manson, the writer behind Will Smith’s memoir Will. The harsh truth is that these types of ghostwriting services aren’t particularly profitable, even if you get paid $500,000 for a book. Divide that by how many hours it takes to write a book, and you start to see how unprofitable these services are.

Most people don’t know this, but I made my first $10,000 on the internet as a ghostwriter.

When it comes to increasing your income as a ghostwriter, most people know they need to get more clients.

In this post, we want to help you start building trust as a ghostwriter (and leverage it into more business than you know what to do with).

What’s the difference between one ghostwriter charging $100 for a thought-leadership article and another charging $1,000?

The way 95% of ghostwriters go about pricing their services is keeping them broke. Here’s how it usually plays out when a ghostwriter is trying to work out what to quote a potential client.

In this post, I want to share a framework to help you stop spinning in indecision and start taking action.Here’s the advice I give to any beginner in any area—whether that’s working out, writing, business, dating, anything… to help them get unstuck and start moving toward a goal.

Doing free work is something I (Cole) preach all the time to every kind of writer, from the new to the experienced. It’s a massively underrated way of building trust with clients and accelerating your skills as a ghostwriter. In fact, to this day, I still do free work from time to time.