Nicolas ColeCo-Founder Ship 30 for 30, Premium Ghostwriting Academy

If You're Charging Less Than $3,000 For A Project.. #shorts

6 Jun 2026 · 1 min

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In this YouTube short, Nicolas Cole argues that freelancers who charge less than $3,000 per project are not undervaluing their service but are limited by a faulty relationship with money. He advises setting a minimum threshold of $3,000 for any project or monthly income and suggests creating a high‑value educational email course that can be delivered in 30 days and sold for $5,000. Cole emphasizes shifting from a freelancer’s perspective—where $3,000 feels large—to a business‑owner’s view, where that amount is a rounding error, and focuses on helping creators get out of their own way rather than teaching hard technical skills.

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If you are charging less than $3,000, it is not because the service is not worth that. It's because you have a faulty relationship with money and you literally can't wrap your brain around the fact that someone is willing to pay you 3 grand for that. If you can build an educational email course, what we tell people is you can and should sell that for $5,000. Do that as a project. You can get it done in 30 days. You should charge 5 grand for that. I also talk a lot about whether it's an educational email course, whether it's you're ghostwriting a newsletter, whether you're ghostwriting a bunch of different email sequences, your minimum threshold per project or per month should be 3 grand. I spend a lot of time not even talking about the hard skills of like writing and how to build funnels, etc. It's really helping people get out of their own way because they can't see it from the perspective of the business owner. To them, they think $3,000 is a ton of money. To the business owner, $3,000 is a rounding error.