Nicolas Cole argues that better writing alone won't raise your rates. Instead, focus on account management, sales, and client education. Cole made a quarter million dollars a year at 26 as a ghostwriter by mastering these surrounding skills.
A quarter million dollars a year.
26 years old.
Ghostwriter for business owners.
I don't have credibility. I'm not an expert. Okay, neither was I. But at 26 years old, I was able to make a quarter million dollars a year working four hours a day as a ghostwriter for business owners from my studio apartment with no air conditioning. This is what so many writers don't understand. Making more money has very little to do with becoming a better writer. Learning how to write better sentences isn't how you increase your rates. The way you make more money as a writer is by learning all the other skills that surround the writing Account management, how to manage difficult clients, sales, how to educate clients on a problem they might not know they have, or a problem they know they have they just haven't gotten around to solving. Even technology setting up simple automations like an automated email sequence. When you build these skills, you can be a very mediocre writer and still make tons of money because the client isn't just buying your ability to write. What they're really buying is the fact that they don't have to manage you and instead you. You can actually manage them. I'm telling you, this is the whole secret. And it's how I've generated millions of dollars for myself as a ghostwriter.
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