Nicolas Cole

How to Beat the Game of Capturing and Keeping Attention

The Art and Business of Online Writing

Art and Business of Online Writing

Ghostwriting is the single most lucrative way to monetize your talents as a writer.

Over the past 6 years, Nicolas Cole has ghostwritten for more than 300 different industry leaders, C-Suite executives, founders of Silicon Valley startups, venture capitalists, and even Olympic athletes, Grammy-winning musicians, and New York Times bestselling authors. In 2017, Cole founded the first ghostwriting agency specializing in opinion articles online, and to date has ghostwritten more than 3,000 articles (under other people’s names). At its height, Cole’s ghostwriting agency, Digital Press, had more than 80 concurrent clients, employed over 20 writers & editors, and was generating several million dollars in annual revenue.

And in The Art & Business of Ghostwriting, he explains exactly how he did it—so you can start making money as a Premium Ghostwriter, too.

In this book you will learn:
The differences between Freelance Writing & Ghostwriting (and why you should never call yourself a “freelance writer” again).
Why ghostwriting is much more lucrative (and why it’s the fastest path to earning 6-figures for yourself as a writer).
How to “niche down” as a ghostwriter, create your own category, and differentiate yourself from any and all competition.
The 5 different archetypes of Client Voices—and how you can create templates to streamline your efficiencies.
How to ghostwriting anything: articles, newsletters, Tweets, LinkedIn posts, Medium articles, Quora answers, blog posts, startup fundraising decks, and more.
The root fears of pricing, and why so many freelancers struggle to charge more and attract high-quality clients.
A roadmap to scaling your 1-person ghostwriting agency.
And how to easily find ghostwriting clients.
“Ghostwriting paid me to learn, paid me to practice my craft, and paid me to build a billion-dollar network for myself," says Cole. "Ghostwriting changed my life—and it can change yours, too."

So, what are you waiting for?

There has never been a better time in history to earn a living as a writer.

All you have to do is call yourself a Premium Ghostwriter.

How To Make $10,000+ Per Month Writing For Other People Online

The Art & Business Of Ghostwriting

★ Based on Nicolas Cole's viral article with more than 1,000,000 views! ★ Big changes don't happen overnight. They happen day by day, little by little-until all of a sudden, you've arrived. Nicolas Cole, one of the most-read personal development writers on the internet with more than 100 million views on his work, reveals to readers why the secret to success isn't about finding a shortcut-but building tiny habits that compound along the way. Part actionable advice, part vivid storytelling, 19 Tiny Habits is a quick read. Reflecting on the 19 tiny habits that have led to huge results in his own life, Cole credits these small daily actions as being the foundational elements of his successes in his late teens and 20s: "When I was 17 years old, I was one of the highest-ranked World of Warcraft players in North America, as well as one of the first bloggers in the emerging eSports industry with a viral blog." "At 22 years old, I discovered I'd been undiagnosed with Celiac Disease for the first 18 years of my life. I turned to bodybuilding to start over, find a sense of confidence, and turn my newfound boring diet of rice, chicken, and vegetables into an unfair advantage-putting on 70 pounds of muscle and transforming from a skinny, socially awkward teenager into a shredded fitness model." "By 24, I had graduated college with a degree in fiction writing and decided I wanted to start taking my writing more seriously. In less than 2 years, I became one of the most-read writers on the internet, the #1 writer on Quora (a platform with more than 200 million users), and one of Inc Magazine's Top 10 contributing writers." "And by 28 years old, I had quit my 9-5 job as a copywriter and turned my love for writing into a ghostwriting business called Digital Press. In less than 18 months, Digital Press became a multi-million-dollar agency with 20+ full-time employees working with more than 300 different Silicon Valley investors, executives, NYT best-selling authors, Grammy-winning musicians, Olympic athletes, and more." In this book, readers will not only hear Cole's story first hand, but also learn for themselves: Habits for happiness Habits for success Habits to improve focus, discipline, persistence, and drive Habits to change yourself (for the better) Habits to redefine the way you see your life 19 Tiny Habits That Lead To Huge Results will change the way you think about your life journey. Process over destination, mastery over achievement, Cole has found a way to turn relentless goal-setting into a way to know yourself better as a human being-achieving your goals, while being deeply fulfilled in the process. Here's how.

19 Tiny Habits That Lead To Huge Results

When people think of World of Warcraft, they think of a socially awkward, acne-faced teenager with "no life." Confessions of a Teenage Gamer challenges those stereotypes and shows how a kid from a wealthy family with every opportunity at his fingertips ended up finding himself in a video game. Confessions of a Teenage Gamer is funny in its honest retellings of teenage puberty, witty in its commentary on rich suburban life, and thought provoking in a way that questions the meaning behind success and happiness. This true story draws parallels between sports, music, and video games-and shows how, at the core, they teach many of the same lessons. With a successful spine surgeon for a father, a music teacher for a mother, and a house full of driven, high-achieving siblings, Nicolas Cole's Confessions of a Teenage Gamer shows how far one boy will go to chase his dream of becoming a professional gamer.

Confessions of a Teenage Gamer

Eddie Yoon

Christopher Lochhead

Category Pirates

Legendary writers, the ones who stand the test of time, create a category of one. 

They’re snow leopards.

Snow Leopard is the first writing advice book ever written through a Category Design lens. Inside, what you will not find are a bunch of nose-picky suggestions for how you can make your writing “better.” There will be no talk of comma placement, grammatical correctness, or a recap of Joseph Campbell’s “Hero’s Journey.”

Instead, you will internalize a completely new way of framing your ideas, stories, and insights to reach and resonate with the most people possible. Written by the world’s first “business writing band,” Category Pirates—made up of Christopher Lochhead, Eddie Yoon, and Nicolas Cole—Snow Leopard shows you how to create a category for yourself, master the art of Obvious & Non-Obvious content, monetize in new ways, and enjoy a lifelong career of independence, creative freedom, and exponential financial upside.

In decades past, David Ogilvy, Gary Halbert, Leo Burnett, Gary Bencivenga, Al Ries & Jack Trout, and many more master communicators have all written about the psychology behind how messages spread. Snow Leopard builds on their work and, along with dozens of new insights and frameworks, roots this thinking in the Digital Age.

In this book you will find:

The Content Pyramid: A proven framework for becoming a differentiated Creator or Curator
Writer Business Models: A comprehensive guide breaking down all the different ways writers & creators can monetize their work in the Digital Age.
Content Marketing Opportunities: An insider’s take on why the growing content marketing industry is becoming more and more saturated (and the opportunity this creates for you).
The Art Of Fresh Thinking: A timeless framework for ensuring your ideas are original, unique, and highly differentiated.
The Power of a POV: A new way of thinking about “scaling yourself” on the Internet–and why you never want to be a “better version” of an existing thing.
Quick Guide To Languaging: A never-before-shared model for inventing new language to get ideas to “stick”—and the unfair advantage this creates.
How To Write A Book That Scales: And dozens of insights from the world’s largest non-fiction study of business books, reverse-engineering books that grab people’s attention from books that flop.


Whether you are a writer, creator, entrepreneur, executive, public speaker, investor, or industry thought leader, Snow Leopard is your guide for becoming known for a niche you own.

And experiencing the life-changing outcomes that come with being completely differentiated.

How Legendary Writers Create A Category Of One

Snow Leopard

Moments I Remembered Who I Really Was is a book of poems and journals from Nicolas Cole.

Poems & Journals

Moments I Remembered Who I Really Was

Top Writer and published author Nicolas Cole shares some of his popular and favorite Quora answers from 2015. Many of these answers went on to become huge hits amongst the Quora community, accumulating hundreds of thousands of views. Nicolas Cole has amassed well over 8,000,000 article views at the time of this book's publishing, and is best known on Quora for writing about personal growth and self development. His unique style blends these important lessons for readers with his own unique stories of persistence, overcoming challenge, and his own development as a person. Nicolas Cole's story is most often recognized for his beginning as one of the highest ranked World of Warcraft players in North America as a seventeen year old, while simultaneously living undiagnosed with Celiac Disease. He is also recognized for drastically transforming his body from being unhealthfully skinny and becoming a fitness model and bodybuilder.

Quora Top Writer Nicolas Cole Shares His Most Popular Answers from 2015

Best Quora Answers of 2015

This book is for anyone who has lost touch with their art.If you are a creator who has experienced rejection, this is more than just a book to overcome creative blocks and find your flow again. This is a book that will help you understand what you're feeling in the first place: why you don't feel confident in your creativity, and why it's so hard to overcome fear, discouragement, and fear of failure.Each poem is intended to act as a "creativity meditation," encouraging the reader to connect with the feelings that are holding them back, so they can acknowledge them, forgive them, and move beyond them. Whether you are a writer who has stopped writing, a painter who has stopped painting, a musician who has stopped playing, or if you're someone who has stopped any and all creative self-expression, "Letter To My Imagination" is a reminder of how important it is to keep that connection alive within yourself-and the pain that happens when you don't.By Nicolas Cole, the #1 personal development writer on the internet with more than 75,000,000 views, this book is part poetry, part meditation guidebook, and part memoir about what it means to stay true to your most creative self.

Nicolas Cole

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