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Thanks for stopping by.  I’m a friend to the different and am  best known for Play Bigger, Category Pirates and being a Godfather of Category Design.
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I help startup founders, CEOs, marketers, creators, and ambitious professionals category design legendary markets and careers in a post-AI world.

**Why Category Design & Creator Capitalism?**

Category designers create markets, not competition, capturing **76% of the value** in the spaces they pioneer. 

Creator Capitalists unlock their different **superpower**—that unique edge only they bring—to build wealth and impact in an AI-driven economy. 

Whether you’re launching a company or redefining your career, I’ll show you how to own your niche and thrive.

**What I Do:**

With my partners at Category Pirates 🏴‍☠️ I empower you to:

*Design & dominate new markets through writing, courses, and community.

*Discover your superpower to become a Creator Capitalist, mastering your career in the AI era.

*Build legendary businesses & careers with strategies from our #1 Amazon-charting books.

Join us at **www.categorypirates.com** to start pirating.

**My Track Record:**

*Author: Co-authored 14 #1 bestsellers, including *Play Bigger* (the first book on category design), *Niche Down*, and *Snow Leopard*.

*Podcaster: Host of Follow Your Different* (“Best Business Podcast” – Podcast Magazine) and Lochhead on Marketing (#1 charting).

*Newsletter: Run Category Pirates 🏴‍☠️ Substack (top 0.5% paid business newsletter).

*Career: Former 3X Silicon Valley public company CMO, advisor, and VC limited partner.

**What People Say:**

*Play Bigger is required reading for entrepreneurs altering the landscape.” *Marc Benioff, CEO, Salesforce
*“A quasar of energy and ideas.” – Bill Walton, NBA Legend
*“Off-putting to some, but undeniably brilliant.” – The Economist

*The Future Needs You

If you’re ready to category design a market or unleash your superpower? 

Connect with me or visit **www.categorypirates.com**. 

Let’s build something legendary—together. 
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Christopher Lochhead🏴‍☠️

The value of your value changed. And most people still think they’re worth what they were paid in November 2022 (when chatGPT came out). They’re not. Here’s why. For 30 years, you got paid to:

• know things
• manage process
• apply frameworks
• execute inside systems
• optimize what already exists

That was the Knowledge Worker economy.
Then AI showed up.

Research became instant.
Drafting became automated.
Analysis became on-demand.
 
Execution started racing toward cheap.
The value most careers were built on?
It’s compressing toward commodity.

This isn’t personal.
It’s economic.

When execution becomes abundant, value moves upstream.
Upstream to:

• framing the right problem
• making non-obvious tradeoffs
• naming what others can’t see
• designing new systems
• creating net new value

The Knowledge Worker sold effort inside the machine.
The Creator Capitalist builds the machine.

One gets paid for activity.
The other gets paid for leverage.

Here’s the uncomfortable truth:
Working harder won’t save you.
(Read that three times.)

In a world where AI makes knowledge and execution closer to free every month, “outworking everyone” is not a moat.

Creation is.
• A new asset
• A new point of view
• A new category
• A new engine of value

So the question isn’t:
“What skill should I add?”

It’s:
“What doesn’t exist yet that I’m uniquely positioned to create?”

Because the value of your value changed.
And the people who understand that first.
Won’t just survive the shift.
They’ll design it.
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Ps. The shift from knowledge worker to creator capitalist is the biggest change in work since the industrial revolution.  It's happening in plain site. And yet most can't see it. I'd love to know why you think that is?

Christopher Lochhead 🇺🇸🇮🇱🏴‍☠️

“A quasar, a godfather of category design” Bill Walton | “Off-putting to some” The Economist | 15X #1 author Play Bigger & Category Pirates 🏴‍☠️| #1 Charting Apple Business Podcast

People say "This was written by AI"... like it's an insult. Writing without AI is like digging a ditch without a shovel.

Back in the day, I asked a CEO buddy his what the secret to his success was. I remember his answer like it was yesterday. "I out-work everyone".  Today. Hard work is no longer a moat.

It was a great strategy. Right up until AI made execution closer to free every day.

If your advantage is:
• longer hours
• more hustle
• out-working everyone

AI is dismantling you.
Here’s the Creator Capitalist shift 👇

•Stop working hard
•Stop doing the work
•Start creating new value.

Execution is cheap. 
AI can ship, test, write, and analyze faster than you.

1) Start choosing the work.
Judgment is now the bottleneck. 
What matters. What doesn’t. Why.

2) Stop optimizing effort.
Effort doesn’t compound. 
Leverage does.

3) Start framing better problems
Confusion is expensive. 
Naming the right problem creates value instantly.

4) Stop trading time
Time is rented. 
POVs, frameworks, and systems are owned.

5) Start building assets
If it doesn’t scale while you sleep, it’s not strategy. 
It’s labor.

AI didn’t kill hard work.
It killed hard work as an advantage.
Execution is cheap.

Creation is not.
Act accordingly. 
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Different is the only advantage that still matters.

1) Not better. Better is table stakes.
2) Not faster. AI is already faster than you.
3) Not cheaper. That’s a race to the bottom with AI agents who don’t get tired.

Different is the only thing AI can’t from humans. Different is:
• What you frame, name and claim.
• What you notice that others don’t.
• What you reject while others chase.
• What you believe that others won’t say.
• What problems you believe must be solved.

AI can generate answers.
It cannot decide which questions are worth asking.

AI can optimize inside a frame.
It cannot choose which frame should exist.

That’s a human job.
And not a comfortable one.

Here’s the shift nobody is prepared for:
•In the old world, value came from knowing more.
•In the new world, value comes from seeing differently.

Taste beats tech.
Point of view beats process.
Judgment beats intelligence.

Today, the market doesn’t reward effort.
It rewards clarity.

This is why most AI-generated content feels like LinkedIn oatmeal.
Technically correct.

Emotionally dead.
Designed to offend no one, and (therefore) matter to no one.

If your thinking sounds like everyone else’s.

AI won't replace you. 
You will let yourself be replaced.

The future doesn’t belong to the best executors.
Execution is becoming free.

It belongs to the people who:
• see earlier
• decide faster
• commit harder
• and create radical new value

Because in a world where everyone can execute at the speed of AI.
People who are different.
Make the biggest difference.
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Why Most Marketing Plans Are Wrong. Not slightly wrong. Fundamentally wrong. Because they ignore the most powerful force in marketing. 👇🏻👀

Not slightly wrong. Fundamentally wrong. Because they ignore the most powerful force in marketing. Word of mouth. WOM is, was, and always will be the 

Open article: Why Most Marketing Plans Are Wrong. by Christopher Lochhead 🇺🇸🇮🇱🏴‍☠️ • 3 min read

What The New 2026 LinkedIn Career Report REALLY Says.
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LinkedIn thinks it’s reporting on “jobs.” It’s actually reporting on the collapse of the Knowledge Worker economy. Here’s the non-obvious shift: Techn

Open article: What The New 2026 LinkedIn Career Report REALLY Says  by Christopher Lochhead 🇺🇸🇮🇱🏴‍☠️ • 3 min read

What The New 2026 LinkedIn Career Report REALLY Says

Most career books are written to appeal to the largest audience possible. This is not one of them. Creator Capitalist is not for kids. It is exclusively for executives who (already) have the goods. 

•You don't need 101. 
•You don't need hustle porn. 
•You need to stop giving away what you've spent decades building.

Every career generates four forms of capital. Most executives hand all four to institutions for 20-30 years and walk away with (maybe) a Rolex.

That ends here.

1) Financial Capital: You need less runway than you think. And there's a version of this that's 10x more scalable than "I'll just do consulting."

2) Reputation Capital: You've spent two decades building credibility inside a system. It doesn't transfer automatically. But it can be repackaged to be worth more outside than it ever was inside.

3) Relationship Capital: You know decision-makers, operators, builders. Right now those relationships serve someone else's business. The question isn't whether you have them. It's whether you'll convert them before you leave. Or start from zero.

4) Intellectual Capital: Your "obvious" thinking is someone else's breakthrough. If you don't put your best ideas out there in your name, someone else will.

You've been building someone else's category your entire career. 
The corporation's. The firm's. The military's.
They will replace you the moment the AI says so.

You already have the raw materials. 
Creator Capitalist is the framework how you finally capitalize on them.

Take the free self-assessment now. 
Find out where you stand across all four capitals.
And what your biggest leverage points are, right now.

L!nk in c0mments.
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Social Media Influencers rent attention from platforms that can evict them anytime. Creator Capitalists build a category, own their intellectual capital, and turn different thinking into an economic engine that compounds whether the algorithm smiles or not. 

One is famous on the internet.
The other is dangerous in the market.
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The Worst Response To AI? Hunker Down. A lot of smart people are reacting to AI like this:

•“I’ll work harder.”
•“I’ll stack more skills.”
•“I’ll out-execute the machines.”

That instinct feels responsible.
It worked for decades.
It’s also wrong.

For 30 years, you were rewarded for:
• doing more
• knowing more
• executing better

Then AI showed up.

Knowledge became searchable. 
Execution became automatable. 
Frameworks became downloadable.

Execution is drifting toward free.
Doubling down on it now is like opening a video store in 2024.

When knowledge is abundant and execution is automated, value moves upstream. To:

• framing the right problem
• choosing what not to do
• designing new systems
• creating net-new value

Hunkering down is defensive.
Creation is offensive.

One protects yesterday.
The other builds tomorrow.

Please.
Choose wisely.
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Why the future work (in a post-AI world) is about going from execution to creation. 👇🏻👀

"...the future is about going from execution to creation," said Christopher Lochhead 🇺🇸🇮🇱🏴‍☠️ when I asked him about his keynote session on becoming a Creator Capitalist at the Dynamic Communities & Cloud Wars AI Agent & Copilot Summit March 17-19 at the Torrey Pines Hilton in San Diego.  Tune in to my favorite moment below, and join us at the event, skinny here: copilotsummitna.com

BREAKING: New Study Shows 1 in 3 Executives Want To Be Creator Capitalists 👇🏻👀

Around here, we often ask: are you building your career—or someone else's? Today, we want to show you something that puts that question in a different

Open article: The Silent Majority: 1 in 3 Executives Want To Be Creator Capitalists  by Christopher Lochhead 🇺🇸🇮🇱🏴‍☠️ • 4 min read

The Silent Majority: 1 in 3 Executives Want To Be Creator Capitalists

Why are we so excited about Creator Capitalists? 

It is because there has never been a better time to be a creator, thanks to AI. And there has never been a better time to be a capitalist. 

Not in the Gordon Gecko, ‘greed is good,’ stereotype. 

But in the spirit of Norman Borlaug, who created the semi-dwarf wheat and saved a billion people from starvation. 

He decoupled land size from food output, increasing yields by 600% in Mexico and nearly doubling production in India and Pakistan in just five years. 

He represents the ultimate creator-capitalist.
A man who used a single technological breakthrough to generate a 9x economic return and solve a global crisis at scale.

You are living through one of the most exciting and significant moments in human history.

Right now, you have the opportunity to design the career of your dreams. 
To create a life of radical abundance and unparalleled freedom. 

To do work that genuinely matters, taps into your greatest strengths, and allows you to create exponential value in the world.

This isn’t a hustle porn cliché.
It’s a radical idea.

You can create your career. 
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"I spent the last 20+ years being told that knowledge is power. Collect credentials. Hoard expertise. Become the smartest person in the room. But AI just ate the Knowledge Worker's lunch." - Mary Callan, PhD 👇🏻👀

I still remember the moment it hit much-younger-and-less-jaded me.

I was early in my first real corporate job, surrounded by spreadsheets, strategy decks, and people who seemed to know exactly what they were doing, when a quiet epiphany stopped me mid-thought:

"Oh my gosh… I'm actually getting paid to think."

Not to lift. Not to harvest. To "think".

(Pretty novel, compared to the irrigation ditches I was digging the year before.)

That realization changed everything about how I showed up at work. I started treating my mind like the asset it was.

Fast forward a few decades, and Christopher Lochhead 🇺🇸🇮🇱🏴‍☠️ nails it better than I ever could:

"Thinking about thinking is the most important kind of thinking."

Here's why that line hits not-so-young me different right now:

I spent the last 20+ years being told that knowledge is power. Collect credentials. Hoard expertise. Become the smartest person in the room.

But AI just ate the Knowledge Worker's lunch.

Anything you can Google, memorize, or regurgitate, a machine now does faster, cheaper, and without a coffee break. The era of getting paid to *know things* is closing. Fast. 

What's opening? It's all good. The era of getting paid to "think differently."

To ask questions no one is asking. To frame problems no one sees yet. To create categories, not just fill roles.

This is the shift from Knowledge Worker to what the Category Pirates call the "Creator Capitalist." Someone who doesn't just use AI as a shortcut, but as a lever for thinking that didn't exist before.

The people who thrive in the next chapter won't be the ones with the most answers.

They'll be the ones with the most dangerous questions.

So ask yourself, as I'm asking myself now: Are you still getting paid to know, or are you getting paid to think?

Because one of those has an expiration date.

The Category Pirates' new book "Creator Capitalist" digs into this shift in a way that will rewire how you see your career. Look for how to get on the waitlist in the first comment. We'd better get on it before our industries move on without us.

The Agentic CEO, Southwest Crushed Its Category & Why It Matters To You, Pirate Snacks & More 👇🏻🏴‍☠️

Welcome to Different. Unnecessary musings for : entrepreneurs, marketing leaders, category designers and creator capitalists, With a different mind. W

Open article: The Agentic CEO, Southwest Crushed Its Category & Why It Matters To You, Pirate Snacks & More by Christopher Lochhead 🇺🇸🇮🇱🏴‍☠️ • 7 min read

The Agentic CEO, Southwest Crushed Its Category & Why It Matters To You, Pirate Snacks & More

Today I’m giving you 20 reasons not to listen to the AI doomers. We just dropped a free mini-book:

"The Death of the Knowledge Worker: The 6-Step Shift to Become Irreplaceable and Stop Trading Time for Money."

Sure, the title sounds scary.
But here’s the punchline.
It’s actually wildly optimistic.

Because we studied 20 people who made the leap.
FROM Knowledge Worker TO Creator Capitalist.
And we tried to figure out what predicted success.

•Age.
•Gender.
•Net worth.
•Education.
•Privilege vs trauma.
•Whether they started at 14 or 40.

We looked at everything.
Nothing predicted it.

The data is… weird.
The pattern is there is no pattern.

• A 14-year-old in Singapore from a brutal family situation → two exits before 30
• An investment banker packing baby wipes at night → $300M+ retail company
• An esthetician rejected from her dream job → high-six-figure business and now owns the building

The old world said your trajectory was set by credentials.
The new world says something very different.

Agency beats pedigree.
(Pls read this three times) 

Which means something profound:
If people this different can make the leap…

You can too.
But only if you start.

The mini-book is free.
L!nk in the c0mments.
Creator Capitalist drops March 17, 2026. 🏴‍☠️

On October 6th. 2023 in Tehran and Gaza, there were evil men who believed history was theirs to take. 

They believed Israel (the “little Satan”) could be broken.
 They believed America (the “big Satan”) was a pxssy. 

They believed terror was the right strategy.

October 7th proved something else:
 -Terror can start a war. -It cannot control how it ends.

President Biden’s message to Iran was one word: “Don’t.”

Iran did. 
Thought the US was a paper tiger. 

What followed wasn’t the destruction of Israel.
 It wasn’t the collapse of American courage. 

It was a brutal reminder of a law as old as geopolitics:

When you attack a sovereign state backed by a superpower, you invite consequences.

In less than three years:
• Hamas’ is shattered • Hezbollah’s is disemboweled 
• Iran’s regional influence exposed, pressured, and destroyed 

The theory that violence plus fanaticism equals victory failed.

Deterrence isn’t a slogan.
It requires consequences. 

They thought they could brutalize their women and kill 30,000 of their people and we’d do nothing. 

The Middle East now stands at a seminal moment.
 Because the cost of terror has been made unmistakably clear.

Peace does not emerge from wishful thinking.
 It (only) happens when adversaries calculate that war is too expensive.

(Anyone who confronted a school yard bully knows this. It’s primordial)
 Pray for Iran.
Pray for Israel.  Pray for the United States. Pray for the peace loving, legendary people of the Middle East.

And understand this:
Peace (enduring peace) only comes through strength.

History will tell us if this attack of Iran was wise. 

No American wants a new forever war. 

And what we do know. 

-Bill Clinton
-George W. Bush
-Barack Obama

All said. 
Iran can not have a nuclear bomb. 

Now they don’t.

Building a portfolio of writing businesses to $10M, and sharing my frameworks along the way.

My name is Nicolas Cole, and I am one of the most-read writers on the Internet.

Over the past decade, I have written over 5,000 articles online, and ghostwritten for 300+ Founders, C-level executives, NYT best-selling authors, Grammy-winning musicians, and more. I have also broken records on various digital writing platforms, like becoming the fastest-growing user on Quora in 2014, and becoming the most-read writer on the entire platform (out of 200 million users) in 2015. I have amassed hundreds of millions of views on my writing, and the topics I cover include hard life advice, category design, and digital writing principles.

I have also written over a dozen books, including the best-selling The Art & Business of Online Writing.

I am passionate about paying it forward and sharing what I have learned writing online for more than decade with other writers, creators, and industry leaders.

Here's a quick breakdown of my portfolio of companies, and how to get in touch.

WANT TO GET STARTED WRITING ONLINE?

→ GO HERE: www.ship30for30.com

Ship 30 for 30 is a cohort-based community specifically for people who want to start writing online. In this 4-week program, we help you build your daily writing habit, launch your Social Blog, clarify your niche, and master the fundamentals of digital writing. To date, we have helped more than 3,000 people get started writing online.

WANT TO BECOME A PREMIUM GHOSTWRITER?

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Freelance writers charge per word or per hour. As a result, they're underpaid and burned out. Premium Ghostwriters charge per project, work directly with founders, CEOs, and business owners, and are more like "business consultants who happen to know how to write." As a result, they can charge a premium. In PGA, our Premium Ghostwriting Academy, we train writers on how to become Premium Ghostwriters, and learn how to package & price their services in lucrative ways.

WANT TO STAY AT THE FOREFRONT OF WRITING WITH AI?

→ GO HERE: https://writewithai.substack.com

Write With AI is a bi-weekly paid newsletters for writers, giving you strategies and prompts to help you turn ChatGPT into your own personal Digital Writing Assistant. 

WANT TO GET IN TOUCH?

→ GO HERE: www.nicolascole.com

In addition to writing and building my own businesses, I am also an investor & advisor to a handful of media & digital publishing companies. If you'd like to get in touch, please feel free to shoot me an email.

Email: cole@nicolascole.com
Twitter: @Nicolascole77

Nicolas Cole 🚢👻

Last week, I spent 7+ hours building a set of Claude Skills to help you write viral LinkedIn posts faster.

The result?

A Claude Cowork plugin anyone can install to write publish-ready LinkedIn posts in minutes.

It's called the PGA LinkedIn Writing Coach.

And I'm giving it away for free.

Most LinkedIn creators and ghostwriters waste hours:

• Staring at a blank page
• Rewriting hooks 17 times
• Trying to come up with the "perfect" topic

Not because they're bad writers.

But because they don't have the right system.

This fixes that.

This Claude Cowork plugin is built with proven frameworks that have generated millions of views on my content.

Here's what you get inside:

• A Hook Generator that writes 11 hooks in 11 proven formats (so you have the best chances of going viral)

• A Post Writer that generates 15 post ideas and writes the strongest one for you

• A Voice Remixer that rewrites any text in 5 distinct Voice Archetypes (perfect for matching your client's voice)

• A full end-to-end workflow to take you from raw topic to published post in one guided session

Now, I originally built this to share with my team.

But I wanted to get it into the hands of more writers.

So for the next 48 hours, I'm sharing it for free.

Want access?

Comment "coach"

If we're not connected, then send me an invite with the word "coach", and I'll send it across ASAP.

I talk about digital writing, ghostwriting, and self-publishing | Co-Founder Ship 30, Typeshare, Write With AI, Premium Ghostwriting Academy | Author of 10 books | DM "👻" if you want to land high-paying writing clients

I spent over 9 hours collecting 102 writing templates and creating 2 AI prompts to help you:

• Write viral LinkedIn posts
• Find proven topics for yourself & your writing clients
• Create banger LinkedIn and X posts using proven templates

Why?

Well, the LinkedIn algorithm has changed in 2026.

It's HARDER than ever before to reach a wider audience and go viral.

So, to help you boost your reach for yourself and your clients, I collected all my proven hooks and post formats.

These have racked up millions of views on my content.

Inside the Social Ghostwriting Template Vault, you'll get:

• 30 LinkedIn & X hook formats (40M+ views)
• 50 short-form post templates
• 22 proven long-form post frameworks
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This is everything you need to write viral hooks and posts (for your own content and your clients).

Want FREE access?

✅ Comment "vault"

I'll send it to you over DM ASAP.

This is no secret:

(This has been happening for MONTHS)

Reach on LinkedIn is tanking.

Including my own!

And I speak to writers every day who are worried about getting results on this platform for their clients.

When I hear this, I always give them this little reframe:

Over the last 5 years, my little business has generated over $20,000,000.

And the vast majority of that revenue didn't come from social media.

It came from Email and Newsletters.

Which is why, with unpredictable algorithm changes and plummeting reach, the single biggest opportunity for ghostwriters right now isn't Social Ghostwriting.

It's Newsletter Ghostwriting.

So I asked our Head of Marketing, Daniel Bustamante, to create the Newsletter Ghostwriter OS.

This will help anyone get started as a Newsletter Ghostwriter.

Inside the OS, you'll find:

• A 90-day content calendar for you & your clients
• A "Free Consulting" outreach method (worth $1,000)
• The exact sales script that's closed over $3M in deals
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• A 4-part system for niching down & finding ideal clients
• Real newsletter examples that generated $20M in revenue

And tons more!

This 5-part framework is your path to building a lucrative writing business as a Newsletter Ghostwriter.

(Even if you're a total beginner or suck at sales.)

Want access (for free)?

Comment "email" to get it.

(If we're not connected, send me a connection request with the word "email" and I'll send it across.)

I'm a pro writer.

Over the last 10+ years, I have:

• Written 1 fiction book
• 10 Non-fiction books
• 2,000+ thought-leadership articles

And more.

Writing is how I've generated over $20M in the last 5 years.

And I've learned a simple truth:

Great writing doesn't come from "natural-born talent."

It comes from simple, repeatable techniques.

Use these 19 small (but powerful) tips to upgrade your writing in the next 5 minutes:

1. Volume wins

2. Prep the Page

3. Delete adverbs

4. Redraft from zero

5. Ignore word count

6. Don't use semicolons

7. Use "The Tequila Test"

8. Delete the word "that"

9. Use the 1/3/1 sequence

10. Cut all tiny word chunks

11. Delete opening "i" phrases

12. Match language to the audience

13. Write to change the reader's mind

14. Write (and edit) in different interfaces

15. Compress what you're saying into bullets

16. Make the last word the most important word

17. Before you start, do some unintentional writing

18. Increase engagement with the Rate of Revelation

19. Make your first sentence short, strong, & declarative

Get the full breakdown in the Carousel below:

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📌 My self-published books have generated over $1,000,000.

But ghostwriting is how I got paid to write (while I worked on my first book).

So I created a free, 5-day email course to help you:

• Reposition yourself as a ghostwriter
• Charge premium prices for your services
• Land high-paying writing clients on LinkedIn

Get started here: https://lnkd.in/gzNHs2cH

19 Tips To Upgrade Your Writing (In 5 Minutes)

Over the last 5 years, my little business has generated $20,000,000.

The secret?

Email.

For all our digital product launches, we use a specific 20-email sequence.

And now I want to share it with you.

Why?

For 2 reasons:

1. So you can sell your own digital products with email

2. And (more importantly) so you can ghostwrite these launch emails for your clients (and get paid $$$ to do it!) 

Because high-ticket clients don't hire you to "write emails."

They hire you to sell their product.

And if you can show up with a proven launch sequence... you become irreplaceable.

That's exactly what this free playbook gives you.

Inside the Product Launch Playbook, you'll get:

• A 20-email launch sequence (pre-launch + launch, fully mapped out)
• Real examples + fill-in-the-blank templates for every single email
• A deep dive explaining exactly why each email works
• [BONUS] 3 AI prompts to write or ghostwrite the entire sequence 10x faster
• [BONUS] Sequence automations for Kit

Now, I originally built this for our internal team and writers inside our Premium Ghostwriting Academy.

But I'm giving it away free for the next 48 hours.

Want access?

Just comment "launch" on this post.

And I'll DM it to you ASAP.

(If we're not connected, send me a connection request with the word "launch" and I'll send it across!)

Most LinkedIn creators use AI to write their content.

How do I know?

Because I see the same "AI Fingerprints" ruining what they're trying to say.

Here are the 10 biggest AI Red Flags to look out for:

1. Contrast Framing Overload
2. The Rule Of Three
3. Cringe Transition Questions
4. Present-ing Verbs
5. Vague Glazing Opinions
6. Formality First Language
7. Emoji Explosion
8. Extra Em Dashes
9. Everything Is "Symbolic"
10. The Mysterious "Sarah Chen"

Check out the rest of the carousel to learn how to edit these out of your LinkedIn content.

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📌 Writers everywhere can use AI to make more money online.

And the fastest way is to become an AI-powered LinkedIn Ghostwriter.

So I created the LinkedIn Ghostwriter OS to help you get started.

Inside you'll find:

• Viral LinkedIn content templates (that anyone can use)
• 20+ AI prompts to help you make money writing on LinkedIn
• My "Leaks & Faucets" strategy for finding leads
• My $3M Sales Call script that closes high-ticket deals
• Voice matching prompt to write in anyone's style
• A step-by-step, 30-day implementation roadmap

Want access?

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10 AI Fingerprints That Make You Sound Like A Robot

I'm a 90s kid.

It's hard to overstate how much better life was with:

Pokémon on Gameboy Color + Dominos Pizza.

And most importantly?

NO cell phones or algorithms vying for your attention.

All this technology.

All these advancements.

And I think many of us miss the analog & lightly digital days more than we value the digital-first, AI-in-your-bloodstream reality we now live in.

Wild generation to have been born into.

Millennials are the last generation to know life with technology before it took over. 

But I'll never be that age again.

You blink, and it's over.

So yes, plow resources into mastering the newest technology and AI tools.

But you don't need them to make $20,000/month.

I didn't, and only spent ~20 hours per week working.

Plenty of money for "fun" and the time to enjoy it.

Which is why I recommend becoming a LinkedIn ghostwriter.

This platform has over 1 billion users who:

• Never post
• Know they should be
• Need help building their personal brand

Want a blueprint to help you start ghostwriting & land high-paying clients?

Get it here (for free): https://lnkd.in/giTAbyJT

Ghostwriting is how I went from being a broke freelancer to making $20k/month (in less than 60 days).

But it isn't all about the money.

Here are 7 reasons why I believe every writer should be a ghostwriter:

1. You Get Paid To Learn

2. You Get Paid To Practice

3. You Get Paid To Build Your Network

4. You Get Paid To Know About Trends Early

5. You Get Paid To Experience Different Lives

6. You Get Paid To Learn How To Write In Different Voices

7. You Get Paid To Write About Subjects You're Passionate About

Now, if you're interested in becoming a ghostwriter...

I recommend starting a ghostwriting side hustle.

Just 1 high-paying client can pay you anywhere from $1,500 to $5,000+ per month. 

That way, you can give this a try without worrying about “building a business” or replacing your 9-5 (while only writing a handful of hours per week).

If you want to scale your income from there, great.

You only need:

• 3 high-paying clients
• Paying you $2,700/month
• To make $100,000+ per year

And I have a FREE, 5-step blueprint that’s already helped over 10,000 writers start ghostwriting.

It has everything you need to start landing high-paying writing clients.

Click "Visit my website" at the top of this post to grab a FREE copy of my Premium Ghostwriting Blueprint.

Most people will never make money writing online.

But one skill makes it embarrassingly simple:

Copywriting.

It's how I've generated over $20,000,000 as a writer.

But the secret to writing great copy?

It has nothing to do with sales.

It's all about education.

Because when you successfully educate the customer, they sell themselves.

Here are 7 sales copy sentences my digital business uses to generate millions every single year (steal them for yourself):

1. "This small action will lead to a giant outcome."
2. "This massive problem can be fixed with this simple solution."
3. "The outcome you want isn't far away."
4. "It's not your fault."
5. "You've already done the hardest part."
6. "I couldn't do this either."
7. "I'm going to let you in on a little secret..."

Here's how to use them:

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📌 The fastest way to make money on LinkedIn?

It's not copywriting.

It's becoming a LinkedIn Ghostwriter (using these 7 copy sentences in your clients' content).

Because right now, ghostwriting demand on this platform is exploding.

Want help landing high-paying clients as a ghostwriter?

I put together a free, 5-day email course to help you.

Click "Visit my website" at the top of this post to get instant access.

7 Sales Copy Sentences Worth $20,000,000

The most misunderstood, misused, yet highest-leverage writing skill:

Copywriting.

It's how I've generated over $20,000,000 as a writer.

And these 7 exercises will turn you into a top 1% copywriter:

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📌 These are the writing techniques you need to start making money online.

But if you want to:

• Eliminate boring work
• Reclaim hours of your life
• Build your first AI employee

Then join me on February 23rd for my 2-week Claude Cowork Bootcamp.

Here's what we'll build across 6 LIVE sessions:

🤖 Week 1: Foundation & Voice Training

→ Build your Computer Organizer .skill that manages files automatically (so you never waste time hunting for receipts again)

→ Connect Claude Cowork to Notion and train it to write in YOUR voice (not generic AI slop)

→ Create a Meeting Prep .skill that scans your calendar, Slack, and Gmail to brief you before every call

⚙️ Week 2: Advanced Automation & Skill Chaining

→ Chain multiple .skills together for complex workflows (like building client proposals while you work on something else)

→ Deploy a working landing page to Vercel using your Digital Product .skill (and teach your AI to navigate websites on your behalf)

→ Learn to build custom .skills from scratch (so you can scale AI to your entire team)

🚀 The Result: Reclaim 10+ Hours Every Week

→ Stop re-explaining context to AI every single time

→ Build permanent leverage that compounds forever

→ Turn AI from "helpful chatbot" into "digital clone of you"

Click here to secure your spot (before enrollment closes on Sunday, February 22nd at midnight): https://lnkd.in/ghj8DHXr

7 Exercises To Become A Top 1% Copywriter

At 26, I quit my minimum-wage copywriting job.

18 months later?

I was generating $180k/month as a ghostwriter.

Writing for industry leaders like:

• Olympic athletes
• Silicon Valley founders
• New York Times best-selling authors

And more.

But if I was starting over in 2026, I'd become a LinkedIn Ghostwriter.

Why?

Because this platform has 1.15 billion users. And less than 1% are posting content consistently.

(Despite knowing they should be!)

Which means there is an *enormous* amount of opportunity for LinkedIn Ghostwriters right now.

Use these 5 steps to land your first LinkedIn ghostwriting client:

1. Say exactly what you do in your bio
2. Be your own case study
3. Make a list of "Leaks" & "Faucets"
4. Pitch In Public
5. Follow up (till they call the cops!)

Get the exacts steps in the infographic below:

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📌 PS—I put together a roadmap to help anyone become a LinkedIn Ghostwriter:

• 20+ AI prompts to help you build a business
• My "Leaks & Faucets" strategy for finding leads
• Viral content LI templates (that anyone can use)
• My $3M Sales Call script that closes high-ticket deals
• Voice matching prompt to write in any client's style
• A step-by-step, 30-day implementation roadmap

Click here to get free, instant access: https://lnkd.in/e4KkbZsH

Terrible advice for writers:

(I wish I'd never done this)

Write "anything" for "anyone."

This is the FASTEST way to become an overworked and underpaid content writer.

Instead, to dramatically increase your income:

Niche Down.

This is how I went from charging $200 per article to ghostwriting thought-leadership articles for founders and executives for $2,000.

So, in this video, I explain:

• The 3 core benefits of specialization
• How to niche down (Service vs. Industry)
• Why niching down doesn’t limit opportunity
• Services I recommend writers should specialize in
• How to find your Information Advantage & niche down

And tons more!

Dive in here:

(Want to watch the video over on YouTube? Search "How To Find Your Niche In Content Writing" to find it.)

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📌 Once you niche down, you need a proven technique to land new, high-paying clients every month.

Which is just 1 small part inside my FREE Premium Ghostwriting Blueprint.

Inside, you'll also learn how to:

• Charge a premium
• Land dream ghostwriting clients
• Find your own lucrative niche (like Sophia did!)

Want a copy of my free blueprint?

Click here to get instant access: https://lnkd.in/gU5WB3st

Last November, my little writing business crossed $20,000,000 in lifetime sales.

It took us over 5 years to reach this milestone.

But we could have gotten here a whole lot faster with everything we know now.

Here are 12 of the biggest lessons I wish I knew when we first started our 8-figure digital product business:

1. Operational complexity is the moat

2. Subjectivity doesn't scale

3. Customers want outcomes, not more content

4. Wanting something new is avoiding improving what works

5. Entrepreneurs live in max risk—so de-risk personal finances

6. Only pay commissions while reps are on the team

7. Paid ads is a way to pay down "ignorance debt"

8. What gets measured grows. What's "maintained" dies

9. Every new channel means a 1-year learning curve

10. "Fast and easy" = slow, hard, expensive

11. When high-performers hit a ceiling, create roles or incubate entrepreneurs

12. After ~$3M/year, video is one of your best investments

Check out the full breakdown here: 

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📌 Do you want to quit your day job in 2026?

Then don't sell digital products.

Instead, become a LinkedIn Ghostwriter.

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

I put together a blueprint that's helped 10,000+ people become Premium Ghostwriters in 5 days.

Want a FREE copy of my proven blueprint?

Click here to get instant access: https://lnkd.in/gTmQ872p

12 Lessons From $20,000,000 in Writing Course Sales

I paid Alex Hormozi's team $35,000 to help me scale to $1,000,000. 

And I just got back from their workshop in Vegas.

For the better part of 2 years now, we've been stuck trying to hit this goal.

But I emerged with extreme clarity on what to tackle this year.

Here are the 5 "Big Rocks" they said I should work on right now:

1. Clean up your org structure before it cleans you out

Our team nearly tripled in size this past year.

And it wasn't until the Hormozi team walked me through what a healthy org at our revenue level actually looks like that I realized how blurry our lines of ownership had gotten.

• Who's responsible for what?
• Who owns which outcomes?

When everyone's responsible, no one's responsible.

2. Crystal-clear clarity at every level of the business.

Move your biggest cash to the front end of the sale.

Right now, what we've been doing is:

• Sell a 16-week program
• Then, upsell continued coaching on the back end

But the Hormozi team recommended we flip it.

Instead, lead with the full year upfront.

And THEN downsell the 16 weeks if needed.

More cash upfront = more ad spend = more students, faster.

3. Build a media team that can actually scale your content

I'm making a significant investment in YouTube and media in 2026.

And I had a lot of unanswered questions about what that actually looks like:

• How many editors do you need?
• Do you separate short-form and long-form?
• Does one person own each platform?
• Does one person own each channel?

The Hormozi team helped me find the clarity I was looking for.

Basically, we have about 70% of the team we need.

And the move is to break out individual platforms and give each one a dedicated owner.

4. Follow up with leads in 15 minutes or less, every time

The Hormozi team made it very clear how much revenue we're leaving on the table every time we don't.

The big rock for my co-founder @dickiebush will be building the outbound infrastructure to make near-instant follow-up the default.

5. Stop asking "what's next?"

Instead, start asking:

"What's working and why aren't we doing more of it?"

This one hit hardest.

At the end of 2025, we ran our first paid 3-day challenge and it turned into our biggest revenue month of the year.

So when the Hormozi team asked us:

"If one challenge did that, why are you only doing one a year?"

The answer was obvious.

Do more live webinars and challenges.

But all of this just makes one thing even clearer for me:

Our business is NOT the right type of business for 99% of people to go build.

If you're just getting started, the operational complexity is too high.

Instead, I'd recommend building a 1-person ghostwriting agency.

It's how I went from $0 to $20,000/month in less than 60 days.

Want a (FREE) copy of my proven blueprint?

Click here to get instant access: https://lnkd.in/gtF7dwNj

There are 2 ways to build a 6-figure digital business in 2026:

1. Digital Products
2. High-Ticket Service

So, which "path" should you choose?

Most people go the digital products route:

• Building a massive LinkedIn audience
• Understanding the problems of their followers
• Then creating a course to sell & solve these problems

And yes, this can get you to $100,000/year.

But this takes TIME.

No one wakes up one morning with:

• 30,000+ followers
• A finished digital product
• Or all the fulfillment systems humming

But there's a *faster* way to build a 6-figure digital business...

Sell a high-ticket service.

Specifically, become a Premium Ghostwriter.

Here are 5 reasons why everyone should try Premium Ghostwriting:

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📌 If you take away nothing else from this post, remember this:

Don’t start building digital products if your goal is to quit your day job in 2026.

It takes 12+ months (at least) to get any traction.

Instead, become a Premium Ghostwriter.

It’s the fastest way for writers to make $10,000/month.

So I created a free, 5-step blueprint to help you:

• Reposition yourself as a ghostwriter
• Charge a premium for your work
• Land high-paying clients

Ready to start landing high-paying clients as a Premium Ghostwriter?

Click here to follow my proven ghostwriting blueprint (10,000+ writers have already used it to get started): https://lnkd.in/giFsec9H

Why Everyone Should Sell A Digital Service First

I can't believe how many people don't realize this:

Making money writing online is simple.

For context:

I have generated over $1M as a writer.

Not just once.

Not just twice.

But across 8 different writing business models:

1. SaaS
2. Services
3. Consulting
4. Self-Publishing
5. Paid newsletter
6. Group/High-Ticket
7. Low-Ticket products
8. Cohort-based courses

Here's the simplest path anyone can take to go from $0 to a 6-figure writer:

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📌 The fastest way to hit $100,000/year as a writer?

Ghostwriting.

It's how I went from making $0 as a freelance writer to $10k/month in 60 days.

But if I was starting over in 2026, I'd become a LinkedIn Ghostwriter.

Why?

Because this platform has 1.15 billion users. And less than 1% are posting content consistently.

(Despite knowing they should be!)

Which means there is an *enormous* amount of opportunity for LinkedIn Ghostwriters right now.

So I wrote a free, crash course showing you how to land high-paying writing clients on LinkedIn.

Click here to get instant access (for FREE): https://lnkd.in/g6aJBDgP

Become A 6-Figure Writer In 5 Simple Steps

Over the last 10 days, Claude has been down 6 times:

• Feb 25 → 3 Hours 14 Minutes
• Feb 26 → 6 Hours 35 Minutes
• Feb 27 → 4 Hours 27 Minutes
• Feb 28 → 2 Hours 52 Minutes
• Mar 2 → 2 Hours 45 Minutes
• Mar 3 → 0 Hours 48 Minutes

20+ (!!!) hours in total.

This is another reminder:

You can't 100% rely on AI.

Instead, make sure you master the skills you need to do your work manually.

Using AI is then an added bonus and a way to increase your leverage.

This is why the top 1% ghostwriters don't need AI to deliver for their clients (although it makes them way more efficient).

Just like how they don't even need to write well to get paid 6-figures.

They've simply mastered these highly in-demand skills:

• Premium positioning
• Irresistible offer creation
• Consistent client acquisition

And more.

Which is how they're making $100,000+ per year with just a laptop.

The good news?

Right now, LinkedIn is the fastest-growing social media.

And many of the smartest people in the world have just realized they need to be on this platform.

So, I put together a 5-day blueprint to teach you how to:

• Charge premium prices
• Create your irresistible offer
• Find your lucrative ghostwriting niche
• Land new, high-paying clients every month

In other words...

Everything you need to start LinkedIn Ghostwriting in the next 5 days.

Click "Visit my website" at the top of this post to get instant access to my proven blueprint (for FREE).

The difference between you and a writer making:

• $10,000
• $20,000
• Or even $50,000...

Per month has NOTHING to do with writing talent.

They've just built other skills that allow them to:

• Earn a full-time income
• Work a part-time schedule
• Write for fascinating clients

All without needing to:

• Go back to school
• Get a fancy college degree
• Or have years of experience

And on Tuesday:

I will reveal my ENTIRE system that I've been using for over a decade to land high-paying writing clients during my 3-Day LIVE Challenge.

Here's what we'll cover in just 72 hours:

📍 Tuesday, February 17th: The "Category of One" Ghostwriter Playbook

→ Discover how to position yourself as a Premium Ghostwriter (even with zero ghostwriting experience)

→ Find a profitable niche based on your unique background and interests

→ Use AI to create crystal-clear positioning that attracts clients (so you don't have to chase them!)

📦 Wednesday, February 18th: The Irresistible Offer Formula

→ Turn your writing skills into high-value services clients actually want to buy

→ How to create a productized service (and why premium clients only hire writers who have one)

→ Learn how to charge $3,000-$10,000/month (without feeling like an impostor)

🎯 Thursday, February 19th: The Writing Client Attraction System

→ Master the "Free Consulting Method" that works even with zero experience or a portfolio

→ How to find & land premium clients using social platforms (outreach, messages, & more)

→ The exact sales script framework I used to close $3,700,000 in ghostwriting deals

But you can get a headstart TODAY.

How?

If you grab a ticket to my Get Writing Clients Challenge before midnight TONIGHT, I will give you a *free* digital copy of my brand new book:

Writer Career Paths: 9 Ways To Make $1,000,000 With Words

So, are you ready to become a top 1% writer in 2026?

Then join us February 17th-19th for the Get Writing Clients Challenge.

Click the link to secure your spot now: https://lnkd.in/gQ_cFKVs

In 2012, my parents told me I should study journalism.

I didn't.

Instead, I majored in fiction writing in college because it was more interesting to me.

Everyone said I was lighting money on fire.

But since then?

Journalism has basically died.

And fiction & creative writing have made me a millionaire.

So, when I have kids of my own, I'm going to tell them:

"Study whatever is most interesting to you."

Every single industry is going to get affected by new technology/AI... so the game isn't "picking the perfect/most lucrative industry."

The game is picking an industry you:

• Won't give up on
• Love enough to sink your teeth into
• And will stick to for the next 5+ years

Despite all the headwinds and uncertainty.

So, you can ride the AI wave while your industry evolves.

Or you can get PAID to learn the most highly in-demand skill right now (job listings asking for any AI-related skill are up 650%).

How?

By becoming a LinkedIn Ghostwriter.

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

And it's the perfect way to learn the AI skills you need to future-proof your career.

So I put together a free blueprint to help you become a LinkedIn Ghostwriter in just 5 days.

Even if you:

• Suck at sales
• Don't have an audience
• Have never ghostwritten before

Want access to my proven blueprint that's helped 10,000+ start ghostwriting?

Click here to grab your free copy: https://lnkd.in/g2TEQtDi

This writer made $25,000 by working just 1-2 hours before work and on weekends.

In just 3 months, Torunn Jegleim ACA:

• Made about $25,000
• Writing for Fractional CFOs
• As their Premium LinkedIn Ghostwriter

Her secret?

She followed a proven blueprint and spent her limited hours focused on what would actually build a lucrative writing side hustle.

(Alongside her full-time 9 to 5.)

Because making money writing from a laptop has nothing to do with how many hours you work.

It's ALL about what you *actually* do during those hours.

(Even if all you have is 1-2 hours per day.)

I put together a blueprint that's helped 10,000+ Premium LinkedIn Ghostwriters get started in JUST 5 days.

Want a (FREE) copy of my proven blueprint?

Click "Visit my website" at the top of this post to get instant access.

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