Nicolas Cole – Medium

Jul 29

Snow Leopard: Why Legendary Writers Create A Category Of One

Most writers spend their entire lives trying to become “great.” But what does being a great writer mean? Is it when you go viral, and accumulate over a million views on something you’ve written? Is it when a major publisher gives you a book deal? Is it when a magazine says you’re “talented?” Is it when your parents…

Writing

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Snow Leopard: Why Legendary Writers Create A Category Of One

Apr 8

8 Questions To Create Your First $100,000 Digital Product

If you have even a few hundred followers on social media, you are probably sitting on a $100,000 digital product just waiting to be created. All you have to do is package it up. The problem is, most digital writers think: Their audience is “too small” (it’s not) Or they need some big fancy marketing plan (you…

Writing

5 min read

8 Questions To Create Your First $100,000 Digital Product

Mar 13

The Hockey Game That Taught Me I Was Never Going To The NHL

My childhood dream was to play in the NHL. When I was 5 years old, my dad put a basketball in my hands (it was his favorite sport, and he’d played up to college). I threw it across the room and picked up a plastic toy hockey stick instead. …

2 min read

Mar 11

How To Market A Love Story: 10 Questions You Need To Answer To Sell Millions Of Copies

Romance is a billion-dollar market, and has always been one of the most-popular book genres — right up there with sci-fi and mystery thrillers. According to a study by Nielsen, the majority of the romance market consists of readers ranging from ages 18 to 54, with the largest segment (41%)…

Love Story

7 min read

Published in Better Marketing

·Mar 10

20 Copywriting Tips You Should Hang On Your Wall 🧵

Over the past 8 years, my “words” have generated millions of dollars in revenue. Revenue for my own businesses, including Digital Press (ghostwriting agency), Category Pirates (paid business newsletter), and Ship 30 for 30 (cohort-based writing program). Revenue for other creators, authors, and industry leaders (ghostwriting clients). Revenue for other…

Copywriting

4 min read

Mar 7

The First-Time Founder Playbook: 20 Entrepreneurship Rules To Live By

In addition to writing, I love bootstrapping companies. Over the past 5 years, I have built multiple 6-figure side-hustle businesses and two 7-figure businesses, including: Category Pirates: a paid business newsletter on Category Design & Category Creation. Digital Press: a ghostwriting agency exclusively for founders, executives, investors, Grammy-winning musicians, professional…

Entrepreneurship

8 min read

Published in Better Marketing

·Mar 4

Medium Writers: Stop Selling Yourselves Short (5 Steps To Earn $1 Million From Your Writing)

Dear Medium Writers, You know, I’ve been writing on this platform for about 6 years now (starting back in 2017). In that time, I have: Published over 2,000 articles Accumulated more than 50,000,000 views on Medium alone And earned more than $250,000 from Medium’s partner program Before that, I was…

Writing

10 min read

Mar 1

19 Small But Powerful Writing Tips (That Will Immediately 10x Your Quality)

When people think about what it means to become a “better writer,” they think they need to go take a literature class in France and spend 4 weeks studying with Hemingway’s ghost. Not true. In fact, you can become a better writer immediately — just by making a handful of…

Writing

4 min read

Published in Better Marketing

·Feb 28

20 Rules for Writing Your First Book

Over the past 6 years, I have written 10 books—including 2 best-sellers: The Art & Business of Online Writing, and The Category Design Toolkit. I have also written more than 50 business “mini-books” on the subject of Category Design & Category Creation. And today, I co-run the fastest-growing cohort-based writing…

Writing

5 min read

Published in Better Marketing

·Dec 14, 2021

Content Writers: Don’t Focus On Individual Pieces. Build Your Library

There are two types of content on the Internet: Timely and Timeless. Timely content is all about capitalizing on the moment. Something just happened in the news. A new company just went public. A big movie is about to hit theaters. Elon Musk just Tweeted a meme and it’s going viral. Writers who want to go viral are obsessed…

Content

3 min read