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✍️ how to land your first $3000 /mo ghostwriting client
he was about to lose his first ghostwriting client...
Taylin John Simmonds
February 10, 2025
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Last week, I got an emergency DM from a student.
He was about to lose his first ghostwriting client.
"I need leads," the client said.
Problem? My student had been writing for weeks.
But hadn't attracted a single lead.
And if he didn’t figure it out fast, he was about to be out of a client and out of money.
Sound familiar?
If you're a ghostwriter, it should.
Most ghostwriters land a client, promise the world, and then…
Nothing.
No leads. No sales. No renewals.
Just a one-way ticket back to square one, sending hundreds of cold DMs, looking for another chance, another crumb of client work.
But it doesn’t have to be that way.
Because today, I’m sharing the exact system I’ve used to make over $500,000 writing online.
This is how I turn words into wealth.
And how you can use it to land high-paying ghostwriting clients who don’t just pay you once, but stay with you.
My Lead-Generating Ghostwriting System
Most writers have it all backwards.
They think going viral = getting paid.
Wrong.
Virality is vanity.
Leads are the lifeblood of your business.
At my ghostwriting agency, we have a fitness client paying us $6,200/month.
Our deal?
We bring him at least $25,000/month in new business, or we’re fired.
I won't lie, the pressure was on. Our team is rarely this nervous writing for clients.
But month one we made him $50,000.
Double the results he was expecting.
How?
We didn’t chase vanity metrics. Or beg the algorithm gods for scraps.
We used a simple three-step case study framework:
Targeted his customers pain points
Offered an effortless solution
Provided undeniable proof he could get results
That’s it.
No clickbait. No trending topics. No hot takes designed to get likes but never land leads.
But here’s where most beginner ghostwriters get stuck:
They don’t have undeniable proof.
And because they don’t have proof, they don’t have clients.
It’s the ghostwriter’s paradox:
You need results to get clients.
But you need clients to get results.
So what’s the fix?
You get proof.
You become your own case study.
How to Turn Yourself into a Money-Making Case Study
Take Willie Chou.
One of my ghostwriting students. 45 days into writing on X, I helped him craft a viral thread.
That one post attracted 3 clients. Each willing to pay $3,000/month.
"But wait—didn’t you say going viral doesn’t get leads?"
For most people, no.
For ghostwriters? Different story.
Because virality = proof.
Proof that you can write. Proof that you can capture attention. Proof that you can get results.
And proof is all high-paying clients care about.
That’s why at Growth Ghost, we don’t waste time writing into the void for 6-12 months.
We give students the exact strategies we use to go viral.
Then we hand them our case study frameworks—the same ones we use to turn those viral posts into leads.
(Most make back their investment in the process.)
Did it go viral? Nope.
Did it land leads? Hell yes.
And not just any leads:
High-ticket
High-quality
high-paying leads
Because $5,000/month is life-changing money for most people.
But if you’d rather go it alone, become your own case study, and grind it out the hard way?
One post can change everything.
Now quit reading.
Start writing.
-Taylin John Simmonds
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