Episode #74
📈 Thursday momentum: your next client is usually one follow-up away. The Ramen Hustle gives you a practical reason to re-open conversations, plus a proof-driven hook that lands without feeling salesy or weird.
When the client wants a “tiny tweak”
The hustle: Ghostwriting that gets replies
Field note: She moved platforms and saved her business
Trend: Summer seats sell fast
Fresh find: He paid $2.9M for first tweet
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The LinkedIn Ghostwriter
❌ The problem: Founders want LinkedIn leads, but they cannot stay consistent. Most posts are fluffy, and fluffy never gets replies.
💡 The pitch: Ghostwrite proof posts that sound like them and carry real numbers.
🚀 The outlook: LinkedIn will keep acting like warm outbound, and the writers who ship “receipts” will keep getting retained.
A founder posts one blunt lesson with one real number and gets three inbound DMs. They did not build a brand. They just made it easy for the right person to reply.
The shift is that LinkedIn is now a distribution channel for services, not a vanity feed. The job is to stay top-of-mind with posts that feel like a real operator talking, not a content calendar talking.
The mechanism is proof. A real number, a real mistake, a real lesson. That combo reads like truth, and truth gets responses.
Ghostwriting is already priced like a premium retainer. Common market ranges show up around $1,500 per month for 8 posts, $3,000 per month for 12 to 16 posts, and $6,000 per month for daily posting plus engagement support.
The Winners Write Like Operators
Nicolas Cole built a ghostwriting business he’s publicly framed as $3,000,000 + collected, with the twist being simple frameworks that turn messy ideas into tight posts fast.
Roxine Kee has described ghostwriting for a creator with roughly 50k followers that drove 400+ booked calls per month, with the edge being voice capture and proof-first content instead of engagement bait.
Taylin Simmonds has been profiled hitting $40,000 per month within six months, then $60K to $70K later, with the twist being a tight offer and repeatable post types rather than “creative writing.”
The solopreneur takeaway is to sell “reply-worthy proof posts” as a system: one short weekly interview becomes 3 to 5 posts that sound like the founder and point to revenue outcomes.
What this means next is more founders outsourcing writing the same way they outsource outbound. Watch retention, because once DMs turn into calls, nobody wants to go back to posting alone
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The Creator Pivot That Stabilizes Income
Win: Laura Kennedy moved her writing from Patreon to Substack and built a steadier paid newsletter income stream.
Mistake: Relying on one platform or one format makes revenue fragile (and makes you edit for the algorithm).
Fix: She made the newsletter the “home base” and focused on consistency + clarity of value for paid readers.
Opportunity: If you’re already writing anywhere, pitch a paid “one useful email per week” subscription and migrate the audience.
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Kids Coding Camps Surge as Parents Buy Structure
Kids coding camp searches surge because parents want structured screen time. They are not trying to raise a programmer overnight. They want a week that feels productive and social. The signal is seasonal and predictable. “Kids coding camp” spikes as spring ends and summer planning starts, with a consistent baseline year to year.
Once dates are set, parents book quickly. That makes this a demand capture game, not a persuasion game. iD Tech is a clear category leader, and its location pages show pricing anchors. One California location lists price starting at $1,049 for a one-week day camp.That number matters because it tells you what parents already accept paying for a premium week. Earning potential is seat math. If you run a micro-camp with 12 kids paying $499 for a week, that is $5,988 per session (12×$499). If you run 2 to 4 sessions each summer, that is $11,976 to $23,952 in seasonal revenue.
The solo advantage is being local, small, and outcome-focused. A demo day, a take-home project, and a clear “what they built” page converts better than vague promises.
Where demand is moving: Toward outcomes and structured summer weeks.
What buyers will pay for: Clear results and trusted instructors, with $1,000+ anchors.
The simplest solo play: Library or coworking micro-camps with a demo day.
What to watch next: After-school versions once summer demand proves the model.
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