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The Art and Business of Online Writing by Nicolas Cole
Summary, Review and Best 5 Takeaways in Under Ten Minutes
Online writing is an Art and a Business. And Nicolas Cole wants me — and you — to be successful in it.
Awesome, sweet, and very welcome, to me at least. I’ve been working in online marketing, blogging and writing for about 9 years now. I’ve written hundreds of blogs, both on personal accounts as well as for customers and employers.
Sure, with this much practice I’ve had some successes and certainly helped people grow their business with my writing, but by no means have I ‘made it’, or ‘beaten the game’. Nicolas seems to have done just that. And I wanna learn.
From his Amazon author page: “Nicolas Cole is an author, viral writer & ghostwriter, and founder of Digital Press [a firm that among other things does ghostwriting for CEOs, venture capitalists, sports pros and world famous musicians].
He is known for his conversational style of writing and has accumulated more than 100 million views to date.” 100 million views. Holy sh*t. If anyone can help you or me get to the next level of writing, I’m fairly convinced Nicolas can.
And if I wouldn’t have been convinced before picking up his book The Art and Business of Online Writing — after reading through it in just two days,
I sure am.
Practice in Public to get Better at your Craft — 30 for 30
Nicolas wants you and me to be more successful in writing online.
So much so, that accompanying his book, he has created an online program called Ship 30 for 30, together with portfolio manager and former Princeton football player Dickie Bush.
Ship 30 for 30 is an online writing course that helps, inspires and drives aspiring writers to write and publish 30 short essays in 30 days. The end result of which being that you will have ingrained the habit of writing and publishing online. And then some.
According to the information I can find on 30 for 30 and according to ‘The Art of…’ Nicolas wants me to practice in public. Well here goes, Nick.
