Sabs Writes

I turn what you know into content that builds your business.
Ghostwriter. Adtech obsessed. My clients grow audiences, build authority & monetize - DMs open.

[Sabs Writes @SabsWrites]

How to get businesses to pay you $2500/mo writing?

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[Sabs Writes @SabsWrites]

@newnewwealth The moat only works if you can stand to disappoint people short-term for a bigger win long-term. Most founders cave the first time a good lead shows up mid-waitlist.

[NewNewWealth @newnewwealth]

How a one-person business survives its own growth:

Refuse work that requires headcount. Raise prices instead of capacity. Productize the overflow. Let the waitlist be the moat.

Growth that costs autonomy is just a slower job offer.

[Sabs Writes @SabsWrites]

@NapierHolland Same problem in ghostwriting, @NapierHolland. Everyone wants the "proven hook formulas," nobody wants the 40 hours reading someone's old posts and texts to find their actual voice. The formula is 5%. The archive is the other 95%.

[Sabs Writes @SabsWrites]

@CarlAshton82 5:45am is doing less work here than what you cut to make room for it. Nobody fails at "study a book a day," they fail at giving up the thing they used to do in that slot. The wake-up time is the easy part to copy; the trade-off is the part people skip.

[Sabs Writes @SabsWrites]

@PranavMalhlz "Highest since 2003" — the year Twitter didn't exist. Fabricated urgency stats to sell automation is the same playbook as fake testimonials, just with a spreadsheet. Audiences can always tell the second a human stops writing, and that's when they leave, not before.

[Andy Taylor @ItsAndyTaylor]

A client told me he was worried working with me would make him sound like someone else.

Fair worry. It's a big reason people don't hire a ghostwriter. You've spent years building your voice, and handing that over feels like handing over something that's genuinely yours. Get it wrong and every post reads like it came off a shelf.

He said it straight before we started, sceptical, didn't want it to sound like anyone else wrote it.

So I didn't write for him, I wrote as him. Went back through everything he'd already posted, how he actually says things, the rhythm, the words he reaches for and the ones he'd never touch. The voice was already sat there on his profile.

His words after, it still sounded like him, just clearer. Nothing forced or fake.

That's the job. Not making you sound impressive, making you sound like you on a day you're properly on form.

If you've ever wondered what that might look like for you, DM me VOICE and I'll rewrite your recent posts to show how it looks.

[Sabs Writes @SabsWrites]

@ItsAndyTaylor The real bar isn't "sounds like me," it's "I wish I'd said it that clearly." Bad ghostwriting makes clients sound impressive. Good ghostwriting makes them sound like themselves on their best day — which is rarer than people think, because most of us are our own worst editor.

[Sabs Writes @SabsWrites]

@danwilliamsdtg @b_winzer Websites are for browsing. Landing pages are for deciding. Most one-person businesses lose the sale not because the offer's unclear, but because they made someone click three more times before deciding felt safe.

[Sabs Writes @SabsWrites]

@sabtoor_ Step 2 is where most people stall — they've posted 12 times, not 100, so they don't have the data yet. You can't circle the topic that survives if you haven't posted messy long enough to find out which one does.

[Sabs Writes @SabsWrites]

@emiroll_art 7 years of consistency and the algorithm still won't hand you the art audience — that's not a you problem, it's the platform rewarding text virality over visual discovery. Clients finding you anyway proves the small audience you have beats the big one you don't.

[Sabs Writes @SabsWrites]

@IAmAlanFoley That overhead buys you exactly one thing: someone else to blame when it breaks. Every other benefit people cite for hiring — speed, capacity, expertise — you can rent by the project for a fraction of the cost.

[Sabs Writes @SabsWrites]

@NapierHolland Steps 1-3 are homework. Step 4 is the actual job. Every "AI copywriting" pitch I see skips straight to output and wonders why it reads like a brochure — the LLM can hold 100 sources, it still can't decide which one sentence should lead.

[Sabs Writes @SabsWrites]

@itsmarcosruiz The one missing from this list is the biggest: strangers pre-sold before you ever DM them. A year of honest posts and people show up already trusting you. That's the actual asset — not the network, not the dinners. The trust compounding in the background.

[Alex Elliott @alexpotato]

In a mix of "build in public", "release early", and "make things you think should exist":

I just created https://t.co/piMXtEuIkg

A thread.

[Sabs Writes @SabsWrites]

@alexpotato Most "build in public" threads start with a roadmap. Yours started with a paperback about drug cartels. That's exactly why this will get used — nobody scratches an itch they don't actually have.

[Sabs Writes @SabsWrites]

If you want to become an authority, DM me.

[Sabs Writes @SabsWrites]

People don't buy content.

They buy what content helps them become.

Authority.

Trust.

Demand.

The content is just the vehicle.

[Sabs Writes @SabsWrites]

Everyone wants authority.

Very few people build the system that creates it.

After studying hundreds of founders, marketers, and creators, I realized something:

Authority isn't built by posting more.

It's built by compounding.

I call it...

The Authority Flywheel

There are 8 stages.

Miss one, and the flywheel slows down.

Master all 8, and authority becomes inevitable.

1. Learn

Your content is only as valuable as your thinking.

Read.

Study businesses.

Have conversations.

Gain experience.

Content is the output.

Learning is the input.

2. Observe

Don't look for content ideas.

Look for patterns.

Write down:

• Questions clients ask.

• Mistakes you keep seeing.

• Industry myths.

• Sales objections.

• Lessons you learned the hard way.

The best content isn't invented.

It's observed.

3. Create

Don't publish opinions.

Build intellectual property.

Create:

• Frameworks

• Models

• Principles

• Checklists

• Decision trees

People forget posts.

They remember frameworks.

4. Distribute

The best content loses if nobody sees it.

Publishing isn't enough.

Repurpose.

Quote tweet.

Comment.

Collaborate.

Be present where your audience already spends time.

Distribution is part of the product.

5. Engage

Social media isn't a publishing platform.

It's a conversation platform.

Every day:

• Leave thoughtful replies.

• Add your perspective.

• Ask questions.

• Build relationships.

People don't remember who posted.

They remember who participated.

6. Convert

Attention is rented.

Trust is owned.

Turn attention into:

• Subscribers.

• Discovery calls.

• Clients.

• Partnerships.

• Referrals.

Authority should create opportunities.

Not vanity metrics.

7. Measure

Don't obsess over likes.

Track what actually matters.

• Saves.

• Shares.

• Qualified DMs.

• Discovery calls.

• Revenue.

The goal isn't engagement.

It's business growth.

8. Refine

Every week ask:

What earned trust?

What started conversations?

What generated opportunities?

Double down on that.

Delete everything else.

Compounding isn't accidental.

It's intentional.

Here's the part most people miss:

Authority doesn't come from one viral post.

It comes from running this flywheel every single week.

Learning produces better observations.

Observations produce better frameworks.

Frameworks produce better content.

Content attracts better people.

Better people create better conversations.

Better conversations create more opportunities.

Those opportunities teach you even more.

And the cycle repeats.

That's why it's a flywheel.

Not a funnel.

Most people are trying to create more content.

I'd rather build more authority.

The content takes care of itself.

Comment "AUTHORITY" and I'll send you:

• The complete Authority Flywheel Framework
• A free personal brand audit
• One week's worth of personalized content ideas for your niche

[Prasad @theprasad_]

You do not become well known through one viral post.

You become well known by showing up in the same space so consistently that your name becomes impossible to forget.

The brain builds familiarity through repetition, they should see your posts daily multiple times.

The founder who posts something decent every day for two years will be more recognized in their market than the founder who posts something brilliant once a month.

Familiarity is the silent engine of every personal brand that actually converts.

And it is built in the most unglamorous way possible, by being present long after most people have decided it is not working yet.