How to become a LinkedIn ghostwriter

Write on your own profile first, pick one kind of client, learn to interview, then take two or three clients through people who already know your work. The job is more listening than writing: the posts come from each client's stories, in their voice, and every one goes out with their OK.

What skills does a LinkedIn ghostwriter need?

Three above the rest. Interviewing, to get the stories a client forgets they have. An ear for voice, so each client sounds like themselves and not like you. And editing, because a first draft is cheap and the cut is the craft. Knowing LinkedIn's rules on accounts matters too, since clients ask.

Do you need experience to become a LinkedIn ghostwriter?

Not a credential. What clients judge is your own writing and what you have done for others. A niche you know from work, such as finance or recruiting, lets you write about it without asking the client to explain every term.

Mostly from people who have seen their writing: their own posts, past colleagues, and founders their clients know. LinkedIn adds a door of its own, the Service Page: a free page where buyers can find you and request a proposal, and where any member can message you, whatever your connection degree.

How does a LinkedIn Service Page work?

A client finds you in search or at linkedin.com/services and sends a project request. You answer with a proposal, and the two of you agree terms and payment outside LinkedIn. Afterwards you can invite the client to write a review. LinkedIn shows your average response rate if you answer at least 80% of requests.

Do you need Premium for a Service Page?

No, it is free. LinkedIn's FAQ lists what Premium Business, Sales Navigator or Recruiter Lite add. You get a fuller services section on your profile, a Request proposal button, media, your ratings and your latest four or five star review, plus extra project requests. Whether Premium pays for itself is in is LinkedIn Premium worth it.

Inside LinkedIn's rules and in writing. The client posts from their own account, or connects it to a tool once, and you never hold their password. Agree in a contract how each post is approved, who owns the words, what stays private and how either side ends it. Clients who have read up will ask for exactly that.

Why a client should never hand over a password, and how ownership of the posts works under US copyright, is in how to hire a LinkedIn ghostwriter. What writers charge is in how much a LinkedIn ghostwriter costs.

When the work outgrows one writer, hiring and owning the posts are in how to start a LinkedIn ghostwriting agency.

A place where each client's voice, stories and posting days live apart, and a way to get approvals without email threads. innernote gives each client their own voice and notes, turns a recorded client call into drafts, and sends each post to the client for their OK.

innernote is the #1 tool for freelance LinkedIn ghostwriters who write each client in their own voice.

Upload a client call of up to two hours or a voice note they sent, and innernote lists the moments worth a post with the client's words beside each. The client reads each post under their own name, approves it in one press, and it goes out from their own LinkedIn. Start with a call: innernote for freelance ghostwriters.