7 Ways To Turn Your Writing Into A Lucrative Business in 2025

In this article, you’ll learn 7 ways to turn your writing into a lucrative business in 2025. I’ll share seven ideas I have followed that will guide you. Writers like Dickie Bush, Dan Koe, and Nicolas Cole have thriving writing businesses.

Add to that list Dr. Benjamin Hardy. And there are thousands of others like them. What they all have in common is the uncanny ability to turn everything they write into gold. As a writer, you should not just author books, aim at turning your writing into a lucrative business. Examples of such businesses are ghostwriting and licensing. I aim to make you begin to write consistently, and persistently, and never to give up.

My mistaken impression before I became wiser was that to write a book you needed to toil for years. So, I was skeptical when Chandler Bolt of Self Publishing School asserted that he’d written a book in 45 days. Not to be outdone, Nicolas Cole asserted you can even do it in 30 days.

I’m now a convert because I wrote my Wealth Beyond Your Imagination – It’s Up To You! in three hours. That book is 40 pages long and has a total word count of 8,529. I had it converted to audio format in a studio not far from my home. Today the paperback and E-Book sell for $7.48 and $3.99 respectively on Amazon. That could translate into a lucrative business if I could sell thousands of books.

What makes writing and publishing so easy today is technology. Consider this. If you wanted to travel to London from say Lagos just 70 years ago, you’d probably go by sea.  You’d probably spend 3 – 6 months at sea. The reason would not be farfetched. The cost of a return air ticket was prohibitive. Today the journey takes about 6 hours and you’d travel by air. And the hours keep falling.

So technology has compressed time. Things that used to take months to do can be done today in hours. You can microwave your food in minutes. So, gone are the days you needed years to write and publish a book. You no longer need agents, at least so long you’re not trying to publish with the global publishers. Today with self-publishing technologies you can complete a book put it on sale on Amazon and start making money within hours. Technology has made it very easy to turn your writing into a lucrative business. That is if you approach your writing as a business.

Those who understand how Amazon’s book publishing ecosystem and social media work are making millions from writing. They can scale and reach thousands of readers and businesses making it easy to monetize their efforts. The likes of Dan Koe, Nicolas Cole, Chandler Bolt, and Ty Cohen are masters of the game. Each of them has not just written dozens of books, each has mastered how to turn his writing into a lucrative business.

First note that your book doesn’t necessarily have to be 200 pages. The shorter and more focused your book, the better the return on your investment. And by the way, you don’t have to handle the chore of writing all by yourself. There are always ghostwriters hanging in the shadows to carry the heavy load on your behalf if writing scares you. And don’t forget, as I alluded to earlier, you can also ghostwrite.

This is what you need to understand. You don’t necessarily have to be the best writer but the best marketer of yourself. You must believe in yourself, write consistently, learn, and improve with every writing. Above all, you must be a salesman.  By salesman, I mean you must let people know about your work by promoting yourself and your work. Some purists believe writers should not promote their works; that if any work is good, readers would come. This is a discredited worldview. We live in the age of attention and if people don’t know you exist, nothing else matters. Yes, and that applies no matter how good your writing is.

So how do you turn your writing into a lucrative business in 2025? Here are seven ideas to guide you.

Think Five Books (Write Prodigiously)

First position yourself as a writer. Writers write. Dedicate tons of hours to writing. The end of your first book should be the beginning of your second book and so on. The needle will begin to move in your favor by the time you write five books. Here are three examples:

Tom Peters: In Search of Excellence, Thriving on Chaos, A Passion For Excellence (with Nancy Austen), Liberation Management, and Tom Peters Seminars.

Daniel Pink: Free Agent Nation, A Whole New Mind, Drive, To Sell Is Human, and When?

Malcolm Gladwell: Outliers, The Tipping Point, Blink, What The Dog Saw, and David and Goliath,

So you need to be prodigious in output. The biggest names out there – Nicolas Cole, Dickie Bush, Dr. Benjamin Hardy, Chandler Bolt – in addition to the Titans I earlier cited have at least five books to their names. Of course, you can write one book and it becomes a mega global bestseller like John Gray’s Men Are From Mars, Women Are From Venus. But your chances in that regard are very slim. So, focus on writing many books. Five is the minimum you should aim at to see the needle turn in your favor. Each book will make you a better writer. 

Build a Tribe

If you do it well you’ll get followers, fans, admirers or tribe as Seth Godin calls it. Seth has written more than 10 books and his tribe runs in the thousands. I’m one of his tribe members. Your tribe members will snap up everything you write further expanding your coast and influence. Nicolas Cole’s book became an instant best-seller because apart from writing well, he had a reader base running into millions.

Reach out to other influencers

You cannot afford to be a hermit living in a cave. As you write more books your influence will begin to grow. To accelerate your influence, reach out to other influencers, authors, and platforms to share your message, ideals, and insights. Birds of a

feather flock together. That’s why you see The Category Pirates for instance flock together.

Take a long-term view

It’s hard to become an overnight success when it comes to writing, so take a long-term view. A period of 18 to 36 months is the minimum you should aim at. One of the biggest phenomenal brands is Tim Ferris. He wrote five mega best-sellers in 10 years (2007 and 2017). But it took Tim three years from being a virtual unknown to a celebrity, thanks to his first two best-sellers: The 4-Hour Work Week (2007) and The 4-Hour Body (2010). So, if you aim at 10 years, you’d not be wrong. 

Invest In Yourself

You need to massively invest in yourself. Before launching his first book, Tim Ferriss, by his own account, attended over 100 conferences, not only to sharpen his saw but to build alliance partners. Investing in yourself will include learning to speak professionally. Think of Toastmasters International as the place to begin. Prepare to speak at TEDx. Join book writing learning platforms like Book Writing Clinic, Self-Publishing School, Ship 30 for 30, and Premium Ghostwriting Academy. 

Think Big and Think Mastery

What I have found out is this – making it BIG is not a walk through the park. You must invest time, energy, and passion. As Peter Diamandis says, if you want to be a Billionaire, impact one billion people. I’d say, be modest. Aim to impact 10,000 people, then scale to 100,000, then scale to one million. When you reach one million, everything will tip in your favor.

Tom Peters once admonished those who cared to listen, You Can’t Shrink To Greatness! It rings true to eternity. How does your thinking small benefit humanity? In 1959 David J. Schwartz Jr. wrote a timeless book, The Magic of Thinking Big. Get it, read it, practice what it teaches. You’ll get goose pimples when you do.

Our minds are powerful beyond measure. If only you knew how to tap its power. You don’t only have to think big but also think mastery. The difference in earnings between the masters and the neophytes is like day and night. A master can charge $ 1 million for a piece of insight whereas a neophyte may be begging for five hundred dollars for a week’s job. Check out this article.

Put up a blog to share your message

If you’re scared of being dubbed a blogger, start with a website. Having a blog is one of the ways to build a tribe, reach out to other influencers, think big, and invest in yourself. Again, you can’t shrink to greatness. Not only has Tim Ferriss written five mega bestsellers, but he also runs one of the biggest podcasts on the planet, The Tim Ferriss Show or Bullet Friday, with over one million listeners weekly.

Nicolas Cole however advises you to practice in public on platforms like Quora, LinkedIn, Medium, Sub-stack, and so on. With discipline, you can thrive on these platforms. However, you can equally practice in private until you’re confident enough. Either way, the choice is yours. All you have to note is that if you don’t practice you can never achieve mastery and will continue earning peanuts.

How to turn your writing into a lucrative business in 2025 (7 ideas to guide you) is a gift. Take it and run with it. The ideas have worked for me. They will work for you. I have written eight books. I have launched book writing platforms and courses. I’m learning how to turn my writing into business at scale. You too can do the same.

Here are the seven ideas: Put Up Blog To Share Your Message, Think Big and Think Mastery, Invest In Yourself, Take A Long Term View, Reach Out To Other Influencers, Build A Tribe, Think Five Books. If you practice these ideas or habits, you’ll be far ahead of all the other writers who write one or two books, and sometimes even five, and do nothing else. You’d have moved from being a writer to an author, and to an influencer, who has turned his craft into a lucrative business. The question is, when will you begin your journey? If you would like to learn how to write a book, click this link to download a Book Writing Clinic Form.