The Best Digital Writing Platforms To Build An Audience In 2024

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The Best Digital Writing Platforms To Build An Audience In 2024
Are you a writer looking to build an audience in the digital age? In this video, we explore the best digital writing platforms to help you reach a wider audience in 2024. Discover why publishing on social platforms like Twitter/X, LinkedIn, Quora, Medium, Royal Road, and Wattpad can be more effective than starting a traditional blog.
00:00 Intro
01:21 Social Platforms Are Incentivized To Find You The Right Readers
02:39 Social Platforms Allow You To Reach People You Otherwise Would Never Have Access To
03:39 Social Platforms Force You To Build Niche Libraries Of Reusable Content
05:19 How Do You Get Started?
05:50 My Proven Content Strategy
06:38 The 10 Magical Ways
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[@nicolascole77]

If you aren't writing online, check out this video for 10 reasons why you're struggling and how to fix them: kzbin.info/www/bejne/h5aokKmGg8ani7M

[@samwilliams243]

Thanks for this video. It really helped alot with my plans for blogging in 2024. But how can you say that you think it's the best time ever to be a writer? Do you not believe this space is going to be completely disrupted by AI within the next 2-5 years?

[@mikejonline]

Excellent points. Love the circle not linear approach. Definitely more productive to write on platforms with traffic. Here's a tip: Write your post and then go read 10 other people's posts and make great comments. If you want a friend, be a friend. Builds your followers quickly.

[@sherazkhokhar9919]

Hi, Nichole Cole. I recently found you through Ali Abdaal's KZbin channel podcast, and I immediately got curious to learn from someone who knows. I started learning about writing for about a month to earn money as a student. I bought your book, 'The Art and Business of Online Writing,' this week and hope to read it in 2 months. I also subscribed to your channel just now, and this was the first video of yours that I watched.

[@tomaslau]

This is so good Nicolas! I'm guilty of publishing just on my own blog. Changing it now.

[@earleyad]

Thanks Cole, your 3 Verticals Framework is a game changer for me. Easily my biggest takeaway. I resonate with this idea of talking about multiple niche topics for authority, broad topics for reach, and then something personal to tie it all together. It’s freedom through constraints.

[@nicolascole77]

So glad! It's one of those "once you see it, you can't un-see it."

[@carolstokes9373]

Just when I don't think I can be blown away any more by your content, ... surprise!! This is pure gold, Cole. Of course, it is ALL valuable but I have to say the 10 magical ways I can expand literally any piece of writing is "mic drop" good!! I say this because not only does this help me to generate ideas for writing and really own my area of expertise, but I am pulling out incredible value for my readers who get to learn content from many perspectives, tips, lessons, examples, ... Thank you Cole! I'm off now to continue setting up my new Typeshare account and get ready to publish to the suggested social media platforms. Flywheel, here I come!!

[@ryangriffith7772]

So much value in this video! Between the platform suggestions, flywheel, verticals, and 10 magical topics ANYBODY can confidently get started. Now time to go write!

[@EnterPlayMode]

So obvious, yet I overlooked it, been too busy grindin' on my blog for 3 days straight, hahah, thanks for wakin' me up, lol! 💡

[@LincolnKumbeli]

Thank you Nicolas. This video was exactly what I was searching for. I bought my own name as the domain name and have a blog on my website that no one reads and I was thinking about what social platforms would be best to write on and build an audience. I'm a medical doctor and my niche is written medical content which helps healthcare business get more engamenet and customers.

[@mittendad]

Great video Cole! I've since shifted my writing to my socials, and Substack for now vs prior blog. Saves a lot on expenses, plus it's easier to go where the audience already is, vs needing to establish a new one.

[@nicolascole77]

That's awesome. What's your Substack?

[@rburns1182]

how is it writing on substack?? compared to other social platforms? it's something I've been considering but since subscribing is necessary, was concerned about how many people it would reach.

[@mittendad]

@@nicolascole77 mittendad.substack.com

[@mittendad]

@@rburns1182 It’s been okay - growth has been a little on the slower side, but their social ‘Notes’ feature has been a good way to expand reach.

[@VaughnSanders]

Like anything the hardest part is getting started. I've felt this when starting a new diet and working out. It feels like I'm about to move a rock uphill & put it off. Then I start & it's not nearly as complicated as I thought. Thanks for showing us how to get started Cole!

[@nicolascole77]

Most of these internet skills aren't hard, they're just a bit time consuming and require someone else to point out to you "how they work."

[@VaughnSanders]

@@nicolascole77 Absolutely!

[@CalcHacksClub]

Hi Nicolas, I have watched most if not all of the podcasts that you were on. I have also read your book Art and Business of Online Writing. I have three questions : # From your podcasts - you mention the importance of "structure" many times. You were even against editing. However, I still believe you need a certain quality of writing to get your readers engaged. You have taken a writing major at university and I guess that helped you in your journey as an online writer. Many of the people like me reading your book now are taking nothing related to writing. Could you please suggest me how to become a better writer (book recommendations would be great)? 2# I have read your articles on the Ship 30 for 30 websites on how to use quora. My question is "Should I start my quora spaces as soon as I start writing on quora. or Should I find my niche first? 3# It was a little ambiguous to me if what you use to do on quora was answering questions or writing about topics you come with from your infinite ideas generators technique. If It was through answering questions - does the formatting really matter.

[@sarahmunoz14]

Great video touching on content from your book. I’m reading online writing now and it flows so well.

[@nicolascole77]

Awesome :) Let me know what you think once you finish the book!

[@sverreslotfeldt7674]

Great video Cole! My take-away from watching this is to leverage the built-in audiences of Twitter, Linked-In, Medium and Quora. I already write on Medium (under my pen name Nightgardener. Second take-away really resonated with me; the fact that I don't have to decide on a niche right away. I just need to write! Lol, I actually wrote a Medium piece about this, because I was obsessing about finding my very own niche. But I realize now that that's OK, I just need to keep writing and I will calibrate my niche as I go along! Thanks again Cole. I will see you on Ship 30 for 30 soon.

[@kingsleydonkor]

The way you structure your videos is amazing The 1-1-1 framework

[@Kate-so8wf]

Amazing content about digital writing, these videos about writing are so informative and helpful, the advice given is gold, thank you so much

[@navigatingmorocco]

The beginning was HYSTERICAL! LOVE IT and the contentv🙏🙏

[@DonSimkovich]

I like the flywheel analogy ... I use the grocery store shelf which is a little different ... but both point to building a library of content.

[@scottclarke5324]

Thank you so much for posting this video! You're such a clear communicator, and the little graphics that are inserted into the video are helpful for getting across your message. Cheers!

[@watsonpita2420]

Tēnā koe Nicholas. Hi Nicholas. 🙏🏽😃 thank you for sharing the 10 Magical Ways and advice here. A new sub right here. ✅ thank you!

[@mariamabosi8975]

Thank you so much Nicholas. This is the video I needed. Straight to the point and easy

[@ladonwilliams1333]

Thank you for sharing this! Ready to implement…just need clarification on one thing. For CONTENT STRATEGY VERTICALS #1: Niche Topics - Are we writing about our prospect’s direct problem, or their prospect problem? Or, is there an optimal intersect? I appreciate your feedback.

[@collatzzz-1]

Great Video! Quick question, when we are reposting the same content on multiple platforms is there a specific strategy you use? For example posting them on all platforms the same day vs staggering reposts on different platforms. Or any other nuances for the strategy for reposting content

[@baledck]

Hei....im super grateful for this video....super encouraging. Thank u 😊

[@RussCrowley]

This is an excellent video, and a great way of coming up with topic ideas. Thank you.

[@shriVATSA54]

Great video Cole!! Can you explain how to choose a domain??

[@tobiasburkhardt7602]

The 3 Verticals / Content Buckets are awesome, although I find it a bit hard to apply tbh. Would be awesome to get a banger prompt on this in write with AI (anyone not subscribed to this lovely paid NL- I highly recommend it😍)

[@samwilliams243]

Thanks for this video. It really helped alot with my plans for blogging in 2024. But how can you say that you think it's the best time ever to be a writer? Do you not believe this space is going to be completely disrupted by AI within the next 2-5 years?

[@KT97379]

Nice insights! 10 things to write and see what it goes well, that’s great. But some questions pop up! 1) How to do the research 2) Which platform to start writing - X / in Thanks!

[@freedomfiles_]

Great vid, Cole!

[@martyparsons9419]

Fantastic insight, Nicolas! Just a side question - how did you then monetize your writing on those platforms? As I am new to the digital writing space, this is not meant as snide question, rather in earnest from a newby. Most of the people in YT seem to propagate, as you noted, to write blogs and include some affiliate marketing. They then earn from ad revenue. What with all the new Google HCUs, affiliate marketing revenue seems unviable for the lay person. Would appreciate your thoughts please. By the way, I lived near Chicago over a year from 1984 - 1985... long ago.

[@bizcraftzone]

Every niche has it's own platform. Those four you mentioned perform better in specific niches and in other don't. And I'm not getting it, writing on those platforms. How can you write a good content in a few sentences? Posts are posts, whichever social platform we talk about and not a content. Not sure I get the point.

[@l.thomas4268]

I would argue that property that you have the most control over is where you need to be publishing and you need to push readers to your blog from the social media accounts. Why do I say that? Unless you self-censor and keep yourself from touching third rail subject such as politics or religion then maybe you were advised is well taken but I would posit that possibly you have already written about subjects that are going to become third rail in the future and may find yourself as many of the people in the past three or four years were found to be victims of the me too movement or any other quick fad that seeks to cancel you and all the work you've done over time. At least if you have your own blog your own website they can't take that away without a lot of concerted effort. I would say that this culture needs to stop where somebody gets offended and they're able to cancel all of the work you've done across a lifetime that just 5 years ago wasn't considered controversial but it's thought to be controversial today.

[@blurbing511]

Is this advice effective for any writer located anywhere outside the US?

[@danielbonifazz]

What do you think about Substack?

[@ben-benedict]

So I discovered that I reed your book for the sake of nothin ! cause those 8mn 41s of video draw the perfect actionable big picture . 😂😂 just kidding … go read his book fellas , it is inspiring . Thanks Nicolas 🎉

[@ethantodd4191]

Does Substack count as a ‘blog’? Is that a good platform to post on?

[@leelee1286]

Genius!

[@JoyfulPompon]

Does this also apply to comics? is it possible?

[@ts-fr8hb]

I wouldn't need to have hosting then?

[@landonpoburan]

Where do you feel Substack falls here?

[@walkingbird5143]

Neesh

[@silviamm8161]

Ok, pretend I've just woken up from a 20-year-old coma (which in a way, I have) how do writers make any money publishing content in social media?

[@ashleyfgrant]

Facebook? Instagram? Do you not like these platforms for some reason or just limited experience with them?

[@traceyparkertravel-gaymexi8534]

What about reddit?