Sell Your Ghostwriting Services Online

You can sell bylined articles and columns, LinkedIn and executive social programmes, ebooks and lead magnets, full-length non-fiction, memoir and life-story writing, speeches and keynotes, newsletters, white papers published under an executive’s name, business books and investor narratives. Each can be a fixed-price Zinn, a Micro Zinn from $5 to $20, a proposal on a posted Project, or a specialism on your Freelancer Directory profile.

Ghostwriting means the client takes the byline, so set that out explicitly in your listing and in the requirements on the order: who owns the copy, whether you may reference the project in a portfolio, and what happens to source material afterwards. Messages, requirements and delivered files all live on the order, so the agreement and the work sit in the same record. If a client needs bespoke terms, send a two-way custom offer rather than squeezing it into a standard package.

Your first $500 in sales is commission-free — you keep 100%. After that the rate is tiered and falls as your lifetime sales grow: 20% up to $2,500, 15% up to $10,000, 13% up to $15,000, 10% up to $20,000, and 8% above $20,000. Two paid memberships replace the ladder with a flat rate: Pro Zinner at $25 a month is a flat 8%, and Agency Zinner at $50 a month is a flat 7%. The full breakdown is on our pricing page.

Book work rarely fits a fixed package, which is what Projects are for: the buyer posts the brief, you send a free proposal, and you agree a price for the whole piece of work. For anything staged, sell it as a subscription on monthly billing or send successive custom offers as each phase is agreed. Everything is priced and charged in USD, and buyers can see an approximate equivalent in their own currency.

There are two payment modes and you choose which one you use. Connect your own Stripe or PayPal account and buyers pay you directly at checkout — there is no payout run to wait for. Alternatively, choose platform-protected payments: Zinn Hub holds the buyer payment until the order completes, and you are then paid from the platform payout run, which goes out every Friday. Everything is tracked in your Payouts dashboard.

No. Published work helps, but ghostwriting is the one field where much of your best work is not attributable to you. A voice sample written to a brief, plus a clear description of your process, does the same job. Every Zinner is verified with government-issued photo ID and evidence of their skills and past work, so buyers know the identity check has been done. Two or three Micro Zinns at $5 to $20 is the quickest way to build a review history.

Yes. Zinn Hub is available in 45 site languages and there are 57 languages you can be messaged in, so a buyer can brief you in their own language even when the finished copy is English. Your listing is translated for those languages automatically, which widens who can find you. Buyers pay no platform fee, and every price on Zinn Hub is charged in USD.

State your revision rounds on the package so expectations are set before the order starts. If it still goes wrong, refunds are credited to the buyer’s Zinn Wallet in full, in USD — there is no refund-to-card flow. If you take platform-protected payments, the buyer’s payment is held by Zinn Hub until the order completes, so a disputed draft is resolved against the brief on the order rather than after the money has already moved.