12 Quick Tips For Success on Medium

Do with these what you will, as your miles may vary.

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Sometimes you just want some quick and dirty tips without all so much of the extra commentary. Hey, I get it. Hopefully these tips will help you take your work on Medium even further.

Decide first and foremost what Medium success looks like for you.

Want to earn $500 a month? Or reach 20,000 followers? Pick a goal--or a series of goals--to help you focus on what you’re actually trying to do.

Tag each of your stories with five tags.

No, I don’t mean your responses to different stories. Just be sure to give every standalone story that you write five tags to help your work catch more eyes.

Run your story through grammarly before hitting publish.

I didn’t always do this, and yes, I did make a ton of swypos. Awkward. Grammarly won’t catch every error, and sometimes it will amuse you with unnecessary suggestions. But it’s a helpful line of defense at any rate.

Give your stories more obvious titles.