4 Ways to Use Shortform to Promote Your Stories
Promote your stories within Medium with shortform content
My recent story on how to promote your stories within medium got me the most claps within 24 hours I’ve ever had. I attribute most of this success to the last point I made in that post: Using Medium’s shortform content to promote your long-form stories. In this article, I’ll follow up on that note with a more in-depth guide on how to use shortform in 4 different ways.
Short recap on shortform
What is shortform content? It is what it sounds like. Short content. A story with around or under 150 words will automatically be classified as shortform by Medium. Now, 150 words are not much. And you can do a lot with 150 words. It’s a double-edged sword. Let’s have a look at 4 ways you can use shortform to your advantage on Medium.
#1 Like Twitter
Basically, shortform is like Twitter for Medium. So, use it as you would Twitter. With short promotional posts about your longer stories. This might seem like a cheap promotion — and to some, it looks like it too — but I quite like this format. A great example of this is Dr Mehmet Yildiz, the owner of Illumination and all its sister publications. He constantly posts Twitter-like shortform posts about his…
