10 Reasons Why Your Stories Are Not Making Money On Medium

Here’s it — the hard truth no one else will tell you

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Did you think Medium would be a great way to earn money for your writing, but then, wrote a few articles and got disappointed by how little views they got?

Are you discouraged, thinking no matter how often you write, you will never make it up there among the top 6% writers who make more than $100 each month?

I know how this feels. I have been writing on Medium since 2018. I must have published more than 200 stories for almost two years and made only $81 in total (for everything I wrote in those two years).

I knew I had talent. I felt my articles were valuable. They were just not getting the views I thought they deserved.

But then, in May 2020, I made a few changes to the way I spent my time here on Medium, and the results have been amazing.

Lessons From My First $100 Article on Medium

I made more than $300 in the last 30 days, and the road that I see ahead of me only leads uphill.