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This is How I Make $2,000 Per Story on Medium

I have been making around $2,000 per blog on Medium and here’s how you can make it too

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If you are on Medium for a while, you probably heard about the $100 club. It refers to a group of writers making $100 per month or more on Medium, and it’s said that only 6% of writers in the Partner Program are making this amount. There is also the $1,000 club, which is even more exclusive. Only 1% of the writers on Medium make more than $1,000 per month. I make part of this club by writing only one blog a month. How can this even be possible? Today I will walk you through my journey on Medium and how you can be part of this group, but let’s go from the beginning.

I started writing on Medium a year ago after a friend had told me that he made $40 with one blog. I was very interested in making some extra money, so I decided to try it. I immediately decided to start writing. My first blog was about a Python library that I had discovered recently. It was a technical blog, so I didn’t think it could bring that many views.

I published the blog, and, a few days later, I checked my Medium account, and I had made $30 and got almost 7K views from it. I was very excited when I realized that I could make over $100/month if I started writing a blog…