How Did I Earn My First $100 On Medium?
My insight, strategy towards earning the first $100 with Medium Partner Program in 2024.
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When do I start my journey with Medium?
I have joined Medium Partner Program 4th February 2024 which is around 3 months ago. At that time I had 1k views, 500 reads and was writing from time to time on Medium during a year.
First a couple of days after joining Medium Partner Program I earned $0.05–$0.08 daily. My belief in income from Medium become lower and lower… But in next couple of days my earnings suddenly increased for $6/day for a couple of days. That was the moment I decided to try to earn here.
My financial goal
Next, I setted up my Financial Goal On Medium and wrote the steps towards it. It is easier to do something once you have a goal. Next, I divided my goal for the smaller milestones.
🤑💰 The first milestone was to earn $100 a month.
It's been almost 3 months since I started earning. And finally I earned $115, for 2.5 months… but it looks like I found out my strategy.
My stats for 3 months:
- Articles wrote: 19
- New followers: nearby 1k
- Views: 2.5k — Feb, 3.5k — March, around 3k — April
- Ratio: around 50%
What insights did I have?
- Public my stories into relevant publication. Publishing story in publication that is relevant to the content is a key to increasing earning.
For example, by publishing, How did I get my First Order In UpWork in 2024? in the Illumination publication I earned $11.39 in March (see screenshot below):
- Write content which would be interesting for Medium Writers. The good example is Monthly summary article on earnings.
For example, by publishing article, How much $$ did I earn in February 2024? Developing app for Medium. in Writers Stats publication I earned $17.30 in February 2024 (see screenshot below):
- Claps, highlight, comment, subscribe to writers' accounts is working. Yeas, it takes time, but if, for example, Medium Writer with FOM status interacts with your profile you will earn 4·x more. So being active into other writers accounts, specially FOM, will increase earnings.
- I am using external tools which helps me to analyse my earnings. Unfortunately, Medium don’t give us a lot of analytics, but with additional tools to understanding what gives me more income is easier.
So,
I will continue to be active into other writers pages, publish my content into relevant publication, write consistently and will writer about my next milestones towards
my financial goal on Medium $$$.
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