The Inside Story of How to Get Nominated for Boosting

What I’ve learned about getting your work the audience it deserves.

ADEOLA SHEEHY-ADEKALE
Modern Women
Published in
6 min readOct 17, 2023

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As you will all know, I’ve had the absolute pleasure of being part of the Medium boost program for a while now. My area to nominate is ‘women’, which for me means women’s stories of all kinds and occasionally articles or essays written by men that I believe women would benefit from reading.

Genuinely, I have loved the process. I don’t just nominate from Modern Women, I spend hours every week looking for pieces written by women from all over the world and self-published. Women whose work doesn’t get the audience they deserve. Social media platforms can be amazing at helping us reach our readers, but for those writers who just want to do the work of writing, they can sometimes feel like an impossible hurdle, and I like knowing that for some women, I can help them bridge that gap.

I want to make it clear however, that you do not need to have your work boosted to get a great response; great writing will do that for you.

You also don’t need to have your work boosted to actively increase your earnings from an article, having a good number of followers and publishing work in a large…

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ADEOLA SHEEHY-ADEKALE
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Written by ADEOLA SHEEHY-ADEKALE

Writing on female experience, race, motherhood & self-development. Columnist at Green Parent magazine & Parenting Top Writer. Follow me on IG @adeola_moonsong.

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