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How I Went From 260,000 Views a Month to Losing Everything

What losing 99% of my views taught me about content creation

Mark Vassilevskiy
The Startup
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4 min readJan 2, 2025

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My Medium stats for December 2022

2 years ago, I’ve had a huge success on Medium. 260k views and $4,282.89 in a single month. Pretty crazy, isn’t it?

But today?

That number has dropped by 100 times to just 2.2k views a month. But I’m not disappointed at all. In fact, I couldn’t imagined a better outcome.

Here’s what I learned about content creation that helped me build a stable personal brand and dramatically increase revenue:

How I got to 260k views

I discovered Medium in early 2020, while was learning English.

It was a great place for reading practice and one of the best sources of knowledge.

No book gave me more value than the articles on Medium and videos on YouTube. These are the goldmines of practical advice in the 21st century.

After reading hundreds of articles, I stumbled upon one saying “How to write viral articles”, which gave me the idea to finally start writing.

Best decision so far.

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Mark Vassilevskiy
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Written by Mark Vassilevskiy

2x Top Writer | Product Designer & Agency Owner | 1M+ views on Medium | Helping people drive conversions for their startups https://skale.solutinos/

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