Everything You Need to Know About Gaining New Followers to Grow Your Audience and Increase Your Reach

Followers as just a number don’t mean anything and often won’t increase your regular readership.

Natalie Frank, Ph.D.
The Partnered Pen
Published in
8 min readFeb 5, 2020

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You’ve worked hard on your writing skills, researched how to write high quality articles, taken the time to fashion well crafted, skillful content and you’ve started publishing on Medium. You don’t expect miracles right away, but after several months you don’t seem to be getting a lot of reads. Six months go by and still aren’t getting any traction.

Then, one month your numbers jump. Finally, you think, expecting that you’ve reached the turning point and your reads, and associated income, will continue to climb month after month. But the next month your numbers drop to their lowest yet. As time goes on, there’s no predicting how your content will do from month to month. Sometimes you do okay, other times you don’t. You have to write constantly and publish at least once a day, and sometimes more, just to make a couple hundred dollars.

This wasn’t what you thought becoming a full time writer would be like. You’d seen posts from other writers about passive income, the ability to count on earning a certain amount regularly from content you’ve already published. You’d…

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Natalie Frank, Ph.D.
The Partnered Pen

I write about behavioral health & other topics. I’m Managing Editor (Serials, Novellas) for LVP Press. See my other articles: https://hubpages.com/@nataliefrank