Medium’s a Ghost Town, But Here’s How to Make Bank Anyway
Some people continue to live in ‘delulu’ world plus 3 other amusing observations on Mediumland this week
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Physicist Enrico Fermi once asked, “Where are they?” He was referring to the Milky Way's lack of evidence of life. Similarly, I ask “Where are all the readers,” since the platform boasts a million subscribers.
🌠In our corner, we often have little sense of the vast network of systems, nebulae, and asteroids strewn across the Medium galaxy.
How to tap into that?
👌Oh yeah, the cliches — ‘write quality content.’ Someone earned 5 cents on a ‘boost worthy’ post — honestly, you can find that kind of payout on the sidewalk here without slaving over an 8-minute post.
🎈New writers are sticking to 2-minute snackable posts — for the best ROI (time).
🎈We’ve folks telling us how we can make big money today. Some provide random screenshots of income earned. LOL, sure.
🎈Everyone’s on Substack, subscribing to each other, posting like crazy. But that’s not how you get paid.
