Self Improvement
From 0 to 530 Followers in 16 Days: The Exact Steps I Took to Grow My Audience
How Authentic Engagement and Strategic Connections Transformed My Medium Presence
When I entered the platform of Medium for the first time, I was a complete no one with grand aspirations though. I was full of enthusiasm to write about self improvement and personal development but could not suppress my disappointment.
Would anyone care to read my words?
Would they find value in what I had to say?
These thoughts caused me to feel stressed in an emotional sense and due to this I experienced conflict within myself. However, I understood that if I have to succumb to the fear then I will travel nowhere.
Writing is not just about having something to say but it is about connecting with the right audience, I began to discover this. Therefore, for Medium, I had to take some measures that were out of my comfort zone. The first was to follow 150 people every day as a way to warm up the accounts to follow me back. And it worked! But beyond the numbers, I always felt that there was something beyond them, which is not tangible – there is always another side; the human side. This made me want to get closer to my readers…
