Any clues as to why Choose Medium?
“Think & Grow Rich.” — (Napolean Hill)
After reading the title, this might have led some readers in great distress as to why Medium has become the ultimate choice of readers and writers. Well, no worries since you would be in a “WOAH…!!!” situation after revealing yourself with Medium’s undiscovered and expanded horizons.
For those of you unaware of this term, Medium refers to a platform particularly required by an object to perform its duty with complete responsibility. To simplify it further, we need some situations to understand the practical situations medium can be understood. Sound travels by the help of air, meaning air is the actual platform through which sound waves propagate. Internet, on the other hand, is made available through the signals in the air. Similarly, we, cars, trains, and animals here on earth with the help of ‘gravity’.
How would you respond when someone says “ live in water while my fish goes for the job and lives in a house near to the sea.”
The Concept of Medium
Undeniably, Our modes of communication and lifestyle have entirely changed to another level. Late in the ’90s, people used to communicate through direct mode or on a landline with wired telephones. With the advancement of technology, keypad, typing phones arrived with a new concept of communicating with calls along with “messages”. Ultimately, the revolution appeared when apps like Facebook, Skype, Twitter, Whatsapp, Messenger, Telegram and emails were introduced with numerous features of posting, notifications, messages, free calls(video and audio), comments, images, all available globally for free with the only availability of the internet.
Living in the 21st century, Medium has become the most exclusive channel for bloggers and readers where they can publish several articles and stories, regardless of their choice with no restriction and criticism of any topic discussion while readers by their will, pay to read the most solid and concrete content published by the publishers. To further enlighten you, here are some of the pro factors Medium has a great fan following, explained as follows:
1) Premium look
The supreme and most appealing fact about Medium is it totally gives a brand pro featured look. From their font styles to animation with layouts and recommendations, It definitely provides a user-friendly experience and people love writing more of it in a more premium and fashioned way. Not to forget, the fresh aesthetic pages with loaded content, even readers get too obsessed spending plenty of time reading it.
2) Earning Methodology
Who doesn’t want to earn money? Primarily, Medium has attained massive audience attention due to the money factor as they pay for wiring. Yes, bloggers are highly encouraged to publish their content and based on a certain fan following, they are more likely to get paid from Medium. However, they need to be able to show their potential through their content and pass the criteria in becoming a Medium Partner Program member.
Along with it, there is no limited earning since you can earn from 1$ to 100’s- 1000’s $$ based with no earn limit and based on your work effort and time. Still don't believe it? check the results shown by some of the writers out there:
3)It’s Powerful
With Medium’s power, you would be surprised as according to Oberlo’s research- over 600 million blogs are published every month on Medium. With such an astonishing strength, each blogger comes up with their script and earns a handsome income. Even the minimum earning from a blog is quite good as when a free member upgrades to a premium reader, he/she pays 5$ /- month which then Medium after keeping some of the fraction pays a fraction of that 5$ across the articles, customer has engaged with.
You would be thinking this fraction is so small but on 24/March/2021, axios.com finally confirmed the estimated figure of around 725K medium paid subscribers. Now, knowing this might cheer you well and now bring a big smile to your face.
4) Unlimited Content
Well, the logo says it all.
What’s more fascinating about Medium is It contains an endless no. of topics that are widely discussed and published globally without any interruptions. People love reading good content that gives them some valued information, intriguing facts they are unaware and stories with a solid background and classified details. If there is no motive exists in the content, probably you would drop off the lead rankings within no time.
As a matter of fact, if readers want to read more and more, there is a paid subscription for Medium pro which allows endless content with ad-free access to all the stories from well-renowned publishers.
5) Real Engagement
Bloggers particularly felt that their work is being reviewed, checked according to the guidelines and readers do give claps and even follow them if they found it interesting and worth the time.
Furthermore, the stats tool by Medium is a great way to observe the total no of claps, actual views of people reading in-depth, total no of followers with comments and total minutes blog (ex. 3 min blog,5 min etc.).This helps you save a great time in checking out the stats. It is necessary to grab more and more engagement as this indicates that you give substantial knowledge to your audience and how well you have presented the idea.
6) Remote access
A plus point — especially for writers, it’s remotely accessible; allowing the access to work from the comfort of your home. It would be appropriate to say You are the boss of your own. Whether writers contributing to it as a side-hustle or as a freelancer, Work from Home is available for you.
7) Immense Knowledge and Exposure
The factor which really matters is how much you have gained knowledge whether reading that article or by writing the article after reading and collecting the key points. How purely have you have convinced the reader reading it deeply and how your followers are benefited from your content.
This also expands your vision and create strong connections with several communities, helping you out to have striking leads.
CONCLUSION
To sum it up, Medium is the far best platform I have known and as a beginner, I am really enjoying using it, making it worth my time. As for beginners, It is very easy, flexible and simplified to make your stories run. However, being persistent is essential. So wait for it and see the power of Medium.
I hope I have made your precious time worth it. Beginners, do give it a try as this would shock you change the way you think. Also, share your thoughts as we highly value your opinion.
Will see you all with a new blog. Till then, feed Medium!
Stay tuned.
