New Writers: I’ll Tell You My Medium Earnings for a Year
For your reference
If you are considering joining the Medium Partner Program to earn, yes, you will earn. I’m sure you have seen loads of stories telling you that they earn $1000 up. Those writers exist. They are really good and you can be like them. But you also have to manage your expectations.
On my first day on this platform, I promised to write 100 stories without expecting to earn. I said that I will consider my first 100 as my training. But I earned something from those stories. Not much, but it was something I am proud of.
I am fully employed and have no blogging experience. I write in my spare time but most often I get lazy because I’m already tired from my day job. On top of that, I have a family that I tend to. Consider those qualifications when you do your own analysis of my stats.
Here’s the summary of my revenue for a year along with other useful figures:
What I can share:
How well you work is compensated:
The number of stories and followers affect revenue;
How to Gain Followers: Taking time to read and interact with fellow Medium writers to gain followers and friends is the tried and tested way. It worked for me, too.
Curated/Distributed Stories: I had my first “chosen for further distribution” story in my 2nd month. I was elated. But the story just performed normally like all others;
Highest Reads: 1.3k with 4.4k views for a single story in 11 months.
But the reads were from Google and I didn’t earn a dollar from that story until now;
Lowest Reads: 6.
It was a story on a niche that I planned to focus on. So I dropped that niche in my second month;
Most Popular Stories: Stories about money. Not a single one has been chosen for further distribution but they gave me the biggest chunk of my revenues.
