$11,229.51 in 4 Months- Important Lessons To Learn From Zulie Rane
She made $2268.31 this month and $3862.93 last month.
Everyone loves to read stories and watch videos of how much people are making money online either by writing stories or making videos. Of those people, I’m also the one who loves to know this.
While browsing through, I came across an earning video of Zulie Rane. She is a top Medium writer and also a YouTuber.
She has an excellent profile as she has got 47k medium followers and 17k YouTube channel subscribers.
What made me stop there were the earnings she was showing during the last 4 months she made from the Medium Partner Program in her video. First of all, please check a screenshot taken from her video to show the proof.
In the last 4 months, she made $11,229.51 which is a huge number. Like me, everyone dreams of reaching that figure. I believe only 10% of all medium writers make that big number a month and the rest are still struggling to reach the $100 club.
From her video, I did my analysis and I came to know the secret behind this big income. I will go step by step by sharing screenshots taken from her video to let you know how she made this happen.
The below Screenshot shows that she had received a total of 85,666 views with 30,723 reading times in the last 30 days and 1359 fans in total.
The below screenshot shows the total analytics of her account for the month through which you can make a short analysis by yourself too. How she had received tremendous traffic, read time and even fans?
How she was able to reach such big numbers?
The answer to the above question is, one story that get curated by Medium and gave her this great success. This one single story generated 79k views with an average of 2 min 16 sec reading time and a total of $2689.92. Isn’t that big???
This viral article made her such a big number and it also helped her gain other content curated too. From the below screenshot you can find that the other two articles also made her $450 altogether. So, you can understand one thing, one single piece of content can create a big difference in traffic and earnings.
This viral content also helped her to get a monthly referral income of $372.05 which is still increasing month by month. Medium membership offers you 50% of the total subscription fee paid by a user to Medium. You will receive this income throughout the time till the user is subscribed to a paid program.
It has been found that many people don’t promote their referral link as they feel that the number they receive each referral is very small but guys now I am sure you can know the value you can make by just promoting the referral link.
In the last 3 months, she has earned almost $370+by referral program only which is a big number.
Like everyone, I always stumble on articles that discussed the tips and methods to make big numbers from Medium Partner Program. In general, I found that each of them has some common suggestions:
- Be consistent
- Publish at least one story a day.
- Publish short stories as much as you can.
- After publishing at least 200+ stories, you can see real numbers.
- Quantity matters as compared to quality.
- Use proper tags to get your stories discovered.
Like all, I also believed whatever is mentioned above but, after going through her profile I realized that two stories a week also works if you are offering quality information.
If you can hold your audience and made them highlight sentences, give claps and leave comments then it works. Especially when you have a decent follower base.
The biggest thing about her was that she knows what makes the title will work, what content format she should follow, what topic will get people and what tags she should use.
After going through such an amazing profile, I had learned a lot which I will like to share with you all.
My Learnings
- Be consistent with whatever you do.
- Contribute at least two stories a week.
- Contribute to small and big publications.
- Try to engage with users and make them highlight, clap and comment.
- Deliver quality instead of quantity.
- Use titles that increase Click-Through Rates.
- Use relevant tags to get your stories discovered. Check this story to know the top tags with the highest users.
- Try to gain genuine email subscribers.
- Promote a Medium paid subscription through your referral link.
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