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Chapter 14: Gaining Your First 100 Followers (Sf)

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Chapter 14 is jam-packed with everything you need to know to gain your first 100 followers.

Let’s do a fly-over of the most essential points:

  • Best story formats — Format your stories to look professional and quickly scan and read.
  • Well-written stories — There are lots of talented writers on the platform. Work at sharpening your writing skills.
  • Audience targeting — You must write to the audience that wants to hear from you.
  • Use Publications — I found that using Publications accounted for 50% of my new followers.
  • Have a strategy — Decide what you want your writing to accomplish.
  • Content calendar — Content calendars help you schedule what to say and when.
  • Encourage engagement — You must read other writers’ work and clap, comment, or follow. Engagement makes the world go round on Medium.

The book chapters are hyperlinked for easy access. Click on the title that interests you most.

Table of Contents, Foreword, Introduction, 1: What is Medium, 2: Navigating Your Homepage, 3: Getting to Know Your Homepage, 4: Exploring the Profile Picture Drop-down, 5: Searching for Stories from Your Homepage, 6: Navigating Your Story Homepage, 7: Writing/Editing Great Stories, 8: Jazzing Your Stories with Images & Embeds (Sf), 9: Publishing Great Stories (Sf), 10: Managing Your Stories (Sf), 11: Tunning Your Account Settings & Preferences (Sf), 12: Getting More Email Subscribers (Sf), 13: Using the Help Center to Get Answers (Sf), 14: Gaining Your First 100 Followers (Sf), 15: Building a Following with Publications (Sf), 16: Earning Money at Medium (Sf), 17: Continuing to Gain Followers (Sf), 18: Boosting Your Brand with a Newsletter (Sf), Appendix A: Locate Commands Fast, Appendix B: Top70 Most Popular Topics, Appendix C: Top 50 Medium Publications, Appendix D: Keyboard Shortcuts, Glossary.

You might check my recent interview conducted by Dr Mehmet Yildiz, chief editor of Illumination Integrated Publications, on Medium, introducing me and my book to the writing and reading community.

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