Earn $250 Per Week, Writing One Medium Story Per Day

A little planning and a lot of persistence can have you earning more

The new Partner Program, coupled with a serious curation crackdown has rendered many Medium writers earning less than they’d hoped.

But Medium is far from gloom and doom.

There’s plenty of cash to be made from your Medium stories. Plus, you don’t have to rely on curation to get yourself there. While curated stories are the life-line of passive income from Medium, you don’t have to get curated to earn well.

I haven’t had a curated story in months. I believe I’m banned from curation for life. Who knows. What I do know is I continue to earn good money every month, despite this lack of curation.

You can too.

I use a five-step process to ensure I earn good money every month. While your results may vary, the process isn’t some magical secret.

Five steps to $250/week on Medium

1. Grow your following —

If you want reads (and you do, because this is how we’re paid), you need a baked-in following. The more people who follow you, the less your curation rate matters for short-term traffic.

2. Write content people want to read —

Look at the popular stories in our niche. Write more of those. Write fewer of the stories that don’t work. I get a lot of email from frustrated writers who aren’t getting traction on Medium.

I look at their content and it’s very self-serving. If you don’t write stories people want to read, you won’t have readers. The math is simple. The execution — not always.

3. Publish daily —

Medium loves active writers and punishes those who pause. If you want to grow your following, publish daily. If you don’t like money, write whenever you’re inspired.

If you choose your niche carefully, you’ll never run out of ideas. The niche is important. When you choose a niche you can grow your tribe away from Medium. This is the ultimate goal to establish a self-sustaining writing business.

4. Tell the others —

Promote your writing away from Medium. I post my stories to Twitter and elsewhere. I get back-end traffic to my Medium stories. This also gives your work more ‘internet juice,’ so readers will run-across your work everywhere they turn.

As you grow your tribe you’ll have more avenues to tell the others. Don’t keep your writing a secret… again, unless you don’t like money.

5. Have a back-end offer to grow your tribe away from Medium —

This means an email list. The Medium Partner Program is a great way to earn monthly income from writing, but it’s a hours-for-dollars model. There isn’t much passive income happening here.

When you use Medium to grow your email list, you can build additional revenue on autopilot, using an email welcome sequence, coupled with valuable offers. Your Medium stories also double as lead-generation magnets. You’ll earn money while you build your list.

Grow your tribe, starting now

As a writer, you need an email list. Social won’t cut it. Medium can only earn you so much. You need a sustainable business model to earn you automatic, side-income, giving you more time to write an less time to worry about money.

An email list will solve the problem.

When you use email, you’ve got an insurance policy against platform changes. Medium can take away your income any time it wants. They own the parking lot and the traffic. We’re just guests here.

Email gives you a list you control. It’s portable. If one platform doesn’t work, you switch to another, taking your audience with you. Email is the last, great, under-served frontier.

It’s time to build your list.

I’ve got a Tribe 1K, free email masterclass. I’ll show you how to get your first 1,000 subscribers (and your next 1,000) without spending a hot nickel on ads.

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August Birch (AKA the Book Mechanic) is both a fiction and non-fiction author from Michigan, USA. As a self-appointed guardian of writers and creators, August teaches indies how to make work that sells and how to sell more of that work once it’s created. When he’s not writing or thinking about writing, August carries a pocket knife and shaves his head with a safety razor.