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Do you have a story you want me to promote on Twitter?

Greetings Medium community of writers and readers. I’ve decided to take Friday and spend it promoting stories on Twitter, and try to take part in their regular writers’ lift.

THIS IS 1 OF MY 3 WEEKLY PUBLICATION FEATURES FOR WRITERS

I’ll be spending my day, reading on Medium, and tweeting on Twitter. I’m conducting an ongoing experiment focusing on the question of just how beneficial “external” views and reads are to writers on Medium.

Being the non conformist that I am, I plan to kind of do my own thing when it comes to how I lift writers up. First of all, I’m lifting Medium writers up, and I don’t mind saying so.

Since my primary objective is to help illuminate some of my own Medium followers and their stories, I plan to keep that as my focus. No one website has a monopoly on the people who read online, so as far as I’m concerned, there’s no harm in trying to snag a few readers from Twitter; writers or otherwise.

How can writers on Medium benefit from external views?

I have some questions I’ve been wondering about the issue of external views, and they’re not questions about how Medium‘s algorithm is calculating them, or not calculating them.

My questions center around the conversion rates, related to those external non-member readers. I want to know how can writers on Medium benefit from external views.

For instance, what percentage, generally speaking, could be expected to convert into becoming new Medium members?

I’m not talking about what percentage, simply based on a writer’s haphazard efforts to focus on this issue. My question is more about the issue of treating external views like they actually have potential.

What if a writer took a proactive interest in trying to encourage new membership?

Why promote Medium stories where they can get external views?

There are some writers on Medium, besides myself, that find the idea of getting external views enticing.

Yep! I’m all for promoting Medium stories in places where I know I’m going to get a lot of external views.

Even though we’ve been told they don’t contribute to our earnings, I find it motivating to get large numbers of external views, because those numbers just give me more data to analyze and figure out.

Personally, I want to try and get more external views, because I believe there’s a lot of potential in those views.

On the flip side of the coin, there are skeptics on Medium, and they don’t believe there’s any real benefit in courting external views.

Using that particular dating analogy, the skeptics don’t believe that non-members will ever give it up. So seeing those views in their stats only frustrates them. Some might get so hot and bothered, they need to take a cold shower [Okay — enough of that analogy].

With all inappropriate joking aside, the point is, you can not and should not simply dismiss the potential benefits of all those external views. Instead of doing that, my advice and opinion is to find a way to reveal their value.

Twitter offers a great external audience with their Friday #writerslift

Long before I knew about Medium.com, and probably before it existed, I was learning how to use SEO and apply it in all of my online writing, marketing, and promoting.

This especially included the activities I was engaging in on social media, namely Twitter. Although at the time, I never fully understood how to navigate the busy Twitter highway, I did understand one thing:

Twitter had a humongous audience back then, and it has only gotten bigger. I understood, and still understand the scope of Twitter’s reach.

Of course, it doesn’t take a brain surgeon to recognize this fact, so it hasn’t slipped by my fellow Medium writers who are skeptics about external views.

They recognize the reach of Twitter. They get that part. However, their argument has to do with the fact that Twitter consists of thousands of writers, already doing their writing thing somewhere else online.

They suggest that these non-member writers only occasionally drift over to the Medium platform and that they have no plans to join.

My rebuttal is: “So what? All of us were non-members before something or someone suggested, coerced, or inspired us to join.”

Your membership might have been the result of one story that you wanted to read, but since you had already reached the limit for non-readers, you weren’t allowed access to the story.

This happened to me, and that’s how I first became a Medium member. That’s why I see so much potential in Twitter’s community.

If I can learn how to take a meaningful part in Twitter’s weekly writer’s lift, I believe I can end up sharing so many great stories, that some of those writers will come to Medium and be compelled to convert.

Non-members are limited to 3 stories for the month (unless they have a friend link), so they won’t want to miss out on all those awesome stories. But they’ll never realize this fact, unless we point it out to them.

Final Thoughts

So who’s on board? Do you have a story that you’d like to have promoted THIS COMING Friday, during my participation in Twitter’s writers lift?

If you see the potential in receiving external views, and having non-members read your stories, ALL you have to do is:

RESPOND with the words “please lift” and a link to your story .

Reminders:

1. Don’t forget to promote your Medium referral link on your story page
2. Don’t forget to check your Twitter account later, and you should find a mention about the tweet I posted.
3. Follow me on Twitter @GoodeWriter (Optional, but shamelessly encouraged)

I live in the U.S. — on the west coast, so I’m on Pacific Standard Time (PST). MY reading and writing day begins early, so there’s plenty of time to slip me your link.

I’m accepting responses from Medium readers everywhere, no matter what part of the world you’re in, so as soon as you read this, leave your response.

Everyone is welcome to join in on this ongoing experiment. Let’s find out if we could possibly be leaving money on the table!

DEAR READER: I always enjoy talking to writers on writing. Enjoy the advice when you find it useful. I write to help writers on Medium get more exposure. Whether you prefer self publishing all your stories, or you submit them to Medium publications, you can still benefit from the information. Use any related tips and you’ll begin to notice a great deal of self improvement, when it comes to your writing productivity.

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