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ot earn $25 bucks in one day, but it only took you a day to write it, correct?</p><p id="4b4f">Say, you wrote your story in an hour. You earn that$ 25 in a couple weeks, but it only took you an hour of effort. Therefore, you earned $25/writing hour.</p><p id="99e9"><b>Add a bunch of these stories per month and you’ve got a fantastic secondary income stream.</b></p><p id="7755">Non-curated stories have a short life — maybe a week before the traffic dries-up. If you want more, you’ve got to push them heavily by linking to them in your latest stories.</p><p id="ff06"><b>So, we’ve got to earn your$ 25 within those first 5–7 days of publishing or those reads will trickle to pennies per day.</b></p><h2 id="14b9">Here are five ways for you do it:</h2><ol><li><b>Publish everything to a publication </b>— If you can’t get a publication to accept your work, start your own. If you’ll notice, there’s (almost) nothing on Medium’s homepage that isn’t published to some kind of publication. Medium prefers stories attached to publications. You’ll get a lot more juice for your work. The publication won’t necessarily get you traffic to your story (you also need followers), but it will give you legitimacy.</li><li><b>Tell the others </b>— share every story through your social channels. Most won’t get any traction, but if you share them all, some will. I’ve had stories go tiny viral but doing nothing more than a couple taps on Twitter. And I don’t do anything on Twitter but promote my stories. This the power of compounding effort. The more you promote over time, the bigger you’ll grow, and the faster you’ll write $25 stories. Link your old stories to your new stories — repeatedly. Force your stories to work for you longer.</li><li><b>Write more of the content your readers want to read </b>— I say this a lot. Look at your stats. Write a lot more of the stuff your readers enjoy and less of the stuff they don’t. The stats don’t lie. Maybe your readers’ favorites aren’t your favorites, but if you want to earn$ 25 per story, you better write what readers want to read, regardless of your person preference (that’s why we have journals).</li><li><b>Write engaging stories</b> — This means you need original content. Original is tough on Medium, but if you want more readers to pay attention to your work, you’ve got to give them a reason. When we’re engaged with a story we don’t click-away for something better. Show us some kind of transformation — a journey or solution from where we are now to where we want to be. Take us there and we’ll read your story tomorrow too. We don’t have much time to read. We’ll only choose the stories that grab us by the collar. Make those be your stories.</li><li><b>Make a list </b>— If you want to earn more than pennies per hour with your writing, eventually you’ll need an email list. The best time to build an email list was 20 years ago. The second best time is today. Email helps you sell

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your writing on autopilot. This gives you more time to do your best work, while spending less time trying to sell it.</li></ol><div id="e379" class="link-block"> <a href="https://readmedium.com/92-of-the-active-medium-writers-earned-less-than-100-in-december-9337575f3a37"> <div> <div> <h2>92% of the Active Medium Writers Earned Less than $100 in December</h2> <div><h3>\dotsbut you don’t have to be one of them in January</h3></div> <div><p>medium.com</p></div> </div> <div> <div style="background-image: url(https://miro.readmedium.com/v2/resize:fit:320/0*5vJpNd1I6ySIo3wc)"></div> </div> </div> </a> </div><h1 id="9b37">Email takes your writing income to the next level</h1><p id="b41a">If you want to earn more than$ 25 per story you need email. Not only can you promote your current Medium stories with your email list, but you can also sell your books, courses, coaching, and retreats.</p><p id="8d5a"><b>A single Medium story could attract a customer for life.</b></p><p id="1fca">This customer is worth a lot more than $25. Your efforts today will grow the fruits of tomorrow. But you’ve got to be patient. Everyone starts with zero subscribers. It’s important to build your list before you need.</p><p id="28b5">Email is an insurance policy against the platform where you create content. Right now you’re almost free labor for Medium. You write. They earn. They pay a small commission. Medium can change that commission any time.</p><p id="b55a">If you want to control your financial destiny as a writer you need a list you control. Your email list is worth way more than$ 25.</p><p id="4fd4"><b>You need an email list yesterday, but today will also work.</b></p><p id="8652">I hand-crafted <a href="https://www.subscribepage.com/tribe1K">a seven-day email masterclass just for you</a>. Enrollment is free. Past students include NYT bestselling authors you could buy in Barnes and Noble.</p><p id="0df5">I’ll show you how to get your first 1,000 readers (or your next 1,000) without spending a hot nickel on ads.</p><p id="f422"><b>Guarantee your seat before I change my mind.</b></p><p id="7486"><a href="https://www.subscribepage.com/tribe1K">Tap the link.</a></p><p id="199d"><b>We’re waiting for you.</b></p><p id="9ab8"><a href="https://www.subscribepage.com/tribe1K"><b>Enroll in my Email Masterclass. Get Your First 1,000 Subscribers</b></a></p><p id="25fb">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.</p></article></body>

How to Earn at Least $25 Per Non-Curated Medium Story

Boost your hourly writing rate with these five tips (#5 is key)

I’ve been banned from curation for quite a while now. I did it to myself. I have taken a very aggressive list-building approach (which I don’t recommend for anyone but myself, so buyer-beware) and the cost of admission is zero curation.

As a result I chopped my Medium income in half. Boom.

But my stories still do well, not only because of new changes with the home page, but for the reasons I’ll share with you in a minute.

Instead of focusing on quick, short-term wins, I’ve focused on the long-game.

While this strategy is not for everyone, it might be for you too. If you’re struggling with earning more than pennies per story, not only can you tweak your writing to earn more short-term income, but I’ll also show you how to earn a lot more on the back-end.

Medium is one of the best platforms to create content on the web.

Not only do they make it easy for our stories to spread-viral on other platforms, but they also pay us for the privilege. While curation is the best strategy if your only goal is to earn money from the Medium platform (curated stories last a lot longer), non-curated stories can do really well too.

It’s time to get you some more money from your writing.

Let’s not waste another minute behind the keyboard. Writing takes our most-precious resource to create — time. It can be really disappointing when we earn pennies per hour.

Here’s how to earn more…

What the Top Medium Earners Are Doing that We Aren’t

5 Key Strategies to help boost your freelance writing income

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5 ways non-curated stories can earn more

You can earn $25 a story with a few tweaks. Now, your mileage may vary, but I found this works well over the life of each story. You may not earn $25 bucks in one day, but it only took you a day to write it, correct?

Say, you wrote your story in an hour. You earn that $25 in a couple weeks, but it only took you an hour of effort. Therefore, you earned $25/writing hour.

Add a bunch of these stories per month and you’ve got a fantastic secondary income stream.

Non-curated stories have a short life — maybe a week before the traffic dries-up. If you want more, you’ve got to push them heavily by linking to them in your latest stories.

So, we’ve got to earn your $25 within those first 5–7 days of publishing or those reads will trickle to pennies per day.

Here are five ways for you do it:

Publish everything to a publication — If you can’t get a publication to accept your work, start your own. If you’ll notice, there’s (almost) nothing on Medium’s homepage that isn’t published to some kind of publication. Medium prefers stories attached to publications. You’ll get a lot more juice for your work. The publication won’t necessarily get you traffic to your story (you also need followers), but it will give you legitimacy.
Tell the others — share every story through your social channels. Most won’t get any traction, but if you share them all, some will. I’ve had stories go tiny viral but doing nothing more than a couple taps on Twitter. And I don’t do anything on Twitter but promote my stories. This the power of compounding effort. The more you promote over time, the bigger you’ll grow, and the faster you’ll write $25 stories. Link your old stories to your new stories — repeatedly. Force your stories to work for you longer.
Write more of the content your readers want to read — I say this a lot. Look at your stats. Write a lot more of the stuff your readers enjoy and less of the stuff they don’t. The stats don’t lie. Maybe your readers’ favorites aren’t your favorites, but if you want to earn $25 per story, you better write what readers want to read, regardless of your person preference (that’s why we have journals).
Write engaging stories — This means you need original content. Original is tough on Medium, but if you want more readers to pay attention to your work, you’ve got to give them a reason. When we’re engaged with a story we don’t click-away for something better. Show us some kind of transformation — a journey or solution from where we are now to where we want to be. Take us there and we’ll read your story tomorrow too. We don’t have much time to read. We’ll only choose the stories that grab us by the collar. Make those be your stories.
Make a list — If you want to earn more than pennies per hour with your writing, eventually you’ll need an email list. The best time to build an email list was 20 years ago. The second best time is today. Email helps you sell your writing on autopilot. This gives you more time to do your best work, while spending less time trying to sell it.

92% of the Active Medium Writers Earned Less than $100 in December

…but you don’t have to be one of them in January

medium.com

Email takes your writing income to the next level

If you want to earn more than $25 per story you need email. Not only can you promote your current Medium stories with your email list, but you can also sell your books, courses, coaching, and retreats.

A single Medium story could attract a customer for life.

This customer is worth a lot more than $25. Your efforts today will grow the fruits of tomorrow. But you’ve got to be patient. Everyone starts with zero subscribers. It’s important to build your list before you need.

Email is an insurance policy against the platform where you create content. Right now you’re almost free labor for Medium. You write. They earn. They pay a small commission. Medium can change that commission any time.

If you want to control your financial destiny as a writer you need a list you control. Your email list is worth way more than $25.

You need an email list yesterday, but today will also work.

I hand-crafted a seven-day email masterclass just for you. Enrollment is free. Past students include NYT bestselling authors you could buy in Barnes and Noble.

I’ll show you how to get your first 1,000 readers (or your next 1,000) without spending a hot nickel on ads.

Guarantee your seat before I change my mind.

Tap the link.

We’re waiting for you.

Enroll in my Email Masterclass. Get Your First 1,000 Subscribers

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.