How to get 500 Followers/Month on Medium

Summary

To achieve 500 followers on Medium in a month, one should engage daily by interacting with 30-40 recent stories in chosen niches, spending around an hour to gain approximately 18 followers per day through claps and highlighting.

Abstract

The process of gaining 500 followers on Medium within a month is broken down into a methodical approach. It involves consistently engaging with the community by targeting 5 niches and interacting with the latest stories within those niches. By spending about 20 minutes per niche, engaging with content for at least 30 seconds, and then clapping and highlighting parts of the text, an individual can create meaningful interactions with other writers. This strategy aims to generate a 15% follow-back rate from the writers noticed, which translates to around 18 new followers daily. The article emphasizes the importance of setting realistic targets and dedicating time each day to community-building activities on Medium.

Opinions

The author believes that gaining 500 followers a month is challenging but achievable through consistent daily efforts.
Engaging with the latest stories increases the likelihood of interacting with active writers who are more likely to reciprocate the engagement.
Leaving comments is optional but not necessary, as claps and highlights are sufficient to notify writers and prompt a follow-back.
The strategy is based on the assumption that a consistent daily effort of about an hour will result in a predictable follow-back rate, which is estimated to be around 15% of the writers engaged with.
The author finds the 'Life' niche particularly promising due to its large number of followers and active stories, suggesting it as a prime target for engagement.

How to get 500 Followers/Month on Medium

When you say 500 followers a month it doesn’t sound like it’s extremely hard, but it’s not at all. Let’s take it step by step and understand what 500 followers per month means first. Well this means about 20 followers per day.

Everything has to be taken in small steps that you do every day, choose a realistic target and work to achieve it.

All you have to do is pick 5 niches where you write articles most often. For example I will choose the Life niche, which I find extremely attractive in terms of number of followers and number of people who are active on this niche. It has 3.3 million followers and 943k stories.

Go down to Latest stories. Here are the most recent articles, and the chances of the writer being active at the time you react are pretty high.

For example:

Go to each of the first 30–40 stories, stay for at least 30 seconds and then click on Claps and Highlighted.

This means a maximum of 20 minutes spent creating your community.

For example:

If you want you can leave a comment. But if you do both things the writer will already get 2 notifications. One for claps and one for highlighted.

You can do this for 2–3 niches, depending on how much time you allow yourself on Medium to create the community.

If you do this for 3 niches you will spend an hour on Medium, during which time you will interact with 120 writers. If 15% of them follow you, you will make about 18 followers per day. This number is enough to reach 500 followers per month.

Good luck!🍀🍀