How to Get Medium to Pay Many of Your Basic Living Expenses
…even if you don’t have a large following
As a Medium writer it can get frustrating to trade typing time for money, only to find you were working for pennies.
Much of the success on Medium relies on building an audience and a significant amount of time spent on the platform.
But even if you don’t have a huge following, you can make plenty of money from your Medium stories.
Use them to pay some of your basic living expense (like your cell phone, groceries, or clothes).
I use mine to pay all my business expenses.
Every month Medium covers it all (for the entire year), which gives me plenty left over to save for bigger projects.
You can do this too.
In a second I’ll give you the blueprint I use to get Medium to cover all my business expenses.
No, your Medium income probably won’t cover your mortgage (not early-on at least), but with the method I’m about to share, you can earn a whole lot more per reader than a few pennies per story
Keep reading and I’ll share how I do it.
Get Medium to pay your cell phone bill
This method isn’t just about your partner income. While the partner program is great, you can earn even more money by building a tribe — away from Medium.
Using your Medium followers, you’ll create a simple, valuable solution to their most-pressing problem. You’ll give this solution away — free — in exchange for their email address.
This is how you begin to build a tribe.
Not only will you earn income from their reads, but your best readers will purchase your books, courses, and other work — automatically, while you spend your valuable time on the work that matters most (like your writing).
Once we build an Easy Invite (your free offer), you create an automated welcome series of emails inside your email service provider (ESP). The service provider handles all the fancy parts of keeping track of your subscribers and delivering valuable reports on various email stats.
Your new subscriber gets a measured series of emails, coupled with a few valuable offers sprinkled-in.
As new readers join your list, a percentage of them will buy your work.
You’ll earn money while you sleep.
Not only will you get a nice check every month from the partner program, but your added income from your automated sales process may dwarf the check you get from regular reads.
Even with a smaller audience.
We start by putting your Medium stories to work for you
At the bottom of every story, from today forward, it’s time to collect your reader’s email addresses.
Create a valuable, free offer. Open an ESP, and develop a simple welcome sequence. Yes, all this takes work and time to set-up. But once you’ve got your automated sequence in place, the daily maintenance is almost zero.
You can pre-load six months-worth (or six years) of emails into your ESP.
The software will do all the delivering for you. You keep the automated income. And in turn, you’ll have more funds to cover your basic life expenses, and more time to spend doing your work that matters most.
By the way, if you’re not sure how to get started with email, I’ve got something for you…
I created a free, 7-day, email masterclass for writers just like you. I call it the Tribe 1K. I’ll show you how to get your first 1,000 (or your next 1,000) readers without spending a penny on ads.
I’ve had a ton of positive feedback on the course.
You might benefit from it too.
The best time to build an email list is before you need one.
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.