How To Promote Your Lists on Medium
My top three tips
I don’t usually give advice for free, but Uvebruce was kind enough to offer a job to my lazy grandson at one of his restaurants, so I owe him one.
Here’s his question:
Dear Grandma,
I wrote several articles about my experience in the food industry, and they usually resonate well with the readers. I created a list to help them find more of the stories they like, but nobody’s clicking on it. What should I do?
Thank you so much in advance for sharing your wisdom with me, and please accept my sauciest regards.
Uvebruce
He went a bit too far with the sauciest, but he’s a cook and a restaurant owner, so I let it go. Also, his wife is the kindest person in the world.
Anyway, here are three ways to promote your lists on Medium.
1 — Write a rant about lists on Medium
For example, “Medium Lists Are So Invisible That You Could Put One in the Middle of the Superbowl, and Still, Nobody Would Click.”
Of course, you will take your list as an example of a useless list. I know you would like to make listS and use them ALL as examples, but that would be a mistake.
You need to focus your readers’ attention on one list. They’re not able to deal with more.
2 — Send a message to your subscribers
If you don’t have subscribers, focus on getting some instead of wondering about lists.
If you have at least 10, write an unlisted story (which won’t be visible to your followers but will still be sent to your subscribers) and say something like this:
“Hello everybody, I realized my restaurant stories were quite successful with you and my other readers [subscribers, are special — they’re not just readers] and decided to create a list of my favorite ones. Here you go. Thanks for being there. It means a lot to me that you subscribed. Buon Appetito!”
3 — Ask someone to do it for you
Self-promotion is great, but it doesn’t work. Promoting others is a different and much more efficient concept. It’s called social proof.
As an example and EXCEPTIONALLY, I will promote Uvebruce’s list of “yummy stories” today.
Read at least one of them to prove me right!
Grandma Smillew loves her afternoon cup of cocoa, scrabble, and her grandson, Smillew Rahcuef. She’s also a pink belt in social media and marketing strategies. If you want to make her happy, follow her on Medium and write for one of her publications: All About Medium and Grandma Power.
