Make Money Writing on Medium, Even with Little Partner Income
Reads are down, but your writing income doesn’t have to be
I’ve seen it all over Medium. Even the most-successful writers had their partner income chopped in recent months. Whether it’s an algorithm change or a pandemic thing (or both), we can no longer count on Medium to provide us any sort of steady payment.
…but that doesn’t mean you still can’t earn money writing on Medium.
Instead of looking at Medium to pay us directly, we’ll use our Medium stories to build a tribe.
Our tribe is the niche we serve. Better than any other niche. We use our particular life’s experience to become the go-to person for a particular solution.
I know it feels like you should go as broad as possible, but in the age of information, we want the specialists.
- I’m not looking for a plumber who also writes crime novels and dabbles with accounting on the weekends.
- I’m not looking for relationship advice from a zookeeper, or exercise tips from a chef.
- I’m not buying courses from people who create courses in a dozen different areas.
When you have the world’s knowledge in your pocket, that becomes the baseline. The internet is level-zero. The stuff we pay for is the stuff we can’t find with a quick Googling.
We pay for your life’s experience.
We pay for the lessons of your mistakes.
So, how do we earn money on Medium?
We serve our niche. We dominate our niche from every angle we can think of. We become the go-to voice for our tribe. We give great content with no expectation in return.
We give until it hurts. Then we give a little more.
And at the bottom of every Medium story we write, we include what I call, an Easy Invite. This is a free, irresistible offer that encourages folks to join your email list.
Your email list is where you’ll make your automated income.
By writing a series of emails, all geared towards providing value and building a relationship with readers, we earn their trust.
We solve our readers’ problems first.
We offer additional products and services to buy, should our vest readers want a deeper-dive into a particular solution.
While you might be earning pennies per read from the partner program, you’ll now have a way to gather these readers for a further conversation. A reader who might’ve earned you ten cents by scanning your Medium story, could be worth $1,000 or more as a lifetime member of your tribe.
Owning your list makes a difference in your freedom.
When you focus only on Medium, the platform controls your destiny. Now they appear to be throttling story traffic. My partner income was chopped by 80%. That has been a spicy pill. But my email list keeps humming along.
I’ve got just the thing for you.
I built a free email masterclass for you. I hand-crafted the whole thing. It took me a couple months. I call the masterclass the Tribe 1K.
I’ll show you how to get your first 1,000 (or your next 1,000) readers without spending a hot nickel on ads. Past students include New York Times bestselling authors. Yep, the ones you see in the bookstore.
Your email list will help you build a legacy writing business.
If you want to grow your writing business you need email before you lose that valuable reader. Start your list before you need one. Once you need one it’s almost too late.
Guarantee your seat before I start charging an enrollment fee.
We’re waiting for you.
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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 folks who want to make work that sells and sell work they make. When he’s not writing or thinking about writing, August carries a pocket knife and shaves his head with a safety razor.