Make Your Medium Story a Clap Cow

With the secret ingredient.

Not views nor reads nor comments, but fans mean money. They are defined, of course, as a clap each made by an individual reader.

An article with 50 claps could be the result of 50 readers clapping once, or one reader clapping 50 times. If the story had 50 individual claps by 50 different, unique readers, it earns 50 fans. That's better than just having 50 claps that could have been earned in different ways.

Here is where my wealth of knowledge starts to trail off.

Ten fans get you a note from Medium, as do 50 and 100, and I understand that coincides with amounts of money earned. Exactly how, has not come into my focus yet, but even though the formula is elusive, it does exist.

Now, in my youthful medium experience, I have written some stories that have gotten several hundred views and only 10 or 15 fans. But I have had a profile page that has received fewer views but with many times the number of fans than those with higher views.

At this point, as far as I can determine, the difference between the best earner and all the rest is the picture of me.

So to complete my research and be earning a little extra cash, I will soon make available at the end of my articles a link to a high-definition jpeg of me for sale through PayPal. You have my permission to use it in a tasteful way in your own stories.

Clap on, and thank you for your time!