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Abstract

The May Earnings Newsletter from Blogging Guide, published on June 12, 2020, provides a comprehensive overview of the Medium Partner Program's monthly earnings data, including the highest amounts earned for a single story and by an individual author, as well as the percentage of active writers earning over 100. The newsletter also highlights the results of the Blogging Guide's monthly author earnings survey, showing that a significant portion of their respondents earn more than 100 per month, outperforming the general Medium writer population. Additionally, it offers access to the Blogging Guide newsletter, which focuses on strategies for making money through online writing, and features a variety of articles with tips and tricks for succeeding on Medium and other digital publishing platforms.

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  • The Blogging Guide publication is positioned as a valuable resource for Medium writers, providing up-to-date earnings data and useful guides.
  • The Facebook group "Medium Writing," run by Medium Blogging Guide, Casey Botticello, and Linda Williams, is recommended as a platform for Medium writers to share articles and discuss making money on the platform.
  • Subscribers to Blogging Guide are promised exclusive content, including insightful subscriber-only posts and access to digital products and a private Slack channel.
  • The newsletter suggests that readers of Blogging Guide are more successful than the average writing population on Medium, based on their earnings survey results.
  • The newsletter expresses an opinion that the new Medium payment system, which calculates earnings based on reading time, may impact writer earnings and strategies.
  • The author, Casey Botticello, emphasizes the importance of strategic tagging to achieve Top Writer status on Medium and provides a list of tags eligible for this recognition.
  • Blogging Guide's Medium Article Formatting section is presented as a useful series of tips for writers to improve their content presentation on the platform.
  • The Medium Curation Checklist is offered as a key resource to optimize the chances of an article being curated by Medium.
  • The newsletter includes a curated list of articles from various Medium writers, which are deemed useful for understanding and finding success on the platform.
  • The author encourages readers to engage with the content by leaving comments, signing up for the newsletter, and joining the Medium Writing Facebook group to connect with other writers.

May Earnings Newsletter

Blogging Guide Monthly Newsletter Volume 11 — Published June 12, 2020

Source: Blogging Guide

Hello everyone!

This is the 11th monthly newsletter from our Medium publication, Blogging Guide. This newsletter is intended to help Medium writers by providing up-to-date Medium writer earning data, useful Medium guides with the latest tips and tricks, and a selection of articles (both from myself and other Medium Writers).

Also, be sure to check out our Facebook group, Medium Writing!

This group was created so that Medium writers could share their articles and discuss making money as a writer on Medium. This group is run by Medium Blogging Guide, Casey Botticello, and Linda Williams.

For more Medium writing tips and strategies to monetize your online writing, subscribe to Blogging Guide!

In addition to insightful subscriber-only posts, you will receive access to several of my custom digital products ($20 value), for free, and gain access to my private Slack channel for bloggers!

Now onto the interesting stuff!

Medium Partner Program Monthly Earnings Data

I have been keeping track of Medium Partner Program monthly earnings data, through a post that is updated monthly as a resource to writers.

This article is updated monthly and can be found here:

Here are some other stats Medium included on their Partner Program as of May 2020:

  • $6,844.29— the highest amount earned for a single story
  • $35,379.72 — the highest amount earned by a single author
  • 5.4% — the percentage of active writers who earned over $100

Medium Blogging Guide Author Earnings Survey

Every month we conduct a survey of Medium author earnings, to see how writers following our publication are doing. Below are the results from the April earnings survey. We had 167 responses! Thank you to everyone who participated!

Overall, the earnings chart above suggests that readers of Blogging Guide are more successful than the general writing population.

In the general Medium writer population, typically 6%-9% of all active writers earn more than $100 in any given month. Among the Blogging Guide respondents, 46.7% earned over $100 per month!

It will be interesting to see if and how this trend shifts in the coming months since the new payment system based on reading time.

The Ultimate Guide to Writing on Medium

This interactive guide contains answers to virtually any Medium related question you might have!

Blogging Guide Newsletter

Blogging Guide is a premium newsletter, offering my insights, advice, and access to custom digital products, geared toward helping anyone make money by writing online.

This newsletter is unique in that it focuses specifically on making money by writing online, whether that means blogging or through content marketing.

I am focusing on dissecting the large digital publishing platforms, such as Medium, Substack, WordPress, HubPages, Quora, LinkedIn, Vocal, Write.as, and Ghost.

In addition to breaking down, reviewing, and sharing tips to succeed on these platforms, I will also be including content aimed at helping writers with social media marketing, email marketing, and content marketing

Subscribers to Blogging Guide will also receive access to my premium Medium products ($20 value), for free, and access to my private Slack channel for bloggers!

For a limited time, subscribers will also receive access to my premium Medium products ($20 value), for free, and access to my private Slack channel for bloggers!

I’ve got a lot of interesting Medium data and insights to share so please subscribe!

A few sample premium posts:

Free Blogging Guide Articles

Posts From Various Medium Writers That I Found Useful

Below are some of the posts from different Medium writers (about writing on Medium) that I found useful, and would highly recommend you check out! In no particular order:

Christina M. Ward

Jana Bergant

Chris Craft

Brian Rowe

Sinem Günel

Shannon Ashley

Sam H Arnold

Shaunta Grimes

Jessica Lynn

Jim Woods

Tom Kuegler

Medium Interview Series (NEW!)

Medium Interviews is brand new series from Blogging Guide, featuring interviews with some of Medium’s top writers.

My hope is that these interviews will serve as a useful resource for writers who are still trying to understand Medium and how to find success on the platform.

Check out some of our interviews with Medium’s top writers!

Medium All-Stars Interview — Ayodeji Awosika

Medium All-Stars Interview — Nicole Akers

Medium All-Stars Interview — Lincoln W Daniel

Medium All-Stars Interview — Michael Leonard

Medium All-Stars Interview — Jim Woods

Medium All-Stars Interview — Sinem Günel

Medium All-Stars Interview — Brian Rowe

Medium All-Stars Interview — Zita Fontaine

Medium All-Stars Interview — Sean Kernan

Medium Article Formatting

One of the new sections of Blogging Guide is our section on Medium formatting. Medium Formatting is a series of short, actionable tips and tricks covering specific features and tools that many writers are unaware of on Medium.

To see all the Medium Formatting tips, click here.

Medium Curation Checklist

This article contains the 5 key article requirements for Medium article curation. While these are not all hard and fast rules, following these guidelines will optimize your chances of being curated.

List of Medium Article Tags Eligible for Top Writer Status

This list if a follow up to a post where I discussed how to become a Top Writer on Medium. Specifically, I focused on the importance of tagging your articles strategically.

This list contains 73 tags. These tags are very useful as a resource because they are the only Medium tags which are eligible for top writer status. The list can be found below. This list will be updated monthly as part of Blogging Guide’s series of regularly updated Medium data and lists.

This article is updated monthly and can be found here.

Medium Writing Tips

This article is a collection of Medium writing tips. Click here to read more.

Trending Posts From Blogging Guide, You May Find Useful:

— Casey Botticello

Thanks for reading this article! Leave a comment below if you have any questions. Be sure to sign up for the Blogging Guide newsletter, to get the latest tips, tricks, and news about writing on Medium and to join our Facebook group, Medium Writing, to share your latest Medium posts and connect with other writers.

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Casey Botticello is a partner at Black Edge Consulting. Black Edge Consulting is a strategic communications firm, specializing in online reputation management, digital marketing, and crisis management. Prior to founding Black Edge Consulting, he worked for BGR Group, a bipartisan lobbying and strategic communications firm.

Casey is the founder of the Cryptocurrency Alliance, a Super PAC dedicated to cryptocurrency and blockchain advocacy. He is a graduate of The University of Pennsylvania, where he received his B.A. in Urban Studies.

You can connect with him on LinkedIn, Twitter, Facebook, or by visiting his website, Blogging Guide.

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