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/0*oTddeunA_eZ9V-1v)"></div> </div> </div> </a> </div><h1 id="dc09">Here’s why it doesn’t bother me:</h1><p id="13f3">I believe every writer on Medium should have some kind of agenda. Whether you use the site as a place to get things off your chest, you want to build a following, you want a part (or full)-time income, etc.</p><p id="66ad"><b>No matter your reason for being here, you should have one.</b></p><p id="bab3">I don’t mean you need a nefarious purpose. Your agenda should be awesome. But the Medium platform is the perfect place to build a following of like-minded folks (and they’re willing to pay you to do it). I don’t know of another platform who does this better than Medium.</p><p id="3a75"><b>Many have tried. I’ve tested them.</b></p><p id="2307">I believe having a niche for your work is much more important than curation. If you only want your work to exist on Medium and you have no interest in building something bigger, then yes, you’ve got to get your work curated.</p><p id="6b0c"><b>This means following the rules and writing novel, engaging content in your lane.</b></p><p id="d1c2">Otherwise, curation isn’t so important. The income I earn on Medium is secondary (or whatever five-a-dary is) to the tribe I’m building off Medium. The important stuff happens within my tribe.</p><p id="d92c">These are the people who raised their hand and want more from their indie publishing business. These are the people I’m here to serve. While curation is awesome, I don’t aim towards it. In fact, I stopped trying to get curated.</p><div id="8499" class="link-block"> <a href="https://readmedium.com/how-the-five-fingers-test-will-help-you-discover-what-to-do-with-life-2ce158fb32a2"> <div> <div> <h2>How the ‘Five Fingers Test’ Will Help You Discover What to Do With Life</h2> <div><h3>Our best work is discovered by knowing what we don’t want</h3></div> <div><p>medium.com</p></div> </div> <div> <div style="background-image: url(https://miro.readmedium.com/v2/resize:fit:320/0*YQVIWr11DevlRz40)"></div>

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</div> </div> </a> </div><h1 id="1fc6">Who will you call when it all goes down?</h1><p id="4c1e">Platforms come and go. I don’t envy Medium for the level of competition in their space. Content is everything. Every startup and their mother want to build the next attention-grabbing-content machine.</p><p id="1b36"><b>When you’ve got our attention you’ve got our money.</b></p><p id="0790">Medium adopted a no-ad policy. This is a new twist and the reason we’re here. Someday (later rather than sooner, hopefully) Medium will become Myspace and we’ll have to start again, somewhere else.</p><p id="9115"><b>But that is Medium’s problem to solve. You don’t have to make it yours.</b></p><p id="3ae2">I’d like to invite you to the reason I’m here. I made an intensive, seven-day, Tribe 1K, <a href="https://www.subscribepage.com/tribe1K">free email masterclass</a> and I’d love for you to enroll. If that’s your thing. If you’re a writer or creator who wants more than writing a frantic story a couple times a day.</p><p id="b3b3"><b>When you build your own tribe you hold the rope to the lifeboat… for when it all goes down.</b></p><p id="48d3">Will you be on the Titanic, or will you start creating your own island — one scoop of sand at a time — ready when you need it. This is where you tribe lives. They live on your email list.</p><p id="8e6e">If you’re ready to get your first 1,000 subscribers (or your next 1,000) without paying a hot nickel in advertising, <a href="https://www.subscribepage.com/tribe1K">tap the thingy below</a> to enroll. You’ll have your first lesson today.</p><p id="cd4e"><b>We’re waiting for you.</b></p><p id="b011"><a href="https://www.subscribepage.com/tribe1K"><b>Enroll in my Email Masterclass. Get Your First 1,000 Subscribers</b></a></p><p id="c0c7">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.</p></article></body>

My Last 25 Medium Stories Haven’t Been Curated

Here’s why it doesn’t matter…

Photo by 🇨🇭 Claudio Schwarz | @purzlbaum on Unsplash

Months ago I made an aggressive shift with my content on Medium. Not only do I write about how to make money on Medium, but the bulk of my focus involves packing-up your followers and enticing them away from Medium as fast as you can.

This wasn’t a shift I advertised. It happened organically as I changed my content strategy.

I’m grateful for the traffic and income I earn from this site. And while I’d never purposefully bash them (because I love Medium) I won’t stop teaching to my tribe the importance of building a list of customers on a platform you own.

If you don’t own your traffic you don’t own your list.

I like a good feather-ruffle and I’m sure I ruffled a few at the top. I mean, why would you promote someone who directly encourages your readers to leave the site and go elsewhere.

Every story I write is packed with good intentions, but I understand the way I help writers does not always play well with others. This is what makes Medium so great. We can all play. With different purposes.

…so yeah, I haven’t had anything curated in eons. However, it doesn’t bother me.

Am I Medium’s Version of Walter White?

How one crafty comment from a reader got me thinking… a lot

medium.com

Here’s why it doesn’t bother me:

I believe every writer on Medium should have some kind of agenda. Whether you use the site as a place to get things off your chest, you want to build a following, you want a part (or full)-time income, etc.

No matter your reason for being here, you should have one.

I don’t mean you need a nefarious purpose. Your agenda should be awesome. But the Medium platform is the perfect place to build a following of like-minded folks (and they’re willing to pay you to do it). I don’t know of another platform who does this better than Medium.

Many have tried. I’ve tested them.

I believe having a niche for your work is much more important than curation. If you only want your work to exist on Medium and you have no interest in building something bigger, then yes, you’ve got to get your work curated.

This means following the rules and writing novel, engaging content in your lane.

Otherwise, curation isn’t so important. The income I earn on Medium is secondary (or whatever five-a-dary is) to the tribe I’m building off Medium. The important stuff happens within my tribe.

These are the people who raised their hand and want more from their indie publishing business. These are the people I’m here to serve. While curation is awesome, I don’t aim towards it. In fact, I stopped trying to get curated.

How the ‘Five Fingers Test’ Will Help You Discover What to Do With Life

Our best work is discovered by knowing what we don’t want

medium.com

Who will you call when it all goes down?

Platforms come and go. I don’t envy Medium for the level of competition in their space. Content is everything. Every startup and their mother want to build the next attention-grabbing-content machine.

When you’ve got our attention you’ve got our money.

Medium adopted a no-ad policy. This is a new twist and the reason we’re here. Someday (later rather than sooner, hopefully) Medium will become Myspace and we’ll have to start again, somewhere else.

But that is Medium’s problem to solve. You don’t have to make it yours.

I’d like to invite you to the reason I’m here. I made an intensive, seven-day, Tribe 1K, free email masterclass and I’d love for you to enroll. If that’s your thing. If you’re a writer or creator who wants more than writing a frantic story a couple times a day.

When you build your own tribe you hold the rope to the lifeboat… for when it all goes down.

Will you be on the Titanic, or will you start creating your own island — one scoop of sand at a time — ready when you need it. This is where you tribe lives. They live on your email list.

If you’re ready to get your first 1,000 subscribers (or your next 1,000) without paying a hot nickel in advertising, tap the thingy below to enroll. You’ll have your first lesson today.

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.