The Irony of Medium Boost. What I Learn After Making $2,281.73

A Message to the newly joined writers on Medium.

Did Medium tell you? You didn’t need a boost to Earn $1,000 or even $500 a month.

If you are still thinking or writing for boost, let me ask a question are you here for the $ or for fame?

My guess is you are unsure of what it is but know that a boost means both of them.

I remember that during the first week on Medium, I was searching for every possible way to make money or how to make more money on Medium, if that’s you then read on.

Whether From 0 to $1000 in 28 days or 0 to $500 in 30 days comes after this:

Know who you writing for, in a way it is for yourself but that’s just half of the equation. You are finding yourself our the self that loves the last moment you.

You are writing for the reader base that once came to your post prior and that is where the best earner came from.

What you need to focus on is who was always supporting you. At least that’s how I got started.

Despite that new followers or reader’s reads may give you extra earnings per read but they are a one-time event. As a matter of fact most of them never come back again.

But that’s okay, some like you some don’t and some love you for what and how you write, which is the one you should be focusing on, remember love and goodwill can spread further than a viral or boost post.

Both situations do give your profile a good lift, but if shown to the wrong reader base it will tank like this.

Now the Irony of Medium Boost.

First who makes the end decision? Medium and the ones that submit them are not you and me. So don’t worry about something that you weren’t a part of.

A small group of like-minded with similar goals can take things as far as any boost. I say a viral post gets the same result but rather earns a bit more. But I can be totally wrong. The point is what have you decided to do and do that first, when it comes it will.

And the only writer that I know who has more than one boosted (9) post is Sílvia PM, PhD 🍂

If Boost is still your focus, you might want to check with her.

My Earnings are just for reference and this should be the last this you should focus on. And yes for the last 2 months, there was no boost or anything that went viral in my view.

But the earnings are up. Focus and stay consistent with your reader base as well. There are no tricks or shortcuts here but this one can take you further than you can imagine.

Thanks for Reading

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Tagging some friends that I see that have been online for the past couple of hours:

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