This Is Insane! Did You Know You Could Make $20,000 With Only 2K Followers?
I interviewed the man who earned five times the annual income in his country from a single story.
I love to read and share success stories from writers with a small following (like mine).
Today’s story is about S M Mamunur Rahman.
S M from Bangladesh has now 4.2 followers.
Back in October 2021, when he published his viral hit he had 2K followers.
You may have already experienced that followers are a vanity metric.
Thousands of followers don’t mean you earn big bucks.
Recently, S M’s story Why Elon Musk Fired His Long-Term Assistant Who Asked for A Raise published in ILLUMINATION popped up in my feed again.
This time I clicked it.
I saw it had 20K claps and over 200 comments.
So I dug a bit deeper and found out…
this story about Mary Beth Brown, a former employee from Elon Musk, went MEGA viral.
Meaning it has gained…
- over 500K views
- around $20,000 (!)
Short and sweet Interview: S M is from Bangladesh and earned 5x an annual income
- S M told me back in October, he had 2K followers. So he gained 2K followers within 4 months.
(…) I think (from my experience) followers don’t mean anything on Medium.
- Moreover, he has gained around 90 referred members with his viral hit (plus his other stories).
- He’s from Dhaka, Bangladesh.
- A person working in Dhaka typically earns around 29,100 The Bangladeshi taka (BDT)= $338 per month and $4,056 per year.
$20,000 is undoubtedly a lot of money for me.
This is universe-changing money, isn’t it?
It’s 5x a year’s income in Dhaka.
S M bought his parents something nice.
When I asked S M what he did or plans to do with the money he answered:
(…) I bought my mom and dad expensive presents.
I think this is a great gesture.
To give your parents and your family something (back).
Final Takeaways
I’ve never seen a story with such massive results before.
Apparently, S M did:
And you know, there are people who earned more than $50K from one viral story. Hahaha!
Isn’t that INSANE?
Yes, it really is.
Nevertheless, S M emphasizes:
(…) no one can write an article and be sure that it’s going to be a hit.
I wrote 27 more stories in that month and most of them didn’t get me even 5 dollars. Even a lot of my 253 stories written in the last 1.5 years earned me less than one dollar.
But if SM hadn’t written those hundreds of $1-stories, his $19,000-article would never have appeared.
