You Don’t Have to Be an Impossibly Overachieving Lunatic to Improve Your Stats
You can still win with a more relaxed, and a less lunacy approach.
While I am light years from P.G. Barnett’s exemplary calibre of prolificness and consistency as shared by him in his article entitled An Impossibly Overachieving Lunatic, I am pretty chuffed with my progress over the first four months of this year.
Paul’s dedication to his art is mind-blowing. Kudos to him and his work ethic.
Both Paul and I have noticed positive changes to the number of views and reads since we started our journeys on the Medium Platform.
In January, I wrote and posted every day. I’ll let the figures speak for themselves. The first spike was for I reached a Medium Goal. The second and third were for What is Frugality and Why Would You Want to Be Frugal Anyway?
In February, I knew I couldn’t maintain the prolific daily posting, so chose to work on the quality and post two to four times per week.
I hit upon a pretty good topic and published on Sunday, February 9th. I spent all day engaging with people who responded to it. The Best Things in Life Are Free remains my best performing article.
March was a difficult month for the whole world. Along with millions of other people, I discovered I wouldn’t be getting any new students to coach until who knows when. I also found myself a new job and then promptly self-isolated for two weeks.
Dr Mehmet Yildiz published his most memorable article on March 18th. Invitation to Illuminating Writers. I was one of the personally invited writers and felt honoured to be included by a respected writer who had started on Medium around the same time as myself.
On the 23rd March, I received the email we all wait for on tenterhooks. Love Letter to Myself had been curated and distributed in Self. It did well and continues to provide a tiny, slow-burn, evergreen income.
April 10th felt like it was my birthday. The Dr had chosen Calling All Illuminators as the featured article of the day.
When your article is selected all the editors and writers on Slack and Illumination go crazy with tweets, responses, shares, posts to Linked In and Facebook.
The ultimate aim is to go viral. It didn’t happen this time, but who knows what will happen in the future!
You might be wondering about the spike of 555 views on April 15th. I wrote a response to Shin Jie Yong’s article Meta-Analyses Reveal Who Should Be More Cautious of COVID-19.
The outcome of this update on my stats is that being a writer on Illumination does improve the number of views and eyeballs that read your work, share your words and engage with you.
Not to mention the 498 additional followers I’ve gained since February.
Being on Slack and part of the team that do what they are good at in supporting Dr Mehmet Yildiz also boosted my stats.
Views remain far higher than reads.
However, you might notice that the lower four ILLUMINATION articles that focus on what I’m doing as part of the publication have improved read ratios.
The very short ILLUMINATION is Now Online and Rearing to Go and short read Welcome Aboard the ILLUMINATION Publication articles have much better read ratios.
There’s something to be said about articles that are a five minute or less read.
Lastly, final proof of the wonder of being part of ILLUMINATION.
Keep writing, engaging and sharing fellow illuminators. You too can achieve these and or better than these figures if you put in the work.
