How I earned money from writing and went $0.55 to $2,200+ in 3 Months

Like everyone else, I started my Medium journey by reading different blogs. I bought a Medium subscription in July as I was restricted to read more stories.

When I joined Medium I had no intentions of trying to earn money from Medium and honestly speaking I had no clue about the Medium writing program. Crazy right?

I was an Angular Developer for X years and wanted to change my career so I started exploring the latest trends in Frontend Technologies. I started preparing for different questions and Medium was helping me to go through different topics in depth. After 35 days of preparations, I was able to get my dream job as a Senior Consultant in One Company.

One day suddenly I came across one topic about someone’s journey of earning some amount from the Medium and it motivated me to write and share my research and experiences about topics that most interviewers ask in Angular Interviews.

This was the first article I wrote in the Medium. (Note: I have recently changed title)

I have received 1 view/day after posting this article. I was so happy after seeing that someone is reading my article.

After writing one article, I started researching how I can share this article with others and how I can enhance my views and basically make more money.

I have read a lot of articles so I got the idea of which kind of the content reader wants to read and which motivates them to read my articles. I started with my Interview Questions and I started writing about different topics such as the basics of Angular, Optimization, and Performance Techniques.

When I got $0.55 USD in my bank I have decided next time I will make more for sure.

My first month earnings:

One day I got contacted by one publication to publish my story to their publication. After publishing the story my views got increased and I found a new way to improve the views by publishing stories to publications.

I started writing more and more which helped me to learn and adapt to different styles. Next month I earned $120.98 and then went to $670.71.

Below are different month’s earning details:

Tips

Below are the things I started considering in my Medium journey and this formula helped me to reach my goals.

1. Publications

As Publications have a lot of followers it helps us to build audience and views.

2. Social Media and Promotions

Social media helps a lot to improve your article views. What I learned is don’t afraid to share your work with the world. People may laugh but you will learn a lot eventually.

3. Title

I have found from a lot of research that the title should be more appealing for users to read your article.

4. Content and SEO

What I found while searching in Google that when you search for a specific word sometimes Google picks your content word in the match.

5. Start Writing More

What I learn if you write more, you get an idea of how you can improve your writing skills as well as how you can engage more users.

Below are the numbers.

September: 1 Story
October: 23 Stories
November: 34 Stories
December: 21 Stories
January: 20+ Stories

6. Support Others

Start appreciating other's work. This can help you make friends in Medium.

7. Facebook groups

You can learn a lot from other groups about writing in Medium. Below are some groups: Medium Writing Medium Writers Lounge, Medium Writers and Bloggers

8. Don’t expect success right away

Don't be upset about your work if it is not getting more views or curated. Good things take time.

9. User Proper tags

It is better to use proper tags to get an idea to see the stories related to tags.

10. Formatting

If you read a lot of articles you will find the success of stories depends on how they formatted and how it is conveying messages to users. For example, this format helped me a lot: Introduction, Image, Content, Summary, Source, Recommendations.

JavaScript In Plain English has a Style Guide which can help you a lot with this. Link below:

11. Images

Yeah! Images can help a lot. You can use Unsplash.

12. Modify your stories

There might be chances that the stories that have not gained enough views, in the beginning, can get success now. You can modify the content and republish your stories with newer content and ideas to gain more attention.

13. Schedule your Publish times

I have seen a couple of times if I publish my story in the morning people tend to read more compare to other times. You can schedule a specific time to publish your stories.

14. Publish Story Next day after a quick read

I found this strategy very helpful to find any mistakes in my story. If I publish the same day there are chances I don’t see any errors as I am in hurry to publish my story. This can be avoided by publishing a story on the next day after reviewing it with a fresh mind.

15. Spelling mistakes & Grammar

You can use Grammarly which helps me a lot to correct my spellings.

So what you are waiting for?

“Success will never be a big step in the future, success is a small step taken just now.” ― Jonatan Mårtensson

I would like to thank JavaScript In Plain English, and Sunil Sandhu for guiding me and supporting me in this journey.

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