You are on fire.
Ho lee sheet. Serious?
I thought if your article gets curated or something, it's way easier? Or is it supremely hard to get curated? Does this curation jail thing really exist?
And why one year? Is it the time required to gain a following ,etc.?
Please do PM me your blog (if you don't mind). But it's ok if you don't
You are on fire.
Ho lee sheet. Serious?
I thought if your article gets curated or something, it's way easier? Or is it supremely hard to get curated? Does this curation jail thing really exist?
And why one year? Is it the time required to gain a following ,etc.?
Please do PM me your blog (if you don't mind). But it's ok if you don't
Different people will say different things based on their guesses.
The curators will curate your article if they think others will read your article. It is like a two way guessing game. You are trying to guess what the curators like but they are trying to guess what the audience like.
My thesis is “followers Is the only thing that matters in the long term”. Even though the monetization algo doesn't reward that directly.
Look like Shelby Church. Just because she is famous on youtube she can gain an audience very quickly in Medium.
Whether you can make it on medium monetarily, you can just look at the current benchmark, Ayodeji and Tim Denning (who grow from Medium without a fan base outside)who consistently make 5 digits monthly. If you compare their production to what you can get in quora and youtube, I do not think they are worth that much. It just means that Medium is not that competitive for a content producer. That is Just my opinion. It is not that hard to reach that kind of level thats why I say it is not too difficult to make serious money for someone who write consistently for a year.
Ultimately how successful you are depends on the topic and style you choose. What is the end game when content creation become a more matured market 2-3 years later? From the current trend videos are going to eat up most of the market share. Why do you pay to read an article when you can watch or listen to a podcast for free just together with some annoying ads? My thesis is that a lot of bullet point type of shallow articles will get thrown into the dustbin of history. Only writers who can write very complicated and intriguing stuffs that need the readers
to read back and forth And also do some google search to take notes.
If they want a “movie experience”
that a predetermined Chronological order does not undermine the user experience, a video or podcast will serve them better.
Try to a video on the “business strategy of Amazon vs JD.com”. A 20 min video on that will be a incredibly dumbed down version.
That is how I look at it. I spent 2-3 weeks researching if I should write on it then I decided so. It is a decision for me because I think I have the ability to explain complicated but interesting ideas that will survive in the competition for attention for written materials.
I also have an offline business of selling financial product, so how I want to play the game is going to be different from someone who rely on writing revenue for a living. Ideally I want to in the long run transit from less of a salesperson to a content creator which is more of a “fastlane” idea.
