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I Don’t Know How to Make $500 a Month on Medium So I Read the Medium Success Stories.
What writers earning real money on Medium can teach us without pretending there is a formula
I have been doing something mildly dangerous lately, reading articles about making money on Medium. Maybe it is because I just bought a house and the bathroom renovation is already more expensive than we originally thought. Hence this article.
While researching the subject, I found some advice I could get behind. I also found quite a few articles I could not.
If you have spent any time here, you probably know the genre. How I Made My First $1,000. How I Made $1,000 With Fewer Than 1,000 Followers. How I Finally Cracked Medium. They are irresistible when you are a small writer.
I recently started taking Medium more seriously. I have several series planned, ranging from programming and Windows to philosophy, AI and my experiences as a junior engineer. I am publishing consistently and interacting with other writers. Naturally, somewhere along the way I started wondering whether this could eventually make money.
So I went looking for people who had already done it. I expected to find a trick. Instead, I found something much less exciting and considerably more useful and very much in line with what you already…
