Blogging In 2022

Starting your own blog was a big way to make money many years ago – and still can be today – but some people are now saying that the potential to earn money on Medium is that good, that you should forget having your own blog and simply start writing on Medium.

As with all things in life, if you start something and then stop, you will not achieve the results you desire. It’s the same when using Medium.

A simple strategy can have you earning money from Medium, but you need to implement it and stick with it… at least for the short term.

Some content creators now earn money passively from their content when they take time away from Medium.

Make Money Using Medium

To make money publishing content to Medium you need to open up a profile first.

Once you have your profile, you can start adding content to the website.

To make this work you need to write and publish articles – called Stories – to Medium regularly.

Writing one article a day or every other day really isn’t that hard.

An article can take as little as ten minutes to write or maybe an hour depending on how long and detailed it is.

Set yourself a challenge such as write and publish one article a day for 30 days to help you get into the swing of it. Once the 30 days are over, start again or adopt a strategy where you continue to write regularly.

You cannot earn any money until you join the Medium Partner Programme and you cannot join that programme until you have at least 100 followers.

You need to have followers and that is probably the only obstacle of the whole business model… but that is easily over come. It may be a little time consuming in the beginning but don’t let that put you off.

I recently read how one woman amassed 300 followers in a couple of days by spending a few hours each day commenting on and ‘Clapping’ – their term for ‘Liking’ – other people’s content.

She opened up conversations with people.

By doing this she had people going and checking out her profile resulting in them reading a few of her ‘stories’ and then hitting the ‘Follow’ button.

Within a couple of days of starting her campaign of commenting on other people’s content, she had all the followers she needed to join the partner programme.

Publish Fresh Content Regularly

If you write and publish one article each weekday, you will have published 260 articles over a year. That is 260 articles online which people can read… 260 articles which can earn you money.

If an article goes viral and is read by a lot of people, then you will make more money.

Obviously, whether an article goes viral or not is largely down to the nature of the content and how it is received by readers. Good quality content which is actually useful will be received better than something that doesn’t actually say anything.

Headlines are also important. Good headlines draw people in. A good headline – one which ignites excitement and/or curiosity – will help you generate more reads than a boring headline.

Writing and publishing content to Medium is a lot easier than you think.

As long as you do not write about anything that is hateful, disrespectful or downright nasty, Medium allows you to write about virtually anything and everything.

You could simply start writing about your thoughts about the world we live in and use Medium as a thought dump if you so wished.

I recommend that you write your article in MS Word or Google Docs and then simple copy and paste the content over to Medium.

Make any formatting changes that you need, add a picture (Medium connects to Unsplash photo-stock website so choosing a picture is easy), choose the relevant tags and then hit publish.

It really is simple.

A Perfect Simple Second Income System

I think this could be a great side income stream for anyone who either enjoys writing, or who has plenty of time on their hands and isn’t afraid to get stuck in and write one article a day.

Because of the money which writers can earn, some writers sit and churn out several articles a day and keep publishing new content.

For them it is a simple business model.

They write what they want and when they want.

There is no marketing to do, no running of expensive adverts or trying to figure out SEO to get people to your website to see your content or products.

There is no website to maintain or products to create and manage.

With this you simply…

Write and publish… write and publish… write and publish…

And allow Medium to do the rest.

If one article is seen on average by 10 people, then one article is not going to make a lot of money… but if you publish 1,000 articles, now you are being seen thousands of times.

People who read and like one article are more likely to read more by the same person so publishing as many articles as you can on a website like Medium makes sense.

Many writers who publish to Medium also share the same content on other similar websites like Vocal.com – who also pay writers like Medium – to get double exposure.

More exposure means more earnings.

The money doesn’t just come from the reads on Medium itself. Many writers have landed paying clients after publishing their content.

One woman landed a £50,000 writing deal after she published a short 800 word fictional story which a clothes brand wanted to use as part of their marketing campaign.

Sometimes the biggest changes to a person’s life and circumstances come from simply being ‘seen’ and publishing regular content online is a great way to be seen.

Got A Spare Hour Each Day?

If you find yourself looking for something to do each day and want to make some extra money, then could this be the second income you were looking for?

To learn more about making money by writing, go and have a read here;

5 Ways To Find Freedom As A Paid Writer

Kind Regards.

John Harrison

PS… Every piece of content you write and publish to Medium becomes content you can publish elsewhere and reuse in other products such as books, emails and reports.

5 Ways To Find Freedom As A Paid Writer