How Much Medium Paid me in my Second Month of Writing…

Okay, so I’m back. You’ve been waiting patiently for the update. Biting your nails…

So you probably haven’t, but it’s fascinating to see how much we all earn on this platform, right?

I will start with an admission. In my first month, I posted 26 times. In my second month, I posted 8 times. Oops.

December is traditionally a busy month for us westerners celebrating Christmas & spending lots of time with family and friends. There’s my excuse. BUT, excuses aren’t really needed as the results weren’t too bad.

Let’s start with views & reads. As you can see in the picture above, having just shy of 1,000 views (increase of 360) & over 500 reads in a month where I only posted 8 times is nothing short of incredible.

Why so different to November where my input was 3 times greater?

Could it be evergreen content? That is a big earner for some of your most read stories later down the line, but that wasn’t the case for me as can be seen in the picture below. It seems ‘added value’ was the winner on this occasion.

As you can see, 4 of my top earning stories in December were written & published IN DECEMBER. The only one that still resonated from November was ‘That One Picture…’ due to its personal touch.

The common denominator can only be the added value. They were all written with the intent of giving away valuable knowledge to my audience for free. ‘How to improve this’ or ‘How to make more of that’. People love to be empowered to develop.

My subscribers more than doubled too, which helps with getting more eyeballs on my content (below). Though people opting for updates through email leveled themselves out (something for me to work on).

How much did I make in my 2nd month of using Medium? Well, it was less than my first month, but only fractionally. Which only supports what I’m always promoting:

INPUT = OUTPUT

So I will be going back to writing articles most days for Medium, FOR ALL OF YOU! Though this time, the majority will be maintaining that added value element.

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Happy writing!