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How to Make Your First $1,000 (And Beyond) On Medium
Even though basically no one makes money on Medium
As much as I can see the opportunity available to aspiring writers with something as special as the Medium Partner Program, I can also see how easy it is to get discouraged.
See, sadly, 95 to 99 percent of the people reading this blog post will never make $1,000 or more on Medium.
Most of you will quit before you even make $100.
Hell, most of you will quit before you even get two dozen posts under your belt.
That being said, it definitely doesn’t have to be this way. Not only can you make $1,000 or more on Medium, but you can also work your way to making a full time living on Medium.
I have seen enough examples to show that you can still succeed even if Medium is more competitive than it used to be in the past. Take Kirstie Taylor for example who started posting on Medium one year ago and worked her way up to $4,000 a month.
My new friend Sean Kernan who I’m getting to know better has a growing profile of 4.8k followers even though he’s only been on Medium for a few months.
Megan Holstein made a cool $10,000 on Medium in 2019. Funny enough, a reader commented on how she “only” made $10,000 from…
