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My Quintessential Article About Earning Money on Medium
There’s no one method to this madness
Everyone else is doing it. I’m not generally one to hop on band wagons, but maybe in this case I will make an exception. It seems every other day I find another new Medium article written about “the way to make money” or “the one real method that works” for generating income on this website. Allow me to burst all the bubbles.
I’m still relatively new to the platform of course, so perhaps I am way off base. But I’ve been actively writing and producing what I hope is quality content for Medium for about a year now. Initially I wasn’t too concerned with generating any return on the investment, I just was happy to have found a welcoming platform for my work.
Primarily, I published poetry here at first. Generally speaking, although there is no shortage of poetry being written on Medium, if you expect a poem to ever earn you serious cash, you are going to be sorely disappointed. The most views any of my poetry has ever gotten was in the neighborhood of 3,000, and I didn’t earn more than a few cents for it, because those views were not Medium members.
This is disappointing, because poetry is my passion, and I do consider myself to be quite capable of writing some decent poems. It is my understanding that when Medium…
