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I Have 2,000+ Followers on Medium and Only Make $30 a Month
I first joined Medium in 2013 when the platform was only starting to emerge. For me, it was honestly just fun to be able to publish somewhere that wasn’t on my own measly blog. It was nice to know that there was a larger potential for more people to actually read the things I wrote.
Eventually, I became a paid Medium member about two and a half years ago. This slightly changed my mindset because money was now factored into the equation.
At first, it didn’t necessarily change anything — it didn’t affect how I wrote, what I wrote about, or how often I published. Just knowing that I had the potential to make a few extra bucks was merely an added perk. That was up until I made my first “big bucks” on Medium — and when I say “big”, I mean over one hundred dollars.
Insight into my numbers
It was only a few short months after I became a paid Medium member when I saw my first nice spike in monthly payouts. For the most part, it was pretty steady for a little while (with the exception of late September through late November). And I was ecstatic to learn that making money on Medium wasn’t a myth.
