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Publishing More Articles Doesn’t Guarantee You More Money
The never-ending battle between quantity versus quality
As we conclude what seems to be the longest month of all eternity, I’m doing my routine evaluation of how I netted out in terms of my monthly Medium profit. It was no surprise that this month turned out to be one of my highest-article-producing months in a while.
In comparison to February, I published nearly four times as many articles this month than I did last month. So, logically, one would assume that publishing more articles automatically means that you’re more likely going to receive a higher cashflow, right? (Well, that’s what I assumed at least)
To my disappointment, that was sadly not the case for this month.
Looking at my month-to-date earnings in March, it appears that I’m only a few cents shy of the measly twenty dollars and twenty cents that I made in the entire month February. Attempting to process that reality was a pretty difficult pill to swallow. I asked myself,
“How is it possible that I wrote four times more articles this month than I did last month, yet I’m still making nearly the same exact money?”
It made me question if there’s any point in churning out articles on a frequent basis. It even made me question…
