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Medium in July
Am I on The Right Track?
In July, my main goal was to merely do better than I did in June on Medium.
I wanted to keep it simple and knew that I would have to start somewhere. In order to hit my three year goal, one of the things I need to do is slowly start building up different streams of income.
Medium is one of those streams.
When I first started on here, I was making hundreds of dollars a month. Then, when they changed things up, that dropped to less than five dollars. You can imagine how discouraging that could be.
What did I do?
I basically stopped writing here. It wasn’t that I didn’t want to. I don’t write for the money, but it’s nice to have a little bit of incentive as well. The reason I kind of stopped was that because reader engagement for me disappeared. People weren’t highlighting as much, commenting as much. When a post would normally get hundreds of claps for me, now I was lucky to get five or ten.
I think my worst month I didn’t write a single thing and I made $1.54.
So, let’s talk numbers.
In June, I made $9.15. This was about four times what I made in May. I wrote 10 posts and made it a point to spend around 10 minutes a day reading other author’s posts.