My 1 Mistake That Cost Me Serious $$$ On Medium

Paige Humphrey
3 min readSep 13, 2022
Photo by Karolina Grabowska

I’ve been writing on Medium.com since February 2022. I wanted an easy entrance into the world of online blogging, and to make some cash on the side, too.

Pretty quickly, I was able to reach the 100 followers threshold so that I could apply to the Medium Partner Program. I was ecstatic! It only took me 2 stories from the start of the program to go viral. My story earned me 5k+ views and $163.

Afterwards, my stories rarely saw below 200 views, with another 3 stories ranking anywhere from 1k — 12k views. In the spirit of full transparency, I’ve made over $1,000 on Medium — not too shabby!

But then I started traveling around the country working remotely. Aaaand I found excuses not to write each Monday night like I had been for weeks. What can I say — exploring a new city was more exciting than writing my next article! Skipping my weekly Medium articles went on for 3 weeks.

I was excited about my next article, and thoroughly thought through the content and how it would appeal to my audience. Unfortunately, I’m absolutely sure that

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