How to Get Your First 1000 Medium Followers
From someone who’s done it
It takes about a thousand followers to get traction in the form of regular engagement on Medium. In this post, I’ll show you how to do it.
Yes, you might get lucky and write a post that gets boosted (or goes viral) and gain hundreds of followers. But on average, you won’t get a ton of reader engagement because you don’t have a readership base.
Unfortunately, when most new writers start on this platform, they:
- Write with no audience in mind
- Publish sporadically
- Get few results and quit
But it doesn’t have to be this way. You can build a sizable following on Medium and make some extra cash doing what you love.
Will it happen quickly? I don’t know. Maybe, or it make take you a while. Will you become a better writer in the process? Without a doubt.
Here’s a high-level view of how to do it.
Get On a (Manageable) Routine
Chances are, your favorite writers on this platform publish multiple times each week. Some even publish daily. There’s a reason for that.
You have to feed the machine. To do that, you need a realistic routine that…
