Ten Observations About Money and Medium
I’m not obsessed. Really.
I just happen to be interested in data and what it tells me so far. But until I had published over three hundred articles, I didn’t have enough to draw any conclusions. But even these observations are just speculation and rumor.
One: writers think too much about money
This one is simple. I wrote a piece complaining about the constant stream of get rich quick articles and the responses were universally in agreement with me. Readers want something interesting, provocative, or educational. And most are not writers.
Two: sharing on social media does not generate dollars
Why? Because readers on Facebook, Twitter, and others are unlikely to be paying Medium subscribers and they are the ones who pay the bill. This site is royalty-based in that articles keep earning as long as Medium readers read them, not visitors. If building a presence on social media is your goal, by all means share. But understand that 10k views from Reddit won’t add up to big bucks most of the time. When it happened to me I made a grand total of $2.00.
