Medium for beginners - How to succeed on Medium platform

1. Introduction: Hi everyone. My name is Pamela is Laurel. Welcome to this course which has medium for beginners, how to succeed on medium platform. Welcome to this course and I'm going to be teaching you how to succeed on medium. How to succeed on this amazing platform, which is there for writing. I'm a big fan, as you can see off medium. And I think it's quite possibly one of the best platforms to launch your writing career. And just human, right? Even if you're just a casual writer, you don't have long-term plans, have a writing career. I still think Medium is an amazing platform. You should have a presence. Honestly, the amazing thing about medium is it can give you like amazing visibility over the Internet. I mean, it can build your brand. You can reach out to people, and it can be landed launching pad to build your portfolio, your business and your writing skills, and all the way, all the way you can get paid or so. Honestly, there is no other blogging platform where it's so easy for beginners to pick up and start writing and easily earning money from various $1 or thousand dollars. So medium is quite simply amazing in this regard. But first of all, you might be asking, why, why should I write on the Internet? You don't have David parallel. If you've heard of him, he said something that works or the atomic unit of the internet. Writing is like weightlifting for the brain. Just as you improve your food diet, if you start cooking, you will improve your information that if you start writing, the more you write, the more you will learn and the more people you will connect with this single article, you can honestly build your network, improve your thinking, and create opportunities for yourself. Internet, the Internet unit used to characters with people in our past, writing online connection with people in your future, people. If you write online, it is a guaranteed way to shrink your word. Velvet an article can change your life because the Internet to watch people who write on it and you think, well, articles on the Internet, I say they're like little marketing tools. They will live on the Internet and they will go out like robots. Okay, they were connected people who want to meet you, give you money, consulting opportunities. Writing opportunity is freelancing opportunities. Maybe your future employer is going to see an article and say, hey, this guy looks like he knows what he's talking about. Let me hide him for a project. So each post is like an advertisement for these sort of people and opportunities you want to attract you. If you can write, you can build a platform for yourself. Honestly, if you look at the most successful people, they double as writers, you know, chefs, the right recipe is comedians by job's, entrepreneurs write business plans. Examples are like limitless. So that is the reason you should write on the Internet. If you agree with this, like you want to write on the Internet, then the best way to do that, honestly, it's for medium, the best and the most easiest way. So if you're not familiar with media medium.com is basically the best example I can tell you. It is like the YouTube of writing. So just like YouTube, if you join medium and write amazing articles, then you can create content, flex your creative muscles, and most awesomely, can own money. When people who like your stories, they engage with it, they read your contact and they get, they subscribe to you. And the more you write, the better you engage, the better you engaged, the more money and the wall cloud you can get on the platform. It is honestly the best platform on the right tone out for writers. I mean, in all my years of writing, I've never seen anything like it, which is so easy to do. And most people find me through medium, honestly, they read articles on Medium. They want to connect. Do you want to enroll in my courses? They want to buy my books. So that's why it's so awesome. It can, you can engage with that. You can create your own platform, you can create your own disability. And the same thing can happen to you also. And as you grow, the more you write and you become more successful in medium destructor help you out if you put in the work. And this course will teach you how to do that to create quality material and get a bit of momentum. The medium algorithm is going to help you out. If you're just starting out, you know, they don't know anybody supposing this is the first time you've written on the internet, medium has a built-in audience. It cuts out the pressure of looking out, setting up, maintaining your own blog, trying to get traffic to the blog. If you just write good the medium algorithm and help you out, It's a great place to get started for beginners. If you're already a professional, you already have a presence online. This is a great way to further build your body called your presence online to build your brand. So I hope you understood now, why should we write on medium? Like I said earlier, just to summarize, you can get amazing potential there. First of all, is your brand. You can create your brand outside of your nine to five job. I always tell people, please do not always rely on your nine to five job. Don't just rely on that. Always have a backup plan. Also have another opportunity, some site income from passive income you can rely on. And when you create your own brand, you won't believe what happened. You will get public issues reaching out to you. Companies will reach out to you for freelance work. Like people will reach out to give you money. That's pretty amazing. You're not reaching out to them, they're reaching out to you. You might get bookie is okay, maybe all your articles, you can create an eBook and put it on a platform like GMB rolled around money from that publishers and all that. So list is endless and you can get job opportunities like to tell you, some people are there, some of the smartest people on planet Earth on medium, right? They might come across your article and say, hey, this guy looks like somebody, I want to pay money, but I want to hire this guy. So that's how it is amazing. And of course, income, like I said, medium has a built-in audience, right? Like back in the day, if you wanted to build a like audience, you will have to create your own blog, right? 2030 post. Do search engine optimization, which can drive you crazy, right? You promoted on social media, you have to be a great marketing guy on top of being a good writer. But now you don't have to worry about that medium already has millions and millions of readers and increasing per month. It is one of the most highly trafficked website in the world. I think it's one of the top-rated websites also in the top 100. Definitely. Your articles can be there, your storage can be there. And you can get paid directly for writing. You can write, you can write articles, and you can use it as a launching pad. Okay? Most bloggers I've seen they don't like the backend jobs, like creating a blog, doing marketing and all that, all those things you don't have to worry about, you just have to write good articles and that's it. And the things like the median partner program, you can get bid directly based on how much medium people are reading your articles that said, you can do what you love and you can get paid at the same time, you can create your own brand and you can get job opportunities. So after listening to me ramble on like this, you might be thinking, wow, that sounds awesome. I definitely want medium. And if you're okay with it, then this is the course for you. So medium, writing on Medium is not rocket science. I mean, I would love to tell you that it's like a special thing which only I can teach, you know, it's pretty simple, but I can help you avoid some of the mistakes which a lot of new people make and which I made honestly. So what we'll do in this course gave you, you'll get a complete overview of the medium platform, how to get into that mindset, which is very important. A lot of people, they get excited. They do it maybe like two or three stories that don't get success, they gave up. And I'll tell you the tips, how to get into the mindset and how to succeed, and of course, how to get money, how to make money on medium, how you can actually use media as a way to earn some income or so. Why not? Everybody loves to have money, right? So that is what you will get with discourse. So first of all about me. After you've heard all this, who am I? My name is Pamela is LOL. I have two decades of experience and technology and risk. I'm also an author's, I'm a blogger, I'm an instructor also, I do career coaching. I have a YouTube channel called the Cloud security guy on which I talk about things like cloud security, artificial intelligence and you know, generally career advice. I tried to help out people. I'm trying to give back to the community as much as I can. So a little bit of my journey. I was in the industry for several years. I've won a few awards here in the Middle East Valley for about a decade, and I moved to the UK because I was awarded a global talent visa. I recently just published a book on AIC for cybersecurity, but to more planned. And like I said, I moved to the UK. I'm currently based out of London. And why am I talking about this? Because this does not seem like my specialty, but no, I have been writing for the past, I think 12 years. It has always been one of my favorite things to do, which I and I like to try to give back and spread this knowledge as much as possible. I'm trying to encourage as much people as possible to write. So when it comes to writing, I mean, I've been doing, Like I said, I've coached a lot of people about writing. When it comes to writing, people usually have three problems, three myths, they have problems. First myth is that they think about themselves like this, that they're not right there. That's what they told me. I'm not a writer. I've never written before. Nothing makes sure I take some writing. I wasn't the right until I started writing. I had the same thing. I started writing for a magazine. I read one article and I couldn't believe they accepted it. Then I wrote another one and I that I worked for four years for that section. And only after that I realized okay, I'm at my desk, somebody halfway through. If you have access to the Internet and you can write a sentence, nothing is stopping you from becoming a writer except you have that identity. I'm a writer now and you can start at MIT to make a lot of people come to me and they say the same thing that YouTube is finished now, digital courses or finish, medium is finished, firefighters finish. All of these are saturated. They are like billions of people there. Nobody can make money. And all the while, other people are making millions and millions every year on these platforms, you know why, you know why? Because they take positive action. They don't let all the negative Tawfik affect them and they just start working on it and see. And then we'll slowly by slowly, this compounding effect comes in. And what you do, it builds upon itself and you will see that the results of your success. So please do not let negative people drag you down. Don't think like that, just take positive action and started. And lastly I heard, which is the oldest, find it a little bit funny. People say, Man, I'm not an expert. Much more smarter people than me. They have already written on every topic. Why would anybody be interested in me? What if people find out and writing and make fun of me? I mean, come on, nobody cares about that guys. If you're maybe like a technology person, then you definitely can communicate that things right? You communicate to your staff or your fellow coworkers. You can definitely communicate that. And I hate to tell you this, but people, they are not interested in the messages. They're interested in how the message is conveyed, how you teach them. Maybe you're teaching them the same thing they've heard a million times before. But the way in which you are writing or teaching them, that is something they've had not heard before and they will get motivated by this, okay? So you will never know unless you start, like I said, you do not have to be the only thing that will make you write as being a writer and start writing. It is not too late to succeed. You can start today and see the positive action. And what do you call it? You do not have to be an expert. Okay? Nobody will care about your writing. You will have full freedom. I can assure you you write every week, one year, you will look back after 12 months and say, Thank God, I started writing that was the best decision I made. Okay, So do not let V for that and start writing by w. Okay, so I hope this motivated you guys. Let's get started. And I hope I gave you a good overview, so let's get started now. One thing I forgot to tell you guys as a project, I want you to write a story on medium and share the link. I will review it and I will give you either confront, I promised you I'd give you feedback on the same, just share it across to me and I'll let you have feedback and if it's good, I will even show it on the platform and get you more visibility. Okay? Okay guys, I hope that work. Okay, so let's move on to the next chapter and I'll talk to you about media, what is medium, and how it works. Thank you, and I'll see you in the next section. 2. What is Medium : Okay guys, congratulations on starting the first proper section. Let's start with medium and why you should use it as a writing platform. I already told you why you should write. Why medium. Okay. So like I said, if you're a newcomer, but the UN expert medium is the place to write. Medium is a very, very awesome place where you can just write your share your writing, and start writing as it is quite possibly the most easiest way. It makes writing as easy as possible. It has a massive, massive existing audience already. I mean, anybody on, you can sign up and start writing. And you can publish individual, standalone post. Or you can contribute to like big publications. They like big magazines. I'll talk to you about that, but it has a massive audience, massive traffic. Is that all you have to do is right? That's it. You can write about any topic you want, and there will be people there. I guarantee you who will read it and give you some feedback on this. You can write short articles, long articles, or less. Pretty much like topic can be pretty much anything. But for this first lesson, I'm going to show you the mindset which you need to be successful as a medium writer gives you the steps on what you need to be successful. Like I said before, and I'll say it again, medium is quite possibly the blessing platform right now on planet Earth for writers, I mean, it's the easiest way it makes writing very frictionless. So the same thing which have the same success stories, which has happened to other people that can happen to you also, once you start writing the allegorical embassy and it'll take you further. Okay. So what do we do next? First of all, stop. Don't do anything, please. Do not move ahead until you take one action. What action is that? Very, very important guys. I want you to go and create your medium profile. If it is not there already. If you have not created that, please pause, go and create a medium profile to not move ahead without doing that. This is not a theoretical course when I'm just speaking and you are just listening. Believe me, knowledge which you do not apply, you will forget it. I want you to take positive action and succeed. So please, if you've already created your profile, move ahead. Otherwise, go ahead and start creating your medium profile. You'll be, it's a very easy to do. They just said, you'll be prompted to follow a few topics put in yours. When you call what sort of things you like, what are you interested in? Just print it out. And what happens is medium based on that, it will fill your homepage with personalized recommendations. That becomes important later on. You can follow a few people if you want. What do you call it? Just to give support to those peoples. And medium is like based on topics like, so just see what sort of topics you're interested in and do it. So if you've done that, let's move ahead. Okay. So first of all, when you've created your profile, please, I want you to go to your profile, look at this. I want you to personalize your bio and your profile page. So think of it as your tagline. Please do not think this is not important. This is important. Lot of people, they don't fill out the name or they put some sort of like a tag name. Or they put some sort of don't let people know who they are, what they're doing, and they don't put source of some sort of a picture. These are all psychological things. They make people trust you. Okay? So think of the virus or tagline, this short thing. It appears everywhere, okay, and your profile picture, and it gives a sense of the medium users who you are, whether they should follow you or not. And these are the sorts of things you can customize the font page. And really, the more better your profile is, medium does look at it when later on when they're thinking about creating your articles, we'll talk about that. But it's more about the psychology, right? People. If they see your face and they see what you've done, there are definitely more inclined to read about you. So like I said, we'll look into curation later, but just make sure these three sections are filled out. Okay. So let's move ahead. Okay, So how does medium book? It's pretty simple guys. It's not rocket science, it's very, very simple. You just write articles which are called stories. And you improve upon them, right? Right, right, and get better at it. People will start falling. You look at your stats. I'll teach you all starts in a second, but improve based on what you're seeing, like what topics people are engaging with, what is working, what is not. And the more you do this, the more people will start following you. After you have 100 followers, you can actually get added to the medium partner program and you can make some money, which is pretty awesome. But like I said, please do not make this. The first goal. If you're just thinking about money you will get, you will lose your motivation early on and write about something which interests you, right? Because you love, like to write. Don't think about money initially, because then you lose motivation very, very quickly. But this is how media works and what are the things like, what are the different components, the medium ecosystem. It's very, very simple. Stories. Stories are basically articles or you can think about it like blog posts. Simple rule on medium. The most stories you write, the better it will be, the more, the better you will get. And the better you will get. You will get more followers, followers and readers and they click on follow, just like subscribers on YouTube. And they follow, they will get notified. And what are the stats? Stats will basically tell you how your stories are going. So you will be able to look at that and get an idea of, okay, this destroys a drink go these tools are not GAD. And once you're comfortable writing on Medium, Okay, you've written a few articles, are stories, and you've seen people like the following. You and your senior starts improving. You can start looking at submitting to publications. Publications are like big magazines, you know, just like magazines, they follow common topic. You can look at technology magazines, you can look at here in magazines, you can look at businesses like Lean Startup magazines, whatever you are interested in and try to submit, we'll go into detail on that. And lastly, what he called. Last thing is curation. Curation is medium takes a look at your writing. A lot of writers on medium idea, own team. And if the failure article is good, they will actually curated witches. They will promote article. It will show up even to people who are not falling. It'll show up on the, you can think of it as being on the front page of a newspaper that gives you a massive boost to your profile. And you'll see a lot of followers suddenly trying to find out how to follow you, reach out to you. So curation is like a lot of people try to get creation. Don't worry too much about it. I'll get into detail. But these are the main things, the ecosystem of media. One thing which is not there, which is always working in the background, always. It is the medium algorithm. Immediately go to Theme is basically how media works. It looks at your stories. It medium does not explain how it's all going to converge because it's more like a, it's like their own trademark, right? But it's pretty easy to see. Like what are the, what are the things that looks at and how you can get curated. I'll get into detail on that. But just remember medium, it changes its algorithm all the time. But a few patterns are like, you can take a look at it, like quality. How much is the Goodyear articles or how many people are engaging with? Like people who write every day, like almost every day if you're writing, they look at that current events. If you are writing out long articles, if you write like one hundred, two hundred pages, they don't like it like you want to have at least a five-minute read, right? So those are the things which will really give you success on medium. Okay? So what are the action points for the first-class guy is very simple. I want you to sign up for medium. I hope you've already done that and create your bio. And in the next class, you're going to start our very first story. So I hope you're excited and I'll see you in the next class. 3. Medium Stories: Hi guys. So back up to the second class. And this is the very first component of medium. And it's quite possibly the most important component which is medium stories. So whatever medium stories guys are very, very simple. What's the main component of medium? The story, stories, Archimedean, what videos are the U2, anything in your article or your post? It's called a story. It is how you engage with the medium readers, okay? Everything revolves around this. If you write a good stories, you will succeed on Medium. You can read about medium all you want. But unless you start creating stories, nothing will happen. Me stories of how people will engage with you and how medium people will notice you. And they'll say, Okay, this guy looks like he's knows what he's talking about. Let's reach out to him, put him for curation and all that. So the whole goal of mediums, like what, why was medium created, guys? It was created so people can write stories and people can read them. Medium wants you to succeed. They want you to write good articles, good articles, good stories when more people will reach out to you, most people will read. Like I said, there is no secret here. The more you write the morphology is you'll get them. You'll get, you'll get, you'll write more, you'll get better and better engagement. So it's like a continuous feedback loop, which you have to start, is to really take it's time to start. But once it starts, it becomes very, very easy. So enough talking. I mean, like I said, I can talk all day, but unless you start writing, what do you call it, you will not write weight. So that's the thing without writing. You won't build a writing habit. Without a writing habit, you cannot build a writing career. And without a writing three, you can't find the money and the motivation which is there. So let's stop talking and let's go into medium. And I'm going to write a small article and I'll show you how it looks like. One of the things you have to do, don't worry about finding your first niche and finding like the special needs trust nobody knows about please, in your first article, try to make it fun, right? About something you like when you call people or not people want to read like real human beings. They don't want to read like a robot. Just going to write a simple article. I'm just going to show you how it looks like and then what I want you to do. I want you to go and write your first medium story. So let, let's go ahead and do it. Hi guys. So this is what I was talking about. We are right now at Medium.com. This is my medium and I just want to write a small, small article just to show you. So you go here, right? And this is your title. This is a subtitle and this is we're going to write a story. So this is my title. You want to write a nice little article like, you know, how to people like kings, like how to list or like, you know, you want to put how I achieved this. These are my lessons after like 20 years in finance and those sorts of things. The next one is a subtitle. You want to write the subtitle like this. So just select it. Select it and press this one. So you can see the formatting. It becomes sentences, but there's a subtitle. I don't know if you want to write 20 lessons in finance story. And this is, you want to make it, if you make it like this again, this becomes a subtitle. What I learned after two decades. Spreadsheets, just something that's catchy which makes them interested. And now you can start writing. So this is my first paragraph. Start, start with that, start with an interesting hook. You want to start with an interesting book. Details up on it, and then just write, this is your first article. You don't need to be very articulate about it. This is just your time getting used to the platform. I don't want you to overthink it. Just write a nice little article or something like that. You know, something that you're comfortable with your writing. Try to reach, try to reach around. I don't know, 300 words. That's it. I think it's going to explode is more than enough. And that's it. Once you've done, all you have to do is click publisher. So let's assume that you've written it. Click Publish. Now, this is, will go into the formatting and other things later on. But this is very important guys publishing. So these are the topics. The topics is how medium discovers your article. This is, you want to find topics here, but you've written about, so maybe I wrote about finance. So finance 191 thousand people are looking at finite, That's pretty cool. This is our median will discover your article. Please be, don't try to put it in words that you are not looking at, okay, which are the article does not pertain to, because then people will pick up on it and even medium algorithm and see that you are just trying to game the system. Don't try to do that. Try to write like budget, budget, maybe Excel, these things. Excel. Spreadsheet. We have three tags that are three topics. Use them to the fullest and work. These are the things that said guys. So once you've done this, try to find those topics which are the most linked to your story and then hit publish and that's it. You've written your first article. Congratulations on that. I want you to stop the video, write your first article, population and then come back. Please. Don't try to watch these videos and not actually apply the things I'm telling you. Because whatever we gonna be learning, it's gonna be building upon itself. So just go and write your first article and then come back to the lesson. Thank you. Okay guys. So I hope you, I hope you enjoyed that and you thought that was just a basic framework for how to write your story. I want you to do the same thing now and write your first story. That's the first thing I want you to do, okay? Please don't move it if you've not done that. Provided you've done that, I want you to connect with other writers. If you're writing about technology. If find out what other writers are, they connect with them. Okay, so like I said, it's like a social network. You want to build around connect with other people who are, who have the same taste says you. So you'll find them connected. Many, many amazing writers. I want you to go and comment on the stories. Clap, clap is basically it's like a commenting and saying that I like, I'm a fan of the story. I really liked it. I want you to see what topics are writing on. Basically clapping is if you want, if you enjoyed, you think you want to enjoy the story, okay? I want you to follow them also and see what topics are writing. Lastly, a very important, I want you to join medium as a paying member. It's just, I think it's $5 now. It might increase later on, but it's nothing guys, because then you're literally giving back to the right and you'll get full access. You will compensate the writer also, they'll get a portion of your fees also. You don't put anything other than the monthly membership fee. I highly recommend doing it because you want people to support you. If you want people to come to medium through you and you want to get their fertile phase also. So please become a medium MA is just $5. It's not like a very expensive thing. So this is the thing you want to do and this will really help you to get access to the other stuff also to the full access to the stories. Don't be like that person who wants, who wants to be stingy. So just please bite the bullet, take $5 and see what happens later on. So these are the actual points I want you to focus on. Okay guys, I'll see you in the next lesson, which is about the starch, which is a very shortlist. 4. Understanding how stats work: Hi everyone. Welcome to this section now which is understanding mediums starts. So what is type status is basically a simple tool that you can see the traffic and visitors for your stories that you published. It gives you access to like metrics which are going to talk about, no, nobody likes metrics. You find it boring rate, but it is a good way to look at it. I don't want you to obsess about it initially because the first goal is just to right. Okay, that's all you want to do. Okay? So what are the things like? I give you an example, this is just a small story I wrote yesterday. I think, late last night. I just published it. So like I said, take a look at these stats which are there just to make you understand. But what I want you to remember always that success on mediums comes through hard work and writing. It does not complete analyzing Stats. You cannot game the system. Focus your energy on writing rather than focusing too much on stats, but just to understand what these things are. So first is the views. Views is basically simple. How many people saw your story? Okay, Use don't mean much, little basically. You decide and then look at your story. The second one is, we'd like what is Vd? How many people saw your post and took the time to read it. Okay. It's actually read it. So that shows that, okay, they saw the article and then they actually read it. And the view to redo issue the next one that we'd wish it was pretty simple to understand. This is the how many people saw it and then they write it. So this is a ratio. So you can see my second story, 174 people saw it. Plus theta2 is basically it came from outside also. And 20th people whose Okay, and 1616 per cent. So whatever you look at it, highly, towns and visuals are good. But it's not the only thing. Like I said, don't get too obsessed about it. Just, I'm just giving you a sense of viewers is how many people saw it. Read is obviously how many people read it and read ratio is out of the people who sought how many people actually read it. So just keep this in mind and keeping that in mind. What I want you to do now is could I give seconds story? Now? Like I said, you might be thinking, no, I'm not going to help you out at all. Just do it yourself. You might feel paralyzed. But remember without writing, you cannot build a writing habit. So the more you write, the better you'll get. I want you to publish your second story. If I'm there, if you form your medium, tag me and I'll happily clap it and could respond it and give you feedback on this. Okay, don't worry about it. So this is the time. If you're if you haven't done it already, I want you to pause this video and go and write your second story and then come back. So what an action points guys for this class, it's pretty simple. I wanted you to write your second story. I hope you've done it already. Now I want you to go and review the steps for the previous story. See, see how to engage. How many people saw it, how many people have added you probably, you might be seeing like nobody actually engaging with it. That's okay. That's that's common when you start on media, it, like I said, it's totally builds up. The algorithm starts noticing you and taking action. And I want you to comment and club for a few other stories. Give back to the community. Find other ideas where I think like you and give back to them that really help you out. You guys. So that wraps it up. I'll see you in the next loss. 5. Improving on Medium: Hi everyone. Welcome to this class, which is this section how to get better at writing. Based on my experience, most newcomers on medium, they made the same mistake which I made, which what they do is they write a story and the hit Publish, and then they expect success. They expect the money to start coming in and the extra people to get followers, clubs, but nothing happens. It happened to be a lot also. I wrote an article, I thought that was an amazing article. I published it, it got 0 views. And I got really ticked off. I said, Okay, I'm not, maybe medium is not for me. So even though I thought I'll come, I'm going to quit, but no, I decided I'm going to stick with and skip writing. And that's from success happens. You start seeing patterns. You start seeing, okay, this is how the successful people on medium are working and this is what they're doing. So what do you do is you look at it and then you reverse engineer, you go back and you apply those techniques, and then that's how you get success. So based on what I've seen in based on hard succeeded myself, I'm going to show you a few of the techniques which I've used, which is, first of all, very, very simple guys. You need to write frequently three to four articles of ICA theater calendar. I want you to print out a calendar for this month and just tick it off these, these days, I'm going to write again, I'm going to write an article. And what do you call it? The more you write, the better you will get? That is absolutely that the goal is to create a writing habit. What does it, what do I mean by writing habit? What does that mean? This if today is a day you're supposed to write and you don't write, you're going to feel guilty. You're going to see, okay, oh man, I should have done this and they did not do it when you start feeling like that, that means that you have cultivated or writing habit and do not write like a robot. And people go to medium to see interact with human beings. Don't write like if you're writing like a university or journal or something like that, right? Put your whole human experiences into that. And how long a lot of people asked me how long should the post would be? Ideally, I've seen that, you know, four hundred four hundred is a good place to be. And you should support that the light is, of course, one very important thing. You should like to put things like photos, have a good headline and I'm going to show you. So I'm going to write, actually go through writing a posting. I put all those things which should have all the formatting techniques, all the things like formatting separators, hyperlinks. When he called proofreading those things, how to do it. Okay, so we're gonna go through that. And that will put you in a very good position to move on to the next step which is going to publications. So like I said, whatever other tips you want to provide a value, please. It's a very important part guys. See if you think like, I'm just here to make money now you will never have that. What do you call sincere drive to provide value. You are there to good people, are there to read from. You read from your experiences, from your knowledge, get beneficial value. So you want to provide value if you write one line and they say, Okay, please subscribe to my YouTube channel, subscribe to my cause. People to start thinking you're a spammer, to just there to make money and to create value. And honestly they will unfollow you. That is what it's going to happen. So you want to write it like that. You want to structure your story is to catch their attention. And the more value you will give, the more time people were still reading your stories. And then that will get picked up by the medium algorithm. And your chances repudiation, which I'll talk about, that it's going to go up. So all of these things, they like it worked together. Okay, good pictures, good formatting, good things, and how do we go about it? So there are some free tools which you can use, which cost absolutely 0, not a single thing they will cost you. One is Grammarly. Grammarly is absolutely great. What it's gonna do is grammarly is this good for? It's like you can think about the spell checker on steroids. So it's going to look at your grammatical structure, look at like how you've written the sentences and give you some really, really great advice. So grammarly is definitely, I will always recommend if you are writing something right on gambling, okay? I think they have a extension that you can use. So that'll actually, while you're writing, it's going to take a look and give you recommendations right there. Okay. And the other one is Canva. Canva anybody uses if you've been on the Internet and you've created content, It's completely free. You can go for the free section. You can create your own diagrams. Create your attractive than a logos for medium. If you put up good banner logo right at the very start, believe me, that catches people's eyes and that really pulls people towards your article. So these are the two tools I want you to do is absolutely 0 cost, nothing to do here, okay? It won't cost you anything. So now, now what I'm gonna do is I'm going to write and format the story. And I'm going to show you those techniques which are there. Because aesthetics, you know the how their story looks from the titles you use for the articles, the images, the way you format your post. There are many subtle things that you can do to make your post more appealing. That will lead to people looking at it, sharing it, engaging with it. You wouldn't believe how much simple things can improve your article just on how you package them. Okay, so we're going to walk through the whole strategy and see it. Let's go. Hey guys. So what I'm going to show you now is formatting. Formatting and the things you need to learn when it comes to formatting medium articles, you can write as good article as you want, but if it's all just one long paragraph. Good evening. Nobody is going to look at that. So let's start to look at this. I'm going to show you we already, you've already written a few stories. Not only just going to show you a little bit of the tips and tricks which people use to make their stories look better. So let's start with the title. Like, I don't know if you have a catchy title itself. United Art in into like what I learned after, I don't know, 20 years and technology. Let's take a look at that here. And you have your subtitle also. My visit him after two decades and technology. Remember, when you write here, you need to select it and do this, now becomes a title and subtitle. So like I said, choose a title which is good, which really helps you to catch the attention of the audience and makes it more worthwhile. There is something, one more thing I want to tell you, which is called the kicker. Now there's something, not that many people use it, but you can put a line here also. You want to know, do you want to know what learn from or present in tech something which catches their eyes. Just select this and do this. Now becomes, you can see here the kicker. This is the kicker. This is the title. This is a substrate, like I said, the kicker. It's optional. You can use it, you can not use it. Not that many people use it honestly, but the title is very, very important and the subtitle is very, very important. So let's move on to Article. The second thing is you need to have a very good featured image, okay, the featured image, you need to use an image here. And people have challenges with that. Trying to find out they can use medium makes it very easy. Just, just to show you again what I did here and go to the magnifying glass. And boom, you can search here. Technology. Okay, awesome. Dyslexia and boom. Now you have an image here and the best thing and slashes completely free. It gives you these images to use and it gives the credit to the person also. That's why it's so cool here. Now you have a very nice, good image which you can use here. So now you should start writing your article. My first 20 years. My first ten years started first ten years in my next Daniels in deck. And what he couldn't do is do this, select them and make it a section heading. So you see this, you can break up your whole article intersection and so you can use it here, blah, blah. I'm not going to read the article. I'm just showing you here. This is how you can actually break it up. And if you want to pick up these sections, you can select there and put this also. You can see your really fluids and looks much better now. And other things you can do, remember you have access to all those other things like block and italics and all that beginning it up and get down. One more thing which is very important, which is something called a blockquote. So if you want to quote somebody, blah-blah-blah, said my CEO, basically quoting somebody within the context of the article, maybe eight of fretting some other articles. And other thing that you can do is I showed you something, sorry, apologies for that. Something called a block or you can do something called a pull quote, fast at once, twice. And you can see here, this draws attention of the reader. Don't use it too much, but this is really a great way to draw attention of the reader. And they can then take a look at this and they can see, this is now you can see how the article is taking place. So if you want to move, you can use more images. I don't know finance. So as you can see, I put more images here. So this is really giving a shift to the article as you can see here. Just remember whatever images disease, if you don't want to use Unsplash, you can use other things like a canvas. They are pixels is there to just make sure you have the right to use them. That's why use Unsplash because it is so easy and I don't have to worry about it. But now you can see just how the article is looking, right? It's much more visually appealing. Random. One more thing you shouldn't have to do is click here and go to More Settings. And you should go to the SEO, SEO search engine optimization. What medium is gonna search engine optimization is how the search engines across the world discovery with like Google and all that. So here, like they'll give you some good solutions, like they assume that you should do between 1415, others around 60 to 64 characters, right? So you want to move this, I can just delete this here. And boom, that's much better now. Similarly, the description right there, put the description here. The dispersion allele there, sorry. Yeah, it should be around one hundred and forty, two hundred fifty six. And it's already been ten. So this is good. And we just go up and go back to the editor. So now we're putting a nice little SEO description. As you can see here, we have a kickoff once it's completely optional, up to you, if you have a nice title, you have a nice subtitle, you have a catching image. Remember, use Unsplash or somebody you use. We have broken our article download section headings. They're using block courts pull quotes, Putting that entity losing section, working again, more images. So you can see just how visually appealing this looks, right? And this will really make your story is eye-catching and draw the attention of the user. Okay guys, I hope this made you understand and appreciate, use all of these techniques and you will see an uptick in lieu of US tax. Let's go back to the main lesson now. Okay guys, I hope that was useful to you. So these are the things I wanted to talk to you about and what are the action items. So now I want you to write your third story of this course using the techniques I just talked about. Okay, the one we saw back now, sit down when stone five ideas for the next I told you to create a scheduled, right? Create a schedule for your writing scheduled, sit down Vince from five ideas for your next five stories, which we're going to do in the next week. It doesn't have to be work. It doesn't have to be boating. Look at those topics which you are passionate about. You enjoyed eating, enjoy writing about, and like I said, print out a calendar and write these other days you're going to write about. So like I said, please don't like a robot. They look at things that you're interested in. Look at the timing, like whatever it is, I'll be publishing it out and just be consistent. And definitely this is the key to success when you've, once you've started, go, gotten to the writing, booed briefly when I say it becomes second nature. So it won't seem like work, okay? Automatic. You'll see the more you engage, the more medium will actually engage with you. So this is a goal. Try to write at least five articles in one week. Don't worry about the quality you will make mistakes. You will make. You might publish and say, Oh my God, I can't believe I wrote that. They can go and edit it. But go ahead and take. The whole goal of this is to improve your writing as quickly as possible. So relax. Just start writing and see what happens. Okay, guys, Thank you. I'll see you in next video. 6. Understanding publications: Hi everyone. In this class, I want to talk about a very important topic which is medium publications. Medium publications. You can think of it like a magazine which is there on medium in which you can write for. Very few people realize just how big a game changer publications can be. I mean, it can take your story from ten views, 2 thousand. Okay? Because medium publications, like I said, they are built in magazines, Okay? They have the readers, like thousands and thousands of readers who are looking at, who love to read it. And if the COO article there, they might read it. Okay, So this is why it's so important and why so let's take a look. So like I said, what our medium publications, It's like an online magazine. It's like a shared space for people about a common topics. That might be technology, it might be start-ups, it might be business, it might be financed. But like I said, the staff, they published those stories which are based on that common theme and multiple authors can contribute. And like I said, this is the easiest way to grow on media. And if you're starting out, look at a few publications. If you're on technology, Google it just Google technology publications on medium, you will find a list of publications which are there. Try to see which are open for publication and then you can start submitting it. I can, I can show you my example like when I was starting out. So there is this publication on Medium Cool towards data science. Focus more on artificial intelligence machine learning story for them just a few days back. Okay? So it's about threat modeling, AI and machine learning systems. So they accepted it. And I said my public a article that got published. So let's take a look. See here, this publication has 642 thousand followers. Now, that is a massive amount. So this is the amount of people who are going to see my story. So you can imagine just from a few 100 followers. I can, my story can get shown in front of 642 thousand followers. So this is the power of media and publications. That's not just tape. So you can imagine even if 10% of those people I convert into followers, are they read my how much I can get right? The next one. They also there when the kind enough to treat my article on their official Twitter platform. And they showed it on the LinkedIn platform also, which are there in 500 thousand views. So you can imagine just how amazing this is from the branding perspective, from the view and perspective from the following perspective. And if you want the medium Partner Program, which gives you money based on how much like viewers engaged video stories, you can imagine this, how much this can help you gain traction and gain that visibility on the platform. So I hope this made you understand just how powerful publications can be, guys. Now I want you, I want you to do is I want you to find a publication does is suited to your niche. So maybe you are in risk management finance startups. I want you to find those publications multiple. Don't just found one by publishing in multiple publications. You know, some small, some large. You're writing your audience, okay? But most of them what they do, they do accept like public life stories. And they accepted that. But you need to find that each of them have their own like honestly a way of accepting it. Most of them you'll see on the page you'd have established, can submit and demonstrate, but you need to do this business. Usually you have to e-mail them your article or you have to fill out a form and send your article as a draft and if they like it due to your publication. So the villi publications are an excellent way to get traction on medium and it's the fastest way to quickly get your audience there. So I want you to find at least three different publications and next week and try to submit to wait and see what happens to your follower count once you do get added, like if you put a form, fill it out, so you will see it like here. So when you go to your publishing, you discrete dots which are there. You click on it, you'll see this ad to publication there. Its name will show up when you click on it. So you can see I'm adding two geek culture. I'm attitude towards data science. You will see that name there, just click it there and hit Publish. It will go to their editors and they will look at your article and if they like it, they store it, they will actually publish it. So that's it. And like I said, guys, if you're serious about medium, you need to get serious about publications. I want you to find three publications and submit three different articles. And if they get accepted, just see what happens to your follower count and your steps in the coming week. Okay, wait, let see you in the next section now. 7. What is Curation ? : Hi guys. In this class I want to talk about durations, which is I think the most sought-after aspect of medium. Everybody wants to get curated only idiom you might've heard it if you'd been up medium or it's a gateway to get visibility and followers even more than publications. But I do want to stay. This is not the be-all and end-all. You can perfectly succeed. It could be perfectly fine on media without getting curated ever. And many, many people have achieved huge follower accounts without any creation. Okay, just fine. I think quality articles and going to publications. But what is medium curation? Medium has an editorial team and they reviewed thousands and thousands of stories every day. They have a huge team there. And each of them have different backgrounds, different specialties. Okay? So what happens is they will look for quality stories on medium, which is why what I was telling you about making sure you follow the guidelines, making sure it's perfectly formatted and everything. So they will select a story, then they will add it, and they will add it to the front. You can think of it as a newspaper. If medium has a newspaper, duration is your story goes to the front page. It will get like eligible for personalized distribution and medium will basically promote your story on the homepage, on topic pages on the app, on the daily digest. You don't have to do anything, just follow their guidelines, follow a good-quality article, and even automatically reach out to if they feel that it is eligible for curation. Like I said, it'll give you a massive, massive boost to your stats. Then there are some guidelines or medium curation you can look at. I didn't link it here honestly because they keep changing it. So whatever I write, hate my get outdated in a while. So this is the thing guys. Just write good quality articles. Don't focus too much on creation, don't like obsess about it. Some people get crazy about curation. Don't think about it. If your article is good medium and we talked to you automatically, okay? But if you want to improve your chances, so these are five key tips I will give, which I've seen a lot of, lot of people do I get the end no hard and fast rules. But if you follow these guidelines, your chances of being created will greatly increase. First of all, like I said, Write an amazing article. You have to follow the standards. Write a good quality article which people engage with guessed value. You will see people reaching out to you. Follow that format. So like I said, you're to what I showed you in the formatting one, follow those formatting guidelines, make sure that you are falling that using the proper case, you're using the proper case for the subtitle and for the kicker and all those things and images, you're not using any felt like copyrighted images. Using a good, high-quality image, you've done a proof-reading, you've done the formatting. If there are too many mistakes, they won't like it, right? Please stop. Don't use too many call to actions or advertisements. Don't say Please buy my cost by my leg, all those things and they don't like it and it takes away people. Okay. And a white content violations, please. I mean, I don't I can't believe I have to say this. Please do not steal from other people. That is absolutely the case of debt on medium because then people will lose trust in you and your account can get flag. So don't worry too much about curation. I can personally attest many, many of the amazing articles which have already been evacuated. Okay. So it's not the be-all and end-all, but it is a good thing to have. So just keep focused on writing articles. Use this checklist. And if you keep on falling those guidelines, it will become second nature. And who knows? Maybe next week, next month, next year you'll get curated and it'll give you an even bigger boost. But the key to success is, right, right, good quality articles and which are two publications. And then you will see that actual success happening. Okay guys, Thank you. I'll see you the next section. 8. Making money on Medium: Hi everyone. I believe this is we've almost reached the end. And this is the topic a lot of people are interested in, which is how to make money on Medium. And I cannot stress this enough. This should not be your primary goal, guys, please. If you are thinking about making money from day one, you will lose motivation. You, because you need to be patient and need to be consistent. You cannot think that medium is gonna be like giving you thousands and thousands of dollars for every post. That's not going to happen. Please do not think like that. Try to be patient and try to be consistent and you will definitely see money coming in. But that should not be your be-all and end-all. Okay? So the first way to make money on medium is through the medium Partnership Program. It's very simple. If you have 100 followers and you've written at least one article, you can enroll to the medium partnership program. It allows you to make money by writing stories, okay, The more time Medium members spend writing your reading your content the moment you learn. But that's why it's so important to write good quality articles which I keep mentioning it. So once you've done it, you can enroll your stories behind the paywall. You can say metering, you can turn just turn on metering. And it will. So for every all the time that the video spend reading your stories, you'd actually get money. So the more people engaged, the more you will learn. Yeah, this is what I was talking about guys. So when you get into the medium partner program, you'll see this option to meet your story when you're publishing it. And if you do that, your stories become eligible to earn money. So this is just my first month behind medium way back when I was starting out, I got money from the reader engagement. And I think two people got into medium because of me. So remember, this was like when I was writing casually, not dedicated, I like I am today. I was so happy. I got like around $40. So, so happy from that. And think of what you can achieve if you follow my guidelines, you write every day like at least five days a week, and you get serious about any bad quality articles, which I can go into publications of curation. How much money you can and if I unfold $40 just by casualty, adding a little bit, how much money can you earn? So take this seriously and I guarantee you will see a lot of benefit coming in. So this was a direct method. There is an indirect method also which is to use medium as a jumping platform. So what you can do is you can use medium to build up your audience like built up a following buildup. People who like your articles are falling you and then you can use it to drive traffic to your other products if you have them. Maybe you have a course via digital product, like a course which you are teaching. Maybe you have an e-book or maybe you have a channel. Maybe you're going coaching. So you can use that and you can send people to that like those other products if they feel you are adding value to them. So, but very important guys, very, very important. Please first build a brand and provide value before you start asking for money. If you'd like one article and you immediately start people asking for money, believe me, you start spamming them in every article, like every after every line, please buy this. Pleased by this, be Digest. Nobody will come to it, I'm telling you. And they will just unfollow you. Nobody likes to respond. So that's not what you want to do here. So for an actual points for this class, just get a 100 followers and apply for the media partner program provided you're writing good articles for why didn't you getting published in publications? 100 followers is very easy to do. And I can assure you, if you want to go a stretch yourself. You've written a lot of articles, right? Creating e-book from those articles you go, you can go into Canva. Canva as free options for creating an e-book and ask you for Alice to checkout. You. Don't ask him to buy it. See the response, how many people go and actually download it. You can just upload it anyway and give them the link. And you try and download my e-book and see how many people actually go and buy your e-book. Not actually by, sorry, I'm going to give it a three, but see the engagement. So that is how you can see actually people are coming out and this is how you can actually branch out. And you can see people engaging with your staff outside medium. So this is the indirect way and a lot of people own a lot of money through this, okay? Okay guys, so this is pretty much wrapped up either seeing your lesson. 9. Success on Medium: Hi everyone, Welcome to the last class and I'm very, very happy for you to have attended, listen to me for so long. And this is the last this is just like a summary of all the tips I gave you how to succeed on medium. So like I said, very, very important guys, you need to write what you call three to five articles every week and be patient and be consistent. You need to have a long-term mindset, okay? Some people that write for a year and after that they can, they see a lot of traction there. You see a lot of money coming in from the medium Partnership Program, okay? If you are consistent and if your quality keeps increasing, you can earn a good, decent amount of money and more than that. But that's totally not be a goal. You're providing value. And what do you call, you're going to see people in reaching out to you and your brand will become. And creating a brand is much better than creating your leg. A little bit of a few dollars on the site. And publications, the best way to be successful and value of oligos to publications. So that's what you want to do. Write a good article, right? Consistently, reach out to publications and get enrolled in the media partnership program. And I absolutely guarantee you, you will succeed on video and please do not be that guy. They just write randomly when they feel like it. And they said that they will don't see any success and they just give up. Don't be that person, be consistent, have a positive attitude, and I guarantee you, you will see success on video. So congratulations guys, You've reached the end of this course. Thank you very much. Thank you. I hope you've got some good feedback from and good tips, and hope you're able to apply it in the next class. Remember the project which I told you about? I want you to write a story on medium. Share the link down below it, like give me the in for me and I would like to review. I'll give you feedback on the same Also. Thank you very much guys. Good luck on your journey. Please do connect with me on LinkedIn. Please do connect with you on medium also, if you can find them in medium and follow my stories by North and happy to connect with you, happy to see your stories. Any benefit I could give you that stay nice and please do. Leave a review. Give me some feedback about this course.