My goal with Blogging Guide is to help as many writers succeed in achieving financial success through writing online. What are some questions you have? What are the biggest obstacles standing between you and success? What writing platforms are you currently experimenting with?
Hi Casey. Do you have any recommendations on supplementing Medium Partner Program with Substack paid subscription revenue? Any practices on growing both audiences, cross-posting, subscription pricing, etc. would be very helpful. Thank you.
Hi Casey! Thanks for your love for your community.
First of all, I'm a pretty positive dude. So I see most obstacles as opportunities to do cool work. Anyway...
For InspireFirst.com, my biggest obstacle is something I'm chipping away at slowly but surely and that's increasing our publishing frequency from 1x per week to 3x per week. What's helping here is recruiting more writers. If we can put out more quality content, then we will increase our monthly sessions and ad revenue.
On the agency side at Nao Media, not being able to do in-person networking for sales prospecting has been a big challenge since the pandemic reached the States.
I'm experimenting with Medium right now as a syndication spot for my other blogs. I'm also about a month into sending a weekly email to our email list on ConvertKit.
This brings me to my question: do you think that growing a Quora Space is a good way to drive traffic to a blog or Medium publication?
Morning Casey. You are wonderful, thank you. I've been writing on Medium close on three years. I follow their guidelines, I ensure my stories are as perfect as Grammarly and Hemingway will allow without altering my voice. I write short as I tend to read short, thus assuming there are others out there like me. My swim lane is faith, life, a little humor. Yet I make a dismal amount of $$. What can I do/change? I'm still learning Substack. Thanks again.
Hi Casey, thanks for this. What's the best way to promote a Medium article please so it gets lots of traffic? Also what's the best way to grow my following on Medium?
I'm only starting and want to make writing a solid side-hustle. Currently, I only write on Medium. I guess my biggest obstacles have been to find the grit of writing good articles as often as possible AND posting on all of my Facebook groups about it because otherwise nothing really happens. How long will that last? I'm at 200+ followers and I still have to post everywhere otherwise people don't really see my stuff organically. Second, and this is more a question, do I really need a newsletter? Everyone seems to have one these days and I'm not a huge fan of emails (like, for example in my case I want to receive as few emails as possible and kinda just the important ones). Is it really necessary to drive enough traffic to your Medium profile through a Newsletter? Or it is easier but you can still get enough views and reads without a Newsletter? Hope you see what I mean. I think those are al my main questions and obstacles.
Thank you for taking the time to hear us out and help us! Appreciate it!
An irresistible offer, Casey. Here's my question. I will be publishing my existing Medium articles on a new website I am launching. How do I prevent Google from getting confused about the source URL? Or is that an issue at all? I want people directed to my site rather than Medium.
I am a new writer who has a few things published on a couple of websites. So Farr its been no charge but I would like to know when it's appropriate to request money for your work. I also am wondering if you don't get paid for your work, it is appropriate to retain rights to your own work and have the right to publish the same work on multiple sites?
I have nearly 100 posts on Medium. Some older ones have few views. Does it make sense to delete them and republish? What are scenarios when it wouldn't make sense?
Hi Casey! I cannot get over the amount of incredible content you've put out to help Medium writers, thank you! I'm new to Medium, and submitted an article to several of the Medium publications for their consideration. One just responded and added me as a writer, but said they don't post publish stories that are behind medium pay wall at this time.
Why would that be? And what do I do? I'd like to publish the story where it can be considered for curation with the metered paywall, but I suppose if I publish it with this particular Medium publication I'm out of luck? Is there any way to still be considered for metered curation if I publish it there? I'm stumped -- can't decide if I take advantage of being curated in this publication for free, or hold out and hope for curation elsewhere?
Hi Casey, I’ve been using an Upscribe embed for email capture. However, I just found this article from 2018 that says it’s not permitted by medium: https://link.medium.com/1UxIQIQX25
Have you experimented between link out and embed CTAs to see if Medium penalises the latter?
Hi Casey. Do you have any recommendations on supplementing Medium Partner Program with Substack paid subscription revenue? Any practices on growing both audiences, cross-posting, subscription pricing, etc. would be very helpful. Thank you.
Hi Casey! Thanks for your love for your community.
First of all, I'm a pretty positive dude. So I see most obstacles as opportunities to do cool work. Anyway...
For InspireFirst.com, my biggest obstacle is something I'm chipping away at slowly but surely and that's increasing our publishing frequency from 1x per week to 3x per week. What's helping here is recruiting more writers. If we can put out more quality content, then we will increase our monthly sessions and ad revenue.
On the agency side at Nao Media, not being able to do in-person networking for sales prospecting has been a big challenge since the pandemic reached the States.
I'm experimenting with Medium right now as a syndication spot for my other blogs. I'm also about a month into sending a weekly email to our email list on ConvertKit.
This brings me to my question: do you think that growing a Quora Space is a good way to drive traffic to a blog or Medium publication?
Morning Casey. You are wonderful, thank you. I've been writing on Medium close on three years. I follow their guidelines, I ensure my stories are as perfect as Grammarly and Hemingway will allow without altering my voice. I write short as I tend to read short, thus assuming there are others out there like me. My swim lane is faith, life, a little humor. Yet I make a dismal amount of $$. What can I do/change? I'm still learning Substack. Thanks again.
Hi Casey, thanks for this. What's the best way to promote a Medium article please so it gets lots of traffic? Also what's the best way to grow my following on Medium?
Hello!
I'm only starting and want to make writing a solid side-hustle. Currently, I only write on Medium. I guess my biggest obstacles have been to find the grit of writing good articles as often as possible AND posting on all of my Facebook groups about it because otherwise nothing really happens. How long will that last? I'm at 200+ followers and I still have to post everywhere otherwise people don't really see my stuff organically. Second, and this is more a question, do I really need a newsletter? Everyone seems to have one these days and I'm not a huge fan of emails (like, for example in my case I want to receive as few emails as possible and kinda just the important ones). Is it really necessary to drive enough traffic to your Medium profile through a Newsletter? Or it is easier but you can still get enough views and reads without a Newsletter? Hope you see what I mean. I think those are al my main questions and obstacles.
Thank you for taking the time to hear us out and help us! Appreciate it!
Can anyone create their own publication or does it require approval from Medium?
An irresistible offer, Casey. Here's my question. I will be publishing my existing Medium articles on a new website I am launching. How do I prevent Google from getting confused about the source URL? Or is that an issue at all? I want people directed to my site rather than Medium.
Hi Casey,
I am a new writer who has a few things published on a couple of websites. So Farr its been no charge but I would like to know when it's appropriate to request money for your work. I also am wondering if you don't get paid for your work, it is appropriate to retain rights to your own work and have the right to publish the same work on multiple sites?
I have nearly 100 posts on Medium. Some older ones have few views. Does it make sense to delete them and republish? What are scenarios when it wouldn't make sense?
Hi Casey! I cannot get over the amount of incredible content you've put out to help Medium writers, thank you! I'm new to Medium, and submitted an article to several of the Medium publications for their consideration. One just responded and added me as a writer, but said they don't post publish stories that are behind medium pay wall at this time.
Why would that be? And what do I do? I'd like to publish the story where it can be considered for curation with the metered paywall, but I suppose if I publish it with this particular Medium publication I'm out of luck? Is there any way to still be considered for metered curation if I publish it there? I'm stumped -- can't decide if I take advantage of being curated in this publication for free, or hold out and hope for curation elsewhere?
How do I make my medium articles look cool with the special quotes, the three faint dots, and special effects?
I will try...that makes already one month that I am starting and starting..but hope I will end up to be a writer:)
How much should I be posting on Medium? Is it necessary to post everyday?
How can I make my article be #1 in google? I am trying to use medium as this tool
Is it true that claps impact payments to writers? Because I have received claps on articles but wanted very little...
Hi! Is it possible to use Flipboard to increase my views on Medium and to promote my Substack newsletter?
Hi Casey, I’ve been using an Upscribe embed for email capture. However, I just found this article from 2018 that says it’s not permitted by medium: https://link.medium.com/1UxIQIQX25
Have you experimented between link out and embed CTAs to see if Medium penalises the latter?