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One Small Leap For Man
One giant leap for medium writers
Before I begin, let me assure the weary reader that I will not brag about nor divulge how much money I’ve made on this platform in this story (because I absolutely hate people who do that). But I do want to quickly share a mild personal victory achieved after a lot of work here.
We all know (or should know) about medium’s boost program. But in case you don’t, here’s the deal: About 92,000 stories are published monthly. Of those, 2500 are chosen to be “boosted,” or included in digests and emails to subscribers as suggestions for worthwhile reading. As a result, those stories garner many more views and reads for the writer along with increased earnings.
How the site finds these stories is key. The staff is in no way prepared to read through 92,000 stories by themselves. And so, they’ve commissioned in the neighborhood of 100 publications to submit stories they think are worthy of promotion.
Aware of this reality, I took it upon myself to submit to some of the publications that recommend stories they think should be boosted when I found a list of most of those publications. (Normally, I publish in my own pubs because it’s just easier. But that wasn’t working. You get the picture.)
