I'm following my curiosity on Medium (and it's kind of working...)

I have one article that's quietly earned over $100.

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I’m not raking in the big, big bucks, but I’m doing well considering the changes Medium went through in January.

My earnings really started tanking over there in December.

I’d wondered if it was time to pull the plug on Medium.

Then something strange happened in January when all hell broke loose across the platform due to some “tweaks” to the Partner Program earnings.

I wrote a fun little money story that became my first $1k article.

It’s still doing well and has earned me the most money so far in March.

I thought the fun listicle idea was a key component, so I tried a few others like it that did ok, but nowhere near as well.

Then, something else happened…

My new obsession

I don’t know how it happened exactly, but I got obsessed with watching Caleb Hammer’s personal finance podcast on YouTube called Financial Audit.

I binge-watched (and still am) hours and hours of this show.

I realized how fascinated I am about personal finance and people’s psychology around money.

It’s partly because my husband and I used to be in huge amounts of debt (so stressful!), and I can relate to the people who go on these shows.

So I’ve been following my curiosity with the topic of personal finance, and it’s kind of working.

Let me show you what’s been happening behind the scenes with a few of these articles.

The stats

One thing that’s interesting with these stories is that they start off slow, and then pick up over time.

Here’s an example of that happening with this article I wrote on March 10:

You can see it’s starting to gain traction.

Here’s another one that’s bouncing around, but gained a little traction recently:

We’ll have to see if it goes up a little more in the upcoming weeks.

And then there’s this one, which has been picking up steam.

I wrote this one mid-February, but it started to take off at the end of February and into March. It’s quietly made me over $100. I say “quietly” because there aren’t that many claps or comments.

(In case it’s hard to read, this article has 1k claps and 19 comments.)

It’s just doing its thing in the background.

And this is why I don’t think Medium is dead yet. It’s just a matter of following your curiosity and experimenting to see what sticks.

What do you think? Are you still on Medium? Are any of your topics doing well there?

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