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Keanisha Johnson's avatar

Yes everyday I’m getting more followers when before I felt like a ghost for a LONG time before

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Christina Piccoli's avatar

That’s great news!

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Wes Pearce's avatar

I’ve never written on medium and wondered if it’s a little too late to start.

How often do you publish there? And do you publish same articles from Substack on medium? Or completely new ones?

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Christina Piccoli's avatar

I don’t think it’s ever too late to start.

I mostly publish different things on Medium and Substack, but once in a while I’ll copy a Medium article to post on here if it makes sense.

I haven’t been publishing as much on Medium. I wrote 12 articles in March.

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John's avatar
Apr 8Edited

Christina you are a great writer, I want to believe with you that there is a bright side of Medium. However most of the links you provided in the story are broken.

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Christina Piccoli's avatar

Oh wow. I see that Victoria is gone from Medium, and so are her stories. Now I need to see what happened. It's possible she got caught in the spam filter and was booted on accident. Or maybe she closed her account.

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Christina Piccoli's avatar

They are? 🤔 I always test my links. I need to see what's happening...

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Bin Jiang's avatar

Got to try more things.

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Christina Piccoli's avatar

I think you’re doing a great job trying different topics. Are any of them working well for you?

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Bin Jiang's avatar

So far so flat. Still looking.

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Yvette's avatar

Hey Christina...I returned to Medium. For the remainder of March, I committed to write every day, sharing Lessons to my Younger Self. We'll see how this goes!

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Christina Piccoli's avatar

Keep me posted!

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Yvette's avatar

HaHa...as far as writing daily on Medium...epic fail. I only wrote 3 articles and made a few pennies. I like Medium so I'll continue writing there. What more can I say...my plate is full with my move and relaunch of my business. It's been 5 years and I'm excited to work closer with my daughters and son.

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Christina Piccoli's avatar

It sounds like everything happening is a positive! I'm happy for you. :)

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Yvette's avatar

Yes definitely positive. Thanks Christina.

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Hein V's avatar

Great advice and inspiration to keep going on Medium, I will start writing there and here soonish.

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Christina Piccoli's avatar

It’s worth a try over there!

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Mario Da Silva's avatar

Thanks Christina for sharing your thoughts about Medium. I guess that the platform is taking a different approach and for better or for worse it’s changing. We either adapt to the change or we move on.

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Christina Piccoli's avatar

Yes, they are constantly switching things up, and I don’t see that changing any time soon. So, might as well hang in there and go along for the ride!

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Shlee's avatar

Thanks, Christina! Just purchased mine and can’t wait to read it! I appreciate you, your research, your writing and your support of other writers!! I have a hunch I’ll be giving this 5 stars when I’m done:) :)

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Christina Piccoli's avatar

Aw, thanks so much! I appreciate that! 😁

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Sharon Hillam's avatar

Excellent, Christina! I’m glad to hear that some on Medium are doing well. My mortgage story earned almost $900 in January and it’s pushing a total of $2200 now and I’m almost 3 months out. I fully understand and agree that Medium is not dead. I never thought that anyway. I knew it was a reset or pivot. Did you read this by Argumentative Penguin? If not, you need to. https://medium.com/lucid-nightmare/is-now-the-best-time-to-stop-writing-on-medium-987fc98e9fcb

He details a complete history of all the pivots that Medium has made. And Tony even pops in to confirm. Some are saying that M is trying to move to a more professional writing platform which is why they’re hosting workshops for academics who aren’t great writers. I personally don’t think that’s going to fly. But hey, who am I anyway? LOL

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Christina Piccoli's avatar

I loved that article! But it sent me down a rabbit hole of all the other articles Penguin linked in that one. haha Good stuff!

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Christina Piccoli's avatar

Congrats to you! I'm so happy your story is still kicking butt. I always think about it when I pay my mortgage bill. lol

I didn't see that story, but I'm off to read it now. Thanks for sharing!

(And I hope Medium doesn't become more professional with academic writing only. I would definitely bail because who wants to pay $5 or $15 per month to be bored to tears?)

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Shlee's avatar

I agree! 😆 I love that the writing is varied on Medium, I’d be bored if it was one-note writing.

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Christina Piccoli's avatar

I know that’s better to make money faster (to write with one central topic), but it’s so hard for some of us to do that!

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Karen Wettstein's avatar

Congratulations, Christina!

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Christina Piccoli's avatar

Thanks so much!

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Christina Piccoli's avatar

You're right. A lot of articles that get boosted are about topics I would never write about. I'm OK with it.

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