How To Make $1,000 On Medium Every Month (2024)

Writing on Medium can be lucrative. Some people make full-time incomes just by writing a bunch of articles on Medium each month. In less than a year, I went from not writing any Medium articles to getting over 100,000 views per month for my content.

It’s possible for any writer to make $1,000 each month on Medium (or more than that). However, making life changing money isn’t supposed to be easy. If it were, everyone would do it.

If you approach Medium with the right mentality, you significantly increase your chances of reeling in $1,000 months one after the other.

Most Medium writers make the majority of their earnings from their content backlogs. Some Medium writers could take a 1 month hiatus and still make $1,000 because they have that much content in their backlog.

Most of your articles won’t be big hits. A small number of articles will attribute to the majority of your revenue. This is based on Pareto’s Principle where 80% of your results come form 20% of your work. On Medium, the ratio is closer to 90/10 in which 90% of your revenue will come from 10% of your articles.

Writing every day gives you a better idea of what works on Medium and what doesn’t. At the beginning of my blogging career, I wrote about a variety of topics that interested me. Then, I analyzed the data to see which topics had more potential.

Digital marketing has considerable potential, and that’s part of the reason why I built an entire brand around that space. However, most of my Medium articles are related to personal finance and investing. Part of that is by design. Those types of articles and videos tend to perform well, and I enjoy writing about the subject.

I’m very grateful that I came across a topic that does well on Medium that I also happen to enjoy. The more you write and browse through Medium, the greater understanding you’ll have about which topics have the most potential.

There are a variety of topics that perform well on Medium and other algorithms, but you have to do your research. Start reading Medium…