DEV Community

Atit Patel
Atit Patel

Posted on • Edited on • Originally published at Medium

How I earned money from writing and went $0.55 to $2,200+ in 3 Months

Photo by Markus Winkler on Unsplash

Like everyone else, I started my Medium journey by reading different blogs. I bought a Medium subscription in July as I was restricted to read more stories.

When I joined Medium I had no intentions of trying to earn money from Medium and honestly speaking I had no clue about the Medium writing program. Crazy right?

I was an Angular Developer for X years and wanted to change my career so I started exploring the latest trends in Frontend Technologies. I started preparing for different questions and Medium was helping me to go through different topics in depth. After 35 days of preparations, I was able to get my dream job as a Senior Consultant in One Company.

One day suddenly I came across one topic about someone’s journey of earning some amount from the Medium and it motivated me to write and share my research and experiences about topics that most interviewers ask in Angular Interviews.

This was the first article I wrote in the Medium. (Note: I have recently changed title)

Advanced Angular interview questions you must prepare in 2021
Part 1medium.com

I have received 1 view/day after posting this article. I was so happy after seeing that someone is reading my article.

After writing one article, I started researching how I can share this article with others and how I can enhance my views and basically make more money.

I have read a lot of articles so I got the idea of which kind of the content reader wants to read and which motivates them to read my articles. I started with my Interview Questions and I started writing about different topics such as the basics of Angular, Optimization, and Performance Techniques.

9942 views/day on January 15

When I got $0.55 USD in my bank I have decided next time I will make more for sure.

My first month earnings:

One day I got contacted by one publication to publish my story to their publication. After publishing the story my views got increased and I found a new way to improve the views by publishing stories to publications.

I started writing more and more which helped me to learn and adapt to different styles. Next month I earned $120.98 and then went to $670.71.

Below are different month’s earning details:

Tips

Below are the things I started considering in my Medium journey and this formula helped me to reach my goals.

1. Publications

As Publications have a lot of followers it helps us to build audience and views.

2. Social Media and Promotions

Social media helps a lot to improve your article views. What I learned is don’t afraid to share your work with the world. People may laugh but you will learn a lot eventually.

3. Title

I have found from a lot of research that the title should be more appealing for users to read your article.

4. Content and SEO

What I found while searching in Google that when you search for a specific word sometimes Google picks your content word in the match.

5. Start Writing More

What I learn if you write more, you get an idea of how you can improve your writing skills as well as how you can engage more users.

Below are the numbers.

September: 1 Story
October: 23 Stories
November: 34 Stories
December: 21 Stories
January: 20+ Stories

6. Support Others

Start appreciating other's work. This can help you make friends in Medium.

7. Facebook groups

You can learn a lot from other groups about writing in Medium. Below are some groups: Medium Writing Medium Writers Lounge, Medium Writers and Bloggers

8. Don’t expect success right away

Don't be upset about your work if it is not getting more views or curated. Good things take time.

9. User Proper tags

It is better to use proper tags to get an idea to see the stories related to tags.

10. Formatting

If you read a lot of articles you will find the success of stories depends on how they formatted and how it is conveying messages to users. For example, this format helped me a lot: Introduction, Image, Content, Summary, Source, Recommendations.

JavaScript In Plain English has a Style Guide which can help you a lot with this. Link below:

How to write articles that people want to read
Here are a list of recommendations that the ‘In Plain English’ team consider to be best practices when writing articles…medium.com

11. Images

Yeah! Images can help a lot. You can use Unsplash.

Example: https://medium.com/javascript-in-plain-english/13-methods-to-remove-filter-an-item-in-an-array-and-array-of-objects-in-javascript-2211216790d5

12. Modify your stories

There might be chances that the stories that have not gained enough views, in the beginning, can get success now. You can modify the content and republish your stories with newer content and ideas to gain more attention.

13. Schedule your Publish times

I have seen a couple of times if I publish my story in the morning people tend to read more compare to other times. You can schedule a specific time to publish your stories.

14. Publish Story Next day after a quick read

I found this strategy very helpful to find any mistakes in my story. If I publish the same day there are chances I don’t see any errors as I am in hurry to publish my story. This can be avoided by publishing a story on the next day after reviewing it with a fresh mind.

15. Spelling mistakes & Grammar

You can use Grammarly which helps me a lot to correct my spellings.

So what you are waiting for?

“Success will never be a big step in the future, success is a small step taken just now.” ― Jonatan Mårtensson

I would like to thank JavaScript In Plain English, and Sunil Sandhu for guiding me and supporting me in this journey.
Checkout some of my popular articles.

22 Utility Functions To Ace Your JavaScript Coding Interview

22 Utility Functions To Ace Your JavaScript Coding Interview
JavaScript Coding Assessment Cheatsheet 2021medium.com

30 Programming Memes That Will Lighten Your Mood

30 Programming Memes That Will Lighten Your Mood
Part 2: It was so popular we had to make a Part 2!medium.com

51 JavaScript Features covered from ES12 to ES5 you might not know yet

51 JavaScript Features covered from ES12 to ES5 you might not know yet
51 techniques to optimize and clean your codemedium.com

34 JavaScript Optimization Techniques to Know in 2021

34 JavaScript Optimization Techniques to Know in 2021
Optimize your JavaScript code using modern shorthand techniques, tips, and tricksmedium.com

Angular Interview Questions 2021

Top 100 Questions You Must Prepare For Your Next Angular Interview
Angular Interview Questions 2021-Part 2medium.com

21 Arrays and Object Tricks in JavaScript/TypeScript

21 Arrays and Object Tricks in JavaScript/TypeScript
I always used to prefer something like a newspaper which give enough information in a shorter span of time. Here, I…medium.com

25 Tips and Tricks to Write Faster, Better-Optimized TypeScript Code

25 Tips and Tricks to Write Faster, Better-Optimized TypeScript Code
Optimize your TypeScript code using modern techniques, tips, and tricksmedium.com

42 Tips and Tricks to Write Faster, Better-Optimized JavaScript Code

42 Tips and Tricks to Write Faster, Better-Optimized JavaScript Code
Optimize your JavaScript code using modern techniques, tips, and tricksmedium.com

8 Reusable Functions To Make Your Angular App Accessible

8 Reusable Functions To Make Your Angular App Accessible
Angular Accessibility Part 3medium.com

Understanding Memory Leaks in Angular

Understanding Memory Leaks in Angular
Angular Performance and Optimization Checklistmedium.com



Top comments (3)

Collapse
 
ellativity profile image
Ella (she/her/elle)

Hi there, we encourage authors to share their entire posts here on DEV, rather than mostly pointing to an external link. Doing so helps ensure that readers don’t have to jump around to too many different pages, and it helps focus the conversation right here in the comments section.

If you choose to do so, you also have the option to add a canonical URL directly to your post.

Collapse
 
patelatit53 profile image
Atit Patel

Thanks for your guidance Ella. I will make changes to my existing posts.

Collapse
 
ellativity profile image
Ella (she/her/elle)

Awesome, Atit. Thanks!