I Have Got Over 1K Followers On Medium Just Because Of Making Videos On YouTube
By: Aamir Kamal
Tags: Life Lessons, Médium, Productivity, Digital Marketing, Writing

I am writing on Medium from the past one and a half year and I am hopeful that this journey of me being on Medium last longer. When I just joined Medium getting viewers on your Medium stories was the most hectic job. You only get more viewers on your Medium stories when you publish your story in a big publication or getting curated in a topic. Curation is an alien thing for me, never happened with me because I am writing on Medium and sometimes my stories aren’t just worth curating.

Getting curated or published in a popular publication might be an easy job compared to getting followers on Medium. When I was struck in getting more followers on Medium I started uploading videos about Medium. In my videos, i have discussed everything a beginner writer needs to know. I have made a Medium Everything playlist on YouTube where till now I have uploaded over 19 videos about Medium. These videos generate 1,000 to 2,000 viewers every month and people check out my articles and follow my Medium account from there.

I have talked to some Medium writers who are regularly curated or published in popular publications and they aren’t getting more followers and try very hard to reach their first 1,000 followers.

If you think just publishing articles on popular publications on Medium as well as Getting curated is the end of the Medium promotion then you are wrong. There are literally hundreds of ways through which you can get more followers on your Medium profile.

I have over 2.8K followers and have a goal to reach to 10K at the end of this blessed year. And here is something i know about getting more followers on Medium.

It takes time to build yourself a following on Medium

If you are making videos on YouTube about Medium or your selected niche, it takes time to get traffic because of the competition and the low chance of getting seen. I have started making videos on YouTube in June 2017 and it takes me nearly 3 years to reach 3.2K Subscribers.

If you want to start uploading videos about a topic that you are interested in then the best thing to do is to do keyword research. Making videos isn’t easy and it takes roughly two hours if you want to properly optimize your videos for the search engine.

We can apply the same philosophy here for writers who want to get more following on Medium. In the section below, I have shared some of the strategies that I use to promote the Medium content that ultimately generates me more followers. But maybe during your first month, you didn’t get good traction but it well worth it if you stay consistent and generate content on other platforms as I have mentioned in the paragraph below;

My Medium Marketing Strategy:

To write more stories on this platform. The more content you generate the more the chances that your work will be noticed somewhere. One good thing about famous writers on Medium is that they are targeting different publications for different kinds of stories. For example, Tim Dinning writes 10 stories every week on Medium. To Make More Videos about Medium on YouTube: My Channel is already monetized and I have a sizeable Medium member subscribed to my YouTube channel. This gives me the opportunity to make more insightful videos for those searching for Medium related keywords. To Write more answers on Quora: The Medium topic on Quora has more than 22,000 followers and i am one of the most viewed writes on Medium that my Medium related answers received over 21,000 views.

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