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All Your Questions About Medium, Answered
Welcome to the game. Read this if you’re just getting started.
I’m just starting off on Medium. Am I too late?
People were saying it was too late when I started, and that was a year and half ago. Ask folks like Sergey Faldin, or Alan Trapulionis, who started even later than me, and they’ll tell you the same thing: what matters is hard work and consistency.
Medium is to written content what Youtube is to video. For a few years now, everybody has been saying it’s impossible to enter the Youtube game anymore. Yet new successful Youtubers keep coming up. Why? Because they work harder and keep going at it.
This doesn’t only apply to Medium or Youtube, but to any content publishing platform. All you need is to keep at it. Try to commit to it for 6 months and consider it like a job.
- Don’t count your hours
- Don’t worry about the money
- Don’t even expect anything from this, other than to have fun
That’s what I did when I started off. After 6 months, assess the situation, and whether or not you see yourself keeping that up for 1, 2, 3 more years. Remember that everyday you keep going, thousands quit.
