Medium Income and Statistics: March 2023

If you remember what happened in February (hint: it was bad), well, might as well forget that because March turned out worse!

Why?

Possibly because of a lot of factors, but mainly, I think, because I didn’t publish enough.

Writers with a tens of thousands of followers likely do not feel it much, but I started writing [seriously] on Medium just this past June, and with only 2.4k followers, I don’t have what it takes to make thousands on Medium. Heck, my best month on Medium was barely $200! That was a while back.

So. Yeah. March. Not good!

Let’s look at the details.

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March 2023 Earnings and Stats

Earning was meh. Audience growth was meh. The only good thing was two additional referred members—10, to be specific; up from the previous month’s eight referred members.

Let’s look at some of the numbers:

Stories published: six (6)
Follower change: +50
Net followers: 2,456
Referred member change: +2
Net referred members: 10
Earnings from stories: $26.29
Earnings from referred members: $22.18
Total earnings: $48.47

Here’s my income chart for the last six months for comparison:

Month	Earning
March 2023	$48.47
February 2023	$69.06
January 2023	$108.09
December 2022	$105.24
November 2022	$125.14
October 2022	$143.52
September 2022	$196.27

Assumptions, Expectations, and Some Other Thoughts

From the comparison chart above, it’s obvious that something has gone terribly wrong.

I have no way of knowing the real reason behind this, but I can think of these two things:

I’ve been publishing fewer stories on big publications (because I want to grow my own publication—The Content Generation—which is a small pub right now with only 139 followers.)
It’s possible that I’m choosing the wrong topics to write about (Medium’s audience demographic changes from time to time; it’s a known and contentious factor among many writers on this platform.)

I know last month I said I’d publish more stories on bigger pubs, but due to various personal reasons, I not only did not publish on those big pubs, but I also didn’t publish enough. Period. Technically, I should be publishing six stories per week on Medium, not six stories in an entire month!

I really hope April goes better, but we’ll see. I have a lot on my hands this month already, with my upcoming blog writing workshop and my work on a couple of new products, so it’ll be a challenge to stay on top of Medium as well, especially given that Medium is more of a hobby at this time, and the rest is real work that pays the bills.

Oh well. This is where things stand now.

But before I go, Medium recently (well, more like around the end of February) announced a new thing. It’s called the “Boost.” Read the post below to learn everything there’s to know about what it is and how it works.