The Medium Success Secret I Ignored a Year Ago

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Being a writer on Medium has taught me quite a number of things and endurance is one of them. I’ve been on the writing platform for a while now and I wish I could turn back the hands of time because I suffered unnecessarily. I spent so much time sourcing for content, engaging in other activities except for the one thing I was supposed to be doing. I thought I was an expert and I had cracked the code, expecting readers to rush my content because of my quality and style in writing.

But after months of writing, nothing to write home about. My readership couldn’t even fill up a mini-sized room. I started wondering, “What am I not doing right?” It felt like the so-called creative side of me wasn’t doing its job and I was drowning in self doubt.

Then one day, while going through different articles on Medium, it hit me like a giant truck and I felt extremely giddy. The secret I had been missing all along? Collaboration, my people!

For real, I had been so focused on churning out premium content that I forgot Medium is actually a community. I was behaving like someone trying to throw a big party all for myself (do you understand the concept here). Imagine how awkward that would be.

I know putting out high-quality articles is very important but when you barely have people reading these articles, it…