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How to Get Featured in Publications Owned by Medium so You Can Reach More People
This week, after trying for about a year, I finally got a story published in a publication owned by Medium. The publications owned by Medium have a larger audience — because the content is carefully selected, massaged, and cleverly marketed.
Medium owned publications take preference in the popular list, homepage and featured stories. Getting into a publication owned by Medium helps you reach more people and than can assist you to inspire, entertain, teach or inform a larger audience of readers.
The big difference
Medium owned publications have professional editors. The typical publications have editors too, but it’s not the same thing.
An editor of a Medium publication will usually have been in the world of content for quite a while and will edit your work a lot. These edits do the following:
- Make the key points of your work stand out
- Make your writing easier to read
- Make the message you’re trying to get across connect
- Make your writing grammatically better
- Make your articles shorter in length
A Medium Editor is on your side and they want to win. Having a team is always better than trying to win on your own and tell stories in the dark.
The other benefit of an editor is that they can decide to bless your writing with a beautifully commissioned piece of art. That art gives a second layer of shine to your writing and makes readers more likely to want to hear what you have to say. Whether you like it or not, images help us decide what articles to read. An image can tell us a story just as well as words can.
For my work, editors make me sound less crap — and like I’m a three-year-old that got given a laptop with a blank document — and for that, I’m thankful.
Homepage exposure
As soon as one of my articles got featured in a publication owned by Medium, this notification appeared:
