How to Get Started on Medium
Priority One: Race your way to 100 articles and don’t look back.
Medium can be a challenging platform to get started on because there are a lot of invisible functions to a new user who hasn’t been at this for several years. But it’s a stunningly beautiful platform.
Both the UI and the writers you’ll find on here will impact your life in a positive way. There are some brilliant storytellers on Medium and you have the opportunity to become one yourself.
If I was to discover Medium for the first time today and had to start again, these are the steps I would take.
1. Set up a profile
Create your Medium account and write two sentences that describes how you seek to help people with your writing.
Add a close-up of your face so people can connect with you at a deeper level.
Insert a link to a landing page or website you own. (This will become apparent later).
2. Pick one of these goals
There are seven outcomes you can achieve using Medium:
- Reaching people through writing
- Earning money
- Building a business/audience that you own via an email list
