How I Made $289.82 with This One Article
A viral story is your vehicle. Use it to maximize your earnings. Add as many earning opportunities as you can. Here's what I did.
It happened in April.
I wrote a story that went viral.
But it didn’t generate that much earnings — less than $100 to be precise. Yet, that’s the beauty of Medium — you don’t have to count only on the Partner Program. Here’s how I pumped my earnings up to $289.82 and created some additional tangible assets along the way.
I firmly believe writers should make videos.
I know it’s time-consuming and sometimes even frustrating. Endless shooting, timeless editing, insane research, tedious publishing, and then — nothing! No one cares to watch.
I’ve experienced this.
But I didn't want to accept it.
There had to be a better way!
That’s why I dedicated a couple of months of my time to YouTube. I’ve done extensive research. I wanted to find out what makes a video go viral. Doing this, I realized how much this has to do with writing. And how easy we, writers, can create faceless videos out of our stories.
Simply by using AI like Pictory.
Then I tested it. It took 1.5 hours to generate 1 long-form video and another 0.5 hours to create enough short-form videos to have YouTube material for a week!
I had to write about this!
So I poured everything into this one story. Made it by the book. Focused on quality. Polished it to the level of perfection I had mastered by then.
It went viral.
As soon as I realized it, I added some extra links to my other Medium stories and a CTA with a link to one of my freebies to generate subscribers.
It already had an affiliate link, so I was good to go.
This way I made sure I could “ride the lightning” and maximize the viral effect.
A viral story is your vehicle. Use it to maximize your earnings. Add as many earning opportunities as you can. But don’t overdo it. It’s perfectly ok to have all of these in just one story:
A few links to other stories on Medium to pump your earnings from the MPP
An affiliate link to earn more from your partners
A link to a freebie lead magnet to generate some subscribers for future monetization
I did all of that!
Here’s the story in question: