Why I Stopped Sharing My Medium Stories on Social Media?

And what do I do instead?

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Few months ago when I started writing consistently online, I also started sharing my Medium stories on Social Media. 

I’ve followed other successful writers’ (and Medium’s) advice.

It was supposed to bring me more views and reads, which I believe it did. 

But now I stopped. I changed the plan. 

Why?

One reason: I generate more traffic and (possibly) new subscribers for Medium, but not for me. 

They get the long-term monetary effect, I get a few dollars. 

The gain assets, I don’t. 

What do I do instead?

• I link my stories to my Substack. 

• I share my Substack stories. 

This way I can:

• reach more people

• gain new subscribers 

• gain assets for me

And the best part? I love how Substack is automatically generating visual creatives for social media forms to share. Like this: 

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Some I can directly use on Pinterest!

That’s something no other writing platform offers! I simply love it! 

So this is what I do now:

1. I link my Medium story to my Substack story

2. I share my Substack story on Social Media

So this is why I stopped sharing my Medium stories on Social Media. 

And I also stopped using my FOM link at the beginning of my Medium stories. I described this here:

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[This story was initially published on Medium.]