NEW WRITERS

How to Get 200 Followers in a Relatively Short Time

No, I’m not going to sell you a course or ask you to do anything unethical

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Maybe it’s because I’m a former college teacher, but no matter how many years I stay on this platform, I will always have a soft spot for the newcomers.

There’s nothing like publishing over and over and over again on here, only to find that you have a total of 4 followers and have earned 6 cents. You can be the best writer in the world, but if no one knows you’re here. what good does it do?

In this article, I will show new writers how to leverage elements of the Medium landscape to get noticed, get followed, and get read.

Before we get started, let me give you a short list of what you won’t see in this article:

• You won’t see an ad for my “How to write on Medium” course that costs hundreds of dollars. I don’t have one of those. All of the information here I am giving away free because I remember how much it sucks to be a newcomer.
• You won’t see recommendations to blindly follow Medium users with whom you have nothing in common, in hopes they’ll follow you back. That doesn’t work.
• You won’t see recommendations to go promote your work on…