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232: Going Big on Medium: How a New Blogger Got His First 6000 Email Subscribers (and Made $10k) in 6 Months

The Side Hustle Show

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How to Succeed on Medium

I knew from day one, I needed to go where people already were and try to get them on my email list. And so I tried a lot of the strategies of guest posting and all this other stuff but I had heard, actually it was like in a random video that somebody was like, oh yeah, I posted something on Medium and got 300 email subscribers. It was a really good kind of lead gen for this product we were selling. So I went over there in early December, just posted a new article there,. Just like on, I just created a profile, posted an article, it got maybe four views.

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