5 Hardcore Lessons I Learned From Building 6000+ Followers On Medium

I wish I knew them sooner!

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As I’m growing and consistently learning as an online writer (or at least as a Medium writer) new things keep coming up my way. So today, in this story, I want to share some of the hard-earned lessons I recently learned. I hope these lessons will help you in some way along the way in your writing trip.

1. Never Trick Your Audience

Using templates to hack/trick your audience is the worst thing you can do.

I used to be that guy. Not too long ago, I was obsessed over templates and “Doing the thing unethical way” So that I could trick my audience. For example, starting my stories in a certain way, writing my headlines a certain way, or ending my stories in a certain way — all to trick the audience.

Don’t get me wrong though. There is a huge difference between tricking your audience and hooking your audience. If you do the former one, you lose your authentic self and of course, your audience can smell it. If you do the latter one, there is nothing wrong with it as long as you are authentic to yourself.

I would use the hooking approach but almost always I would fall for the “Trick” trap. And that’s the biggest mistake I realized a lot lately.