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Don’t Quit Medium: Here’s Why
Keep writing guys
Here are the 3 reasons why you shouldn’t quit writing on Medium:
Reason #1: No Investment
If you want to build your website (personal blog) it’s going to cost you a few hundred dollars. It’s not free to build and write on a website.
Your personal blog or website isn’t free to write. As long as you’re writing on it, you need to feed it the food it needs. You first need to buy a domain. Then you need to buy a hosting.
And then every single year you need to renew your domain and hosting to keep your website alive. What’s more…you would also need plugins and themes that will cost you extra money.
The point is: Your personal blog is not free.
Twitter? Oh sorry, X? It’s also not free anymore. Elon Musk is a genius marketer. He knows how to do business. He turned Twitter into a cash machine by launching premium subscriptions.
To use Twitter, you may need to buy a premium subscription, which will allow you to write long-form content also to give you more reach. And right now that little blue tick next to your name is more like an honor of badge on Twitter/X. So I guess if you don’t have that badge, people assume you’re a bot or something lol.
Certainly, Twitter isn’t free anymore.
Medium? I don’t think you need to spend any money on this platform to continue writing. I can say, the Medium subscription is completely optional.
What does a Medium subscription do?
It just allows you to read metered stories. Nothing less, nothing more. It doesn’t harm your reach. It doesn’t stop you from writing long stories.
Medium is free.
Reason #2: Become a Better Writer
Let’s be honest, Medium made me a better writer.
Like most people, I was also new to this writing game. Had no clue what it was and how it could be done. I figured things out on my own.
Medium helped me write better because it’s a long-form content platform — unlike Twitter or LinkedIn. When you write on Medium, you actually think through the things. You…
