How I Got 28,739 Views In 30 Days Without Publishing My Stories In Publications
The myth about publications
My friend, publications don’t matter!
This is what I teach in my Medium Masterclass. Even when I had 100 followers I self-published, now that I have 5,800 followers I still self-publish my stories.
Remember, I have no hate for publications, nor do I criticize them. But just there are many reasons I don’t like publishing my stories in publications.
That’s not today’s topic so I won’t go deeper into that. Instead, I’ll show you how I managed to get 28,000 views in just 30 days without publishing my stories in publications.
But first, let me show you my stats:
So make sure you do everything that I tell you to do so you can the views you crave for. Ready, my friend? Awesome!
Let’s dive in!
1. Niche Followers
This is the singlehandedly best reason I can give you.
I’ve built a niche follower and that niche follower helps me go viral on Medium. Virality? More views.
My initial followers read the stories I publish — they clap and comment, so it becomes a positive single for the algorithm and it pushes my story to more people. So I get more views.
It’s simple but effective.
However, it doesn’t happen all the time. I only get more views if I do a good job writing the headline and story. If I fail to do those two important tasks I will not get any views.
But ultimately I increase the chances of getting more views and going viral. How? By building this niche followers.
So if you want to get more views, build a niche audience.
A glimpse at how it works:
2. Irresistible Headline
At this point, you might find it annoying to read.
Because every time I talk about something I always add a headline. And why shouldn’t I? This is the core factor to make or break your story.
So how can I ignore this?
Writing great headlines is what helps you go viral and get more views on your stories. I can confidently say every story that went viral or got enough views was because of the headline.
At least the headline did a 70% job. The rest? It’s about the story.
So how you can create great headlines:
- Show benefits
- Use numbers
- Use Power words
- How to → How I did
Some examples of good headlines:
Make your headlines irresistible.
3. Problem-Solving Stories
I don’t write to please the algorithm.
I write to solve my audience's problem. I solve people’s problems who want to grow and make money on Medium but find it hard to do it on their own.
And I don’t just give them advice on the topic. Instead, I practically tell them what to do and what not. By doing that it instantly makes my writing and stories unique.
Unquie stories? No chance you won’t get views.
One more reason my stories tend to go viral is because you’ll always find them:
- Unique
- Curious
- Helpful
- Different
- Contrarian
Unique and contrarian stories always go viral, especially for me.
4. Writing Compelling Stories
Solving problems is one thing.
Writing compelling Medium stories is another thing. You can write about problem-solving stuff in your stories, but what if the stores aren’t compelling?
Your stories will lack views. That’s where you need to understand the compelling Medium stories analogy.
Compelling stories are those stories that are:
- Written well: Make sure you add a suitable story & example and also use simple words so the reader can easily understand. The story should be comprehensive.
- Optimized well: You add the main keyword in the headline and subheadline. You add appropriate pictures or visuals.
- Formatted well: Your story paragraphs should be short and easy to skim. You use bullet points and main points to make your writing look good.
The story has to be good.
5. Publishing At The Right Time
This is the biggest hack ever.
One of the main benefits of not publishing your stories on publication is you can publish your stories whenever you want. You can control the publishing time. But it only happens when you self-publish.
And this is what I like.
Imagine this: You write the best possible story. You pour your soul into writing the story. It takes you hours to write the story.
You submit the story to a publication. And the publication publishes the story at 2 AM. (in your time zone)
But unfortunately, all your readers miss the story because they’re sleeping so all you get is crickets. Of course, they can read the story when they see it but that’s a hit-or-miss scenario.
Makes sense?
That’s why I want my stories to be published whenever I want.
And I know when to publish my stories. I’ve tried a lot of time frames and I’ve come to realize that publishing my stories at 5:00 PM IST ( 7:30 AM EST) works well.
So whenever I publish a new story I go with 5 PM.
I firmly believe that publishing your stories at the right time is so important. You can’t publish your stories at 2 AM at night and expect your reader to read them immediately.
Don’t get trapped by a Hit-or-Miss game.
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