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How to Get Your First 5,000 Followers on Medium

5 Important Steps to Grow on Medium

Lauren Como
6 min readApr 17, 2023
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Building a following on Medium (or any social platform) isn’t easy!

I wrote fairly consistently on Medium for a year, took some time off to deal with a health issue, and then came back to continue building — so I greatly understand the sentiment that there’s no such thing as “overnight success” on this platform (or any blogging or social media outlet).

In a recent post where I discussed monetizing content on Medium, I received numerous questions from new writers on Medium about growing an audience.

While there’s no magic formula, there are a few tips that can help you expand your reach.

I should also note — these same tips and strategies work for pretty much any social media platform, whether you want to build on Medium, Instagram, Facebook, and so on.

You need to niche down — too many writers are all over the place with their content.

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Lauren Como
Lauren Como

Written by Lauren Como

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