Proactive Medium Fixes That Will Help Writers Earn What They’re Worth

A recent article on this topic received a great deal of attention and comment. Consider this a reply based on your feedback.

Joel Eisenberg
5 min readJul 26, 2022

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If you have yet to read my most-hit (in all senses of the word) Medium article since my return, here it is:

Got it? Digested okay? Good.

Onward.

First, I would like thank everyone here who took the time to read this piece, and also to comment on it. It received reaction pro and con (as expected), and I read each and every bit of feedback.

Some of you I still have to get back to, and I will.

Regarding my response, this is what I read most frequently on the side that disagreed with me on certain points: I still want to learn how to make money on Medium.

Paraphrasing feedback:

  • ‘Perhaps you see Medium as being overtaken by salespeople and unproven claims because that’s what you write about…

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Joel Eisenberg

Joel Eisenberg is an award-winning author, screenwriter, and producer. The Oscar in the profile pic isn’t his but he’s scheming. WGA and Pen America member.