Does it mean my earnings jumped multiple times? Read on.
Everyone wants more views and more reads.
But which ones matter to your earnings?
Before 2024, all my views hovered above a couple of hundred, the highest being 1000.
But then, I decided to change my strategy.
In the first week of February 2024, the views jumped like crazy! 14,000% or 14X.
But… my number of reads is just 157!
So, what happened?
I have imported my mailing list from a different database (two of my blogs) to Medium—almost 8K, and most are non-Medium members.
However, I decided to share some of my articles on a non-paywall, meaning whenever I emailed the mailing list, they would receive the entire article without returning to Medium to read.
They can just read from the email notifications that they have subscribed.
However, the drawback would be fewer “reads” in my Medium.
The advantage is that I directly communicate with subscribers to all my daily articles.
It goes back to the objective of whether you want to make ALL your articles behind the paywall or only selected ones to be published without a paywall.
Dr. Mazlan Abbas 