… and I care — Would you rather prefer to have Medium littered with advertisements? Just now I read an article proposing to allow advertisements on the Medium platform. I found the topic quite interesting. The writer proposed this as a remedy for Medium to survive as a readers and writer platform. I myself joined…

At the age of 41 I moved to South East Asia, more precise, Singapore. Finally a long standing vacuum was filled. I was a free agent. No job, no wife. Freelancing. My father said, “Go, I take care”. He took care of the house which I was building at that…

… and me too — The great fire in Australia made me sad We seem to be helpless. Millions of animals died. Even if greens are sprouting back, out of the blackened soil, it might be a slow death of otherwise fertile land. Nature does not grow back to the same magnificence as before. New…

… this is how I make a killing on Medium — My life on the “net” is a great success! Earnings are pouring in from all corners of the online world. Life is about putting up my legs for work. On a warm sunny autumn day, I sit high up in the alpine mountains of Austria. I am working with the…

Find out what to improve by using the Medium Writer Performance Assessment — Do you still count the pennies for all the articles you have written? If yes, no need to worry, there is a way out of poverty. I studied hundreds of articles to find out what I would need to do to have real success on Medium. I structured all the…

But you never know, I have a few lessons for you to learn — My plots are always quite easy to guess right from the beginning of my articles. Readers might therefore just stop reading after 15 seconds into my writing. That’s not ideal for capturing a massive reading time. Maybe this is already lesson number ONE. Do not reveal your secret message right from the start of your writing. Keep…

It is all about value and what’s in for the reader — Excuse my words but I am pissed off. ‘I am the older sister of Mick Jagger’. This was the headline that I thought would catapult me past everyone and to the top. At least that was what I thought. Forget about writing an article every single day. It’s all about…

Well some say yes, some say no. — For sure you can increase an articles potential by applying a few „viral“ measures. I will not repeat those measures here again. Medium has a huge number of articles about the topic. I have another message for you. Are you famous? If you are a Medium celebrity, the chances that your articles become…