How To Make It On Medium Like Creative Tim

Everyone has heard of the Creative Tim startup, where they started with $10 and in five years were doing $17 million per year. And here is the thing, when you become a writer on Medium, it’s not the writing that grows your audience. At least not alone, and Medium really does a poor job of explaining the other part of it.

But, if we competitively analyze such startups as Creative Tim, we can then gain the skills to then grow our audience on Medium to the large amount of customers Creative Tim has.

First, let me tear the bandage off and show my medium mistakes.

My Medium Mistakes, AND YOUR MEDIUM MISTAKES TOO

We as creatives and writers have all made this same mistake. You create a cool code or design solution and create a GitHub repo to store it and then write the Medium article and link the article in the GitHub repo.

Now, it’s not wrong to show it off somehow in order to embed it in the Medium article.

The wrong part comes in the form of we did not add enough real free value upfront to drive organic SEO traffic tot our Medium article and our Medium platform presence. Look at this way, the strongest Design and Code subject search engines are these: