Member-only story
Medium’s Referral Program Might Just Be the Fix the Platform Needs
It’s not about the writers, but the readers
A couple of months ago when the referral program was introduced, like many others I was convinced that Medium went down the wrong path again.
It was trying to solve a problem that was nowhere in the list of issues its writers and readers were complaining about. Everyone did the math and figured out that monetarily, the referral system doesn’t move the needle.
Others felt like they were salespeople when all they hoped to be was a writer.
I didn’t want to make my readers feel I was a cheapskate by adding a “oh please sign up so I can make some money” appeal at the end of my stories.
So, for the longest of time, I didn’t use the referral link in any of my stories and decided to give it a pass.
Until, I did.
Since then, my view of the referral program has changed, and it isn’t because I made hundreds of dollars from the referrals, but because I saw the bigger benefit in the program.
There’s too much Medium-focused content on Medium
The most written-about topics on Medium seem to be a version of:
