How I Made a $12,000 Article on Medium

Make a career on Medium — here’s how.

Isaiah McCall
Yard Couch
Published in
6 min readJun 14, 2022

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Photo by Marvin Meyer on Unsplash

Making money on Medium can be tough. In fact, when I first started out I made around $12 a month. Not exactly life-changing money, but it helped pay for my coffee.

Meanwhile, today my first article crossed the five-figure mark and I’ve been able to quit my day job entirely.

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Isaiah McCall
Yard Couch

Journalist for 99Bitcoins and former USA Today, also Ultramarathoner | On Substack: https://isaiahmccall.substack.com/ mccallisaiah@gmail.com