How To Get a Free Medium Membership?

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You can get three ideas to get a free Medium membership.

If you are serious about writing on Medium, then getting a paid medium membership could help you reach more people and can communicate with your favorite writers in a more open and unrestricted way. Medium only allows you to read 3 articles for free a month. Medium is one of the best platforms for reading thousands of articles every month. You can also write and make money writing on Medium.

Medium is a platform that gives you a free opportunity to make money as well as provide you a platform where you could read content from some of the best content creators on the Internet. There are some great voices on the platform like Tim Denning, Sinem Günel, and Ryan Fan.

A lot of people want to read Medium articles for free and you can do that through multiple ways as described in this article, but if you do a little hard work and think proactively then you could support your favorite writers and also this could help you make a recurring revenue stream that might support your Netflix subscriptions. When I started writing on Medium, my only mission was to make at least $9.99 a month to cover my Netflix subscription costs but as time passes by, I was making more than $200+ a month writing on Medium.

Why you should get a Medium membership?

There are a lot of benefits to getting a Medium membership. The following are some of the benefits of having a Medium membership.

You can read articles on Medium: Medium is a great website where Curation makes it easier to get the best of the content of the topic you have followed. I love to write on the platform but at the same intensity, I read articles too.

You can interact with the community: Medium is a social media platform for writers. You can follow your favorite writer, can comment on her/his stories, or can follow publications. There are some of the best Medium owned publications that publish high-quality content. You can read the article on Medium: Is Medium membership worth it?

Before I share some of the tips with you guys let me clarify something here. Writing on Medium is fun. Writing online is a privilege. Let me define what "Free" here means. By Free, we mean that you didn't have to invest or spend money from your bank account but instead fund your Medium subscription from other sources.

Method 1: Join Medium Partner Program:

You don't need money to spend to join the Medium partner program. You can even Join the Medium partner program from countries where Stripe isn't available, read this one; How to join the Medium Partner program from almost any country? This article helps a lot of people joining the Medium partner program and it could help you guys too. If you are living in a country where Stripe is available, then the process is straightforward. You just to fill in the right information in the right place.

The very first step you need to do is to join the Medium Partner Program and start writing. You have to spend a whole month writing about different topics on Medium. Try to learn search engine optimization and find keywords that have good search traffic and write about it. You will make more money if you submit your stories to different publications.

The mission is to make $5 a month so that you could fund your Medium subscription. Find keywords that have more search traffic as it would increase your chances of getting more viewers in which some of them will be the people who might be Medium members. This a great way to get a free Medium membership. Medium has high domain authority and this thing could help it making your blog posts rank on the search engine.

You can also read: Is Medium Membership worth it?

Read: Is Medium Membership Worth It? A 5-Months of Medium Subscription Experience

Method 2: Write and request people to gift a Medium membership to you:

Either Join the Medium Partner program or not but you could request people at the end of your posts or stories on Medium to help you gift a Medium membership. Medium has this feature that your fans or readers could gift you a Medium membership for a month or a year and you could enjoy free Medium membership. You could think about this in a proactive manner and can achieve many more things through writing.

Someone can gift you a Medium membership and doesn't cost any money as $5 is not that considerable amount of money. If you are writing great articles then and place a request at the end of your articles

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Method 3: Start writing on other platforms:

There are many other platforms where you could make $5 a month to fund your free Medium membership. The one platform that strikes my mind is "Vocal Media" Vocal Media is a platform that pays you based on the number of reads. Go to Vocal Media, make an account right now, and connect your stripe.

Write at least 30 to 40 articles on Vocal that generate you 1500 reads a month and you will easily generate more than $5 a month. Vocal pay $3.8/1,000 reads so with 1.5K reads you will easily make $5 a month that could help you fund your Medium subscription. Also, you guys could put some extra effort and start funding your other subscriptions like Netflix or YouTube. I have published an article about the very same topic on Vocal Media discussing; How to make $100 a month writing on Vocal Media?

Smart writers write on Multiple platforms and try to diversify their writing resources.

If you want to read articles on Medium then there is a simple method that I have shared here.

Read more articles about Medium:

1. Medium Alternatives: 5 Websites Where You Could Make Money Writing

2. Vocal Media Vs Medium: Which writing platform is best for writing?

About Aamir Kamal:

Aamir Kamal is a writer on Medium and Vocal. He writes about Blogging, writing, and major writing platforms. You can check out my YouTube channel, and my Medium account.

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