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There's no recipe or guarantee to make it big on any platform. But lessons from personal experience and research can help you save time. Focus plus time leads to growth. Growth leads to opportunities. And opportunities can change your life. If you want to grow your Footprint on a platform or another one, you need to look at the five "be's" of platform growth.
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It pays to be early to a new platform. New community and content platforms are being created almost every month. As platforms get more and more users (like medium today), it becomes harder and harder for Holeshot. If youāre a newcomer, youāll be able to find a personal account or a publication with less than 50,000 followers. If youāre still around, youād be hard pressed to find either a personal account or a publication with less than 50,000
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In short, do your best work. People like to read things that are just good.
Being good means being skilled, knowledgeable, and passionate about improving your craft.
Being early is a helpful strategy to get out in front of your niche on a platform, but if you arenāt skilled, youāll fall behind. Mediocrity is forgettable. Unfollows come from errors.
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Differentiation is fundamental in any economy with competition: In order for any new endeavor to succeed, it must be remarkably different. So when you enter a new community like Medium or another platform, your work has to stand out. Pick your niche (the one you love and have expertise in), and stay focused on it.
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Nicolas Cole wrote that the number one key to success as a writer is volume. How will people read your work if youāre not writing it? Output (a.k.a. hard work) is the key to staying atop feeds with time-decay algorithms.
Increasing your output is a way to improve the odds that your work will get in front of the right people at the right time.
Be consistent, be seen, get noticed, grow a following, and maybeā¦ get lucky (i.e., Medium picks your piece for a featured story).
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This āvulnerabilityā is what makes a reader relate and a story stick.
Itās how writers build an empathetic connection with readers. Itās human. And it canāt be faked.
If you write in a voice that is not your own, it begins to plant a question in the readerās mind that, with time, widens from a crack to a chasm.
The reader starts to wonder: Where is this coming from? Iāve seen this before ā are you copying someone else? Whatās the real reason you wrote this?
Do this instead: Honesty, articulated crisply by a self-aware person, is always interesting to read, watch, or listen to.
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