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Why I Jumped from Medium back to Fiverr
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After three years of complete radio silence, I am back on Fiverr and loving it more than ever.
I still remember the day that I snapped and left, deciding to devote all of my spare time to Medium. I was burned and wanted to jump to the royalty model that I felt much more fairly compensated the writer. What I really loved was the promise that great articles would remain evergreen, earning royalties until the end of time…
The Moment
The day I left Fiverr was a breaking moment. I had been booked to write a 20,000 word eBook (for which I was being paid much less than I would have liked), and I broke. I cancelled the job, refunded the money, and left the platform.
My stats bottomed out, and the buyer sent a harsh message, but I didn’t care. I was devoting all my time to Medium, this platform I’d recently discovered that compensated writers fairly based on how much attention they were getting.
I didn’t understand how Medium made enough money to pay anyone anything (I still don’t), but fairly early on, I was making more on Medium than I ever did on Fiverr and for far less effort.
The first few months on Medium were tough because we were paid for claps, and I didn’t (and…
