When you first join Medium, you will find out that you need 100 followers in order to get into the paid partnership program. This may seem like a difficult task, but really it is all about networking and advertising your work.

There are several people that are trying to accomplish the same goal as you are. You can look on the Medium website, on Quora, or even on Facebook. Most people seem a little discouraged, thinking that getting 100 followers is a difficult goal, but if there are so many people out there trying to do the same thing, then why not read each other's articles and find a few new writers that you like?

By networking with authors that share your same interests, you may obtain not only a new follower but a new reader as well. This is very important. If you only gain followers that are interested in different topics than what you write, then you might qualify for the partnership program, but you may end up not getting paid. You are paid by how many reads your articles get, so if you are going to go through the work of finding followers, it may help to do the extra work and find followers that like the same things that you do.

So, in conclusion, the best way to find followers is to find people that are also trying to get into the writing game that share your same interests. Not only will you have someone that may like and read your content, but you will also get their stories in your feed, giving you new reading material too.

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