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This Writer Went From 40K Followers to 140K in Less Than a Year. Here’s What You Can Learn From Him.
He is proof you don’t need perfection to succeed as an online writer.
Alex Mathers is a writer I discovered on Medium almost a year ago. His stories popped into my recommendation feed every time I opened it.
After following his work for a few weeks, I understood why he is so good at what he does and why his stories pop up whenever I open Medium.
Alex publishes 2–3 stories almost every day. He is a literal example of a content-creating machine. When I discovered Alex a few months ago, he had about 43K followers on Medium. As of this writing, the number has grown to 141K.
Alex has also got a massive following on X (114.4K followers), Instagram (10.4K followers), and LinkedIn (15K followers). He has a newsletter with almost 10,000 subscribers.
I was surprised to see this growth in such a short amount of time. So, I opened his profile and went through his work. There are some great lessons I learned from him.
Alex writes as if his life depends on it.
As I said, he publishes 2–3 daily stories. It’s not easy to come up with so much content every day. Yet, he…
