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## Using Medium to promote your Steemit articles
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The first time I remember my boyfriend talking about Medium he said that he loves reading articles on their website. And many times during my Steemit-adventure he told me that he wished that I was going to publish my articles on Medium, because of his reading pleasure. Well, we all know that I'm not the kind of person to abandon Steemit, but I thought it was about time to bundle their powers! Let's see if I can promote Steemit a bit while sharing my Steemit articles on Medium.

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## I was clueless how to use Medium
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Although I've been aware of the existence of [Medium](https://medium.com/) for quite some time now, I've not used my account until yesterday. I've tried to see how I could share my Steemit articles on Medium before, but it was a big mystery to me how to manage that on their website. For the @oracle-d tasks reviewing Media DApps it was mandatory to share the articles on Medium. As I had no clue how to do so, I asked @daan for advice because I figured he would have the answer for me. And thankfully, he did. Thanks again, your help is very appreciated! Now I will write this tutorial to show others how to share their articles on Medium.

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## The first step is easy: sign up for a Medium account
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It may look a bit stupid to mention this here, but I knew for a long time that I really *should* make that account, but I always forgot to do so. My advice for all the Steemit authors that think they have something to contribute to promote Steemit/Steem, sign up on Medium, and start sharing your articles! I know there is a monetary system behind Medium also, but as I don't have any experience on how that works yet, I will not go in to that in this tutorial, but it may be good to keep in mind that you can make money there also.

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## How to share your Steemit article on Medium
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When you are on the Medium website, you see your profile picture at the top right of the screen. 
Click on it to see a drop down menu, and click on **stories**.

<center>![medium click stories.png](https://files.steempeak.com/file/steempeak/anouk.nox/PNv2gvwW-medium20click20stories.png)</center>

Then you will see this page:

<center>![medium import story.png](https://files.steempeak.com/file/steempeak/anouk.nox/AU8GQu1C-medium20import20story.png)</center>

Click on **Import a story** to go to the following page:

<center>![medium steemit link import.png](https://files.steempeak.com/file/steempeak/anouk.nox/o6g9rMxj-medium20steemit20link20import.png)</center>

Just **fill in your Steemit article link in the box** and click on **import**. You will now see this screen:

<center>![medium click to see story.png](https://files.steempeak.com/file/steempeak/anouk.nox/uE5BDFuo-medium20click20to20see20story.png)</center> 

As you can see, you can edit your story if needed or just add or delete some things before you publish it. I haven't edited any of my articles (so far I've published three of my Steemit articles) because I was happy with the way it looked. You can decide for yourself if the article needs to be edited by clicking on **see your story**.

<center>![medium see your story.png](https://files.steempeak.com/file/steempeak/anouk.nox/qBjvqWoJ-medium20see20your20story.png)</center>

When you're satisfied, you can click on **ready to publish** on the top of your screen. You're almost there! Now it's time to add the corresponding tags to your article:

<center>![medium add tags before publishing.png](https://files.steempeak.com/file/steempeak/anouk.nox/laalbSSh-medium20add20tags20before20publishing.png)

You can use 5 tags for your article, pick them wisely. Then there is a little box that says: "Allow curators to recommend my story to interested readers. **Recommended stories are part of Medium's metered paywall". 

>As the metered paywall information isn't clear to me, I've used the contact form on the website to get more information. At this moment it's still unclear to me, but I figured that it's best to let them curate my articles and recommend them. Once I find out how the metered paywall system works, I will write another article about that.

Click on **publish now**, congratulations, you've just published your Steemit article on Medium!
If you want to go to your published stories, just go back to **stories** and click on **published** to see them. If you are working on a draft, it will automatically be saved so you can continue working on that when you want to.

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**Hopefully you found this tutorial useful, feel free to leave a comment in the comment section!**