It has actually started 2 months ago. I was working in a startup and searching for things to read. I have heard Medium before and also had written a story in here but did not focus on it so much. When I re-visited the site, I loved the things that I read. That makes me comfortable like finding my soul-mate. And then I had started to search for the popular ones and found the listings that Medium prepared. There are listings for every months’ top stories but I could not understand what “top” means there. I searched for a filter that I can find the most recommended ones. And I could not find it.

That was the AHA MOMENT for me.

Yes, I found the most popular term in the startup ecosystem— Aha Moment. As I am not a developer and do not know Medium’s API is open or not, I started to write articles that I find in every month’s top stories till December. I had written them with their writer, estimated read time, publications and tags. It took 20 days to complete and when I finished the listing, there were 1102 stories on my excel sheet. I also put the ones which were popular in December by checking Medium Daily Digest emails.

And the adventure began…

I prepared excel sheets and listed them separately through their writers, tags, publications and estimated times to give the whole list as a Holiday Gift to you. This had taken me 2 days and the listing was finished on the 27th December. As I want to know the medium writers more, I want to get your emails and give an ebook to you related to the most popular ones. I opened up a website named bestarticles.xyz with the assistance of my friend and we pushed the start button for the growth. At the end (29th December), we had a website and a folder which includes .pdf files that include stories which have more the 500 recommendations. Also, we had a Google Document link.

Growth Strategy

I know that in the content marketing if writing content takes your 20 minutes, sharing should take 80 minutes above 100. Everyone should aim to spread their content. If you do not want much more people to read your story, I can ask you to learn the purpose of your writing.

So, I know 2016 will be the year of CX and as I am a customer focused guy I read so many things related to this topic. I also read the book Delivering Happiness twice and know the effect of WOWing people. (Thanks, Zappos) I am a Random Act of Wower(#raow) and wanted to give people personalized messages before their holidays. I have a whiteboard in my room and with the advice of my friend, I had written “Happy Holidays X” messages. I and my mother(Thanks, MOM!) wrote 300 names to this board in 7 hours and I started to share the content through twitter with messages like this.

And here are some replies/comments to my tweets:

I continue to tweet till yesterday and at the end of the 6 days: