This May Win $500 with Cre8tive. The #500Race on Medium and Twitter

Exclusively for Medium writers that are enrolled in the free Medium Partner Program

May Update

After having postponed the competition closing date for the end of April, we’ve received a handfull of submissions, most of which don’t fulfil one or more of the criteria below. We’ve also received more requests from writers complaining about traction for articles that aren’t Virus related and asking us to extend. In response we’ve decided to do the following.

All qualifying submissions we’ve received that have met the requirements below will be accepted as entries. These writers are free to submit a second entry so will not be compromised. We will open a last and final round for submissions which will close on the 15th of June. This will give all the writers ample opportunity to get their ducks in a row. The pandemic is now of less interest and non related articles are once again performing on Twitter. I’ve amended the instruction below to be more specific and I encourage you to reach out to us for advice and help. Ask for help. If it isn’t working for you, reach out on Twitter with a message and we’ll go out of our way to help you. This is all about helping the writers.

The whole idea behind this competition is to encourage writers to promote themselves using Twitter. From the submissions we’ve received it’s clear most of you have missed the boat in terms of engagement.

Read through the instructions again and do please refer to this article as a very clear guide on what you should be writing about, picking your topic and chasing viral trends.

If you write on Medium and you’re a member of the Medium Partner Program, then you qualify to enter. If you aren’t yet, it’s easy to join and it’s free.

Here’s the idea behind the #500Race. One of our goals at Cre8tive Media is to encourage the promotion of all writers and Twitter is in our humble opinion, your best tool for the job.

Don’t worry if you’re not on Twitter now or don’t have followers. You don’t need them and we’ll show you exactly how that works in a linked article.

We’re officially launching in May and one of our partners came up with a brilliant idea. We’ve tweaked it a little and here it is. Here’s how you could win $500 by doing what you love. Writing.

The #500Race

We want to expose writers, especially new and emerging writers to the power and reach of Twitter. As Medium will be our publication’s home, what better place to do this than on Medium.

To qualify to enter the #500Race you need to tick the following boxes.

Be a member of the Medium Partner Program

Produce a new article or many, there’s no limit, that you publish on Medium behind the paywall.

The article/s must be published in March and April of 2020 and should be privately published. No articles submitted to Medium Publications will be accepted.

Your own publication can be used, however should you win, you agree to move the article to Cre8tive Media’s publication for a period of six months.

Tweet about the article/s to generate traffic. There’s no limit to the number of tweets or the way in which you use Twitter. Advice on that below.

Include the #500Race tag in your article and in your tweet. To be clear, it must be used as a tag in Twitter, #500Race, and included as one of your 5 categories when you publish.

tag in your article and in your tweet. To be clear, it must be used as a tag in Twitter, #500Race, and included as one of your 5 categories when you publish. Follow Cre8tive Media on Medium and Twitter. We’ll check this against the entries.

That’s it. Simple. On the 15th of June, pick your best performing Medium piece in terms of external traffic from Twitter. Include the stats from your best tweet (shown below) and email them to us with a screenshot of the tweet.

I’ve included screenshots further below of exactly what is we’re looking for and clear instructions on how to get these screenshots.

Hint: If traffic is below a thousand referrals, you’re not even close.

Closing date is midnight on the 15th of June 2020, depending on where in the world you live.

Who can’t enter

Check the list below, if you tick these boxes that will exclude your entry. Sorry, but the idea here is to promote new writers and those who don’t have thousands of followers. If this list describes you, then I’m afraid we won’t accept your entry.

Writers with more than 2500 followers on Medium

Twitter accounts who have more than 10,000 followers

Any writer who can unfairly leverage a large following on any other social media platform to affect their tweets traction. We’ll know, so don’t go there.

If you’re borderline, take a dated screenshot of your account to keep when you publish. You can submit that to us via email with your entry.

The winner will be announced on the 20th of June and payment of your $500 will be made via Stripe or Paypal.

For more information on how we arrive at the winning entry, carry on reading below.

Help, I don’t use Twitter

We’ve got you covered. You’re the main reason we’re running the #500Race and we’re going to show you just how awesome Twitter is. Even with ZERO followers.

When you’re done reading through all the information on here, follow this link for a detailed breakdown on how to use Twitter without the need to interact or have followers. The article also explains how to activate stats on your Twitter account, you’ll need that.

There’s also other great advice on Cre8tive’s Editorial page for new writers looking to break into the field of Content Creation. All the articles are Medium curated.