Ghost vs. LinkedIn Publishing Platform vs. Medium

It is well suited for distributed writing and publishing with a subscription component

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The platform is a great tool for someone trying to find a job. I have personally used the platform to help me get my current position and will use it again once I am back in the job market. There are some people out there who claim the platform is useless. In my opinion, if you see the LinkedIn platform as useless then you don't really understand how helpful it can be in the digital age of 2017.

If you are vanity publishing and just want to see your stuff on the web, it is very, VERY easy to get involved with. Of course, your writing is not likely to stand out if you don't have a clear plan. The more I use it, the more I like it. The user interface is extremely well-done. I kinda wish my WordPress-based blogs had editors that were that easy to use.

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• Creating a newsletter for web and email simultaneously
• Allowing for paid subscriptions
• Allowing content to be segmented by subscription type

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• I like how it lets you publish long form content.
• I love how it lets me copy and paste words and links from my Wordpress website, and it all comes over without me having to reinsert the links.

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• Content categorization and grouping.
• The option to make some money from sharing your passion and teaching.
• Moderating content manually to not promote AI-generated content and boosting very authentic and impactful posts.

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• They wysiwig editor is missing critical functions like superscript and subscript
• The markdown complement has those features but it doesn’t integrate well with the wysiwig editor
• Footnoting is hard to do

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• Ability to post on a mirror account
• Notifications on a campaign could be to a phone instead of email
• More robust data analytics

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• The payment wall can be confusing.
• Hard to get traction if you're trying to go viral with an article.
• Sometimes content gets buried too easily.

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You can use your own profile and it is intuitive, easy to manage with good headings and tools.

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By comparison, most online editors are clunky. The Medium editor is amazingly powerful and still easy to use.

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Medium is supported across android, iOS and the web. While it may not have all the languages supported, English is certainly an option and with a pricing model that ranges from free to $5 for a subscription, you can't go wrong whether you're a small or large business. Everything is hosted in the cloud so it is very accessible

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Medium is dirt easy to use. The hard part is figuring out if it is worth the effort to include it as part of our content-marketing strategy.

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It is simpler, headless, faster than WordPress. The core functionality is focused on subscription membership which is a bloated add on for WordPress.

The simplicity has a cost as WordPress, while complicated, offers more expansion opportunities.

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The problem with Facebook for Business is that it is on Facebook. Facebook is a great way for a company to brand themselves. However a companies content is surround by other content that is often not professional. For example, if someone follows my company on Facebook and scrolls down their timeline and sees my post, it is intertwined in their feed with their Facebook friends. This could lead to your content being mixed in with others. With Linkedin, it is solely supposed to be used for professionals. People are not supposed to (even though some do) post things that may be deemed offensive. That is not the case with Facebook.

There are a handful of other blogging platforms available. The biggest difference between Medium and others is how streamlined it is. It's straight to the point and is excellent at showing related content, be it your own or another users. There's no new design to navigate between posts, everything is where you expect it to be letting you focus on the post.

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• Our business is totally built around this product
• It has allowed us to easily and quickly scale our free and (soon) our paywalled content

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• I think it raises the awareness of my SuperStar Careers brand. When I talk to people offline, they often tell me they read my articles and can give specific examples.
• I've had a few prospects reach out to me. In the past 2 years, I'd guess I've had up to 10 people reach out to me for a assistance.

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• Good way to raise awareness of our content with @mentioned influencers
• Good way to link back to your original content
• Aside from publishing your own content Medium is a great news site in its own right. If you're looking for relevant industry news or other content, check in daily to see what's going on with others in your industry.