Quora+ Membership And Subscription Based Earning Opportunities

Today Quora just launched 2 new opportunities for all the Quorans. They introduced new subscription options to monetize your content just like Medium and Vocal Media.

Quora continuously inspiring more people to gain more knowledge by asking, answering, and sharing a piece of knowledge for many years. I joined Quora in 2014 and since I am a regular reader and writer on it. I saw that Quora is earning much through their advertisers and sponsors, but they believe in sharing, so they always come up with new financial opportunities and are full of motivations where their users can monetize their content, and for their efforts, they must earn some more earnings.

Who doesn’t like Learning with Earning?

Since when I joined Quora, until now, I met more than 1K people directly or indirectly and found that lots of enthusiastic writers, students, readers, and many more — all are there to improve their writing & reading skills. They are spending their time sharing some knowledge, chatting, and having fun; Because everything is still not available on the Internet yet. Once I heard that,

Increase your knowledge by Sharing it. — Unknown

What are famous revenue-generating Quora Products up to date?

1. Quora Ad networks, Ad Manager
2. Quora Partner Program (Launched in November 2018)
3. Quora Spaces Earning Program(Launched in 2019)
4. Quora Space Subscriptions (Launched on 5 August 2021) *New
5. Quora+ Membership (Launched on 5 August 2021) *New

Basically, you can earn money by reading and writing the articles using the below 3 famous giant platforms.

• Medium & Medium Partner Program
• Quora & It’s revenue-generating Products
• Vocal Media with Vocal+ Membership

I recommend you to join at least above 3 giants and you can share your articles among any platform with canonical links, proper citation, attributions, credits, and backlinking (if the platform allows backlinks). What if you are getting some payback for your hard work and your writing, isn’t it a good idea?

“Write Once and Monetize it Everywhere” — Rakshit Shah

Exploring Quora+ Membership Program

Option 1: Quora+ Membership

As Quora is looking more into the development of the subscription-based business model, they are providing a facility to creators that, they can monetize their content and mark it as Quora+ content and will be accessible to their subscribers only. If any subscribers want to read the content from their favorite creators they have to pay on a monthly basis. Subscribers will get access to all Quora+ content, and also Important thing, Quora will distribute the generated revenue with creators in proportion to the amount each subscriber is consuming their content. As per the announcement, Quora+ content will remain freely available to the public.

Costs: (It looks something similar to Medium)

Quora+ is providing thirty days free trial for the subscription. You can buy a subscription of a $5/Month or a $50/Year subscription to get access to all the content.

Option 2: Quora Space Subscription Program

You can mark your content as Free or Monetized, Choice is yours. If you select “Monetized”, it will be only visible to all of your subscribers and Quora+ Members. Take a look at the below Image about how you can monetize your post. Click on 3 dots “…” given at the bottom of your content and then click “Monetize”.

Also, You can configure the pricing for your space subscription. You have to decide your Monthly charges and from that somewhat Stripe charge fees + 5% to Quora will be deducted, the rest of the money is all your net profit for your efforts!

How can you Join Quora+ Membership and Monetize your content?

As per the announcement from the official Quora blog, This program is running under preview or beta mode and few people might get an invitation.

Once I clicked on the given link, it was showing me the listicles of my spaces where I have to set up the payout settings, what content to enable or mark it as public.

You will need to just go through with the given steps, once you are done with that, your contents are ready to monetize.

This is all about readership and user engagement with your content. Once you earn $10, you will be able to withdraw it. I would recommend you to see this article, which is mostly applicable for increasing readership and user engagement.

Winding Up…

If you are facing some issue with joining the Quora+ Subscription program and Stripe, you can directly contact me. They have launched the above-mentioned program only in 25+ countries yet.

Remember, You can’t monetize adult or content which is against “BNBR” — BE NICE, BE RESPECTFUL Quora policy.

I have few questions in my mind.

Quora has most of the users who are teenagers/students (Age 13–19), housewives, and many people who are earning less from their employments or business.

1. Will these subscription-based models be successful in the next few years?
2. How can students pay money to read something knowledgeable?
3. What are your thoughts or positive — negative sides about Quora?

Please comment below, I am eager to hear back from you.

References:

[1] QuoraBlog

[2] Medium Partner Program

[3] Vocal Media

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© Copyrighted by Rakshit Shah (Originally published at Medium)