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They earned 200,000 yuan in a month. Power banks, too, started out through various free courses and turned into commercial promotion for courses.

As for 360, it was the same as the rewards from new platforms and the prizes from competitions mentioned before. In order to attract more people to create content on their platforms, many forward-thinking platforms offered substantial rewards for outstanding work. Many writing competitions also had very large prize pools. These were all good ways to monetize, but many people felt they had to fight for such opportunities rather than win steadily and securely, so they were unwilling to participate.

But it was not actually like that. Once you participated often enough, you would always get one or two opportunities. I had submitted work before as well. I entered by chance, but I never expected that submission to win third prize—1,000 yuan. I had a WeChat group filled with writing enthusiasts who had joined different platforms. Since they had only just started writing, they worked especially hard on every platform. Many of them had already begun receiving rewards—five figures a month, even 10,000 yuan in a single month. Since many new platforms did not have many users yet, if you joined early and made good choices, your chances of winning prizes were actually very, very high. Winning an award did not just bring you money; it also brought the website's attention and regard, promotion, opportunities, and recommendations. As long as you wrote well, you could obtain all of these things. And I felt those were even more important gains than the money. The seventh point was Guangdiantong and tips. If you had opened a WeChat account, you could enable Guangdiantong. Some articles had an ad slot at the bottom, where ads were automatically inserted. When users clicked