Do you love all things marketing? Do you find yourself standing in the shower making up analogies between online video and the shape of your shampoo bottle? Would you like to contribute to our magazine and share your knowledge of marketing with other small businesses?
If you answered “yes” to at least two out of three (we’ll give you a pass on the shampoo bottle) then give us a shout and let us know! Please send us your topic of interest along with your contact information and we’ll get back to you in speedy fashion.
Content guidelines
- Your topic must cover some area of interest to businesses related to branding, web, search or social marketing. We aren’t looking for tech articles or geek-speak, nor are we looking to promote any particular product, service or company.
- There is no length requirement; we simply ask that you make your point in the amount of space you need to make it interesting and meaningful.
- Submit your article with web-friendly formatting. Use subheadings where appropriate.
- Please don’t be offended if we suggest changes. We’re domineering control-freaks but will only edit for clarity or spelling and grammar mistakes.
Sharing and linking
- We only accept original content that has not been published in whole or part on another site. Please do not reprint your article on another site since Google generally doesn’t like repeated content, and we like to keep Google happy. You can, however, publish a link on your website that links directly to your article on our site, or publish an excerpt of your article on your site with a link to the full article on ours.
- Any content submitted to our site becomes the property of our magazine. We retain the right to share, market and use the content for the purpose of promoting this magazine, our business or other related endeavors.
- We will publish inline links in your article providing they have value related to your topic. We will not publish affiliate links.
Photos
- We require all authors to have a Gravatar to publish along with their article. It must be G-rated.
- You are welcome to choose your own feature image, whether from your own collection of photography or from our stock photo collection. Just let us know what photo you’d like and we’ll do the rest. We reserve the right not to use your photo if it doesn’t seem appropriate or presents a copyright issue. If you don’t want to choose a photo, we’ll do it for you. You (or we) must either own or have license to use the photo of your choice – no pilfering from other blogs!
Promotion
- We want to promote you as the author and will publish your bio and a link to your website or blog along with your article, providing it’s family-friendly. Please provide us with this information with your submission.
- We would appreciate a link to your article from your site or blog. Cross-promotion will help us build community.
Publication
- We reserve the right not to publish your article. We rely on our editor for her brilliant insight and will only publish content that meets the standards and vision of this magazine. Please don’t be offended – it may simply be that your article doesn’t quite meet the needs of our niche audience.
- In order to provide consistent and timely content to our readers, we have a set publication schedule with designated slots for guest authors. Depending on how many authors are in the queue, the timeliness of the content, the alignment of Jupiter and other things, we’ll let you know when you can expect to see your article in print.
If you have any other questions, just ask. We want this to be fun for you and both entertaining and informative for our readers! Thank you in advance for stopping by and we’re looking forward to counting you among our guest authors!
