Here’s How To Write a Guest Post that Gets Read by Thousands

Mar
19

Here’s How To Write a Guest Post that Gets Read by Thousands

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So you want to guest post for Renegade Professional News?

Even though Mike Klingler is top dog around here, I often handle the content load for Renegade Professional News.

Here’s what you need to do to have your content featured—

Meditate for three weeks in some Tibetan cave without food or water and I will consider your post.

I’m teasing.

Writing content for Renegade Professional News isn’t hard. But it’s not super easy either.

Renegade Professional News is meant to be useful

First rule of Renegade Professional News is to make yourself useful.

Is there something about blogging, internet marketing or social media that’s difficult for most people but comes fairly easily to you? Alternately, is there something you’ve spent a ton of time mastering? Those are both great topic areas for a Renegade Professional News post.

Renegade Professional News readers want content they can act on. They want posts that help them improve their blogging, internet marketing or social media today.

Renegade Professional News content needs to provide a benefit to our readers. Renegade Professional News content solves the common problems Smart Beginners and Smart Professionals have.

Renegade Professional News is relevant

Obviously, posts for Renegade Professional News need to be relevant to the topic at hand, which is … duh … Renegade Professional.

We do encourage our guest writers to post about HOW they gained tangible results from a SPECIFIC Renegade Professional training.

To write a great post for Renegade Professional News, it helps to know what has worked for us in the past. Start by clicking on the Category topics to the right (side bar) and read old posts.

Renegade Professional News is well-written

I used to be an English teacher. I’m really picky.

You don’t have to be the next David Garfinkel, but you do have to care about tone, style and clarity.

Definitely run your piece through spell check.

We’re not perfect. The occasional typo sneaks in despite our best efforts. But we put the time and attention in to make our posts as good as they can possibly be.

We don’t encourage “first draft” content.

This is a place for your best, most thoughtful and inspired writing. Work through a few rewrites. It’s also very helpful to set your post aside for a day or two before coming back to it with fresh eyes.

If you have a useful, relevant and well-written post, what’s the next step?

Email us via support@marketingmerge.com to let us know what you’d like to write about and why you think it’s a good fit. It’s always a good idea to link to a post or two on your own blog that you’re particularly proud of. (If you have a blog, that is. It’s not a requirement.)

Please be patient with us–some days we’ve got a lot on our plates and we can’t answer email as quickly as we would like. But we’ll get back to you and let you know if we’d like to see more.

Oh, and one last thing, and I’ll apologize in advance if this sounds harsh, but don’t email support asking a bunch of questions about contributing to Renegade Professional News. This is one of those things where what you’re reading here is the directions – nothing more .