Few things to remember before submitting your guest post:
- Credit: Financial Talkies respect individual work and if your idea is derivative of some one else work, feel free to give credit. Same goes for images that you use on your post. To ensure your article get published, write a very original piece, which is written specifically for Financial Talkies audience.
- Article Quality: Incomplete details are like half-cooked food, and no one would love such articles. I take quality as one of the major consideration in accepting guest posts.
- Screenshot + Video: Images speaks thousand words. Add images to convey your message, don’t add it just for the sake of it. If writing tutorials, take a screenshot. If writing conversational topics, use Flickr to find lively and related images. If you are a video blogger, you can submit your video to Financial Talkies Youtube channel. Just create a video and drop me an Email, and I will tell you how to submit videos.
- Self-promotion: We allow genuine contribution and don’t allow any backlinks or anything of that sort. You will get a chance to build a brand of yourself by contributing a post to Financial Talkies.
- Copyright: We respect everyone work. In case we found out that you had copied post from somewhere. This will lead to instant ban and removal of all your blog posts, and profile from Financial Talkies. Also by submitting a post to Financial Talkies, you give us the copyright ownership of the post. This helps us to deal with any DMCA related issues.
- Comment: Comments are the conversation and when your article is published. Answer any query related to your article via comments. This will give you more exposure and help readers.
WHAT WE’RE LOOKING FOR:
- Unique analysis, commentary, and expert opinion. Our industry analysts cover many topics — you can write about a similar topic provided you offer an original viewpoint that is corroborated by facts.
- The inside scoop. This means news analysis you can’t find anywhere else on the Internet.
- Relevant research studies or scientific findings. Make sure your points are bulleted and easy to read.
- Primary analysis. This means you have educated yourself enough about the topic and have also collected the direct quotes (viewpoints) from industry’s thought leaders to make a part of your article.
- Accuracy. This includes spelling, grammar, and facts.
- Word count. 650-1,000 word posts tend to do well. This is not a hard and fast rule. Take the space you need to get across what you need to say.
WHAT WE’RE NOT LOOKING FOR (Most of this, we already do):
- Coverage of big, breaking news stories. We are an Intelligence Portal and not a general News Website. There are many sites on the Internet, who are beating around the bush.
- Numbered lists, tips, tricks or “How To” articles with very general information. Unless it hasn’t been done before, we’ve probably seen it.
- Promotional Posts. Your post should not read like a press release, a classified ad, or appear lopsided. You should also not use your post as a recruiting tool. You should always disclose any potential conflicts of interest.
- Extremely personal posts. Real-life examples are great, but we don’t want to read about your private life.
- Posts that use overly-technical language or terms only industry insiders would know.
- Attacks. No personal attacks, conspiracy theories, defamation or gratuitous foul language.
- Posts that infringe upon another person’s intellectual property.This includes but is not limited to trade secrets, trademarks and copyrights of any type.
- Keyword marketing or links. Adding keywords to increase SEO or driving readers to websites for promotional purposes is not tolerated.