Guest posts Are Welcome at Balanced WorkLife Company

We know there are many talented writers across the internet, who have incredible perspectives on career management, personal growth, and the other topics we discuss.

As such we are always open to sharing your insight with our readers.

We enjoy fresh takes on old topics, new trends in career management, interesting analogies, your personal experiences and how you grew from them, and more.

What have you learned from your experience and how can the reader apply it? How does your experience translate into the context of the larger world?

Examples of particularly well done guest posts

Job Hopping: Smart Strategy or Career Stopper

By Bob Waite

This article is a great example because it takes a well debated subject, backs it up with personal stories, and generates great feedback.

Boosting Your EQ: Steps to Build Your Emotional Intelligence

by Wendy Bailey

This article was well researched and pertained to a category we cover in detail.  Also generated a good number of comments.

Criteria

You’ve probably seen similar guidelines for other guest posts.  These are here to make sure the quality of the articles fits with our readership.

Originality:

All guest posts should be original content.  Redistributing an old article doesn’t help either of us.

Length:

Posts should be somewhere between 600 and 1000 words, although variations are fine as long as the topic justifies it.

Bylines:

Add a credit at the beginning of the post which reads: Editor’s note: guest post by XXXX XXXXX. Add a two-sentence bio at the end of the post, including no more than two links.

Formatting:

I prefer to receive your articles as a word doc.  If you can format in the bullets and headings ahead of time, that will make my job easier and hence increase the chances of your article being used.

Images:

I prefer to use images from Flickr’s Creative Commons. In your email, include one or two links to suggested photos.

Links:

The posts main purpose should be to inform the reader in an entertaining way, not to advertise a business or product.  If there is a trend or new product that is useful for careers and personal growth that is understandable, but reader’s don’t typically like being sold to on a blog.

Keep all links relevant and useful.

Proofread:

I don’t have the time to do heavy proofreading so articles that come in clean and free of errors have a much higher possibility of being featured.

Comments & Marketing:

Plan to answer all comments when your post goes live. Tweet it, Facebook share it, Stumble it…whatever you can to get the word out. You can be sure I’ll do the same.