Do you want to write for thegigforce.com/? You’ve come to the right place.
Please read through these guidelines before submitting a piece to our editorial team. Important note: Our publication queue for how-to articles and opinion pieces is now some 15 days long; in an effort to reduce that wait, we are compelled to be extremely selective.
What We Publish
Here’s a list of what we publish from guest contributors:
- Daily how-to articles for our website.
- Daily summaries of research findings based on polls, surveys, and research studies conducted by telecom, managed service providers, academia, PR firms, and other researchers
- Occasional opinion articles (op/ed-type pieces), but we accept only those that offer particularly valuable insights and views that can’t easily be found elsewhere. (Please note: We will no longer have a separate editorial process, or a section in our newsletter, for opinion pieces.)
- Infographics, several times per week
How to Get Your article Published on thegigforce.com/
We get a lot of submissions. Following these guidelines will increase your chances of getting your article published in thegigforce.com/
- Write from an objective viewpoint and convey valuable how-to information to the reader. Focus on practical advice, actionable tips, and useful know-how about a specific telecom and IT topic or approach to managed services. Bullet points are good.
- Use a fresh, approachable voice. You are a person writing for other people. So, sound like one.
- Offer clear takeaways for our (and your) audience—mostly B2B business, by the way. Articles should be at least 800-1,000 words, but no more than 1,200 or so. Feel free to include images, charts, graphs, and the like—but only if they help convey a point.
- Articles should be original to the author and unpublished elsewhere. (Infographics can have appeared elsewhere.)
- Include a brief bio of 25 words, including LinkedIn and Twitter contact info, if available, and a recent headshot (make sure your entire head and neck are in the picture).
- Include relevant links immediately preceding the words to be linked (the anchor text); do not embed the links in the anchor text (but feel free to underline that anchor text).
- Submit articles in Microsoft Word format (no PDF files, please), as email attachments.
- If you submit an article that mentions businesses or companies in which you have a vested interest, disclose as much to us and the audience.
We will inform you if your article has been accepted for publication; expect to hear from us within a week or two of our having received your email.
My Article Was Selected for Publication. Now What?
- Your article will be edited for clarity and brevity, and to conform to the thegigforce.com/’s house style.
- We will probably change your headline, too, so you might want to suggest alternatives.
- The author retains copyright and may republish the article on his/her personal or company blog or site after the article has been published on thegigforce.com/. In such cases, we ask that you cite thegigforce.com/ and link to the original article on our site.
- thegigforce.com/ may also reprint your piece, with full attribution, in thegigforce.com/’s products, including marketing materials.
- We do not pay guest contributors for their articles.
- Our article queue is long, and publication will take a months or so. (We’re working to shorten publication time.)
