Contribute to the Smarketers Hub blog 📝
The Smarketers Hub blog is for early, mid-stage and senior-level African marketers. We share valuable content, marketing resources, case studies, and opportunities to help marketers advance their careers to the global stage.
Our mission is to support African marketers in building global-worthy careers. We’ve designed this contributors’ program to give you a platform to share your ideas, experiences, and knowledge of marketing.
We share every post with our audience across all channels and have over 3,500 monthly page views of our content. We also add a byline and description to every guest post.
Want to contribute to the Smarketers Hub blog? Check out the guidelines for more details. 👇🏾
Contributors guidelines🎯
We’re super excited to publish your unique insights and experiences on our blog. To streamline the process and ensure high-quality content, please review and adhere to the following guidelines:
Content
Topic: We love articles that are written from experience or are sharing an idea that’s strong enough to make others rethink how they approach the topic. This could include practical marketing strategies that can help marketers do excellent work, get hired, and build successful global careers.
Tone: Make your article conversational and empathetic. Write as if you’re offering advice to a fellow marketer.
Length: We’re flexible with length of articles. But for maximum impact, we require that submissions should have a minimum of 1,000 words.
Originality: Content must be 100% original, solve a real problem, contain unique POV, and unpublished elsewhere.
Editorial standards
Formatting: Create H2s, H3s, and H4s to organize your content. Keep paragraphs short and add bulleted lists whenever possible. Always include an introduction and a conclusion.
Image: When including images from other publications, cite the image source with a hyperlink.
Supporting data: When referencing statistics, ensure that it’s from a credible source.
Authenticity: Ensure your content contains valuable insights from subject matter experts.
Editing: Use tools like Grammarly or Hemingway Editor to edit your content.
Promotion
Create a distribution plan of how your content can be promoted for maximum reach.
Once published, share your article on your social media channels and tag us.
FAQs
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As a contributor, when you contribute to the Smarketers Hub blog, you will receive:
Full Credit: Your byline featured on your article.
Increased Visibility: We share your work with our engaged marketing audience via social media, newsletter, and Slack.
Portfolio Boost: Build a strong collection of published articles in marketing
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You have first-hand experience with the topic you're writing about.
You're able to write in a unique, human voice (we have a casual, friendly tone with our community), and you're able to connect personal experiences with actionable advice.
All guest posts should reflect your professional experience and must be original content; they cannot have been previously published unless you're submitting an excerpt from a book you've written.
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We create content that provides value to our readers. Your topic should focus on helping marketers achieve one of the following:
Build successful careers in marketing.
Get hired in their field of interest.
Do excellent work as a marketer.
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No, we don’t accept pre-written posts. Your article has to go through our writing process— pitching, researching, outlining, writing and editing.
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Here are examples of our published contributors’ posts: How to receive payment from international clients as a freelance marketer in Nigeria, 11 newsletters for Marketers. Visit our blog to see more published posts from our contributing writers.
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Once your pitch is accepted, from your first draft to our final review, it takes 3-4 weeks.
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Once you fill out the form below, we'll review your pitch and email you to let you know if we can move forward with it.
If we approve the topic, we'll provide you with more information, including the process for outlining, writing, and editing.
We look forward to your exciting pitch! 😊