Posting Guidelines

Do you have advice or a unique perspective that will help the business community? Here’s a great opportunity for us to work together! We’re always accepting pitches for guest blog posts.

Here are a Few Topic Suggestions:

  • Stories about business management from people with real world experience.
  • Reviews of books or other media that speak of self-employed and small businesses.
  • Best practices and trends of self-employed and small business.
  • Independent reviews of apps actually used by the writer that may help businesses.
  • Expert advice from self-employed and small business professionals.
  • Stories from self-employed and small businesses about some of the hardships they have had to navigate as business owners.

We’re looking for posts that not only provide accurate and useful information, but are inspiring and hopeful at the same time. We serve to educate the self-employed and small business community.

Guidelines:

If you’re interested in posting on The AII Blog, you must agree to the following:

  • The AII Blog does not accept payment for posts. There is no charge to publish in our blog.
  • All submitted posts must be original work that has not been previously published on any other website, chat, forum, or social media network. You may, however, publish the first paragraph of the guest post on another website with a link to the full post on The AII Blog.
  • By submitting original content to The AII Blog you attest that you are the author of that content or have the author’s permission to share it on this website.
  • The AII Blog serves to educate. This should be kept in mind when writing content for us.
  • Posts should be written for a U.S. audience with American spellings.
  • When quoting others, please cite sources, with appropriate links included.
  • Third party links must be relevant to the topic and approved by the editors.
  • Please do not use the main article portion of your post to directly promote any products or services you are involved in marketing or providing.
  • The AII Blog reserves the right to edit or remove a guest post from our website at any time. We also reserve the right to add appropriate links to guest posts and remove any inappropriate external links.
  • Bloggers may submit their own images, provided they can furnish proof of ownership or right to use.
  • Submit quality content. You must provide unique and relevant content that gives users a reason to read your post in full.
  • The AII Blog encourages bloggers to promote their posts on their own website, Facebook, Twitter, or other social media accounts.
  • The AII Blog may share and promote posts on our social media platforms but does not guarantee any particular site or audience reach.
  • The AII Blog cannot guarantee that articles submitted to us will be published on our website. The quality of writing and messaging of the content are important to us. In some instances, we decline a submission for not meeting our standards in one or both of those areas.