Write for Us

Want to write for William Ballard Enterprise, LLC?

Here’s what we are looking for…

• 100% Original Content
• 800 – 1500 words
• Lots of screenshots
• Lots of examples

​Every post we publish will teach our readers to do at least one of the following:​

• Drive More Traffic
• Boost Conversions
• Increase Engagement
• Blogging
• Set Writing Goals
• How to Market Books
• Start a Freelance Writing Business
• Business Development 
• Leadership Development 
• Spiritual Growth 
• Soul Winning
• Evangelism and Discipleship
• Content Marketing - Article Writing
• Social Media Marketing 
• Sales and Marketing 
• Publishing Tips 
• Publishing Insider Secrets 
• How to Get Literary Agents 
• How to Enter the Publishing Industry 
• How to Write, Publish, and Sale a Book
• How to Start a Writing Business
• Direct Response Marketing - Direct Mail and Internet Marketing (Email, Blogs, Social Media, and Websites)

• ​Move up and earn more: First-person stories of how you found your first good-paying client, raised your rates, up-sold a client a big project, or broke into a new, better-paying type of writing; where to find better clients and how to get them to hire you.
• Productivity: Fresh techniques, tools, or insights on time-management, overcoming procrastination, avoiding distractions, and staying motivated.
• Writing craft: Concrete approaches and exercises for improving your writing and overcoming writer’s block. 
• Self-publishing success stories: Would love to hear from writers doing well marketing and selling their digital e-books and physical books. 
• Juggling: First-person stories on balancing a full-time or part-time day job with freelance writing.
• Making the leap: How to make the transition to full-time freelancing.
• Overcoming Fear: New slants, techniques, and first-person stories on how to do freelance marketing or put your writing out there despite fears, and how to build confidence.
• Breaking in: How/where to find good beginner markets that pay.

​6 Steps to Guest Posting for Me

Here are my writer’s guidelines:

1. Become a subscriber to my blogs and read them a while. Nearly all my successful guest written articles come from regular readers.
2. Read and follow these guidelines to the "T". Seriously, you would not believe how many writers pitch me who have clearly never read this page.
3. Submit your best headline idea AND outline for your proposed guest article, in the body of your email. If I’m interested, I’ll probably ask for some tweaks before giving you an assignment.
4. Receiving an assignment is not a guarantee of publication. So remember to write the heck out of it.
5. Typically for new guest writers, I prefer a 500-word article (unless I’m assigning you a specific idea from the list above at a longer length that we agree upon).
6. On the day your article goes up, please come on and respond to comments. Part of being a writer and guest writing here means you help with driving engagement and social sharing of your article. 

I DO NOT ACCEPT ADS, PAID LINKS, OR SPONSORED POSTS

If you are an agency or company trying to place guest posts for links, I am never, ever going to accept posts from you. You can really just take me off your list now (you will be surprised how many pitches I get like this -- it really drive me nuts!).

The same goes to those of you who want to pay me to publish your sponsored post with your links, or go back to an old post of mine and stuff your link in. Not every going to happen. So... please don't bother. 

I Will Only Respond if You Are Truly Interested

Due to the volume of pitches I now receive, I am unable to respond to all the pitches that aren’t a fit for this website. If you don’t hear back from me, you might want to re-read this page and work harder on your proposal. For instance, I’d say well over half the pitches I get have obvious grammar errors, or are on a topic that we don’t cover at this website or at any or our five blogs. Don’t be that writer.
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There are three types of posts that work well (however, there are many more to choose from other than the three examples shown below),

• You share results – In this kind of article  you will be sharing the results you have achieved from a specific topic or subejct as mentioned above in your own business or a client’s business.  You will explain the strategy or tip that you are proposing, share the data/results and show the readers (within reason) how to execute on the stratgey or tip.  This article is a great example of this in action: [Data] Split Test Results on Facebook’s New Call-to-Action Buttons
• You share expertise – In this kind of article you will make recommendations to improve the our readers digital marketing efforts that is based on your expertise in the field (the subject or topic mentioned above) Although you may not have your own results to share you will show (through screenshots usually) examples of world-class companies, authors, and entrepreuers that are doing what you recommend.  This article is a great example of this: 12 Proven Tricks that Get More Clicks from Google AdWords
• You share “How-To” – In this kind of article you will show our readers how to execute a specific strategy.  Once again, use lots of screenshots and examples wherever possible.  Here is an article that gives a good example of this: How to Optimize the Most Important Pages in Your Marketing Funnel

​If you have the expertise and are willing to create an outstanding article for the William Ballard Enterprise, LLC's audience, fill out the form below. We’re more than happy to publish bylined articles.

Most importantly – be sure to include links to three articles you have written that are similar to what you would write for our five blogs.

(NOTE: While we’re happy to accept submissions for possible contributors, unfortunately we will not be able respond to each and every one of you. If your submission ideas sound like a good fit for our audience — we’ll be in touch!)
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