Blog Submission Guidelines -

Why Publish?

A great way to be seen is to share your expertise, best practice examples, and opinions by submitting a guest blog post. If accepted, your blog post will be published on the NBG blog and available publicly.

Guest posts may be submitted by currently active members of NBG.

Mission and Purpose of the NBG Blog

The NBG blog posts are intended to provide information which is both timely and useful for professionals, business owners, and entrepreneurs and which can be read in a relatively short space of time, providing the reader with snippets of valuable information and advice to help enhance their work or life. It could include any of the following: tips, strategies, analyses, commentaries, advice, new ideas and technologies, developments, reviews, resources, tools, etc.

The purpose of this blog is for education, encouragement, professional and personal development, and thought leadership purposes. Blog posts should contain only original content.

How You Should Write

Use a conversational tone which engages the audience. The use of questions within your blog post can help with this. Make sure the title is as informative and as catchy as possible. It should grab people’s attention and make them want to read more. Similarly, ensure the first paragraph draws people into the blog post and sets the tone immediately. This first paragraph will show up in the blog overview, so it is essential that it conveys the correct message about the blog post.

Some General House Rules

We do not accept self-promotional blog posts of any kind.
The content must be unique and original.
NBG reserves the right to change the title of your blog post in order to maximize its search ability, however we will inform you of any changes prior to going live.
Author must be an NBG member in good standing. This means the account is active, member is a visible participant of events and discussions and follows the Community Guidelines.
Members are welcome to submit blog posts for consideration as frequently as desired; however, we are looking for variety of authors and topics so you might not be published every time you submit.
Hyperlinks – You can use a maximum of three external links in your blog post, but they must be relevant to the topic. You can link to your website only if it is relevant. You should not use links directing to unrelated websites, affiliate/sponsored links.
- NBG will allow links to lead magnets that further support the blog post topic but not sales materials, sites, calls, etc.
- NBG will allow links to free events being held that further support blog topic.
- We might add internal links to other posts on our blog/other pages on our website.

Submission and Process

You can submit a pitch with an outline and objectives for your blog post, or an entire article and we will let you know within two weeks if it is accepted.
If your blog post needs amending, we will send it back to you with recommendations.
You may submit an image, or we will choose an image to fit with the topic of your blog post-we reserve this right in order to ensure a consistent design for the NBG blog.
The author’s name, company, title, and the contact information will be featured on the blog post. A professional photo and short author bio should be submitted for inclusion with the blog post. Please submit the photo along with the blog post submission. Headshots need to be submitted at 300×300.
If attaching a document, free download, or resource of any kind this must also be submitted for review.
If using a link to an event, post, website, etc – link must be clearly submitted for review.

Document Guidelines

As a guide, your post should be a minimum of 1000 words and should not exceed 1600 words.
We encourage you to split the text up in paragraphs with subheadings and use bullet points or numbered lists to make it easier for the audience to read.
Keep sentences and paragraph length short (aim for 15-20-word sentences and 3-5-sentence paragraphs).
Graphic elements may be incorporated. Examples of graphic elements include photos, graphs, and charts that illustrate your points. Please submit all graphics at time of submission with 600×400 or 400×600 for internal graphics or 1200×600 for TITLE graphic. NOTE: Images may be resized to fit on the BLOG or redesigned to match NBG Brand. Also, you must ensure that any image you provide is not copyrighted and can be used without any needed permission or attribution. The source of your image(s) must be provided.
Italics and bold type should be used only if the author wants the same treatment in the publication itself.
Blog posts should be proofread for typographical, grammatical, and stylistic errors.

Editing and Posting

Rodger and Melissa Taylor will serve as blog editors. They will not make substantive changes in the copy without notifying the author. However, we reserve the right to copy, edit, and impose other stylistic alterations without notice to the author.

We will proofread your blog post for language and grammar. We will also ensure that your blog post conforms to the NBG style and value and we reserve the right to request changes accordingly.

If we determine that NBG can make use of a submitted blog post (based on hot topics, the planned schedule, etc.) it will be published. As blog posts will be spaced out based on categories, or even sub-topics withing those categories, a blog post submitted for consideration may not be published for weeks or months after submission. If we are unable to publish it within 3 months you will be notified.

What to do After Your Entry Is Published

We encourage you to answer the comments posted in relation to your blog in order to keep the conversation alive.

If you wish to make minor edits to your blog post after it has been published, please let us know within two working days of it being published.

Disclaimer

By submitting for consideration, you are giving RMDB Holdings LLC dba Network Build Grow the right to publish your submission in its entirety and pieces to be used for any posts, social media posts, and other publication. The Intellectual Property of the content remains in the possession of the author and will be cited accordingly and accurately in each publication. Once we have published a blog post, author agrees to and gives joint property of said blog post to RMDB Holdings, LLC. dba Network Build Grow.

We reserve the right to reject submissions. We may reject a submission because the topic or tone does not fit our blog, we have recently covered the topic sufficiently, or it violates one or more of the House Rules stated above.

To Submit a BLOG please follow the above stated process and send to: support ‘at’ networkbuildgrow.com