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Social media write for us
Pitch a social media guest post and get a decision within 3 business days, then publication within 10 business days of acceptance. This social media write for us page is for people who run social accounts for businesses, often alone, and can show what their approach produced.
Social media write for us: send your pitch
Send a working title and one paragraph on what you did and what it produced. The strongest social media pitches describe a constraint that most advice ignores, such as one person, a few hours a week, or a business nobody finds exciting, and the approach that still worked inside it.
The rules every contributor works to are on the guidelines for every contributor, and the standard a piece is edited to is in our standard for edited social pieces. This social media write for us page covers the social media specifics only. Paid placement is a separate route, set out on sponsored routes for social tools.
Pitch a guest post
Reach without revenue is just a vanity metric.
Why this matters
Social media contributor terms
| Result | An enquiry, booking or sale, not only reach. |
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| Attribution | How you connected the result to the posts. |
| Time | The hours per week the approach needed. |
Social media angles we commission
Short answer
Our social media write for us brief gets a decision within 3 business days and asks for 1,500 words or more from people running accounts for real businesses. A calendar with its time cost, a result tied to enquiries, an honest platform exit, or paid and organic measured together are the likeliest accepts.
Running social on a real time budget
What a posting calendar looks like when one person runs it. Show the actual weekly schedule, the hours it takes, and what you dropped to make it sustainable.
A result tied to the business
Enquiries, bookings, or sales you could attribute to social activity, with how you attributed them and what you could not measure.
A channel you stopped using
Why you left a platform, what it cost to maintain, and what happened to the business afterwards. Honest exits are rare and useful.
Paid and organic working together
How a small boosting budget changed what organic posting needed to do, with the numbers and the date range they cover.
What gets a social media pitch declined
Short answer
A social media submission is declined when its headline number does not connect to the business. Reach, impressions and follower counts are acceptable as context, never as the result. We also decline anything built around buying followers or engagement, and growth claims without the time and budget that produced them.
What a strong social media submission carries
- A business result, not only a platform metric
- How you attributed the result, stated plainly
- The time and budget the approach took
- The date range every figure covers
- What you could not measure, said out loud
What we turn down
- Follower growth shortcuts and engagement tricks
- Lists of best times to post with no data of your own
- Pieces built around selling followers or engagement
- Platform feature announcements rewritten as advice
The measurement problem is real and we do not expect it solved. We expect it acknowledged. A piece that says it could attribute eleven enquiries and suspects more is more trustworthy than one that credits social with every sale in the quarter.
Which social media pitch to send
What most people pitch
- You run social alone
- A list of posting tips
- Social drove enquiries
- Why social media matters
- You quit a platform
- Pros and cons of the platform
- You have a growth metric
- Pitch the metric
What to pitch instead
- You run social alone
- Pitch the calendar and its real time cost.
- Social drove enquiries
- Pitch the result and how you attributed it.
- You quit a platform
- Pitch the exit and what happened after.
- You have a growth metric
- Hold off. Connect it to the business first.
From social media pitch to published
Short answer
Pitch through the form on this page with a working title and one paragraph. You hear back within 3 business days with a yes, a no or a specific revision. An accepted social media piece is published within 10 business days of the finished draft arriving.
Questions social media contributors ask
The turnaround, as a commitment
What social media topics do you accept?
Planning and calendars, running accounts on a limited time budget, attribution, platform choice, and how paid and organic activity interact. Each needs a real business result. Growth tricks and platform news are outside what we publish.
Do follower and engagement numbers count as results?
As context, yes. As the headline result, no. Tell us what those numbers did for the business, such as enquiries or bookings, and how you connected the two.
Can I write about a scheduling or analytics tool?
A tool can appear as part of your method. A piece written to recommend a tool you sell or earn commission from is advertising, which runs on a separate and labelled route.
How long should a social media guest post be?
At least 1,500 words, our floor for every contributed piece. A calendar, a time budget and a measured result usually need that length to explain properly.
Can I include screenshots of posts and analytics?
Yes, with account details removed unless the business agreed to be named, and each date range stated.
How quickly will I hear back on my pitch?
Within 3 business days. If that window passes, email editorial and say so.
Do you accept AI-assisted social media articles?
A drafting tool is fine. Unread model output is not, and you are accountable for every claim under your byline.
Do you publish platform-specific guides?
Yes, when built from your own results there. Restated help pages are a decline.
Will you edit my conclusions?
No. Headlines, subheads and formatting change without asking; your argument and conclusion never do.
Can I pitch again after a decline?
A different angle, any time. The same angle only after a rewrite that answers the decline.
Beyond social media: other subject areas
Sources
| Disclosures 101 for social media influencers | US Federal Trade Commission, read 2026-09-13 |
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| FTC endorsement guides: what people are asking | US Federal Trade Commission, read 2026-09-13 |
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