Work Awesome is a resource for people to share useful and inspiring ideas on how to be happy and productive with work and life.
Work Awesome is a key player in the work and productivity niche. It has an audience of professionals, business people, entrepreneurs and decision makers.
In a year and a half since its launch, the site has received over 3 million page views and continues to receive over 250,000 page views each month.
Why Contribute to Work Awesome?
At this time, writers do not receive financial compensation for contributing to the site. However, contributors do receive value from the experience:
1. Broad Exposure – Your writing and your name will be promoted to over 12,000 subscribers, 10,000 twitter followers and 1600 facebook friends.
2. Permanent Links – We are a page rank 6 site. As such, links back to your own site –such as links in your author bio—will receive link juice from being linked from our domain. This should help with your search engine rankings. The links you place will remain permanent.
3. Traffic – From the author box, you can tell us about yourself including any links. If yourwriting is featured, you will increase your site traffic and increase subscribers.
4. Update Bio – You are free to update your bio on Work Awesome at anytime.
5. Writing – If you want to become a professional writer, this can be an effective way to test the waters. We don’t accept all submissions, however, we do our best to give you useful feedback on how to be a better writer.
What We Are Looking for
We welcome useful, helpful, and thoughtful writing on any of the following or related topics:
- Time Management
- Productivity tips, tools, apps.
- Work Life Balance
- Career Advancement
- Entrepreneurship
- Goal Setting
- Office Life Happiness
- Leadership
- Life Hack
Writing Guidelines:
- Short Paragraphs – Keep paragraphs to 3 sentences or less.
- Word Count – Between 800 to 1500 words.
- Clear, Concise & to the Point
- Original Content – All submitted writing must not have been previously published elsewhere online (in print or via email newsletter is okay). Please, no simultaneous submissions.
- Reserve Self Promotion – Keep self promotion in the author bio only, instead of promoting your course, workshop, book or service in the article directly. This creates a better experience for the readers. If your writing resonated with them, they will want to learn more about you.
- Formatting – Use bullet points, numbered lists, and section headings. Format headings with <h3> or header 3.
- Story – Start the article with a story that draws us to the point of the article using your personal experience. And/or start the article with a self-reflecting question to draw the reader into the topic.
- Be You – The most important quality we look for is “Heart”. We want writing that comes from the heart—authentic, honest, and approachable. The best way to do this is to be yourself. Write as if you are having a conversation with a good friend who you want to share your thoughts with.
- Document Requirement – All submissions must be in a word doc that ends with .doc or .docx. Font size: 11. Font type: Arial. Font Color: Black. Line Spacing: Single. Paragraph Spacing: 1 line or 12 pt after paragraph.
Please add your BIO at the end of the same document. Name the document as the title of your post. Save as MS Word 2003-2007 document.
Submissions:
Submit articles to editor [at] workawesome.com with subject “Submission for WA Feature”*.
*Please note at times it may take us three to four weeks to respond with a review.
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