Be part of our WINNING team!
WIBN connects and empowers entrepreneurial and professional women through membership, mentorship, workshops, conferences and online learning. We have a strong online and in-person community that support each other in the pursuit of finding balance while growing within their professional business lives and ventures.
We’d love to invite you join us as a guest blogger or as a regular columnist. What can blogging on WIBN can do for you?
- Grow your online reputation as an expert in your field
- Attract the attention of brands and companies focused on building relationships with influential women online: GM, Hewlett Packard, Microsoft, Maple Leaf Foods and Random House, to name a few.
- Interact with a wide variety of professional and entrepreneurial women
- Benefit from formal and informal mentoring from your peers and industry leaders
- Gain valuable insights on blogging best practices – yes we’ll train you while you’re blogging!
- Attend WIBN events at a reduced rate
WIBN is a startup and while there is no monetary compensation for your blog posts, we can offer you a free one-year membership as a thank you. After 6 blog posts (min of one per month) we’ll activate your membership with an understanding that you’ll continue to blog during your membership.
Contributors, collaborators & thought leaders wantedLike any publication, we have a few guidelines we ask you to follow – they make our job easier and help us publish your work faster.
First and foremost, we need to know what you want write about – it’s all about the pitch. If you want to write a column, give us your BIG idea in a couple of sentences as well as a few headlines (story ideas). If you want to write a post, we need the info “quick and dirty” so we can let you know if it’s something we can use on our site.
If you’re just starting to blog, use these tips to help bulk up that courage to write your first post. You can do it!
- Write with passion, humor and/or pizazz – and be critical. We want your opinion, not just the facts.
- Hone in on your niche and stick to it. Learn as much as you can and be the subject matter expert. And don’t be afraid to ask your readers for help. You’re growing a community, remember?
- Learn to explore a topic fully and adhere to minimum word counts (300 to make Google happy).
- Add videos and pictures to your posts – and label them with keywords so Google can understand them too.
- Write consistently. As the WIBN community gets to know you, they’ll want more regular posts.
When sending us your stories, articles and ideas, please include a short bio (2-3 sentences) so we have it on hand if we publish your article. Please note, we publish photos with every tip/article/story. You can submit images via email. Photos should be high resolution, .jpeg and 600×400 pixels.
Send your pitches to the editor pasted in the body of your email or as an attachment in a Word doc.
We respond to all emails, but please be patient. If you haven’t heard from us within 1 week, feel free to follow up with an email.
Got more questions you want answered fast? Catch up with us on social media and let’s talk!
