Contributors

Contributors will provide their unique voice to one (or many) of the Simple Living Media blogs. They’ll write a unique piece for SLM at least once per month, and when it’s published, we will include two links to their main site or blog of choice.

It will be a mutually beneficial relationship. They will provide quality, unique content for SLM, and in return, we will provide increased exposure, increased authority in their niche, and quality links back and potentially increased traffic to to their site.

Head here for more information about the SLM blogs.

Interested in becoming a contributor? Learn more.

A contributor with SLM will be responsible for producing at least one unique post per month for a specified SLM blog, and if the interest and experience arises, they can contribute more for other SLM blogs.

As an example, a contributor may be a writer for Simple Bites, where she shares seasonal recipes once a month as she creates meals from your garden. But since she also has an interest in gardening and organic living, she may want to contribute to Simple Organic every now and then. This is welcome!

So long as a writer contributes their main article for the month, they are free to contribute other posts to other SLM blogs.

Writer expectations

Here are the basic guidelines for writing a unique, quality article for a SLM blog (contributors will receive more specific information once they’re on board):

• All articles begin with a photo. The photo must be credited with an appropriate source, and it must be legal to use. Multiple photos are great if your article is longer.

• Ideally, articles are somewhere between 500-1000 words. This isn’t a hard and fast rule, however – this serves as a guideline.

• The goal of all articles must be encouragement and simple living, and they need to contain useful information.

• Articles should be written in a laid-back, friendly (but not slang-ish) way.

• Articles with bulleted or numbered points tend to be the most popular. This also keeps articles to-the-point and useful.

• You can mention your site or product, but the purpose of your post must not be to soley promote your stuff.

• We (SLM) reserves the right to edit your submission for brevity, grammar, readability, and sometimes for meaning. If too much editing is required to make the post useful, we may ask for revision before it will be published.

• You retain the copyright to your writing, but once it’s submitted to SLM, we reserve the right to use and refer to it.

How to apply

If you’d like to join the SLM team as a monthly contributor, we’d like to hear from you! Here’s the process:

1. Write us at hello [at] simplelivingmedia [dot] com with “contributor interest” in the subject line, telling us your writing interests. Please share a URL of some examples of your writing.

2. If we have a slot for your area of interest, and we think you might be a good fit, we will ask you to submit a trial post. Information about this post will be given when you hear back from us.

3. Should we decide to welcome you in to the SLM family as a contributor, you will hear from us! If we think perhaps you’re not a good fit at that time, we will let you know as well. Please don’t panic if you don’t hear from us in a reasonable amount of time. We are extremely busy, and since we strive to live simply in our own lives as well as write about it, we have offline pursuits as well. Be patient, please. Thanks for understanding.

If you have questions, don’t hesitate to ask them! Write us at hello [at] simplelivingmedia [dot] com.