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Writers Guidelines
Setting Yourself Up to Submit Articles on MarketingAutomation.com
(For Writers)
Please take a minute to familiarize yourself with our Editorial Guidelines & Rules.
Writers Profile – (Before getting started, make sure that you are logged in.) Please have your Profile complete. Your First and Last name will be automatically listed at the top of any articles that you submit. You can add a two or three sentence byline at the end of your article. This gives you (and us) credibility and is a useful promotion tool for businesses. If you submit good articles, you are seen as an expert in your field.
Your Writer’s Byline – You are allowed to create a Writer’s Byline of up to 255 characters which may include your phone number and/or email address. Contact information is allowed but not required in a Byline. Try writing the Byline in the “Third Person”. If you need help or ideas, contact us. Please do not embellish on the standard byline or promote your business in an article. We are happy to discuss advertising if you want to promote your business.
Example Bylines:
“John Doe, is President of XYZ Assistants, providing secretarial services for online businesses. He can be reached at 909-590-1000.”
“Bob Jones is the Marketing Direct for ABC Consultants. He is a keynote speaker at the Marketing Fest National Convention. Email him at [email protected]”
Self Promotion in Articles – This is not allowed. Information about you or your business is allowed only within Your Writer’s Byline. We will remove any self-promotional text within articles and eventually remove writing priviledges if this rule is broken more than once. If you wish to promote yourself, your business, or an event, please contact us about our advertising rates.
Search Marketing Copy in Articles – This is not allowed in articles. Please do not fill articles with keywords for search optimization. If we determine that articles are being written as search engine bait, we will remove them.
Please Comply With Our Consistent Formatting Rules…
Category – For each article published, please choose a Category, then create a Title and (optional) Subtitle.
Title – The Title Should Be Capitalized Like The Sentence You Are Reading Now. On the other hand please… DO NOT FORMAT TITLES IN ALL CAPS. In addition to being in bad taste online, ALL CAPS is considered YELLING AND SOMEWHAT RUDE. We don’t want our readers to get the wrong impression. Titles should also be brief; ideally less than 7 words or so.
Subtitle – The Subtitle (which is optional) should be a single sentence summary of the article in regular sentence format. Subtitles appear in bold text above the standard article text.
Length of Articles – Ideally, articles should be between 200 to 800 words. We’re not against longer articles if they offer some real value to the community.
Person – Unless you are a feature writer, it is very helpful when articles are submitted written in the third person. We reserve the right to review, edit, to publish or not to publish but we are mostly happy to publish community notifications, events, or press releases of any kind as sent to us if they are written in the third person. It saves us time. In most cases, if we don’t publish a requested press release it is only due to time constraints as we have very limited staff.
Article Frequency – We are happy to accept one-time articles or press releases for news, organizations, ideas, or events that interest you. If you are wishing to write regularly, the ideal frequency would be to submit one article per week and no less than one article per month. Ask us about a blog within the site if you have frequently updated content. We are open to offering regular feature sections for dedicated or prolific local writers. If you are writing for a Non-profit, you may include schedules, calendars, activities, news, and information about your fund raising events too. Frequent multiple submissions from any one author in too close a time period will be interpreted as abuse. Please request advertising rates if you wish to have a more frequent presence on our site. Also, remember that as a regular writer, you are allowed to add contact information and in some cases, a link in your byline (you need to request any links)..
Duplicate or Re-posting Articles – This is not allowed. Please time your article(s) the best you can if they are related to an event or time sensitive subject. Re-posting an article as a reminder or for extra publicity is not allowed. It also negatively affects our search engine rankings. If you wish to promote a special event, please inquire about our advertising rates. We will be happy to help you promote through advertising.
Grammar, Spelling, & Usage – We assume that you can write with reasonable skill. However, feel free to ask for our editorial input. We are happy to offer suggestions to you so that your articles are professional. Great writers still use editors to help with ideas, spelling, and grammar. So don’t hesitate to send us your draft article before publishing. If you’ve saved an article as a “draft”, let us know. We can see it and we’ll send you some edit ideas for the article. Some writers like to write their article in MS Notepad or another text editor. This is OK, but many text editors like MS Word, etc. can add funny looking, unknown, characters to the finished article, so check how things look if you are copying and pasting from a text editor. Also, please don’t be offended if we edit your article slightly after it is published. It’s our site and image and sometimes we just have to do that to correct things that get overlooked. We always try to maintain your original intent.
Copyright – Articles must be original and/or you must have permission to post them from the author. You accept full liability for any copyright infringement on articles that you post. Note: Some writers are posting articles provided, with permission, by their suppliers or vendors. This is OK, however, we still ask that you make the article somewhat more your own by adding your own input. The reason for this is that search engines “ding” our site when we post “duplicate content”. So if you are using an article word for word, with permission, that is also listed elsewhere, please add and / or reword it to make it more pertinent to the marketing automation topic and to make it more your own. Thanks.
Advertisements in Articles – We do not allow advertisements as editorial. Articles should be about specific events and ideas or be of general interest to the community. We retain full editorial discretion and will pull articles that we deem, in our sole judgment, to cross the line between information and advertisement. If you have an idea that you are unsure of how to approach, or if you are unsure of whether it crosses that line, contact Joe at (909) 606 9175.
This is a Family Site – Only G-Rated articles will be allowed at our sole discretion.
Online Etiquette – We don’t want gripes and grudges to be played out in articles. Also, please be respectful of others and use common sense in what you post online. Of course, serious, thoughtful, and respectful reviews are welcome. We are also happy to allow articles on controversial topics as long as they are respectful and professional.
Pictures – We really like when you upload a picture to go along with your article and try to have a picture for each article. Of course, pictures are not required but do add a nice graphical element to the article. Pictures must be less than 1 Megabyte in size and should be relevant to the article. We have licensed stock photography and may upload graphics to go along with your article. We reserve the right to modify pictures slightly so that they fit into the various elements of the web site. By uploading a picture you acknowledge that you have the right to use it and grant us the right to use it as well.
Article Order – Articles appear in the Article Section of our site in the order they are submitted. On a regular basis our editorial team will pick articles from around the site and place them on the Front Page. But whether your news makes the front page or not, and subject to our Terms, we will try to always make it available to the public on our site. Please do not re-date / re-post articles. Re-dating or re-posting articles in order to manipulate their order in the Article Index is strictly prohibited and is cause for revoking writing privileges.
Terms – By publishing an article, you agree to, and will follow, our Editorial Guidelines & Rules and our Terms. You understand and agree that Joe Martinico Enterprises maintains full editorial discretion on any submitted material and is not required to post it for any specific period of time or may remove it at our own discretion.
Comments – Other Registered Users are allowed to comment on your article. We try to monitor comments and will allow wide leeway in commentary and discussion by Registered Users as long as the conversation stays civilized. When we find it, we will not allow personal attacks, profanity, hate speech, plain stupidity (in our sole judgment), or any illegal content. We will do our best to monitor and delete these types of dialogues and/or users that continue to post them. Please report any violation of these rules to us along with the name of the specific article or comment where it appears.
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16.General.
Force Majeure. We have no liability for any failure or delay in the performance of our obligations hereunder on account of events beyond our reasonable control, which may include, without limitation, denial-of-service attacks, strikes, shortages, riots, insurrection, fires, flood, storm, explosions, acts of God, war, terrorism, governmental action, labour conditions, earthquakes, material shortages, extraordinary Internet congestion or extraordinary connectivity issues experienced by major telecommunications providers and unrelated to our infrastructure or connectivity to the Internet, or failure of any Syndication Site or third party distribution partner, (each a “Force Majeure Event”). Upon the occurrence of a Force Majeure Event, we will be excused from any further performance of its obligations effected by the Force Majeure Event for so long as the event continues.
Arbitration. Except as expressly set forth in this Agreement, you agree that all disputes or disagreements between you and us relating to this Agreement in any way (a “Dispute”) will be settled by final and binding arbitration by a single arbitrator. Judgement upon the award rendered in any such arbitration may be entered in any court having jurisdiction thereof, or application may be made to such court for a judicial acceptance of the award and enforcement, as the law of such jurisdiction may require or allow. The arbitration shall take place in the County of San Bernardino, California. There shall be no discovery. The arbitrator shall not limit, expand or modify the terms of this Agreement nor award damages in excess of compensatory damages permitted under this Agreement, and you waive any claim to such excess damages. The arbitrator shall not have any ability to award any equitable remedies against us. The arbitrator shall not have the right to award any damages in excess of damages that could lawfully be awarded by a court of competent jurisdiction. The arbitrator shall issue a written decision containing findings and conclusions on all significant issues. Each party shall bear its own expenses and an equal share of all costs and fees of the arbitration. The content and result of any arbitration shall be held in confidence by all participants, each of whom will be bound by an appropriate confidentiality agreement.
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Remedies. You agree to cooperate fully with us to investigate any suspected or actual activity that is in breach of this Agreement. You acknowledge that any violation of this Agreement is a material breach of this Agreement and that we may pursue any and all applicable legal and equitable remedies against you, including an immediate suspension of your account or termination of this Agreement, and the pursuit of all available civil or criminal remedies. We reserve the right to investigate any activity that we suspect may violate this Agreement. You agree that we may, as applicable, withhold payment, notify the authorities, suspend or cancel your account and/or take appropriate actions at any time without notice to you if we, in our sole discretion believe that you have breached or failed to comply (in whole or in part) with this Agreement or any Policies. You agree that breaches of this Agreement by you would cause irreparable injury to us, for which there are no adequate remedies at law, and nothing in this Agreement shall be deemed to prevent or delay our attempt to seek a temporary restraining order, preliminary injunction, specific performance or other equitable relief from any court having jurisdiction, without any abridgment of the power of the arbitrator, for your breach of this Agreement.
Relationship. You acknowledge that you and MarketingAutomation.com are independent contractors, and this Agreement, does not establish any relationship of partnership, joint venture, employment, franchise or agency between you and . Neither party will have the power to bind the other or incur obligations on the other’s behalf without the other’s prior written consent. Neither party is authorized to act as an agent or representative of the other or for or on behalf of the other party in any capacity other than as expressly set forth in this Agreement. Neither party shall in any manner advertise, represent or hold itself (or any of its agents) out as so acting or being authorized so to act, or incur any liabilities or obligations on behalf of, or in the name of, the other party, unless specifically provided for in this Agreement. Moreover, each party shall be solely responsible for the payment of all of its own taxes, assessments and all other similar withholdings from or assessments on any monies paid hereunder or in connection with the transactions contemplated hereby.
Assignment. You may not assign or transfer this Agreement, in whole or in part, by operation of law or otherwise, without our prior written consent. Any such attempted assignment will be null and void and of no force or effect. We may assign this Agreement at any time without notice or consent. Subject to the foregoing, this Agreement will bind and inure to the benefit of each party’s permitted successors and assigns.
Governing Law. The Agreement shall be deemed to have been made and performed exclusively in the State of California and shall be governed by and construed under the laws of the California without giving effect to such Jurisdiction’s conflict of laws principles. We make no representation or warranty that the Site or Services are appropriate or available for use at any locations outside of California. If you access the Site from outside California, you are responsible for compliance with all local law.
Entire Agreement. This Agreement constitutes the entire agreement between you and us with respect to the subject matter of this Agreement and cancels and supersedes any prior understandings and agreements between you and us with respect thereto. There are no representations, warranties, terms, conditions, undertakings or collateral agreements, express, implied or statutory, between you and us other than as expressly set forth in this Agreement.
Waiver; Severability. The failure to require performance of any provision shall not affect our right to require performance at any time thereafter, nor shall a waiver of any breach or default of this Agreement constitute a waiver of any subsequent breach or default or a waiver of the provision itself. If any portion of this Agreement is found to be unenforceable, such portion will be modified to reflect the parties’ intention and only to the extent necessary to make it enforceable, and the remaining provisions of this Agreement will remain in full force and effect.
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