Submission guidelines
Everything you need to know before you send us something. It takes five minutes to read and saves both of us a rejection.
800-2,000
Words
5 days
Reply time
0
Cost
Before you write
Read this and your article is far more likely to be accepted. Most rejections come down to one of the points below.
Shorter than 800 and there is usually not enough substance. Longer than 2,000 and it wants to be two articles.
Say what you learned in the first two sentences. Readers decide in about eight seconds whether to keep going.
A customer asks for 90-day terms instead of 30. Nobody runs the number, because the number does not appear anywhere on the P&L.
Three or four headings across the piece. It makes the article scannable and generates the contents list on the published page.
“Leveraging synergies to optimise stakeholder outcomes” is not writing. Write the way you would explain it to a colleague over coffee.
If you cite a figure, say where it came from. There is a field on the form for it.
Everything goes through the submission form. We do not accept articles by email because the form captures the category, format and image we need.
Every submission gets a real reply, including the ones we turn down. If you have not heard in five working days, chase us.
We fix grammar, tighten sentences and check facts. If we want a structural change we will ask you rather than make it.
We publish it. You still own it. Republish it elsewhere whenever you like, with a link back.
We publish practitioners. If you have run a collections function, managed a ledger, or built the process you are describing, we want to hear it. If you are writing about an industry you consult into but have never worked in, we are probably not the right home for it.
An article about one thing you changed and what happened is worth more than a survey of everything a credit function could theoretically do. Depth over breadth.
Anonymised is fine. Rounded is fine. Made up is not.
Recovery on invoices chased inside 45 days was 96 percent. Past 120 days it fell to 71 percent.
If the article concludes that the answer is software, and you sell software, we will spot it. So will the readers.
We only publish original work. Republishing your own piece from LinkedIn or your company blog counts as published.
We can tell, and so can readers. Using AI to tidy your own draft is fine. Generating the article is not.
Naming your employer once in your bio is expected. Naming your product three times in the body is not.
“There are several approaches, each with pros and cons” tells the reader nothing. Say which one you would choose and why.
Still unsure
The things people ask us most often before submitting.
So we can attribute your article to you, contact you about edits, and let you track where your submission has got to.
Editors are verified contributors whose articles publish without review. You can apply for one when you sign up, or later from your account page.
Yes. Contact us and we will remove it. Published articles stay up unless you ask us to remove those too.
Five working days. Every submission gets a real reply, including the ones we turn down.
We fix grammar, tighten sentences and check facts. If we want a structural change we will ask you rather than make it ourselves.
Yes. You keep the rights. Republish it wherever you like, with a link back to the version here.
You get an explanation of why. In most cases you are welcome to revise and resubmit.
No, but you do need first-hand experience of what you are writing about. We publish people who have done the work, at any level of seniority.
No. We only publish original work that has not appeared elsewhere, including your own blog or LinkedIn.
Between 800 and 2,000 words. The form enforces a 400-word minimum, but under 800 rarely has enough substance to accept.
No, it is optional. If you do not supply one, your article still publishes, just without an image at the top.
Ready
You have read the rules. Now write the thing.
