Working with the Journal Blogger

Given the amount of completely irrelevant PR email I get, I probably should have done this a long time ago. But, to borrow the most appropriate cliche, better late than never.

Note: Reading this page should not be viewed as a reasonable substitute for actually reading the blog.

To begin: I prefer to be contacted by email. Please use the Contact page on this web site.

If we follow each other on Twitter, you can DM me there. If I know you from #journchat, say so; it gets you brownie points — if you’re being honest. If you’re not (under any circumstances), you’re toast.

Your trusty Journal Blogger is a niche small business blogger. Her niche is microbusinesses — firms with fewer than five employees — and nonemployers — firms with no paid employees outside the business owner(s).

That’s what I write about and that’s pretty much all that I write about.

Now, within that category, I am interested in public policy and politics, the economy, ecommerce and other business technology (non-geek) topics, research, and the other stuff that you might expect business owners to be interested in (marketing, management issues, legal and regulatory issues, etc.).

I am interested in news and I almost never write features. And, no matter what I write (even if I’m writing the sort of article that I almost never write), anything you pitch has to have a strong grounding in microbusiness-ness in order for me to even read it.

Note: Saying that you are a big fan of The Journal Blog won’t get you very far, either, especially if your email goes on to provide evidence that you have never read a single post there. I do have an ego but I’m not an idiot.

It is a waste of time offering me review copies of business books. It pains me to have to admit this but experience has taught me that it usually takes me forever to get around to reading them and that is probably not fair to either the author, the publisher or the publicist. There are other sites around the web that are better for that sort of thing.

(If, on the other hand, I just happen to read your client’s business book and decide that it’s the best thing since sliced bread, I’m liable to write about it on this site without the slightest nudge from you.)

I do publish the occasional guest post and would quite like to have a set of regulars to post here … um … regularly. But, once again, I’m not going to publish anything by anybody that is not microbusiness-specific.

Note: If what you pitch has the word ‘microbusiness’ scattered about but it otherwise shows me that you really don’t know the first thing about them, I’d guess that what we have here is not a good fit.

This isn’t rocket science, folks. We have two basic rules:

1) All microbusiness, all the time.

2) See #1

I think that covers everything.

Within the parameters of these guidelines, I look forward to working with you.

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