We are developing a "holiday guide" for entrepreneurs and SMBs which will be composted of two main parts, a holiday gift guide and a holiday survival guide, both designed for entrepreneurs.

DEADLINE:  OCTOBER 29, 2021

1500 character limit (includes spaces).  This will be around 210-380 words, but note the count is per character.

Important: please be sure you read all of the information below so that you understand submission requirements for this series.

You may submit more than one response, but each one must be submitted separately.

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PART 1: GIFT IDEAS FOR ENTREPRENEURS

Physical or digital gifts that would be a great gift for an entrepreneur or anyone running a SMB.

These gifts could be for use in their business, or for personal use such as self care.

If you sell the item being recommended, you may include a link to the gift, a discount code if applicable, why you recommend it for a holiday gift, and your contact information. *** If the link is not to a site owned by your own company and is an affiliate link to someone else's product or service, it cannot be accepted since those will require to many legal disclosures. ***

Note: due to the prevalence of MLM and network marketing businesses, and possibility of multiple vendors requesting inclusion in the gift guide for the same exact products, those products/services will not be included in this guide.  Please be looking for a separate opportunity for those.

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PART 2: HOLIDAY ENTREPRENEUR SURVIVAL GUIDE

An actionable tip either related to the business thriving during the holidays, or the entrepreneur personally thriving through the holidays.

This would not be something generic like "use social media because it's helpful" or "having an accounting system helps you be organized".  

A specific and actionable tip more like "Spend 15 minutes a day engaging with followers on social media and reaching out to new prospects or connecting with peers in your industry", or what software to use for accounting or which type of accounting report an entrepreneur needs to pay the most attention to.

OR ... you may include an actionable tip for an entrepreneur's personal use, such as self care, balancing work and life, how to keep from being overwhelmed during the holidays, organization, etc.


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INCLUSION / PUBLICITY
We know how important it is for your branding, backlinks, and establishing yourself as an expert in your field to participate in this type of opportunity.

The best tips will be collected into one (or more) pieces of content - ie blog post, ebook, social media posts, video, audio.  We reserve the right to edit your tip for clarity, grammar, spelling or brevity when appropriate - but we will not significantly change your submission and will keep it as true to your original as possible (while making these minor edits for the ease of reading and comprehension by our audience.

Because we realize that some tips may be very similar, we may not be able to guarantee that all responses will be included. We will do our best to include as many as possible.  In some cases, if multiple people submit a very similar tip, we may edit and combine that into one article or piece of content, or one tip included in another content, and include links to all of the tip authors.

If your tip or trend needs more editing or information to make it ready for inclusion beyond a simple spelling or grammar check, we may reach out to you for more information.  However, depending upon the quantity of responses, we may not be able to, which could result in your tip not being included.  So please make sure that you provide your best response to make your inclusion more likely.

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MISC

Note that your tip must be UNIQUE and copying someone else's tip or plagiarism will not be allowed.  You may use information that you have shared elsewhere in the past, but please rework the content to be unique to this submission. Google tends to ignore duplicate content, and us sharing lots of duplicate content would just cause everyone to possibly have their submissions ignored, which doesn't help anyone.

We have a potential existing aggregated audience of approx. 200,000 entrepreneurs and SMBs, and will be syndicating the articles on larger platforms with combined audiences in the millions.

We WILL include your contact information and link to website of your choice.

(Have tips that would be great for our 2022 Success Series?  Visit https://forms.gle/GovbCojxHahZMKVNA. Deadline November 30, 2021)