Read 8 Actionable Steps to Get Featured by Forbes, Entrepreneur, Inc. and More
- Aim for niche with catchy titles
- Google hack to find out who's looking for guest contributors
- Quora
- Help A Reporter Out (HARO)
- Interviews w/ Influencers
Fast Company tips:
- How To Write Thought-Leadership Pieces That Get Published And Don’t Make Editors Want To Die
- How to submit contributed stories to Fast Company and tips on getting published
Entrepreneur Mag tips
- How to Get Featured in Entrepreneur Magazine
- Entrepreneur Leadership Network Writer Guidelines
Others:
- From HBR to Mashable: How to Be a Guest Writer on 11 Popular Sites
- How to Write for Top Tier Publications
Tips for maximising distribution
- Reach out to notable founders and investors in your network to get a quote. They'll be more likely to share it after it's published if they're mentioned in it
- Share on all socials as soon as published (twitter, fb, insta, linkedin), both personal and corporate
- Create a graphic, cartoon, or image to include with the article so it shows up as a preview on twitter/instagram/etc.
- And tagged folks from #1
- If it's a strong article, you can put a small budget for twitter ads to reach an audience of similar followers to some notable news/blog publications
- Ask your friends/work colleagues to like the posts and comment so it rises in respective feeds
- Share in a community groups you're a part of (whatsapp, fb, slack, forums, quora, reddit, etc.)