Its All About Women!

Please Note: All submissions are subject to our editor’s acceptance, approval and discretion to edit article title and content.

No hateful, racial, derogatory, political or pornographic material will be accepted.

Your articles must make women’s lives even better in one or more of the 6 categories we focus on: Health, Relationships, Money, Mind, Spirit and Business.

Content:

• Have clear and specific goals for the article then support those goals in the text.
• Begin at the end: Tell readers at the beginning what they are going to get out of your article.
• Write to one person at a time in the language you would use as if you were talking to that person face to face. That doesn’t always mean informal language. But it does mean conversational language.

• If your article is already published elsewhere, please change the title and lightly re-write the first few paragraphs so that your content is fresh.
• Be succinct. Avoid extraneous verbiage, duplication and unnecessary words within the article, especially if it’s been through a “spinner.”
• Avoid the “heavy sell” – rather than submitting text from a squeeze or sales page, write an article that delivers “the what” then soft sell “the how” at the end of the article.
• The FK score should be below: 7.6 this ensures readability. Stay away from $10 words and long sentences.  Here’s a free tool to determine FK scores: http://www.addedbytes.com/lab/readability-score/

Formatting:

• Word Count should be 400 – 700 words

• Left justify your article.

• Keep paragraphs short (1-3 sentences). Use line breaks rather than indenting each paragraph. Avoid run-on sentences.

• Take the time to write good subheads and put them throughout the article.

• Employ numbered lists (for example, “7 Great Tips…”) and bullet points (for example, listing benefits or advantages).

• Avoid the use of random capitals, all-cap words, and unnecessary quotation marks.

• Make sure your article uses good English and appropriate grammar.

The submission you send to It’s All About Women should be your own work or it should clearly identify whose work it is.

By submitting to It’s All About Women, you give us your permission in perpetuity to publish your article both on our website, on third party websites as well as possible print anthologies. You will be properly credited for your work.

An e-mail address must accompany all work so that we may get in touch with you if the need arises. Your email will not be shared with any third parties; it is merely used to communicate with you regarding your submissions.

Original content is not required, however original title is required and we request the content be slightly altered.

Submission does not guarantee your work will be featured on the It’s All About Women blog or newsletters.

Submissions that are focused solely on selling a product will not be considered. The purpose of the content should be to help make women’s lives even better (inform, educate, inspire). Using an article as a marketing tool for your product or service is fine, but the content of the article should be immediately useful or beneficial to the reader.

Please proofread and spell-check your submission thoroughly. Do not only rely on Microsoft Word or any other word processing software programs to catch your errors. Once you’ve written your article, read it through at least once on your own to correct any mistakes prior to submitting.

We appreciate you publishing a blurb or mention on your website or social media reach to entice people over to your published It’s All About Women work.

We prefer articles that follow the suggestions below. Articles that follow these suggestions are more likely to be accepted.

Suggestions for Writing Compelling Articles:

• Grabbing Headline (if repurposing, rename it)
• Solid lead (your first 50 words) that clearly introduces the content of the article and follows one of the six types: Secret, Story, Promise/Offer, Invitation, Problem/Solution, or Prediction
• A Tipping Point Idea (and only one idea) with specific proof that the idea is beneficial
• An illustrative and moving story – details matter, use “the four U’s”
  • Uniqueness
  • Usefulness
  • Urgency
  • Ultra-specific
• 3 Supporting Bullet Points (if appropriate)
• An actionable takeaway – when the reader is done with the essay they should have learned something and know what their next step is.
• Conclusion/Call-To-Action

7 Rules of Engaging Content:

1. Be Remarkable
2. Even Bad Stories are Interesting
3. People LOVE Statistics They Can Quote
4. Funny Is Money
5. Simplify Complex Ideas
6. Evoke Emotion
7. Share a Secret

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