Guest Post Policy

Only original content will be published. Plagiarized material will not be accepted and will risk you getting banned from any interaction with this site. We expect the highest level of quality, creativity, and integrity from contributors and team members. It is considered valid to quote short excerpts of material from other authors as long as you properly cite the author and give them credit.

This site is written for an English-speaking audience. If English is not your first language, you should have someone carefully edit the article before submitting it.

Your submission should be your final draft. I will not have time to revise, edit, return, and then re-read multiple drafts of your article. I don’t mind making minor corrections or formatting the article to fit the site’s theme, but I don’t have hours to spend endlessly editing. Before submitting, edit your article for these things:

• Content: Look around the site to see if your topic has been covered in detail previously. Duplications of prior articles will not be accepted, unless you have a fresh take or new perspective on the old topic.
• Format: My team will format your article to fit the theme of this site. You can help get your article published in a timely manner by following the standard format of articles on this site. Avoid long paragraphs. Sections of the article should have titles that make it easy to follow. Most people scan to the end of an article before deciding to read the entire piece, so make sure your post is easy to follow for people who are scanning the article. Have a clear conclusion or set of take-away points for the audience to remember.
• Grammar and spelling: Editing is incredibly time-consuming, and I just don’t have the time to go through and correct 100 mistakes per page. I recommend that you have someone with proofreading experience go through your article and edit carefully for grammar and spelling. If I start editing and find several obvious mistakes on the first page, I’ll send the article (unread) back to you for further editing.

This is an all-inclusive site. Feel free to infuse your personal style into the submission, so long as it follows these guidelines. We welcome all voices to this site. However, posts containing material or references that are racist, sexist, bigoted, profane, overtly political, deliberately offensive, unnecessarily controversial, demeaning, or defamatory will not be accepted. Submission of such material risks the author being banned from any interaction with this site.

You don’t have to be a blogger to submit an article. Anyone is welcome to submit an article for consideration as a guest post. I do expect that you are an expert on the topic about which you’re writing, or at least more of an expert than the average reader of this site. I’ll be more likely to be interested in posting your submission if I’m familiar with you. Interact with this site, leave some comments, and contribute to our mission of helping people learn to successfully manage a clinical practice and master their personal finances. In other words, give more than you take. If you have authored other articles or been a guest on other podcasts in the past, feel free to send me links to these materials for review. If your prior work is high quality, it will make your submission more likely to be accepted.

Your article will likely be posted for many years, perhaps forever. Submissions should be written in such a way as to be relevant for 10 years or more. If your article’s topic is limited to a short-term issue or is likely to be irrelevant in 3 years, it likely won’t be accepted for publication.

The length should be as long as you need to get your point across. A good rule of thumb for length would be 1,000-2,500 words. Some sites prefer short articles (500-1,000 words), but the topics we cover are typically more nuanced and require more in-depth exploration. Articles over 3,000 words or under 1,000 words will be considered, but I may recommend revision, depending on the topic.

Please do not include affiliate links or links to other products and services in your submission. If there’s some product or service you think really needs to be included, let me know and I’ll review it to consider asking that company or person to be a sponsor or advertiser. You may link back to your own site. Articles written as long-form advertisements will not be published. The goal of your submission should be to educate, encourage, and equip our audience, not sell to them.

By submitting your article for publication on this site, you are giving me the copyright on the material. Search engine rankings downgrade sites that have content which has been published elsewhere. If you submit the article to me for publication, do not post it on your site as well. You can post a link to the article on your site or marketing materials, and you can post a small excerpt on your site, but don’t repost the entire article on your site.

Send your submission to editor@thescopeofpractice.com. If you want me to take your submission seriously, please send it yourself rather than through a proxy. Please allow a minimum of 72 hours for a response. Once I’ve reviewed the submission, I’ll let you know whether the article is accepted, rejected, or needs revisions. Once accepted, you will be notified via email. I try to keep publishing content on a fairly steady schedule, so your post may not be published right away, depending on how many articles I have in the publication pipeline.