Interested in Becoming a SPsoft Guest Blogger?

Hi there! Thanks for your interest in blogging for SPsoft. We’re glad you’re here.

Do you have exceptional writing and/or SaaS development skills and would like to share your expertise with us? Please take some time to review this entire page — it should answer any questions you have about what kind of content we’re looking for and how the submission process works.

The Bare Essentials for Every Post We Publish

Successful guest contributions are comprehensive, data-driven, and interesting posts that teach our readers something new about the world of SaaS development business.

We’re also interested in publishing any topic that all developers care about, which includes things like coding, team development, knowledge transfer, web design, and larger internet trends, among other things.

We also look for a few things in everything we publish:

• Original concepts, compelling arguments, and high-quality writing. We will not republish anything that’s been published elsewhere.
• The article reflects the writing style/tone of SPsoft’s Blog. We aim to be casual, yet helpful, and typically we stay away from buzzwords and jargon.
• Proper attribution of data, quotations, and outside content referenced in the article. Note: All data should have originated within the last two years.
• No more than one do-follow link to your company’s website (Note: This includes your website homepage, blog, pricing page, etc …) in the body of the post.

The Different Post Types We Accept

We’ve conducted extensive studies to uncover which types of blogging — and which don’t. Here are some of our most successful blog post types:

• Experiment / Analysis: Did you recently run an experiment that has never been done before? Or maybe you completed an analysis of your own or your customers’ data that yielded fascinating insights the world should know about? It is perfect for blogging, write it up and send it over. These posts should include hard data, actionable takeaways, and thorough explanations of each step in the experiment or analysis process. Readers should have enough information to replicate your experiment or study if they’d like to.
• Canonical: These blogging types give readers in-depth tactical takeaways that are supported by relevant, recent examples, original quotes, original graphics, and current data. While we don’t like to put a word count on our posts, these tend to run at 1,500 words and above. When readers finish this type of post, they should be able to immediately execute the given topic and have very few questions left on how to do it.
• Graphics: These posts rely heavily on an infographic, data graph, or other visual aid created by the author. Usually, they feature a few paragraphs of introduction, the embedded media itself, and not much else. The graphic blogging should be comprehensive and easy to read, have a compelling narrative, contain plenty of white space, and feature up-to-date data that’s properly sourced.

What We Won’t Accept

There are some blogging things we simply can’t accept:

• Anything that’s been covered on our blog before. Please search our site before submitting your articles.
• Anything that’s too promotional for your company or organization.
• Anything that’s offensive or inaccurate.
• Anything obvious.
• Anything that’s overly critical of individuals or companies — this is not a site to air grievances.

The Not-So-Fine Print

Your pitch must meet the SPsoft blogging team’s quality standards in order to get published. Editors reserve the right to reject blogging contributions at their discretion.

We cannot allow you to republish your guest post to your own blog, LinkedIn, Medium, or Inbound.org afterward.

The SPsoft blogging team reserves the right to edit and adapt your guest blog content as we see fit and update it in the future for accuracy and comprehensiveness.

SPsoft reserves the right to include calls-to-action to SPsoft content, including but not limited to email newsletters, ebooks, and other downloadable content.

In rare cases, contributed posts may be removed from the blog, and the URL may be recycled.

How to Submit A SPsoft Guest Blogging Post

1. Conduct a Google site search.

Simply copy and paste this URL in your search bar: “site:spsoft.com/blog” and add a space followed by the keyword you’re targeting with your pitch.

For example: “site:spsoft.com/blog saas development trends”. In this example, you’ll see that SPsoft has published quite a bit on this topic. If you still want to pitch a branding topic, make sure you’re telling us what differentiates it from the dozens of other branding pieces on SPsoft.

2. Format your blogging post appropriately.

• Don’t sacrifice depth for the sake of brevity. We don’t enforce a strict word count on the blog, but most articles should fall in the 1,000 – 1,800 word range. Instead of trying to hit a specific word count, focus on clear, in-depth explanations that readers of different levels can understand and learn from. It’s better to over-explain a concept than to under-explain and leave some readers in the dark.
• The best blog copy is simple, accessible, and clear. Don’t get stuck trying to make a complex sentence structure work when a simple one works better. Take the most direct route to your points, use your natural voice, and avoid unnecessary filler words.
• Paragraphs should be no more than three to five sentences long and formatted using H2s, H3s, and H4s, when appropriate.
• Add bulleted lists to help break up dense copy chunks. Numbered lists should be formatted as number + period.
• Always include a conclusion.
• When including images, gifs, or screenshots, cite the image source as: “Image source” and hyperlink that text with the page you found the image on.

Tip: Copy and paste your post into Grammarly, or Microsoft Word and run a spell-check. We prefer these editing tools for catching sneaky misspellings and extra spaces for blogging. Feeling extra word-nerdy? Use Hemingway Editor to check for run-on sentences, difficult sentence structure, etc…

3. Submit your pitch

• Submit your pitch of finished blog post to contact@spsoft.com 
• Formatted subject line: “Guest Pitch: [Tentative Title of Post]”
• Your completed post or pitch in a Google Document with editing permissions turned on for “anyone with the link.”
• If you’re including images, make sure they’re compressed add them to the Google Document, and provide proper attribution below each image.
• Short author bio, headshot, and any links to your LinkedIn or Twitter account you’d like linked.

If your article meets editorial standards and aligns with our content strategy, we will respond to let you know your article will be published. That process may take up to 2 weeks and the publish date could exceed this timeline based on the needs of our editorial calendar.