About Upmarket Magazine
Upmarket is all about creating remarkable, creative businesses. Our focus is on small (and micro!) businesses that push the envelope, the people who run them, and where to find the guts and insight to build them. Our heroes are standouts like Leo Baubata, Danielle LaPorte and Derek Sivers — just to name a few.
What do we feature in Upmarket? Case studies, reviews, tips & tricks, surprising shortcuts, what works (and what doesn’t). Upmarket is about the artistic, important, and authentic aspects of business. We tell stories about the businesses that are doing it right and provide information and resources to readers who are interested in making their business successful in delightful ways. It’s work — and it’s personal, too. We believe that role models matter, and that succeeding today requires more than just a simple how-to manual.
Who contributes to Upmarket? This magazine owes its content to its passionate columnists and savvy lensmasters. If you’re interested in becoming one of our columnists, or if you’re a lensmaster who’d like to see your lens featured in this magazine, there’s more information below!
Interested in being a contributor?
If you’d like to become one of our contributing columnists, we’d love to hear from you. Our article contributors are passionate volunteers who want to share more about their field of expertise, and we have a wide audience who wants to hear from you!
In order to get started, check out our submission guidelines. If you already have an article you’d like to submit for consideration, you can use this submission form.
If you have any questions or would like more information, email MEM here and she’ll help you out.
Already a lensmaster?
If you’re already a lensmaster, we’d like to help you get your lenses more attention! If you create a great business lens in any of the following categories, it can be a part of Upmarket Magazine:
- Business and Work > Small Business
- Business and Work > Marketing
- Business and Work > Work at Home
- Business and Work > Public Relations
- Business and Work > Employment
- Business and Work > Real Estate
- Business and Work > Advertising
Once your lens opts in and belongs to one of those categories, you’ll have an opportunity to get it in front of the managing editor, who can decide to feature it as an article — or feature it on the home page! The better your lens, the better your chance of getting an attention boost from Upmarket’s audience.
What does it mean for your lens to be added to the magazine? Well, two things in particular:
- If your lens is new, it might appear in Upmarket’s “Fresh Pages” — and if it’s a highly ranked lens, it will appear in “Popular Pages,” which shows the top 100 lenses added to the magazine.
- Once your lens is added to Upmarket, it’s in the running for inclusion in Upmarket’s editorial calendar, curated by the managing editor. Lenses used as articles, especially featured lenses, always stand to get extra traffic and attention from our magazine audience. Having your lens used as an article also actively promotes the lens across Upmarket’s social channels — Facebook, Twitter, and blog subscribers too.
What’s the benefit of including my lens in a magazine? If you publish a lens that isn’t part of a magazine, it’s up to you to figure out how to spread it around. This is great, but you don’t need to do this on your own — we can help you go from 0 to 60 more quickly. As part of a magazine, you have a built-in community of interested readers who want to know more about the very topic you’re writing about — and looking for lenses like yours. Not to mention that with the managing editor, you have access to someone with power who can help spread your lens for you.
Including your lens in a magazine can only help; for all the lenses in all the magazines we’ve launched, we have zero cases of lost traffic. More than that, we’ve seen many cases of lenses that gained traffic through magazine inclusion.
So here’s the real question: Why wouldn’t you want that leg up, if you’re lucky enough to be writing on a topic that we have a magazine for?
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