We welcome original articles that help small business owners understand financing, manage cash flow and make informed business decisions. Submissions should offer practical experience, clear explanations or original research. Our editors review each article for relevance, accuracy and usefulness. Submission does not guarantee publication.

ORIGINALITY: All guest posts should be original (never before published) content by an author associated with the company providing the post. Your guest post cannot appear elsewhere online, including your own blog. Once your post is accepted for publication, you grant us permission to be the sole publisher of your content and agree not to publish it elsewhere.

LENGTH: Write enough to answer the reader’s question clearly. We assess substance and clarity, not a minimum word count. Avoid padding, repeated points and generic advice.

LINKS: Include links when they support a claim, identify a source or help the reader. Our editors decide which links to publish and may edit or remove them. We do not promise backlinks, do-follow links, specific anchor text or SEO benefits. We do not accept articles primarily intended for link placement or advertising. An author bio may include a relevant company website, subject to editorial approval. Any paid or sponsored links must be disclosed and appropriately marked with rel="sponsored" or rel="nofollow".

TOPIC: Focus on issues relevant to small business owners, such as financing, cash flow, business operations and financial planning. Review our existing articles before pitching. If we already cover the topic, explain what new experience, evidence or perspective your article adds.

ACCURACY AND SOURCES: Support factual claims, statistics and product details with reliable sources, preferably original research or official documentation. Check that figures and requirements are current. Explain the assumptions behind calculations and distinguish examples from actual results. Do not invent quotes, credentials, case studies or firsthand experience.

DISCLOSURES: Tell us about employment, ownership, client relationships, payments, affiliate arrangements or other interests connected to the companies and products you discuss. Relevant relationships must be disclosed to readers. Disclosing a relationship does not guarantee acceptance.

BIO: Authors must provide the following information:

• A current email address (will not be made public)
• A short bio, 50 words or less (may include a link to the company website)
• A headshot (you can make it easier for us by uploading your headshot to Gravatar, using the email address you’re providing)
• Any social profile links to be included in the author profile (if you provide a Twitter handle, we will mention you when promoting the post)
• Please note: We will not attribute your post to a company; the author bio must be for a specific person representing the company.

IMAGES: You don’t need to provide graphics or images with your submitted post unless they are directly related to the content (i.e., screenshots related to the content of the post).

SUBMISSION: Please submit your post as a Word document, a Google document or pasted in the body of the email message or using the form below. You can also contact our Chief Editor at simon@excelcapmanagement.com. No PDFs or HTML formatting, please.

ACCEPTANCE/NOTIFICATION: We have a rolling publication schedule that typically goes out about 1-2 weeks. You will be notified via email if your post is accepted. If we do not send you a publication date via email within two weeks of submission, we will not be publishing your article on our blog. We receive hundreds of guest post emails every week, and are not able to respond to every inquiry or provide individual feedback on why a post may not have been accepted; it is likely that your post did not conform to our guidelines or was not a fit for our audience.

EDITS: Excel Capital retains editorial control over published articles, including headlines, wording, sources and links. We may request evidence, revisions or additional disclosures, and may decline submissions that do not meet these guidelines. We may also update published content or remove links that no longer serve readers.