Forbes, Entrepreneur, Inc Submission

Forbes, Entrepreneur and Inc. is a prestigious business publication with millions of readers. Forbes requires “meaty” or content-rich articles that really tell a story and offer industry insight and knowledge. Please take the time to really invest in answering these questions. The more you give us, the better we can write a story that can be published!

Please answer with a minimum of 4 sentences or 150 words. Incomplete answers will be sent back for more detail.

Publishing Process.

1. Please include something you can teach your target audience. If you can send a Top 5 Tips or 5 Strategies for...that will help expedite the process.

2. We vet for acceptance, which will take 1-3 days.

3. Once accepted, we craft an angle and write the piece.

4. The draft is reviewed by Our lead journalist at Forbes USA - sometimes additional answers are needed in order to meet guidelines in terms of educational content for the reader.

5. Final draft is approved by our Forbes journalist and sent to you for fact-checking.

6. Once approved by you for accuracy, the piece is published.

Client Name:*

First NameLast Name

Client Official Website:*

Client official social profiles:*

Facebook, LinkedIn, Instagram, Twitter, Other:

Key client execs to be featured (name, title, link to bio):

For Targeted Publication:

Proposed Heading:

Sub-Head:

Briefly describe the topic we are writing about in common terminology.

Are there any stats or figures we can add to make the story more powerful? If so, please list or link to them.

The primary audience for this outlet is entrepreneurs. What business advice is your company uniquely suited to give this audience?

What do you want to teach readers? Please give us the top 3-5 tips you have learned specific to your industry, and give us detailed examples of how you learned these lessons (at least 100 words per tip).

What is the key takeaway?

Do you have a link or pdf of a story that can serve as inspiration for the one we are composing?

Do you have any links/ additional resources or special sections of your website (such as a section of videos) we can use?

Proposed due date for initial draft (minimum 1 week after Q&A is accepted):

Questions.

What is the name of your personal brand/organisation/business/project or platform?*

Where are you based?*

When and how did you come up with the idea?*

Where do you draw your inspiration from?*

How do you inspire others?*

What is the part of your job you love the most?*

How do you hope to inspire others?*

What's the part of your job you love the most?*

Tell us a little bit more about the birth of your story, personal brand, organisation, business or project? *

If you could explain your personal brand, business, project, organisation in one word what would it be? And why?*

Any quotes that match your personal brand, organisation, project, business? *

Any headlines you would like to use as titles for press publications? *

What most strongly sets you apart from your peers/ competitors? *

What is your vision for the next 5 years?*

Links to your social media?*

Links to previous publications? *

Anything else you would like to share? *

Share 5 top tips or 5 top strategies for your industry to be successful? *

Attach picture (We will not proceed with the articles unless HD photos are provided)*

Approval Guidelines.

Criteria for high tier publications requires some sort of innovative product or service, some significant lesson learned that you can share with other entrepreneurs.

If the company is questionable in terms of legitimacy/problem with proven bad reviews, we cannot accept them.

If the company's products/services are unethical, we cannot accept them.
Any pornographic related clients will not be accepted.

We have the right to refuse submissions based on the above items, as not only are our journalists at Forbes putting their name on these articles, the editors at the publications have to approve them as well.

Earned media is not an advertisement, and the you cannot dictate how the article is written it's up to the author/editors.