ExitEvent Contributor Terms

Last Updated/Effective Date: September 1, 2013

ExitEvent reserves the right to modify these terms and conditions at any time without prior notice. When we update these terms, we will post a notice on the website and update the "Last Updated/Effective Date."

Contributor terms & conditions
By submitting your article(s) to ExitEvent:

1. You declare that you are the sole owner and author of the article and own 100% of all copyrights pertaining to it.
2. You declare that the article is unique and will be exclusive to ExitEvent and has not been published elsewhere on the internet.
3. Your submission to ExitEvent gives unconditional permission for us to publish your article on the website, distribute to our RSS feed, our email list via HTML newsletter, in other websites and print publications. We ask publisher(s) to follow reprint rules, but you acknowledge that the enforcement of our terms of service for publishers is at your risk and cost and not ours. In other words, if someone violates your copyright - it will be 100% up to you to take legal action against those who abuse your copyright to protect your interests. If you do not agree to these terms, do not submit your articles.
4. We might request revisions. Please read our editorial guidelines before submitting articles to save time and speed the article approval process. If your article does not conform to the editorial guidelines, we may edit, revise, or recommend revision before publication.
5. There are no guarantees made that article(s) will be published. We reserve the right to remove article(s) at any time for any reason.
6. You acknowledge that we do not pay for article submissions and we do not require publishers to pay for their use of articles. The primary reason for submitting your article to ExitEvent is for the chance to be viewed by our target audience or picked to be reprinted by publishers to their respective audiences.
7. ExitEvent is advertiser supported. We reserve the right to publish ads on the same pages as your articles.

Editorial guidelines
To be qualified for publication, your article:

• MUST BE AN ORIGINAL ARTICLE THAT YOU WROTE. Articles must be a minimum of 250 words and no more than 5,000 words. Ideal article size is 400-750 words.
• MUST BE exclusive. In other words, articles must not be published elsewhere on the internet. We reject all non-exclusive articles.
• MUST BE informative and share your expertise. Include tips, strategies, techniques, case-studies, analysis, opinions and commentary in your articles.
• MUST HAVE a 2-5 sentence article summary and not exceed 200 words. The purpose of the summary is to give an abstract or synopsis of the benefits that your article delivers. If you don�t know what to put in your summary, just use the first paragraph of your article.
• MUST HAVE proper English, spelling, grammar, punctuation, capitalization and sentence structure.
• MUST NOT be an article you copied from the public domain or bought. We do not accept articles that contain more than 10 lines of quoted or sourced material.
• MUST NOT be a press release, advertisement, sales letter, promotional copy, or blatant and excessive self-promotion or hype. Articles should not contain: pornography/adult material, hate or violence-oriented content, suggest racial intolerance, advocate against any individual or group, have insulting, obscene, or degrading tone, or profanity.
• MUST NOT contain any content that is a violation of any law, be considered defamatory, libelous, or infringes on the legal rights of others.

CONTACT

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SUBMIT A GUEST POST

We now have a feature where any verified entrepreneur or investor can post to their company profile, and we can elevate the best of those to run as ExitEvent News. OR you can just submit something to us via email (see below).

If you'd like to see your article published as an ExitEvent News Article, the main thing you need to know is that we're looking for news told in a unique way.

Thus, anything about your startup, the local startup scene, or the national startup scene that you think is a unique, universal, and informative is probably a good start. 400-800 words is a good length.

For your startup, new funding, new product launches, awards, accomplishments, acheivements of any kind. We also dig how-to. We like a broad scope, so be sure to include the big picture.

We won't republish press releases. We need some inside insight. The more from the entrepreneurs themselves, the better.

For the local and national startup scene, trends and an aggressive opinion are always helpful. Oh, and have a sense of humor.

We also do product and service reviews, provided those products and services are in-line with our mission.

If you've got ideas or questions, OR if you've got news you'd rather have us cover, shoot us an email at news[at]exitevent.com and we'll be happy to advise. Thanks!

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