 Post last updated 27/11/2017 One of the hardest parts of guest blogging isn't finding opportunities, its knowing which ones are the right ones. So to help you out I have curated a list of publications you can reach out to today for your (General) Virtual Assistant business. The reason we are being specific about the types of virtual assistants this applies to is that there are so many different types of VAs!! For targeting purposes it is very important to be specific. To know what type of business you are, and who you are serving. So in this case we are going to assume that you are a Virtual Assistant who takes on general admin, emailing and the occasional marketing support tasks. We are also going to assume that you are aiming for businesses who are already somewhat established & are moving into a 5 or 6 figure status. The list below are mix of different levels of traffic, it's not always best to just go for the highest volume possible. Sometimes a smaller, more engaged audience actually works better. ( For more on this topic; What Is A Micro Influencer 7 Reasons To Pitch Working With Micro Influencers To Your SEO Client? How To Find Micro Influencers To Spark Conversations About Your Clients Product )  Women 2.0 Women 2.0 is an organization which celebrates the role of women in the technology industry; it shows us many different success stories and helps us to receive advice from key players in business fields. It gets 28,000 monthly visitors, most of who are based in the U.S.A, and the website manages to successfully target a career focused and socially progressive viewer base. It features many different contributors who offer their knowledge and insights into the tech industry. Why Is This A Great Pick For VAs? Quite simply, tons of entrepreneurs read this publication! The types of entrepreneurs who read it tend to be progressive and thinking about the future, productivity and optimising time and resource! They understand the importance of using technology and will be more comfortable with using project management tools like Trello or 17 Hats. Angle Suggestion Anything around productivity or tips on what it is possible to outsource would do really well here. Pitch Difficulty Rating: Medium Entrepreneurship Life Entrepreneurship Life is an up-to-date guide and resource that helps us to find useful content which can help us with many different types of business focuses; all the way from trading advice to personal development. It has 9,800 total visitors, most of who are U.S.A based and have interest in the finance or business fields. It brings forward the talent of a community of writers from many different backgrounds. Why Is This A Great Pick For VAs? This publication might have a lower traffic volumes than others on this list but they have an engaged audience. They also have an entire section just dedicated to productivity which is a great area for VA's to feature in as a solution. Angle Suggestion Of course, productivity again! But rather than it make it general why not focus a specific area such as email management. Pitch Difficulty Rating: Easy Smart Hustle Smart Hustle targets business owners, and is especially geared to giving motivating yet realistic advice for small businesses and start-up companies. They have 13,900 monthly visits, the majority from the U.S.A. The publication appeals to those interested in the business and industry fields. It tries to build a community that helps one another succeed, and as a result, has contributions from of a variety of writers. Why Is This A Great Pick For VAs? Lots of entrepreneurs hang out here, it is highly targeted! Angle Suggestion Share your entrepreneurial story, pick out some key lessons that have helped you get to where you are. Just starting out? That's okay too, focus on the transition period between your previous job and your new business. Pitch Difficulty Rating: Easy Organized Assistant A blog run by Janet Barcley all about how to organise and plan your business! Why Is This A Great Pick For VA's? Half the battle with any sale is making sure the other person knows the value you provide. Small business owners reading this blog already believe organisation is super important. This is the perfect type of blog for Virtual Assistants. Angle Suggestion Why not let your audience in on a tool or system you use for your clients. Don't be afraid to go into detail and to show case study examples about the results you've got for your clients as well. Then, make sure you have a great call to action to encourage those click throughs! Pitch Difficulty Rating: Medium Sharp Heels SharpHeels is a career, fashion and lifestyle website for professional women. Every piece of content on SharpHeels.com should be a means to empowering professional women. Captivate +Educate +Motivate: Whether it’s timeless tips on choosing a new stylish power suit, how to modernize a tired fitness routine, the secrets to business travel, an interview with a Fortune 500 CEO or talking about television characters that inspire us, each piece of content on SharpHeels should speak to a professional woman, wherever she is in her career (and in life), in a way that educates, entertains and encourages her to reach the next level - personally and professionally. Why Is This A Great Pick For VA's? There is a section on Sharp Heels specifically for entrepreneurship. Mix that focus with the empowered, feminist attitude of Sharp Heels and you've got the perfect guest posting opportunity for a VA who serves female entrepreneurs. Angle Suggestion For this publication I'd go for a personal angle. Tell your audience your story, how you build your VA business to where it is now. What is your empowering story. Make sure you add some case study examples of the types of clients you work with and the results!! Pitch Difficulty Rating: Medium Freelance Mom Freelance moms mission is to merge women and information together to transfer knowledge, inspiration, wisdom and actionable solutions so you can find the work you love through entrepreneurship. Why Is This A Great Pick For VA's? Freelance mom covers a range of topics and is targeted towards work from home moms. There is a section on productivity which is perfect for virtual assistants as this is exactly what you help entrepreneurs achieve - greater productivity. Angle Suggestion I'd focus your article on productivity to make sure it gets into the right section and is focused on an area you help entrepreneurs achieve. Do some longtail keyword research and try to get your post ranking and bringing in regular referral traffic. Pitch > Lisa > lisa@freelancemom.com Difficulty Rating: Medium Driven Women DrivenWoman was founded by Miisa Mink, and Jennifer Stoute in 2013, a result of a fundamental ‘aha’ moment whilst brainstorming for a new business venture. Rather than rushing forward with their new concept, they decided to stop and discover what they were really passionate about. Great believers in the abilities of all women and the power of determination, DrivenWoman was born. Their idea was to celebrate every woman who decides to chase her dreams and create a life she really wants, regardless of her circumstances. Success means so much more than just career advancement or a big pay check. Their idea was to create a club where women could explore their true potential with the support of others and create their own kind of success. Why Is This A Great Pick For VA's? What is great about this blog is that it also a network for successful women. So, not only can you post here but you can go to a meetup in London and network to form real world connections and expand your network. Angle Suggestion Go for a personal angle and explore your entrepreneurial journey so far! Pitch > Miisamiisa@drivenwoman.co.uk Difficulty Rating: Medium Ambitionally The blog to accompany the membership software and course creation site Ambitionally. Blog topics cover everything about how to create and market a successful online course! Why Is This A Great Pick For VA's? This blog is particularly great for virtual assistants who work with entrepreneurs who have an online course. If this is your niche, then this is a great opportunity for you! Angle Suggestion Time to get your best knowledge out there! What is your top advice for planning the launch of a new online course? How do you help your clients increase the quality of what they put out there into the world and support their journey? Pitch Difficulty Rating: High Small Biz Club Small Biz Club is the premier destination for small business owners and entrepreneurs. To succeed in business, you have to constantly learn about new things, evaluate what you’re doing, and look for ways to improve—that’s what we’re here to help you do. We bring you the best of the best—insightful thinking on important business questions from industry leaders, veteran business owners, and fellow entrepreneurs. It’s all put in one place—here at SmallBizClub.com—for you to learn everything from the fundamentals of business to the most innovative, cutting edge trends. Whether you’re a startup looking to grow, a family business aiming for consistent cash flow, or anything in between, SmallBizClub.com has something for you. Why Is This A Great Pick For VA's? This blog as an entire section dedicated to run and grow, and a section within this for operations. This category is perfect for virtual assistants to feature with a great idea for how you can help small business owners run a section of their business more effectively. Angle Suggestion Pick out a single system you help small business owners with and show step by step how you help them! For example, 9 Ways To Run Your Email More Smoothly & Stop Interruptions Don't make every point about you but be sure to drop in mentions of the clients you've worked with and how a better email system has helped them achieve higher productivity + happier clients! Pitch Difficulty Rating: Medium Classy Career Girl Classy Career Girl is passionate about meaningful content and community at the intersection of work, dreams and everyday life. They believe that the more women we have in this world who are doing what they love and are doing what they were born to do (like jumping out of bed to get to work), our world will be filled with happier and more successful women. Why Is This A Great Pick For VA's? This blog has a whole section dedicated towards productivity! Angle Suggestion Help small business owners with understand how to use a productivity tool in their business. Make sure it the one you personally use for your clients - this could be Trello, Asana, Hootsuite, Ask Edgar, Tailwind and so on. Pick a tool and show step by step how they can integrate it into their business to get better productivity! Pitch Difficulty Rating: Easy Creatley Here at Creately, we are focused on making it easier for teams to work collaboratively on all things visual. And we do this by giving you a great online application that's a breeze to use and an extraordinary customer service experience that you'll love. Why Is This A Great Pick For VA's? This blog is owned by a well known software company who help entrepreneur and web designers with wire framing or organisational roadmaps and flow charts. Small business owners reading this blog are likely to have businesses with larger teams who can benefit from virtual assistant services. Angle Suggestion Creatley accept posts on a wide range of topics relating to startups and entrepreneurship. So focus your topic around the core benefit of your business. Is it helping with communication? Helping productivity? Helping drive traffic? Pitch Difficulty Rating: Medium Mind Body Green Mind Body Green is a lifestyle website that focuses on promoting overall good health and well-being. There are frequent themes of increasing productivity by taking on a healthy lifestyle. It receives 6.5 million monthly visitors and is visited mostly by the alternative health community, with the majority of it's visitors being based in the U.S.A. It features a wide range of authors who give advice from their unique fields. Why Is This A Great Pick For VAs? Multi author blogs like Mind Body Green are a great place to find other business owners. The chances are that entrepreneurs scaling up their business are also going to be researching about nutrition and keeping their health on track, maybe even a touch of relaxing meditations. Angle Suggestion Anything about productivity, burn out and managing stress is a great topic for this site!! Share your techniques you've used in your business as well as other well known experts. Pitch Difficulty Rating: High Tiny Buddha Tiny Buddha is based on the concept of applying the wisdom of Buddhist ideas into the modern world, and aims to help in fixing the problems faced in our times. It offers a new take on overcoming the things which stop us being successful, such as stress, which are tackled through learning techniques such as meditation and reading various pieces of Buddhist philosophy. It reaches 3.2 million monthly visitors, mostly from the U.S.A. Why Is This A Great Pick For VAs? This is a great website for sharing your personal life lessons and journey. Not only is this is a highly regarded publication, the story you share here can help prospective clients connect with you. Angle Suggestion What lessons have you learnt from your journey building a business? This publication is all about sharing love, inspiration and joy so topics which inspire others & deeply connect are well received. Pitch Difficulty Rating: High Elephant Journal Elephant Journal offers a unique take on applying a variety of spiritual disciplines to modern life, and tries to combine these elements of wisdom with initiatives such as political activism and eco-awareness. Many of the articles tell us how we need to be more conscious of our choices in the world and how we can approach all areas of our life, including business, with more care and less greed: a whole section of ‘conscious consumerism’ is featured. It has 9.6 million monthly views and taps into both political and religious audiences, of whom are mostly based in the U.S.A. The website is founded by Waylon Lewis, but features many different authors. Why Is This A Great Pick For VAs? I personally love the elephant journal and if you are a VA for spiritually minded entrepreneurs then this is an especially good pick for you. You are able to write on a wide range of topics. I wrote this article for example on ways to invite spring into your home. Angle Suggestion A post about your journey and the lessons you've learnt through entrepreneurship will also go down well here, but this publication is a little bit more rebellious than Tiny Buddha. You can go a bit controversial with this publication if you like to be on the edge so don't be afraid to dig deep, or even have a little rant. Pitch Difficulty Rating: Medium Let us know your thoughts in the comments below! Do you have any more great opportunities to add?
10 Comments
2/9/2017 07:08:17 am
Sometimes a smaller, more engaged audience actually works better. Absolutely true.
Cheryl
2/9/2017 10:29:19 am
Absolutely! It is important to have a mix, different types of websites are good for different types of results. 2/9/2017 10:04:31 am
Great post idea and format. I've done a few guest posts and had a few guest posters to our blog. How often would you suggest guest posting each month so that you're still able to stick to your own knitting?
Cheryl
2/9/2017 10:30:46 am
Thanks Scott! Make sure you join us via email to get up to date with new posts. How often depends on the time you have however a formula which you can simply apply is the 80:20 rule which I wrote about here: http://www.risingtidesociety.com/why-you-should-apply-the-8020-rule-to-your-content-marketing-to-speed-up-your-results/ 2/10/2017 06:33:37 am
I've done a few guest posts and swapped posts with other bloggers BUT am looking to do more. Thanks for the tools and resources.
Cheryl
2/11/2017 04:28:15 am
Hi Frank, thanks so much for your comment I am happy to hear it helps & good luck with your guest blogging. If you need a free tool to help you track your placements then check out my guest blogging tracker :) 4/18/2018 10:47:24 pm
Thank you for sharing! What a lovely article and the photos are amazing too! I love how you put together these information on these events. Easy to read, very relatable and great tips! Can’t wait to read more!
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7/18/2018 08:25:07 pm
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