Write for Us

The 6Q Blog is the guide and source of inspiration for over 175,000 HR and business professionals every month. Every week, we publish well written, 1,800+ word articles on topics that cater for this specific audience.

As a high traffic blog posting quality articles every week, we are regularly asked if we will accept guest articles.

The short answer is Yes, if the article is;

  • Original work of the submitter
  • Very high quality with actionable ideas
  • Fits within our topic areas
  • Written very well in Commonwealth English.

If you want to share your knowledge with our audience of HR and business professionals, we welcome your ideas and draft articles, which our editorial team will then review for publishing acceptance.

NOTE: We are currently accepting around 50% of draft articles submitted. Your article must be very high quality

The time we spend on formatting and promoting means that we will only publish articles on topics we have not covered, and our audiences will benefit from. That is, the MUST be valuable and actionable for our audience of business owners and HR managers who are keen to improve their culture and leadership.

We accept drafts and topic ideas that are based around;

  • Ethical management
  • Positive leadership
  • Employee Relations
  • Employee engagement
  • Human resources

It is highly recommended that you spend some time reading through our blog, and see the type of articles we publish, before making an article pitch.

Example articles we have accepted from contributors previously, include;

5 Ways To Reward Your Team With Perks That Don’t Cost The Earth

3 Workplace Productivity Killers and How to Avoid Them

Four Fantastic Recruiting Resolutions for 2019

Do NOT contact us if

Please don’t waste our time or yours, if;

  • You can’t write an original non-template pitch email.
  • You want a paid link or post placement. We do NOT offer these and will ignore your email.
  • If you plan to pitch a low quality article.
  • If you cannot write like your first language is English.
  • If you are just looking for backlinks.

How to submit a guest post

Before you write your article, we request that you send us through a few topic ideas. We accept these pitches via [email protected] ONLY.

We will get back to you with the one(s) that most appeal to our team, normally within 2-3 weeks.

You are then expected to follow this format and style document to write and prepare your article.

Once you have triple checked it meets our guidelines and are ready to proceed, please submit a link to either a Google Document or an attached Word file.

Our team will then review the article, and either accept it with a publishing date, or reply with what needs to be improved before resubmitting.

Due to the high volume of story pitches, please expect at least a one week delay in us replying.

If you are accepted, please note that we often have a publishing schedule planned for the next two months. As of writing, we are scheduling articles 10 weeks after being accepted.

By submitting an article, you understand that you agree to this agreement document.