MOTIVATION magazine is an online motivational resource and empowerment magazine. We publish intelligent, thought-provoking and well-written original articles related to the improvement of personal development, professional development, business development, organizational development, health, mindset, passion, purpose, goals, education, relationships, finances, leadership, work-life balance, community service, positive outcomes, success, and motivation.
MOTIVATION magazine is designed specifically to serve the Green & Growing person, professional, business, entrepreneur, teacher, coach, mentor, student, and family. MOTIVATION is not only motivational but also instructional in taking a balanced approach to motivation by offering guidance and insight into improving one's entire life.
Delivering on What Green & Growing People Read! Our mission is for MOTIVATION to become the foremost trusted source for personal and professional motivational resources. Total motivation requires developing all areas of your personal and professional life. Each online quarterly issue focuses on nine key areas for achieving balanced motivation (personal, professional, business, entrepreneurship, finance, relationships, education, health and fitness, and service).
We are a platform for readers to learn, apply, and grow through a reliable dose of high-quality motivation, inspiration and empowerment. We believe that within every reader lies a positive thinking human being who is destined to create and live their best life through the aid of Green & Growing motivation. Tell us why motivation is important for you, how it affects your life, and what you think we should learn from you to help us stay motivated and growing. Share an original article, feature story, 1-on-1 interview or a self-help or business development book review with our readers—that one you wrote in a journal or a lost Word document, or the one you’ve been wanting to write. Your work can find a home with us.
We believe that writers should be paid for their work, and we pay our writers on a per-writing assignment basis for articles, features, 1-on-1 interviews and self-help or business development book reviews aimed to motivate and empower our readers. We currently pay $100.00 - $150.00 for features and 1-on-1 interviews. For shorter articles and book reviews, we pay $40.00 - $65.00. So, yes, not only is your work published on an - online (digital) - quarterly magazine website, but you also get paid for it.
If this excites you, we are looking for writers to contribute to MOTIVATION magazine.
- How it Works
- Pitch: Features and 1-on-1 Interviews
- Pitch: Articles
- Pitch: Book Reviews
- Submission
- After Publication
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Congratulations! Your article is live! |
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What we want to see...
We are looking for inspiring, uplifting, motivational, lessons learned, perseverance, triumphant, resilience, goals accomplished, comeback stories, and positive world or community changing movements—tell us about something unique you’ve done or read, or report on a 1-on-1 interview you conducted with an amazing person. We want to hear your viewpoint(s) on your topics of interests as it pertains to our nine focal channels (motivation in the 9 areas of: personal, professional, business, entrepreneurship, finance, relationships, education, health and fitness, and service). That’s not all—we love bounce-back and come-back stories! Let us know how a story has impacted your journey or that of another person or why it is important to teach certain values, principles and life lessons to your child or employees at work. You’ve got the goods on a new positive movement in the motivation hemisphere? We’d love to know more about it! Or you can share tips which will help readers or teach them something new about self-care, career development, leadership, business, finances, relationships, and education. Being a motivational resource and empowerment magazine, we always veer towards pieces that are motivational and uplifting, and will prioritize those over others.
You may submit a Pitch to MOTIVATION at any time throughout the year, and submit as many separate pitches as you wish. With that said, below are the scheduled Themes and Pitch Submission Deadlines for MOTIVATION magazine's 2020 Quarterly Issues:
Spring Issue
Theme: Delivering Hope
Pitch Submission Deadline: Wednesday, December 18, 2019
Summer Issue
Theme: Winning Against All Odds
Pitch Submission Deadline: Wednesday, March 18, 2020
Fall Issue
Theme: Selling in Tough Times
Pitch Submission Deadline: Wednesday, June 17, 2020
Winter Issue
Theme: Leading a Significant Life
Pitch Submission Deadline: Wednesday, September 16, 2020
Before you pitch, visit our website and see the kind of featured stories and 1-on-1 interview pieces we have commissioned to get an idea of what we like. This also gives you an idea of what not to pitch to us as we are not looking to repeat specific themes or titles we’ve published within the past 6-12 months. So, yes, feel free to pitch to us about motivation, attitude and success, but not about the dichotomy between politics and astronomy.
Make sure that your pitch is well thought-out, researched, and above all, original.
Your pitch must follow these guidelines to be considered. We will immediately reject any pitch which does not do so.
1. A 50 word summary of what you want to write about in your proposed feature or 1-on-1 interview of an amazing person, and why our readers will be interested in it.
2. 3 proposed titles for the piece.
3. Is it a:
feature (650 - 1,200 words) – These are typically articles which require some research, engagement (interviews), and are analytical. They could focus on an A-List or B-List celebrity/entertainer/sports figure, a newsworthy person, an author, a motivational or inspirational event/cause, awards or high achievements, or talk about a positive developments or movement. These are not feature or report type articles on yourself or your organization - done by you - to self-promote or get the word out about what you're doing or trying to do in your community, cause, or the world. Take a look at our features on our website to find out more.
1-on-1 interview (550 - 850 words) – 1-on-1 interviews are usually personal in nature. Your chosen person and approach for a 1-on-1 interview must link back to the purpose, feel and mission of MOTIVATION magazine. You may use a traditional interview article writing format or a press release interview/reporters format when writing. It will be a big plus in your favor if you tie and link the angle of your 1-on-1 interview to one of our upcoming quarterly publication themes. For a better understanding, take a look at our 1-on-1 interviews on our website.
4. Send us 3 writing samples of previously published work. In case you have not previously published a piece, you can send us unpublished samples as well. Include links to the published pieces or upload the documents to Google Drive and share the link with us. Do not send us Word Documents or attached files.
5. In the body of your email, tell us a little bit about you. We do not want your resume. We want to know who you are as a person, and why writing and possibly having your writing published on MOTIVATION magazine's website is important to you.
6. Send all this information inside the body of your pitch email. Do not send us Word Documents or attached files.
Send the article to [email protected]
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What we want to see...
We are looking for short articles that are inspiring, substantive (with usable practical strategies and tactics; not fluff or laced with deliberate 'come buy my product or services' sales pitches), motivational, lessons learned, empowering, and how-to content—tell us about something unique you’ve done or read. We need and want you to teach us something of quality, and encourage us to do and achieve better results as a result of following your teaching points. We want to hear your viewpoint(s) on your topics of interests as it pertains to our nine focal channels (motivation in the 9 areas of: personal, professional, business, entrepreneurship, finance, relationships, education, health and fitness, and service). Share updated tips which will help readers or teach them something new about personal development, professional development, career development, leadership, business, finances, relationships, education, health, fitness, and service. Being a motivational resource and empowerment magazine, we always veer towards pieces that are motivational and deliver clear how-to takeaways, and will prioritize those over others.
You may submit a Pitch to MOTIVATION at any time throughout the year, and submit as many separate pitches as you wish. With that said, below are the scheduled Themes and Pitch Submission Deadlines for MOTIVATION magazine's 2020 Quarterly Issues:
Spring Issue
Theme: Delivering Hope
Pitch Submission Deadline: Wednesday, December 18, 2019
Summer Issue
Theme: Winning Against All Odds
Pitch Submission Deadline: Wednesday, March 18, 2020
Fall Issue
Theme: Selling in Tough Times
Pitch Submission Deadline: Wednesday, June 17, 2020
Winter Issue
Theme: Leading a Significant Life
Pitch Submission Deadline: Wednesday, September 16, 2020
Before you pitch, visit our website and see the kind of short articles we have commissioned to get an idea of what we like. This also gives you an idea of what not to pitch to us as we are not looking to repeat specific themes or titles we’ve published within the past 6-12 months. So, yes, feel free to pitch to us your short article ideas that fit what our readers come back to our site to read and grow from again and again.
Make sure that your pitch is well thought-out, researched, and above all, original.
Your pitch must follow these guidelines to be considered. We will immediately reject any pitch which does not do so.
1. A 50 word summary of what you want to write about in your proposed short article, and why our readers will be interested in it.
2. 3 proposed titles for the piece.
3. A bulleted list of 'The Key Takeaways' from your proposed short article. This is not your article written out; it's a list of short straight to the point key takeaways.
4. It is a:
short article (425 - 600 words) – These are typically how-to and empowerment articles that have a short opening, body (the content: a few headers with practical strategies for growth and improvement; the meat), and a short conclusion. You are not limited to this article style or format. You may use other styles and formats for your articles. Your intelligent, thought-provoking and well-written short article should fit seamlessly in one of our nine focal channels (motivation in the 9 areas of: personal, professional, business, entrepreneurship, finance, relationships, education, health and fitness, and service). Take a look at our short articles on our website to find out more.
5. Send us 3 writing samples of previously published work. In case you have not previously published a piece, you can send us unpublished samples as well. Include links to the published pieces or upload the documents to Google Drive and share the link with us. Do not send us Word Documents or attached files.
6. In the body of your email, tell us a little bit about you. We do not want your resume. We want to know who you are as a person, and why writing and possibly having your writing published on MOTIVATION magazine's website is important to you.
7. Send all this information inside the body of your pitch email. Do not send us Word Documents or attached files.
Send the article to [email protected]
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What we want to see...
We are looking for high-quality thorough and honest book reviews of books in the following genre: self-help, empowerment, inspiration, business, sales, motivational, leadership, health and fitness, finance, service or volunteering, or organizational development or workforce development. If the book and book review you're looking to pitch does not fit any of the above genres, your pitch will be immediately rejected. If your book and book review does fit what we're looking for and want, tell us about something unique you learned by reading your chosen book, discuss your take on the author's intentions, and give us your overall honest evaluation of the book. We do not want a blatant sales pitch for a book—we want and expect a legitimate and useful content rich book review for our readers. You can share tips which will help readers or teach them something new about the topic area and genre of the book. Being a motivational resource and empowerment magazine, we always veer towards books that are motivational, inspirational, business, leadership and empowerment focused, and will prioritize those over others.
Before you pitch, visit our website and see the kind of book reviews we have commissioned to get an idea of what we like. This also gives you an idea of what not to pitch to us as we are not looking to repeat reviews of the same books or themes we’ve published within the past 6-12 months. So, yes, feel free to pitch to us your book review ideas that fit what our readers come to read and grow from again and again.
Make sure that your pitch is well thought-out, researched, and above all, original.
Your pitch must follow these guidelines to be considered. We will immediately reject any pitch which does not do so.
1. A 50 word summary of what you want to write about in your proposed book review, and why our readers will be interested in it.
2. The title of your chosen book with 3 proposed titles for your book review.
3. Include title, author, publisher, publication date, edition, pages, special features (maps, etc.), price, ISBN.
4. It is a:
book review (450-800 words) – A book review is an in-depth analysis of the text of a book; an examination of its contents. Its purpose is not to rehash the story, but to evaluate the value of it and recommend the book to the reader, or not. Guidelines to Help You: Hook the reader with your opening sentence. Set the tone of the review. Be familiar with the guidelines -- some editors want plot summaries; others don't. Some want you to say outright if you recommend a book, but not others. Review the book you read -- not the book you wish the author had written. If this is the best book you have ever read, say so -- and why. If it's merely another nice book, say so. Include information about the author-- reputation, qualifications, etc. -- anything relevant to the book and the author's authority. Think about the person reading your review. Is this a librarian buying books for a collection? A business executive who wants a good up-to-date book on effective leadership? Is the review for readers looking for information about a particular topic, or for readers searching for a self-empowerment good read? Your conclusion should summarize, perhaps include a final assessment. Do not introduce new material at this point.
Our readers look for and expect a quality honest and insightful 'Book Review' not a 'Book Report.'
Book Report vs. Book Review
It is important to know the difference between a book report and a book review. If your teacher assigns a book review and you turn in a book report, your grade will probably not be very good. Following is an explanation of the two:
• A book report is a summary and its structure is simpler than a book review. It gives information about the author and his background to help the reader understand a bit about the author's perspective. It also gives a brief summary of the story and may include details about the plot, characters, and setting. It is an objective re-telling of the story.
• A book review, on the other hand, is an in-depth analysis of the text; an examination of its contents. Its purpose is not to rehash the story, but to evaluate the value of it and recommend the book to the reader, or not. A book review gives the opinions of the writer and includes his personal views. A review will include an analysis of the author's intent, thematic elements, and symbolism.
5. Send us 2 writing samples of previously published book reviews. In case you have not previously published a book review, you can send us 2 unpublished samples as well. Include links to the published pieces or upload the documents to Google Drive and share the link with us. Do not send us Word Documents or attached files.
6. In the body of your email, tell us a little bit about you. We do not want your resume. We want to know who you are as a person, and why writing book reviews and possibly having your writing published on MOTIVATION magazine's website is important to you.
7. Send all this information inside the body of your pitch email. Do not send us Word Documents or attached files.
Send the article to [email protected]
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We may take up to one month to get back to you and if you do not hear from us in that time, it means we will not be commissioning your piece (writing). We may also ask you to treat the piece differently or make some changes to the concept.
Once the pitch is approved, we expect you to submit the first draft of the article, feature, 1-on-1 interview or book review as per the deadline discussed with the editor. Please note that since we are a quarterly magazine, editorial deadlines are strict and we do not accept any work submitted after the deadline. When submitting the first draft, make sure you do the following:
1. Send the final piece as a Word document (.doc or .docx)
2. Make sure the article adheres to the word count prescribed and mention the number of words. An average of plus 10% is acceptable but anything beyond that will be sent back for a rewrite.
3. The article must follow the guidelines laid out in The MOTIVATION magazine Style Guide.
4. If you have mentioned research or analysis taken from another source, please provide a link to that source. Please note that we are particular about plagiarism and attribution. If you are unable to provide a source, we will not be able to publish the piece.
5. With your submission, also provide us with proof that your piece passed Copyscape's Plagiarism Checker. - https://www.copyscape.com/
6. Please link relevant stories on the MOTIVATION magazine website as required.
7. Send us a brief bio - 2 lines (35 words or less) to help readers get to know you better. You can also send us 1 link to your social media profile or website. Do not send us a corporate bio or a half or full page bio.
8. Send us an 800px x 800px, hi-resolution headshot of yourself, which we will feature with your article. Please make sure that it is appropriate.
9. Send us any images you feel should be included with your article. Make sure they are not copyrighted and, if they are taken from elsewhere, let us know who to give credit for the photo.
10. For features, 1-on-1 interviews, short articles or book reviews — send us a blurb summarizing your piece in 150 characters.
Keep in mind:
1. We believe editorial feedback is important and it is a critical part of our process. We will work with you to make sure the article, feature, 1-on-1 interview or book review meets our standards and we reserve the right to edit the piece as we see fit and expect you to re-write the piece, if required, based on our comments.
2. If the piece (writing) does not adhere to the pitch as approved, we reserve the right to not publish it. Similarly, if the piece is poorly written and requires a lot of editing, we may choose not to publish the piece.
3. After a piece is published, we own all the rights and you cannot republish the piece anywhere without our written permission. We urge you to take a look at our full terms and conditions spelled out in our MOTIVATION Writer's Submission Contract.
4. Do a thorough fact check and plagiarism check before you send us the piece.
What we will not accept:
1. Any work that is offensive to any group, religion, or community. Do not have any content that is offensive, racist, misogynist, homophobic or anti any particular religion.
2. Any work that is libelous or violates copyright.
3. Advertisements, blatant sales pitches or promotional pieces disguised within the piece (writing). Feel free to reference products, but not brands.
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The piece will be published according to the timeline discussed at the time of commissioning the piece. However, we do reserve the right to publish it at a later date if we feel that is a better fit. We will inform you of any changes to the proposed date.
Make sure that you are:
1. Available to respond to comments for the first 48 hours after the piece goes live.
2. Respectful in your comments and engage in a stimulating or intellectual discussion.
3. Ignore trolls. If you feel strong action is required, bring it to our attention and we will handle it promptly.
4. Not everyone will like your piece or agree with your viewpoint. We suggest you keep that in mind when you respond to comments.
5. Send us your invoice and you will be paid 21 days after the piece is published on our website. Payment will be based on the number of words as published on the website.
6. Feel free to share the link to your published writing with your network. We would love to have you promote your writing.
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