Ecommerce write for us is for people who run or have run an online store, whether dropshipping, made-to-order products, digital downloads or their own stock. Pitch one paragraph and get a yes or a no in 2 days, counting business days only.
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Send your topic, a short outline and any links. Choose 'Writing for us' as the enquiry type.
Start with the store: platform, product type and how long it has been open. Then a working title, who the piece helps, a handful of bullets, and whether you want an unpaid guest post or a paid placement.
Timelines matter because readers underestimate them. A store that took five weeks to make its first sale is a more useful story than one that claims results in a weekend.
The rules that apply to every piece are on the general contributor rules, the way a draft is edited is set out in our editorial policy, and paid work follows sponsored routes for store suppliers. This ecommerce write for us page covers only what is specific to online business.
I decided that I would post 4,000 listings to my shop before I would even critique myself or worry about how much money I was making.
The kind of documented effort an ecommerce pitch here should describe: volume and patience first, judgement after.
Costs. Most store content reports revenue and leaves out everything that came off it. The pieces we accept show the fees, the ad spend and the time, so a reader can judge whether the model fits their own budget.
Slow starts are welcome. Readers who are four weeks into a quiet shop need to hear from someone who was in the same place, more than they need another launch story.
Say so in the pitch. Suppliers, app makers and agencies can write useful pieces about the market without recommending themselves.
Anything that recommends your own product is a paid placement, labelled as sponsored with rel="sponsored" on the links.
What the store did week by week before it found traction, including the point where quitting looked sensible.
Platform fees, payment fees, returns and ad spend, set against a real order, so a reader sees what is left.
One product page you rewrote, what you changed and what the conversion rate did over a stated period.
Why you moved from dropshipping to made-to-order products, or the reverse, and what the switch cost.
We take a small number of sponsored posts and advertising placements each month, every one of them labelled. Tell us what you are promoting and we reply within two business days with rates and the next open slot. Everything we publish sits on SideIncomeHQ, and the archive is open before you decide.
Rates and formats come back with the reply. Every placement is labelled.