Are you a military servicemember, veteran, or family member?   Please share your story!  You can either write your own guest post using these guidelines– or send me a few paragraphs and I’ll format them for you.

If you’re military (member, vet, or family) and an individual blogger promoting your own site (even if it’s not a military site), then you’re welcome to submit a guest post!

If you’re freelancing or writing for a sponsored link, then please Email me to discuss feasability. 

I’m happy to write a guest post for your blog– or to host your guest post on mine.Hopefully, we’re both trying to share our different perspectives and build our audiences.

This is an educational blog oriented toward Military Financial Independence.  If you’re a writer or an advertiser from outside of the United States, please be aware that this blog’s readers are U.S. military servicemembers, veterans, and their families.  

Here’s what’s working for From Military to Millionaire:

• Write in a conversational, informal, first-person format. You can be cheerfully irreverent or even a tad snarky.
• Original content only, not published anywhere before. (Otherwise it’d be a “guest link”, right?) Tell us why it’s really different this time. It’s probably not going to be original if it’s a post about “Top Five Ways to…” or “10 Tips for…”
• Please do more than “reporting the news”. If you’re going to summarize a topic then you’ll have to come up with your own unique spin.
• Tell us your personal story, not how everyone else should do something. Tell us what worked for you– or what didn’t. If you’re going to write about a famous public figure then you should probably actually BE that famous public figure. If you’re going to make fun of somebody, it should probably be you.
• Your post should answer these three questions: “What’s your point?” “Why should we care?” “What should we do?” You can make fun of this requirement in your post.
• Military medical & disability financial issues are good. I’m weak on those subjects and we need more of them. Please focus on the lifestyle and financial aspects of those topics.
• If you’re writing about a financial product then please include the cons as well as the pros. Give your readers both sides of the debate and let them make their own choice.
• Most readers will scan your post, so use headings to separate it into sections. Break up the page and make it easier to read. Use numbered points or bullets. Use an occasional bold, underline, or italics. Fancy fonts or different colors are fine for emphasis, but they’re optional.
• Use as much space as you need, but don’t pad it. Please aim for a minimum of 1000 words. If it’s 1250 words, that’s great. If it’s 2000 words, that’s good too. 3000 words might be pushing it. Make every word count. We’re looking to create evergreen content, stuff that can stand the test of time.
• Read your post out loud. Seriously. You can mutter it to yourself if this sounds embarrassing– but it’s the best way to check that you’re writing in a conversational, informal, first-person format. It’s the only way to detect if you’re repeating a word or if you’re using jargon. If you sound like an after-action report or message traffic, then try again for that conversational informal first-person format. Talk to your friends around the dinner table, not from the stage of the briefing theater.
• Submit your guest post in HTML format… usually by just saving your word-processing document in HTML format.  We can also work with a Word.doc format.
• Photos & images are encouraged. A picture is worth 1000 words, so please include at least one, but the more the merrier! If you use them then please own them outright– no copyrights.
• Please cite your sources with a link. You’re writing for a skeptical (perhaps even cynical) audience who’s heard it all before. If you can’t support a claim with a link then you probably shouldn’t make the claim in the first place. Wikipedia might be a suitable reference but please don’t link to e-zines or free content sites or other “blog farms”.
• No affiliate links.
• This is an educational blog. No politics. No personal names of the elected politicians or appointees. No flag-waving. Don’t even kvetch about “promises to our veterans”.  We try very hard here to avoid political keyword SEO triggers.  If you need to mention part of the government then refer to the office, not the person. “DoD” is fine, and “SECDEF” is good, but not “Secretary P_____”.  If something is deemed unsatisfactory then it should probably be judged from a financial perspective. If you’re going to use words like “conservative” or “left” then they should be in the context of financial assumptions or driving directions.
• Once again, this is an educational blog(!) oriented toward military financial independence.  I usually don’t write about weapons systems or military strategy/tactics. I might make fun of the other services, but I probably shouldn’t. Our audience can get enough of those things in milblogs.
• Give yourself a link to your blog or to your site, but please don’t be spammy. Give yourself a short bio, too, but please keep it to a few lines.
• E-mail your HTML or .doc file to militarytomillionaire at Gmail.  And thanks!