If Shakespeare offered to write a guest post for TechCrunch, he probably would not be declined. The same goes for Virginia Woolf, Toni Morrison, Fitzgerald, or any other great writer who wanted to contribute to the blog of a respected modern publication.

Guest posting, also called guest blogging, is the practice of writing an article for a site you do not own. This guide explains what it is, why it works, and how Process Street built a governed production system that supported more than 300 guest posts published across relevant publications.

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Ogilvy on Advertising was one of the first books I had on my reading list back when I created my system for reading more. My only regret after finally reading it is having delayed for a year and a half.

Drawing from 40 years of experience, David Ogilvy shows what he learned from creating some of the most successful advertising campaigns of the twentieth century. The father of advertising was blunt, occasionally hostile, and never pretending to be infallible, but many of the marketing tips he championed decades ago still hold up because they are grounded in customer behavior, research, and clear writing.

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Can you afford to pay $8,000+ for using an image in one of your blog posts? If not, or if you would rather use images for free, you need to understand the laws surrounding blogging before you publish.

This legal guide for bloggers is general information, not legal advice. I am not a legal adviser, attorney, lawyer, or any kind of law professional, so use it as a practical starting point and talk to a qualified professional when the stakes are high.

Quora is still one of the fastest places to discover hidden content ideas because the questions are already written in the language your audience uses. The question and answer site remains a gold mine for finding out what your market cares about, how you can solve their problem, who the influencers are, and what other data appears at a glance before you invest effort writing.

The trick is to treat Quora as audience research, not as a place to copy topics. Look for repeated questions, strong answer threads, niche debates, and specific wording. Then turn those signals into useful blog post ideas, guides, checklists, videos, outreach angles, and keywords your readers would actually recognize.

Maintaining a creative mindset is hard because creative work asks for energy, taste, nerve, and patience at the same time. Under pressure, that combination can turn a normal slow patch into creative burnout or a full creative block.

The fear of burnout is enough to sap anyone’s energy. When it strikes, it is hard to imagine recovering from it, and projects that start with inspiration can derail at the slightest hurdle, leaving you drained and wondering whether you have lost your touch.

If you want a quick explanation for why business writing gets distant, pretentious, and strangely hard to read, start with the famous 5 Monkeys and a Ladder story. It is better understood as a workplace parable than a clean laboratory study, but the point still lands: people repeat inherited rules long after the original reason disappears.

That is how many common writing mistakes survive inside companies. Someone writes in a stiff voice because that is how the last report sounded. Someone adds jargon because plain language feels too exposed. Someone calls weak copy “professional” because nobody wants to be the new monkey reaching for the bananas. Avoid those habits unless you like sounding silly.

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An editor is a writer’s best friend.

For me, that’s literally the case. I’ve known Ben Mulholland since my school days, and he became the sharpest editor I know.

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This is a guest post by Hannah Butler, a web developer, designer, and writer.

A strong business newsletter gives readers a reason to keep opening your emails. It can share useful ideas, explain your work, highlight customer stories, and point people toward the next best action without turning every send into a hard sell.

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Proposal templates work best when they help you move fast without skipping the details a buyer, funder, or reviewer needs to see.

This guide gives you 12 free proposal templates, plus practical advice for adapting each one to the client, project, grant, sponsorship, or bid you want to win.

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This is a guest post by Adam Hempenstall, who is the CEO and Founder of Better Proposals – simple proposal software for creating beautiful, high-impact proposals in minutes. Having helped his customers win $500,000,000 in the last 12 months alone, he’s launched the first Proposal University where he shares best practices on writing and designing proposals.

A great business proposal means the difference between an unsigned contract and a successful deal. A poorly written business proposal will get turned down, even if the offer is good.

Business proposals are considered to be an art form that only the extremely skilled can write.

However, after analyzing over 189,000 successful business proposals, I can tell you that there’s no secret to writing a great proposal.

Allow me to elaborate as I take you through our analysis findings, and run through the following topics, in this Process Street post:

• What is a business proposal & how do you create one?
• Business proposal finding #1: Visuals matter
• Business proposal finding #2: Video makes no difference
• Business proposal finding #3: Live chat increases conversions
• Business proposal finding #4: A single offer is better than a package
• Business proposal finding #5: Kiss PDFs goodbye
• Business proposal finding #6: People open proposals on their phones first
• Business proposal finding #7: It doesn’t matter when you send your proposal
• Business proposal finding #8: Clients love paying directly from the proposal
• Business proposal finding #9: Length matters
• Business proposal finding #10: The title of the pricing section makes a difference
• Business proposal finding #11: Act quickly
• Business proposal finding #12: Use a template
• Key takeaways: The magic business proposal solution

Let’s get started.

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