This guest post is by Magz Parmenter of Tangerine Turtle.
Close your eyes for a minute and think about the biggest goal you have right now. Is it becoming a full-time blogger? Would you like to speak at a conference? Maybe you want to sell advertising on your blog. Whatever it is that you're trying to achieve, you need to take the advice in this post. It's how I succeeded with one of my biggest goals this year: to write for problogger.net…
I was going about my business, writing a post for my blog when I got a little pop-up message in the corner of my screen. It was Darren Rowse, you know, the Darren Rowse, from Problogger. Here’s how the conversation went:
Darren: "Hi Magz, I read your blog and liked what I saw. How about doing a guest post on problogger.net?"
Magz: "Wow! I'm flattered, Darren! Of course, I'd love to!"
Darren: "Okay, that's great. Send me something and I'll make sure to send it through to Georgina (the Content Manager at problogger.net)."
Okay, I'll confess. None of the above actually happened. But wouldn't it be awesome if it did?
The truth is, if you want to guest post for anyone, particularly an A-list blogger, you have to submit your ideas to them. Let's be honest, they get thousands of emails asking them to please, please, please consider their amazing post. Particularly if you're a new blogger, or even if you're not (I've been blogging since 2005), getting to grips with pitching the big guns with your ideas can be daunting.
I'll be the first to admit, it took me a good six months of reading and researching, interacting with Darren on Twitter and learning as much as I possibly could from heavy-hitters like Brian Clark, Jon Morrow, Pat Flynn, and the Blog Tyrant before I got the courage to pitch my ideas to the guys at problogger.net.
I. Was. Terrified.
To make matters worse, I sent my...
