The New Submission Guidelines For Making of a Millionaire
By: Ben Le Fort
Tags: Money, Publication, Personal Finance, Writing, Writer

The New Submission Guidelines For Making of a Millionaire

What we are looking for in 2021

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We all have a “money story.” Money impacts our lives every day in both positive and negative ways. Whether it be the anxiety caused by lack of money, the thrill of making money, the fear of losing money, or the responsibility of managing money, we all have a story to tell about how money impacts our lives.

We want to give you the opportunity to share your money story! We are now accepting submission requests to publish your money stories in “Making of a Millionaire.”

If you would like to submit a story to Making of a Millionaire, follow these easy steps.

Leave a comment below, and we can add you as a writer. Once we have added you as a writer, go to “Edit” on any story you wish to submit, click “Add to Publication,” and select “Making of a Millionaire.” We will either accept the story, make some edits to the story, or let you know if the story does not fit with this publication.

If you wouldn’t mind also telling us a bit about yourself and why you want to write about personal finance.

We will be publishing fewer stories in 2021

In 2020, we wanted to give as many writers as possible a chance to have their stories published in Making of a Millionaire.

And we published a LOT of stories. Too many, if I’m being honest. We ended up publishing many stories on a subject that we have already published many times before.

For example, we probably have over 50 stories published on how to build an emergency fund.

Does this serve the reader best?

No.

Having one or two great articles on how to build an emergency fund is all that is required and making sure they are visible to our readers.

What we are looking for in 2021: Stories that challenge our readers

Here are a few examples of the exact type of stories we want to publish moving forward.

Notice, all of the stories we are about to highlight are in-depth, insanely helpful, and go beyond “how to” and generic articles about personal finance.

Adam Parsons story on “When $100,000 isn’t enough.”

This is a real story about money and finances. It breaks down in detail how quickly $100k can go out the door.

Rocco Pendola story on why “ Mark Cuban’s Most Recent Money Advice is Ridiculously Simple and Super Important.”

Takes a simple piece of financial advice and breaks it down, and explains how it can apply to the readers' life.

My story on why “Passive Income Is A Lie, But Scalable Income Is Real.”

In this story, I push back against one of the trendiest topics in personal finance “passive income.” But I do it in a genuine way because it is something I actually believe. Then, I explain what “Scalable income” is and how it has changed my life and could potentially do the same for the reader.

To put it simply.

We will be publishing fewer stories that are more focused on unique points of view and provide value to our readers

If you are currently a writer for MOAM and we are currently publishing most of your drafts, then keep doing what you're doing.

If you find we are not publishing any of your drafts, ask yourself if the story you submitted is personal to your experience, provides a unique viewpoint, focuses on providing a huge amount of value to readers, or does not meet a high standard for quality and formating.

Stories we will almost certainly turn down

Stories on “how to become a trader”

Stories advocating that readers pick and choose individual stocks

Anything overly self-promotional or have the slightest leaning towards some type of multi-level marketing.

Stories containing undisclosed affiliate links.

We prefer stories that are 1,000 words or more. If your story is under 500 words we are unlikely to accept it. Our readers expect in-depth posts from Making of a Millionaire.

Poorly written stories. We often receive submissions that are simply not up to the standard of writing quality we expect from our writers.

Stories that are in our opinion, clickbait. See Medium’s guidelines on clickbait here.

Please do not take it personally if we reject your story. It is not a personal attack or comment on you. If your story is rejected, it simply means it’s not a fit with what we are after at the moment. Keep at your writing, look at the three stories I highlighted above and send us back your next draft.

I do want to thank all of our current writers and anyone who would take the time to send their hard-earned work to Making of a Millionaire. I have a huge amount of respect for anyone who has the courage to put their thoughts in writing and publish it.

Cheers,

Ben