Writer Guidelines
Calling All Explorers is so excited that you are interested in publishing your work on the Calling All Explorers website. The more people that contribute to this site, the more people we can inspire to get out in nature. We’re passionate about making the outdoors feel accessible and welcoming for people, even if time spent outdoors wasn’t part of their upbringing. Our belief is that people only protect what they love, and they only get to fall in love with nature if we get them outside.
Posts on this site can cover everything from active outdoor travel locations, activities, guides and outfitters, to general information on gear, packing, and travel safety tips. If you have been out exploring and have a good story to tell, please share and sign on as a contributor. Anyone can write for CAE. Thought leaders, journalists, experts, travel enthusiasts, stay-at-home parents, and individuals with unique perspectives are all welcome!
The Process
1) Reach out and send a summary of your article so that we can see if it would be a good fit. Duplicate material or articles that don’t represent the mission of the site will not be published.
2) Submit your fact-checked, edited story but be sure to include:
+ How to get there
+ Recommended lodging
+ Activities available in the area
+ Safety or gear considerations for the recommended activities
+ Not necessary, but feel free to include any recommended pre-travel reading
3) Once we approve your article, you will need to submit photos and accompanying captions to compliment your article. Please let us know what image you prefer to be the featured photo. The featured photo does not have a caption but is the thumbnail image readers will see promoting your article. You will also need to submit a profile picture to use as your author photo. A brief author description will be necessary to finish creating your profile.
4) Once your article is laid out with photos and accompanying captions and updated for search engine optimization, you will be sent password protected access to the article. You have up to three times to provide feedback and CAE, LLC will revise the work up to threetimes.
5) Once all mutually agreed upon changes have been made, we will publish your article on the CAE website, and several social media posts will be released promoting your article.
6) Two weeks after the article release, you will receive media kits showing the amount of traffic your article generated. Future updates will be by request only.
7) The goal is to keep each article current for 12 months not just to maintain accurate information on the site but for increased views for that post. If you rewrite an article, Google will notice changes in that particular article. If you make sure your content is up-to-date regularly, you’re actually showing Google that your site is alive.
(be sure, however, to read the Fine Print and Frequently Asked Questions section below)
If you want a high-resolution image for the featured photo, please let me know. We have access to a large portfolio of stock images. Unless you provide us with evidence of your permission to use a third party's photo, all photos you submit must be your own photos that you took yourself.
Please do not share copyrighted images without explicit permission from the copyright owner. You've heard the adage that a picture is worth a thousand words, but when that picture is protected by image copyright, the picture is only worth three words: "cease and desist".
We look forward to working with you in our joint effort to encourage others to get outside, explore their surroundings, and move their bodies! We also like to thank all contributors with a little surprise to show our appreciation. The best address to reach you will be requested.
You acknowledge and agree that any ideas, suggestions, documents, and/or proposals related to the article that you submit to Calling All Explorers, LLC (Calling All Explorers) is non-confidential, and you represent and warrant that you have all rights necessary to submit the article to Calling All Explorers. As used herein, your article and all photos, images, ideas, suggestions, documents, proposals, and any other materials you submit to us is referred to as “Your Work” or “Your Content.” You agree not to submit to us any information or ideas that you consider to be confidential. Calling All Explorers shall have the right to remove any of Your Work that violates these terms or that Calling All Explorers deems to be otherwise objectionable.
OWNERSHIP OF YOUR CONTENT
Calling All Explorers does not claim ownership of Your Content. You are solely responsible for all Your Content and you represent, warrant and covenant that Your Content will not (a) infringe or misappropriate any intellectual property or other rights of a third party, (b) contain software viruses or similar computer code, or (c) be unlawful, harmful, threatening, abusive, harassing, tortious, defamatory, obscene or otherwise objectionable. Except with respect to Your Content, you agree that you have no right or title in or to any work or other content that appears on or in the CAE website (Services).
LICENSE TO YOUR CONTENT
While you retain ownership of Your Content, you acknowledge that we need to use Your Content in connection with providing the Services and otherwise in connection with our business operations, including social media. You hereby grant to Calling All Explorers and its affiliates a nonexclusive, worldwide, fully-paid, royalty-free, perpetual, irrevocable, sublicensable, transferable license to copy, distribute, display, modify, disclose, and otherwise use Your Content in connection with providing the Services and otherwise in connection with our business operations without any compensation or additional approval or attribution.
