Below, you will find:

• Site Disclaimer
• Ad Rates
• Author Terms and Conditions

Disclaimer:

businessEvolved.com (further shown as BE), its owners, webhost and sponsors  do not warrant or assume any legal liability or responsibility for the accuracy, completeness, or usefulness of any information or product represented on this site.  Most articles are contributed by freelance authors and are responsible for their own content

BE does not recommend or endorse any product, strategy or process.  Our authors and sponsors may endorse and recommend products, thoughts, opinions and strategies.  Use any recommended or endorsed product or strategy at your own risk.  There is no guarantee implied or stated by BE for any article, sponsored service or product.

Blog posts are opinions of the author, and not of BE.

The authors of the articles, blogs and news items in this site and in our newsletters do not dispense medical, legal or professional advice, nor do they prescribe any treatment or strategy that should be tested without the advice of a professional. Information presented on this site is for educational or entertainment purposes only. You, and only you, are responsible for your actions and how you use the information you find on BE.

Ad Rates:

businessEvolved.com hosts some of the business world's brightest and most innovative minds.  We receive 400-500 initial readers per article, syndicated through the top services to major news hubs.  Long term unique readers can reach over 1000 within 30 days, and many times more in 60-90 days*.

We reach over 20,000 unique users per month.  Our visitors are small to mid size business owners, presidents, CEO/CFO/CIOs, managers and sales professionals from all different industries. 

We offer a few base opportunities to our advertisers:

• Graphic Ads - Front Page, Ad Pages and Site Wide
• Newsletter Sponsorships - Non Compete Sponsorship
• Preferred Provider Listings - Limited Spacing
• Various product and service advertising within the confines our our business model, usually custom campaigns using many parts of our site to promote your product or service in the most efficient manner possible

If you would like more information on how to market your product to our visitors, please contact us at mediakit@businessEvolved.com, and we will email you a prospective media kit.

* All statistics are based on our 2004 website.  Our 2005 website features more benefits and syndication sources, but will not have verified traffic until mid-year.  We make no guarantees, implied or stated, concerning the success of your campaign.

Author Terms and Conditions

We appreciate your interest in becoming an author for businessEvolved.com.  In return for syndicating your articles, you are providing us with content for our site and newsletters.  Before you become an author, please read our Terms of Services for authors, article guidelines and our expectations of the two levels of authors available.

Terms Of Service:

If you submit an article to us through any medium, you are agreeing that:

1. The article is 100% your work, you own all copyrights and you are the sole owner of its contents
2. businessEvolved.com (referred to as BE) may use the article in promotions, newsletters and on the site as content or for marketing purposes, and you give us this right unconditionally
3. You retain ownership of the article, unless purchased by BE
4. You acknowledge that any mis-use of the article or reprints outside our agreement must be enforced by you and with no expected legal help from BE.  We will post disclaimers and no-reprint rights on your articles if you wish, and may choose to email offending parties if you request.  Our involvement in any copyright infringement case is soley at the discretion of BE

As a contributor, you will be asked to follow the guidelines set forth by BE, which may change from time to time.  If this is the case, we will attempt to notifiy you as time permits to update you concerning any changes in the TOS or the guidelines that may affect you or your contributions.

BE may choose to not post your article due to many reasons.  If that is the case, BE will try to email you a reason so you may attempt to resubmit. You are asked to read the reason and review the guidelines before resubmitting.  Our email to you is not an negotiation and we will not debate our reasoning.  BE reserves the right to reject any article for any reason we deem as necessary for the perpetuation of our business model.

BE reserves the right to end your author status for any reason deemed necessary by our staff.  If this happens, you may make a request to have any or all your articles removed by emailing us a list of the articles with a category and title for each article you wish removed.

businessEvolved.com is advertiser supported.  Although we may not show ads on every page or every newsletter, we do reserve the right to place ads for our sponsor's on the same page or email as your article.

BE does not imply or state any compensation for your articles unless arrangements for advertising as a compensation have been made.  Even in those circumstances, BE does not and can not guarantee any compensation or advertising, nor can we guarantee any results.

We do not offer editing services, and therefore will not edit your articles.  If your articles contain grammar or spelling errors and we note them through the review process, we may ask you to make changes before we post.  No one is perfect, we just ask you review your work before submitting.

BE reserves the right to modify these Terms & Conditions at any time without prior notice.

Article Guidelines:

In order to compete with business magazines and other high quality sites, we have set the following guidelines for your articles, which are subject to change without warning:

• Must have a point or purpose
• Although we currently do not have minimum word counts due to checklists etc., please make sure your article is substantial enough to carry your purpose
• Checklists must be accompanied by explanatory text
• Can contain only one link to a specific site, a second link to the same site may get the article rejected
• CAN NOT BE A SHAMELESS PROMOTION - if you can not write a good pr based article for yourself or your company, that contains useful information - do not submit to BE.

Your article can not contain:

• Affiliate links
• Multiple links to the same site
• Links to sites that contain hate speech or illegal content
• Contain hate speech or illegal content
• Contain strong political views (save that for your blog!)

Your byline will be your most successful tool for promoting yourself as an author.  In your byline you may:

• Include a single URL
• Include a single email address
• Include promotional statements about your company
• Must be less than 300 characters or 50 words, your choice.

We reserve the right to not accept any article based solely on our discretion.

Author Commitment Levels:

Basic Contributor

• Can submit articles via email at any time for inclusion
• Articles are placed as time permits at our convenience
• Can submit one or 100 articles, no required amount of articles is expected
• Must follow our Terms of Service and our Article Guidelines
• Articles are syndicated through MoreOver and other major news syndicators through RSS feeds

Site Author

• Can submit articles via our online authoring system
• Articles are approved as time permits with priority over basic contributors
• Must submit 1 article per week
• Will have your own author blog, must be updated regularly, once per week minimum (this is an easy step, and we can help you with this)
• Can add audio to the blog (podcasting)
• Will have the ability to post news items to the site
• Articles, news and blogs are all syndicated through Moreover and other major syndicators through RSS feeds
• Will receive site advertising credits as they are available per article submitted on a scale to be decided by BE.
• Will receive newsletter ad credits as they are available per article submitted on a scale to be decided by BE

The truth is we want EVERYONE to win.  We need generate traffic, you need to generate traffic and our sponsors need to generate traffic.  QUALITY content will make this happen and give our site the integrity which it must earn with every visitor.