Business Write for Us
Business write for us — submit guest posts on startups, operations, finance, remote work and B2B tools to Digital Tech Updates.
Our business section is for people who have run something — a team, a P&L, a launch, a turnaround. We are looking for writing grounded in decisions you actually made, including the ones that did not work.
Business writing has a particular failure mode: advice that is true, generic, and useless. “Know your customer” is true. It is also not an article. What we want is the specific version — how you found out what your customers wanted, what it cost, and what you got wrong first.
Topics we want right now
Operations and finance
- Cash flow management for businesses with lumpy revenue
- Pricing changes: what you changed, what happened to volume, what you would do differently
- Choosing accounting, payroll or invoicing software — with migration costs counted
- Managing payment collection and late-paying clients without losing them
- Unit economics for service businesses, worked through with real numbers
Startups and growth
- Getting to first revenue — the unglamorous version
- Hiring your first non-founder employee
- Fundraising write-ups, including rounds that did not close
- Deciding to bootstrap, and what that ruled out
Teams and remote work
- Distributed team practices that survived contact with reality
- Documentation and handover systems for small teams
- Performance management without a HR department
- Onboarding processes that reduced time-to-productivity, with the before and after
B2B software and tools
- CRM selection and implementation, including what you had to change about your process
- Automation that removed real hours from a week
- Stack consolidation: what you cut and what it saved
- Comparison pieces where you have used both tools for a meaningful period
Compliance and risk
- Contract basics for founders without in-house legal
- Data protection obligations for small businesses, in plain language
- Insurance and liability considerations by business type
What we do not need more of
- Motivational content and leadership platitudes
- “10 habits of successful entrepreneurs” in any form
- Case studies about companies you have no connection to, assembled from press coverage
- Business plan templates with no worked example
- Anything promising a revenue figure or an income outcome
What a strong business submission looks like
Numbers, and a decision that could have gone the other way.
The pieces that do well here follow a shape: here was the situation, here were the two options, here is why we picked one, here is what it cost, here is what happened. Readers are not looking for confirmation that a strategy works — they are trying to work out whether it would work for them, and that requires knowing your constraints.
You can anonymise clients and round figures. You cannot invent them.
Submission requirements
| Length | 1,200–2,000 words |
| Originality | Unpublished, and not republished afterwards. Every draft is checked. |
| Authorship | Human-written. AI-assisted is fine; AI-generated is declined. |
| Sources | Primary sources only for factual claims — documentation, filings, research, official announcements. |
| Images | Screenshots encouraged, 1200px minimum, yours or licensed. |
| Links | Up to two to your own domain, natural anchor text, placed where they help the reader. |
| Bio | 40–60 words, headshot, one profile link. |
How to submit
- Message us on WhatsApp or email admin@digitaltechupdates.com with the subject line BUSINESS PITCH.
- Send your headline, three to five bullets on the substance, and one link to previous work.
- Wait for approval, then send the draft as a Google Doc with comment access.
Response to pitches: 2–3 business days. Editorial review: 3–5 business days. Publication within a week of approval.
Questions we get asked
Can I write about my own company’s turnaround?
Yes, and those are often the strongest submissions. Disclose that it is your company in the article. What we will decline is a piece where the turnaround narrative exists to sell your consulting.
Do you accept content from agencies on behalf of clients?
Yes, if the byline is a real person with relevant experience and you disclose the client relationship to us upfront.
Can I include a downloadable template?
Yes, if it is genuinely useful and not gated behind an email capture form.
Is finance content welcome?
Business finance, yes. Personal investment advice, no — we are not licensed to publish it and neither, most likely, are you.
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Full general guidelines are on the Write for Us page, and the submission process is set out in detail under Contribute.