| Re: Can we contribute material to the Coffee Shop, please? Posted by ChrisB at 08:52, 27th October 2026 |     |
That's an agency trying to find outlets that they can *sell* to their 'clients'. Not that you'll get any money out opf it, and if its free, neither will they, and you won't get any content being supplied.
Don't waste your timer responding would be my suggestion.
| Can we contribute material to the Coffee Shop, please? Posted by grahame at 08:03, 27th October 2026 | |
The Coffee Shop is happy to carry appropriate on-theme content contibutions irrespective of who contibutes it. That inlcudes, for example, authors adverising their own books on relevant topics, attractions telling us about their locations and events, and transport operators sharing their history and news. Audienece-wise, we are quite small because we are a bit niche and obscure, so such posts do not flood us.
In my mailbox this morning - and far from the first time:
Hi,
I hope you are doing well.
I am contacting you to inquire about your current guest posting, sponsored content, and editorial collaboration opportunities.
We are actively managing multiple content marketing campaigns across various industries and are interested in working with high-quality websites that maintain strong editorial standards and an engaged readership.
Could you please share information regarding the following opportunities:
• Guest post placements
• Sponsored or editorial content
• Link insertions within existing articles
• Long-term content partnerships
• Homepage, featured, or premium placements (if available)
Additionally, we would appreciate details regarding your pricing, turnaround time, content guidelines, publishing requirements, and any niche or topic restrictions.
We are happy to follow your editorial policies and are open to establishing long-term collaborations where there is a strong fit between your audience and our content.
If you have a media kit, rate card, or additional information, please feel free to share it.
I look forward to your response.
Best Regards,
I hope you are doing well.
I am contacting you to inquire about your current guest posting, sponsored content, and editorial collaboration opportunities.
We are actively managing multiple content marketing campaigns across various industries and are interested in working with high-quality websites that maintain strong editorial standards and an engaged readership.
Could you please share information regarding the following opportunities:
• Guest post placements
• Sponsored or editorial content
• Link insertions within existing articles
• Long-term content partnerships
• Homepage, featured, or premium placements (if available)
Additionally, we would appreciate details regarding your pricing, turnaround time, content guidelines, publishing requirements, and any niche or topic restrictions.
We are happy to follow your editorial policies and are open to establishing long-term collaborations where there is a strong fit between your audience and our content.
If you have a media kit, rate card, or additional information, please feel free to share it.
I look forward to your response.
Best Regards,
I have on occasions in the past answered individually to confirm that anyone can post on the Coffee Shop, without any payment, by signing up as a member. That requires acceptance of our forum agreement which includes the guidelines, a copy of which may be found at https://www.passenger.chat/r1761.html . But bearing in mind the repeating nature of this request, it's far better to provide a standard and consistent answer - hence this thread, that I or anyone else can refer enquirers too.
As an aside ... the question may open from approaches like this "should be take branded advertising through the site, giving commercial and other organiations high placement for the payment of a fee which would go towards the running costs and future developents of the Coffee Shop". That would be something for discussion out of public view, but at the time of writing (and nearly 20 years on from our foundation) I've not seen any great need nor desire to do this. Times do change and many sites that carry news now also carry adertising and/or make a charge for access to their content - it would be foolish to say "never" but it's not exactly likely to happen any time soon.
If you are a content provider, please feel free to sign up and publish content. The forum agreement will lay down what is and isn't appropriate content, and our members through there interactions many well help your articles bubble up above other content as they like and comment, and events added to the calendar will receive extra ptomotion as "upcoming" a few weeks before they run. Very occassionally, our moderator team may even make a topic you have instigated "sticky" making it one of the headline topics even as newer posts would normally push it down the page.
