Write for MSP Outpost
You’ve solved problems other owners are still stuck on. Turn what you learned into a guide other MSPs use the same week, published under your name.
- A byline, and an author page that links to your own site.
- An editor reading your draft with you.
- Readers who do the job you are writing about.
Who Writes Here
You run an MSP
Owners, founders and the people who run service, sales or finance.
Pricing, hiring, buying a book of clients, the month the numbers turned. Write the page you wish you had found in year one.
“How we moved 40 clients off per-device pricing in one renewal cycle”
Why it pays off: Peers know your name before they meet you, and so do the people you will hire and the buyer you may meet one day.
You work at one
Techs, dispatchers, service managers, vCIOs and project leads.
The runbook, the script, the QBR that worked. Write it once and it does the explaining for you in every review after.
“The Monday dispatch board that cut our breached tickets in half”
Why it pays off: A public body of work with your name on it that belongs to you, not to one employer.
You advise MSPs
Coaches, accountants, lawyers, brokers and consultants who work with MSPs.
Answer the question every client asks you, in full, in front of the owners who need the answer.
“What an MSP's books need to show before anybody makes an offer”
Why it pays off: Your firm on the byline and your site on your author page, with no pitch in the piece and no fee to be there.
You build for MSPs
People at vendors, distributors and service providers.
Write about the problem your product exists for: how MSPs handle it well, whoever they buy from.
“Five questions to ask before you let any tool touch client tenants”
Why it pays off: Your name and your company on the byline. The product stays out of the piece; a product story is a sponsored article.
What You Get
Your name, in front of the people who run MSPs.
Known for what you know
Your name, your role and the size of your shop or firm on every piece, read by the owners, techs and buyers you want to know it.
A link to your site
Your author page lists everything you have written here and links to your own site and profiles, from every byline.
An editor on your draft
An editor reads the draft with you, checks every figure against its source and tells you what is missing.
Found where MSPs look
Your guide sits on the hub, stage and role pages MSPs already use, so it is read by the people it is for.
Your file, credited
Attach the template or script that holds the how. It says Provided by you, and every new version credits you in its history.
Yours to share
Link to it from your site, send it to clients, post it on LinkedIn. Every reader you send is a reader who meets your name.
What We Publish
Four shapes. A pitch that fits none of them is still worth a paragraph.
Guides
How to do one thing, start to finish, including the step everybody skips. As long as the job needs and no longer.
Templates and files
The agreement, checklist or worksheet you already use, cleaned up so another shop can use it tomorrow.
Scripts
PowerShell and friends that do one job, with what it changes said at the top.
Field notes
What happened when you tried it: the change, the numbers you saw, and what you would do differently.
The Rules
Read them before you pitch. Your draft is held to them.
Write for someone doing the job this week
Every piece lets the reader do something the same day. A piece that only describes comes back with a suggestion.
Say what you run
Your byline names your role and the size of your shop, or your firm. Readers weigh advice by who gives it.
Every figure is checked
Every figure is fact-checked against its source before publishing. Your own shop's numbers count: say they are yours and when.
No pitch, and say what you sell
Name a tool only where the reader needs it. If you sell, resell or are paid by anything you name, the piece says so. Vendors never recommend their own product.
Clients stay anonymous
No client, employee or vendor contact is named without their written permission. Change the details that would identify them.
Your words, your claims
Draft with whatever helps, AI included. You stand behind every sentence, and the editor checks every claim against its source.
Link to evidence, not to sales pages
Links in the piece go to sources. Your own site belongs on your author page, where every reader of your byline finds it.
Published here, and only here
A piece is new and is not republished anywhere else. Link to it and share it as widely as you like; quote a line or two with the link.
How It Works
An editor reads every application and every pitch, and you hear back either way, with a reason.
Apply once, with your first pitch
Who you are, what you run, and one paragraph on what the page would let a reader do. After that, you pitch from your account.
Write it with an editor
Draft in your account. The editor works with you on the piece, not around you.
Published under your name
It goes out with your byline, lands on your author page and stays yours to update.
Questions
No. Nobody is paid to write here and nobody pays to be here. What you get is your name, your author page and a link to your own site, in front of the people who run MSPs.
You do. You keep the copyright and give MSP Outpost the exclusive, permanent right to publish, update and illustrate it, which is also what lets us act when somebody copies it. If we ever take a piece down, the rights come back to you.
Not the piece itself: a second copy competes with this one in search and both lose. Link to it, quote a line or two with the link, and share it on LinkedIn and anywhere else you like.
The editor says why. Sharpen the pitch, or pitch something else, and apply again. The only no that sticks is one we mark as final, and we say so when we do.
Yes, about the problem your product exists for. Your company is on the byline, the product stays out of the piece, and a product story goes through the advertising page as a sponsored article.
Once, in the line that says what you sell, and on your author page. The body stays about the reader's problem.
No. A contributed piece carries your name and role.
Ready to Write?
Apply once. After that, every pitch is one paragraph from your account.