APOM

OfficeOurs is the official magazine of the Association of Professional Office Managers. Articles appearing in OfficeOurs address the wide range of challenges and concerns faced by office managers across all industries. Each issue of the magazine has a theme, such as moving an office, buying technology, training staff or hiring temporary employees.

Members, vendors and free-lance writers may submit articles for consideration and unsolicited submissions are welcome (contact our Editor). Such articles may or may not be published. No monetary compensation will be provided for unsolicited articles and the additional exposure for the writer from the articles publication in OfficeOurs will be considered adequate and full compensation.

Articles should provide a brief background on the subject, how the subject is relevant to office management, provide step-by-step lists that readers can use to take actions suggested in the article, and provide links to other websites with useful information. Articles should not be sales pitches or promote a particular company.

For assigned stories, deadlines range from two to ten weeks from assignment date. Detailed story angles are provided. Writers are expected to generate their own sources. Monetary compensation, if provided, is based on story length, writer’s experience, complexity and number of sources contacted and is agreed to in advance. Compensation for articles ranges from $0 to $500, with payment upon publication. There is no kill fee.

Writers must complete and submit APOM's Independent Contractor Agreement for each article submitted. The agreement states in part:

"Writer hereby sells and assigns and Publisher hereby purchases, as a work for hire, all right, title, and interest in and to the work, including (a) its title and theme; (b) all rights to copyright the Work, and any adaptation or version of it in the United States or anywhere throughout the world, in Publisher's name or otherwise as Publisher directs for its sole benefit, and to secure renewals or extension of such copyrights in its name or otherwise; and (c) the right to use, re-use, license, exploit, sell, or otherwise dispose of the Work, in any manner, in any medium and for any purpose Publisher determines in its sole discretion."

Electronic submissions only. Please send single-spaced text or Microsoft Word documents with all formatting removed (for example, no paragraph indents, bold type, underlines or italics) to the Editor.