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Comments
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We reserve the right, in our sole discretion, to edit or delete any comments and user-provided content that we believe is abusive or uncivil in tone, contains profanity, constitutes spam, contains hate messages, is off topic, or which we otherwise believe is inappropriate or undesirable for the site.
We also reserve the right, in our sole discretion, to edit user-provided content such as guest posts for grammar, spelling and overall readability. We have the right to decide to edit or delete comments and other user-submitted content in our sole discretion.
Guest Columns
We welcome on-topic articles for publication; however, we do not pay compensation for article submissions. Important: we get a high volume of email -- please contact the Editor first via email before submitting any written material. Should we decide to publish a submission, Small Business Trends will give attribution to the submitting writer through an article byline or similar designation.
The guest columnist/ guest blogger retains ownership of copyrights to written content submitted to Small Business Trends as guest columns or guest posts.
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Small Business Trends reserves the right, in our sole discretion, to edit user-provided content such as guest posts for grammar, spelling, length and overall readability. We reserve the right to decide whether or not to publish submitted content in our sole discretion.
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Please also note that we get a large volume of email, and there is no guarantee that we can answer all reader email or that your email question will be listed in a "Letter to the Editor" or similar feature. (We have to work for a living, too.)
Other Content
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Updated April 20, 2005