Financial Sense ® Guidelines for Contributors

New contributing guidelines in place as of January 1, 2009

Updated: October 3, 2009

Financial Sense ® Mission Statement

To give each investor, no matter their income or level of financial expertise, a greater understanding of the markets, and a more informed approach to making investment decisions.

Purpose of Financial Sense®

Financial Sense's primary focus is the financial education of the investing public. It is our goal to provide a forum in which a variety of perspectives about the markets and the economy flourishes, so that our visitors & readers have access to a well-rounded body of financial information. Often, the views, perspectives, and information presented on Financial Sense differ from those presented in "mainstream" media; often they even differ from those of the Financial Sense staff and that of its parent entity, PFS Group. In our opinion, such a variety of opinions can lead to some very productive, lively, and educational debate of ideas that enhances the education of our visitors and readers.

News Aggregator Services

In the interest of full disclosure, Financial Sense contributors and Financial Sense Newshour guests should be aware that Financial Sense has contracted with various news aggregator services to supply them with content. We feel that this gives our contributors, and our site, more exposure to the general public, which we believe benefits all parties involved. Financial Sense receives nominal compensation from some of these services; any revenues generated by our relationships with news aggregators is applied to the costs of maintaining the Financial Sense website free of charge to our visitors, guests, and contributors.

Contribution Guidelines: What We Expect from Our Contributors

With the Mission & Purpose of Financial Sense in mind, we are pleased to publish articles and content that are intelligent, well-reasoned, well-researched, well-written, thought-provoking, and that contribute materially to financial and investment concepts. We reserve the right to refuse to publish, or to un-publish, contributions that do not meet these high standards, or that contain derogatory, abusive, plagiarized, or unprofessional material, or that blatantly promote specific stocks, or one's own services rather than educate.

Financial Sense is fairly egalitarian, in that we accept contributions from individuals with a wide variety of backgrounds and experience. Regardless of their level of financial credentials—whether investment professionals, financial newsletter writers, experts in related fields or industries, or individuals with a passion for finance or the markets—our site's contributors have a desire to share their thoughts on the state of the markets and the economy with a community of financial thinkers. Our contributors are invited to provide their credentials and contact information; however, contributors should bear in mind that the function of the site is to educate, not to advertise a contributor's services.

Contributions should generally be less than 10 pages in length; contributors may submit one article for consideration each week. Contributors are solely responsible for the correct spelling and punctuation of their submissions, as well as for giving appropriate credit/citation to any third-party materials (text, ideas, graphs, charts, tables, etc.).

Contributor Benefits: What Our Contributors Can Expect from Us

Currently, our editorial staff translates our contributors' articles from a variety of formats and publishes them as a standardized contribution to our site.

Each week, our editorial staff will select one or more articles to appear as a "featured article." The selection of these articles is based solely on content quality or content timelessness, as determined by the editorial staff.

Our contributors benefit from exposure to our many visitors and readers (generally over 150,000 unique visitors a month), as well as from the exchange of ideas with other financial aficionados that can surround their contribution.

FinancialSense.com Will Relaunch In 2009! Read On

Due to the rise of numerous websites we've had to reinvent our classification for articles. Before if a contributor approached our site to publish content exclusively we gave them the FSO editorial titleship so their name appeared in the left hand column on the homepage and other perks like appearing on the Financial Sense Newshour. Some of these contributors have gone on to start their careers and have joined other websites that publish the same work the same day across the board. We grew in such size that we opened up our website to nearly anyone who would like to contribute with us as a Financial Sense University Student.

To account for wheither the contributor is exclusive or not in 2009 we will determine exclusivity appearance on homepage and not solely on the author alone. We're making this decision because we are aware that contributors may decide if they want us to have 24 hour exclusivity, a week's exclusivity, or same day posting on other websites.

All Set? Continue On To Contribute An Article

Until we relaunch this year please use our contact submission form with your request to submit an editorial for the staff to review for possible publication online.

Further Information

For more information on Financial Sense ®, an investor education site sponsored by PFS Group, please visit our corporate site at www.puplava.com and in particular our page on Financial Sense.

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