How To Get Published With Two Bright Lights, Part 1
This week, I’m sharing easy-peasy ways to get published. Yesterday I shared my “5 Steps for Being Published” in the wedding industry. Today, I want to tell you all about Two Bright Lights. This company is going to change the way you do business and how you get publicity.
What is Two Bright Lights?
Two Bright Lights is a personal publicity platform that generates media exposure and word-of-mouth marketing to promote your creative business.
Two Bright Lights has 4 key benefits:
- Boosts Your Media Exposure
TBL gives you the ability to submit your work to over 200 online and magazine publications. MAGIC! - Increases word-of-mouth marketing
It’s a sharing site! TBL enables you to upload your work and share it easily among colleagues and clientele. - Showcases your creative work
TBL allows you to create slideshows and inspiration boards to feature your work and ideas. Seriously, folks. - Streamlines your work flow
TBL keeps it all in one place. The TBL system lets you share and deliver your work among wedding pros. (This is especially valuable for photographers who want to share images with other vendors but don’t always have the time to be creating stacks of CDs for every wedding pro after each event.)
I am indeed smitten with all things Two Bright Lights.
Of these benefits, the most powerful is how Two Bright Lights works to boost your publicity. (TBL makes it EASY-PEASY to have your work published on blogs and magazines.) I’ll be focusing on this aspect tomorrow.
Who should use Two Bright Lights?
Two Bright Lights is for all wedding pros. However, because it’s built as a picture sharing platform, photographers are currently the ‘gatekeepers’ of their images. (Photographers are the pros uploading images and can tag wedding vendors, including you, associated with the event.) ALL wedding professionals can join and can request the photographer to add them to the event album. Also, any wedding professional can put together a submission as long as it’s approved by the photographer. (This is to ensure that the photographers’ images are credited and copyrights respected.) Psssst… I got the inside scoop that they will be allowing non-photographer’s to upload their own images in early next year. Yippeee! Keep your eyes open for this.
While most submissions through Two Bright Lights are ‘real wedding’ features it is possible for a vendor to submit a pitch for an interest piece. (For example, an invitation designer who wants to submit a piece on “Trends in Lace Wedding Invites” as a story.) Again, the vendor would currently have to partner with a single photographer to upload images and partner with on this project.
Which magazines and wedding blogs use TBL for their submission process?
Two Bright Lights is a super-simple way of reaching out to publishers and getting your work published. Many of the TBL’s editorial partners are blogs that are looking for fresh content daily. They NEED your material! And TBL makes it easy to get into their hands.
This is a partial list of some of the magazines and blogs that are partnered with TBL:
- 100 Layer Cake
- Brooklyn Bride
- Every Last Detail
- Get Married
- Junebug Weddings
- Offbeat Bride
- Oh So Beautiful Paper
- Ruffled
- Sparkle & Hay
- Style Unveiled
- Southern Weddings Magazine
- The Broke Ass Bride
For a complete list of their 200+ editorial partners, make sure to visit their site.
Come back tomorrow and I’ll show you how the Two Bright Lights submission process works!
Have you used Two Bright Lights before? What do you think?