How to Get Featured in Famous Times
When someone searches your name, what they find is your reputation. A permanent article is one of the few things you can put there deliberately.
Here is what Famous Times is, what it is not, and how people get featured.
What Famous Times is
Famous Times is a digital publication covering people, personal brands, entrepreneurs and public figures. Online only, permanently live, and indexed by search engines.
Its remit is broad rather than specialist, which makes it flexible about subject matter and means it works best when the story is about a person rather than a product.
Because the remit is wide, fit is rarely the obstacle. The quality of the story is. A general-interest title will consider almost any subject, which puts the burden entirely on you to make the piece worth someone's time.
How much weight it carries
Being straight about this is the point of the page.
A feature in a smaller digital title is not the same as coverage in a national newspaper or magazine with its own newsroom. It does not confer the same authority, and describing it as though it did is the fastest way to lose credibility with anyone who checks.
What it does provide is a real asset: a dedicated, permanent article about you that appears in search, that you can link from a profile or a proposal, and that gives a stranger something substantive to read instead of nothing. For people whose search results are currently thin, that is a meaningful change.
Use it as a foundation, not as a claim.
Treat it as the first entry on a public record rather than as the record itself.
What a feature includes
A solo, dedicated article about you and your work, with a headline and angle built around your positioning. Typically photos and links to your website, LinkedIn and socials.
It publishes permanently and stays indexed, so it keeps working every time someone looks you up.
It is a profile rather than a news report. It is built around your positioning, and it should read like a piece about a person, not an announcement.
How to get featured
- Pitch directly. Free and legitimate, dependent on fit and editorial capacity.
- Contributed or sponsored placement. Smaller digital titles accept contributed and sponsored articles far more commonly than staff-written publications do. That is a paid route and it should be described as one.
- Use a professional feature service. A team writes it to the publication's standard and places it. Faster and more predictable, which is why most people choose it.
What makes a strong piece
A profile needs a person in it.
The pieces that work here have a shape: what you set out to do, what got in the way, what you learned, what you are doing now. A list of achievements reads as a CV and nobody finishes a CV. A decision that cost you something is more convincing than any credential.
Write so that someone outside your industry understands the point in the first paragraph. General-audience titles reward clarity over vocabulary.
Keep the claims defensible. An article outlives the meeting it was written for, and anything you would not be comfortable standing behind in two years should not go in it. That includes revenue figures, client names you have not cleared, and superlatives about your own work.
What to expect from the process
Share your story, our team drafts the piece, you review with revisions until it is right, and nothing publishes until you approve it. Then it goes live and you get the link.
Digital Networking Agency works with Famous Times and a wide network of digital publications. Any provider who cannot show you the draft first is not one to use.
We will also tell you when a more specialist title would do more for your audience than a general one.
Frequently asked questions
Is this the same as being covered by a national publication?
No. It is a smaller digital title, easier to place in and carrying less weight. It is useful as a searchable, permanent asset, not as a substitute for a national masthead.
Who does Famous Times suit?
Founders, creators, coaches, speakers and public-facing professionals building a personal brand.
Can I approve the article before it publishes?
Yes. You review and revise until it is right, and nothing publishes without your approval.