Please send us any available sales brochures, facilities list, previous articles or background information on your company so we can see what your company offers. We’d like 10-15 high resolution, sharp contrasting photos. We prefer candid photos depicting action, if possible, and we’ll chose 4-8 for use in the magazine.
A) Digital (please give us a good high resolution photo. Roughly 1000 KB or bigger is ideal. Website photos or printed business cards are all low resolution and we cannot enlarge them. JPEG files work great but we can handle about anything.)
B) Include a photo of key direct customer sales contact people. Buyers identify to faces and they feel more comfortable in building relationships if they know who they are talking to. (If you have several sales people, please group them together, and please do not use receptionist, accounting or non-direct sales people.)
C) Include a photo of your building. If the building is large, take a series of photographs from left to right, overlapping frames slightly. To do this, select a place where you have a nice view of the facility. Try to avoid power poles or lines or anything that distracts from the building. Start at the left of the scene, look through the viewfinder and make a mental note of what you see at the far right of the viewfinder. Take the photo, then rotate your head and camera to the right and overlap the spot by ¼ of the viewfinder, paying attention again to the right edge of the viewfinder for you next shot and take the photo. We have software that will, usually, stitch them together. Now, before you move, please do a second shooting so we have two copies to work with. If there is anything moving (cars, people, animals) wait until that are gone, or make sure they do not move across the scene. If your company is in a suite, focus on the front entrance. In some cases, if the building is not photogenic, we have used a machine in operation, a prominent town or city statue, or point of interest. We will work with you on these areas.
D) Machine shops – If possible, a photo display of parts or product you have manufactured is desirable. If they are small parts, try to display them on either a black background for good contrast. Steel and Aluminum parts on a white background tend to disappear but a smooth non-creased piece of cardboard can be used in a pinch. If you want to show an overall area of machinery, use the same technique as outlined in (b) above. Be careful with people walking through the area, but try to include people wherever possible, and again take the sequence at least twice in case there is a movement issue.
E) Many brochures will have professional photos we can often use.
F) Supply us with caption information.
Please send submissions can be sent via email to: chris@thegatewaymag.com
Send this collection of information to us. We’ll compose a story from it and return it to you for your review, correction, rewrite, etc. and your approval. If you prefer to write your own story, we will review and provide an edited version for approval.
NO photos or storyline is ever published without your approval on the final story.
If you run into a question, please give us a call. We do not set a schedule for publication until the article is complete and approved. Contact Chris at 877-463-4020
We cannot guarantee article placement but will do our best to schedule the article into an upcoming issue. Please note: as a courtesy to our paying advertisers, priority is given to those companies for feature article submissions.