How to Become a North Center-Roscoe Village Patch Contributor

CHICAGO, IL — Who knows better about the local events and happenings around North Center and Roscoe Village than the people who live, work, play and attend school in the neighborhoods? Do you have a calendar event, classified or issue of local importance that you want to share with North Center and Roscoe Village? Patch is the ideal platform to share your content on.

Patch is promoting talented writers to join a new group of contributors taking shape in communities across the country. Whether you're a member of Roscoe Village Chamber of Commerce, a non-profit business, a school administrator or just someone who enjoys sharing their writing, we want to hear from you.

Why? Because we believe when local voices are heard, everyone wins.
If you'd like to be a Contributor, start posting on Patch (here's how to get started) and once you've posted a few articles, send us an email along with a link to your Patch profile to be considered.

Who is a Patch Contributor?

Patch Contributors: This group is comprised of "local voices" - organizations and city government bloggers, charities, schools, non-profits, but also can be local North Center and Roscoe Village tastemakers (restaurant owners, business owners, etc.)

A Patch Contributor writes consistently and has an audience who trusts them and relies on them for their content.

What are the perks?

As a Patch Contributor, you'll have the chance to share your community news, stories, calendar events and more with not only your North Center and Roscoe Village neighbors, but also with members of surrounding communities in Chicago. Here's what you get when you post on Patch as a Patch Contributor:

• A personal Patch login so you can post directly to the site
• The ability to get your news out to you audience right away.
• The ability to promote events using our SEO-friendly calendar tool
• Promotion on local Patch homepages and in daily newsletters
• Shares on Patch Facebook and Twitter pages with our over 2 million fans
• More traffic to your posts than you would posting on your own platform
• Drive more traffic to your own site and social media channels
• Reach a larger, more targeted audience

Already post on Patch? Awesome, you're a few steps ahead.

As a contributing writer, you'll continue to post on Patch the same way as you do now and keep all your existing posts, but you'll get the chance to have your future articles seen by a lot more people. Your byline will also be updated to "Patch Contributor" from "Star Patcher or "Open Poster". Go Patch!

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