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Editorial Policy

The route every article on allodialresources.com takes from idea to publication, and what we refuse to publish.

What you can hold us to

Before you trust a word elsewhere on allodialresources.com, it is fair to know how those words get made. That is the entire purpose of this page.

The names on the work

Bylines are real people with real archives attached. If you disagree with a piece, you can see what else the same person has written and judge accordingly.

Marcus Delaney, Former underwriter and lending writer. Marcus spent over a decade underwriting small business loans for a regional bank before he started writing about the process from the other side of the desk. He explains what a lender is actually looking at, not what a broker says they want to hear.

Renee Ashworth, Small business owner and funding writer. Renee has run a small retail business for nine years and has borrowed through a term loan, two lines of credit, and one merchant cash advance she still brings up as a cautionary tale. She writes about funding from the side that actually signs the paperwork.

Callum Whitfield, Bookkeeper and cash flow writer. Callum keeps the books for a handful of small businesses and sees their cash flow problems months before the owners do. He writes about forecasting and funding math the way he explains it to a client staring at a spreadsheet.

How we choose what to write

We keep a running list of questions readers send us, plus questions we had ourselves and could not find a straight answer to. A topic gets written when it appears on that list more than once.

Yes, some outbound links pay. What they pay for is the hosting bill, not the wording of the assessment sitting next to them.

A request to pull a criticism gets a flat no and a place in our records. Sometimes that request is more revealing than the thing complained about, and it says so in a later piece.

Dates

Published means published. We do not bump dates to look active, and an edit only changes the modified date when it changes what the article actually tells you to do.

The drafting process

  • Dump first. Everything the writer believes goes down, unsorted.
  • Mark the soft parts. Anything held on memory rather than evidence gets flagged.
  • Check or cut. A flagged claim is either supported or removed. There is no third option.
  • Second reader. Somebody else hunts for sentences that sound more certain than the evidence allows.

What we will not publish

  • Guarantees. Nobody in this field can honestly offer one.
  • Filler written to occupy a topic rather than to answer it.
  • Anything we would be embarrassed to defend in person.

How mistakes are handled

Corrections go to [email protected]. Include the address and the sentence. Anything factual is fixed without argument. Anything that changes what the article recommends gets a dated note underneath, so the change is visible.