Tygart Media

Write For Your Community — Tygart Media Contributor & Affiliate Program

Write For Your Community. We’ll Handle the Rest.

Tygart Media publishes Mason County Minute, Belfair Bugle, and Exploring Olympic Peninsula — three hyperlocal publications that reach real audiences across Mason County and the Olympic Peninsula, on Facebook and at tygartmedia.com.

We’re not looking for professional journalists. We’re looking for people who actually know their community — the contractor who has worked every neighborhood in Shelton, the realtor who knows which streets are hidden gems, the outfitter who knows every trail on the Peninsula. If that’s you, we want to give you a platform.

Three Ways to Get Involved

Contributor — Free & Open to Anyone

Have something worth saying? Submit an article, photo essay, or community story. You get a byline on tygartmedia.com and distribution through our Facebook pages — no strings attached, no ongoing commitment required.

  • Submit when you want, as often as you want
  • Your name and business appear alongside your content
  • Real SEO value — your byline gets indexed on a live publication
  • No experience required — we’ll help you shape your content

Trade Affiliate — Application Required | One Per Trade, Per Publication

This is where it gets serious. Trade Affiliates become the official voice for their industry on a specific publication. One HVAC contractor per publication. One restoration company. One realtor. One photographer. If you’re selected, that position is yours.

As a Trade Affiliate, you interview local businesses in your industry, write about your area of expertise, and become THE local resource for your trade in that community. You’re not just advertising — you’re building authority.

Trade Affiliates receive:

  • Designated affiliate badge on tygartmedia.com
  • Access to Tygart Media AI writing tools and local data — you don’t have to be a writer
  • Regular content distribution to our Facebook audiences
  • Cross-promotion within the affiliate network
  • Your business established as THE trusted local expert in your trade for that publication’s coverage area

Featured Sponsor — Paid | Premium Placement

For businesses that want premium placement alongside affiliate content — dedicated features, sponsored coverage, and elevated visibility across our publications. Details available on request. Email will@tygartmedia.com to discuss.

Who We’re Looking For

If you have genuine local knowledge and want a platform to share it, there’s a place for you here. We’re specifically seeking:

  • HVAC, plumbing, and electrical contractors — Write about what homeowners in your area actually need to know. When to service their system, how to spot trouble before it becomes expensive, what local conditions mean for home systems.
  • Water damage and fire restoration companies — Homeowners don’t know who to call when disaster hits. Be the company they already trust before it happens.
  • Real estate agents and brokers — This is an exceptional opportunity. Write about neighborhoods, market conditions, what makes Mason County or the Peninsula worth buying into. Buyers and sellers are reading local publications. Be there when they are.
  • Photographers — Local life, outdoor and wilderness, events, real estate. Mason County and the Olympic Peninsula are extraordinarily photogenic. We want your work in front of this community.
  • Restaurant and food business owners — Share your story, your sourcing, your philosophy. Local food coverage drives local loyalty.
  • Outdoor guides, outfitters, and tour operators — Especially valuable for Exploring Olympic Peninsula. Hikers, kayakers, hunters, birders — they’re all looking for local expertise. Be the source.
  • Healthcare providers, therapists, and wellness businesses — Community health content builds trust before someone ever needs to make an appointment.
  • Attorneys, accountants, and financial advisors — If you have expertise that genuinely helps people make better decisions in your community, we want to give you a platform.
  • Anyone with real local knowledge — If people in your community come to you for advice, you belong here.

What You Actually Get

A Real Byline on a Real Publication

Your name, your business, and your content live at tygartmedia.com — a published, indexed website. That’s genuine SEO value. When someone searches for a plumber in Belfair or a realtor in Shelton, your byline starts building authority.

Distribution to Real Local Audiences

We don’t just post content into the void. Our Facebook pages have real audiences — people who live, work, and make purchasing decisions in the communities you serve. This isn’t paid reach; it’s earned distribution through consistent, quality content.

AI Writing Tools (Trade Affiliates)

You don’t have to be a professional writer. Trade Affiliates get access to Tygart Media AI writing tools — you bring the expertise and the local knowledge, the tools help you shape it into compelling content. Your HVAC knowledge is the rare thing. The writing is a skill we can help with.

Cross-Promotion Within the Network

As our affiliate network grows, affiliates support each other. The restoration contractor and the realtor both serve homeowners. The outfitter and the lodge both serve visitors. We build those connections intentionally.

Authority That Compounds

One article doesn’t make you the trusted local expert. Twelve articles do. A consistent presence on tygartmedia.com and our Facebook pages builds credibility over time — the kind that makes people call your business first, before they’ve even met you.

Which Publication Is Right for You?

Mason County Minute

County-wide coverage reaching audiences across Shelton, Hoodsport, Union, Hood Canal, and surrounding communities. Best for businesses that serve Mason County broadly — contractors, healthcare providers, real estate professionals working across the county, and service businesses with a wide coverage area.

Belfair Bugle

Hyperlocal North Mason coverage focused on Belfair, Allyn, Tahuya, Union, and the communities along Hood Canal’s north shore. Best for businesses whose clients are specifically in North Mason — local contractors, neighborhood-focused realtors, businesses rooted in the Belfair area.

Exploring Olympic Peninsula

Outdoor, lifestyle, and travel coverage spanning the entire Olympic Peninsula. Best for guides, outfitters, lodging businesses, restaurants, outdoor photographers, and anyone whose work connects to the Peninsula’s identity as one of the Pacific Northwest’s most remarkable places. This publication also reaches visitors planning trips — an audience with real spending power and active intent.

How to Apply

Getting started is simple. Reach out with your name, your business, which publication you want to contribute to, and a quick description of what you’d write about.

By email: will@tygartmedia.com

By Facebook message: Message the relevant publication page directly:

  • Mason County Minute — message us on Facebook
  • Belfair Bugle — message us on Facebook
  • Exploring Olympic Peninsula — message us on Facebook

We’ll respond quickly. If you’re applying for a Trade Affiliate position, we’ll want to have a brief conversation — we take the “one per trade per publication” commitment seriously, and we want to make sure it’s the right fit on both sides.

If you have real local knowledge, a byline is waiting for you. Let’s build something for this community together.