On Writing to the Editors
Growth Plan Hub is a small editorial operation with a deliberately narrow readership. We accept correspondence on the terms described below, and we read every letter under the editorial byline of the Managing Editor.
Readership
The publication is circulated privately. A new reader is admitted when a current subscriber writes a letter of introduction on a named firm's letterhead — standing required is two volumes' circulation history. There is no open list and no public enrolment.
Letter of introduction required.
Editorial Submissions
Pitches and manuscripts are considered when they arrive from a named member of the masthead or from a contributing editor who has published with us in the past three volumes. Unsolicited submissions are returned unread, along with the envelope. We decline, as a standing matter, contributions from public-relations agencies, from marketing departments writing under operators' names, or from retained advisors in respect of clients they are currently billing.
Considered on the second Thursday.
Advisory Engagements
Several members of the masthead undertake a small number of private advisory engagements each year — capital-committee review, operating-plan drafting, and governance diagnostics for closely-held firms. These are arranged through existing professional relationships and are subject to a standing conflict-of-interest register maintained by the Editor-in-Chief.
Register kept at the Editor-in-Chief's desk.
Archival Requests
Specific issues from Volumes I through V are held in the subscriber archive. Requests from institutional readers — libraries of record, graduate business faculties, and single-family offices with a documented research interest — are considered on their merits. Individual issues are reissued, where possible, in runs of no fewer than fifty copies.
Reissue minimum: fifty copies.
Corrections
Errors of fact are corrected in the subsequent issue in a standing department titled Emendations. Corrections of substance are acknowledged in the same department above the initials of the responsible editor. We do not quietly amend published copy.
Published, not revised.
Hours
The editorial office is in the Great Lakes region and observes a December-through-March reading cadence: correspondence is read in the week of receipt; replies are written in the week following. In the warmer months the cadence reverses — replies within the week; reading, when the bindery is quiet.
Dec–Mar: the reading weeks.
The editorial office is maintained in the Great Lakes region. We do not publish a general place of business, and we do not receive unannounced visitors. Subscribers of record are provided a dossier reference on first mailing.