A Day in the Life of the SEM Magazine Editor

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The rest of the time I work on developing ideas for the new projects in our secret underground laboratory :)

When I get home after work, I make myself some tea, turn on my computer and start working on the things I didn’t get to finish at work. I have no idea how my girlfriend tolerates me…

What I have always been wondering is how people manage to go to the SEM conferences in the middle of the week… Andy, Barry, Kent, Rand, share your secret. How do you get any work done at all? In fact, Kim was wondering about the same thing in one of her latest post.

How about you? How does your workday look like? How many hours do you spend reading SEM blogs?

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Andrey Milyan was the first editor-in-chief of Search Marketing Standard, the leading print publication covering the search marketing industry. He has been following and reporting on industry developments for over 5 years.

8 Comments*

  1. Boris Mordkovich says:
    January 12, 2007 at 9:33 am

    How does your girlfreidnt tolerate you?

  2. Andrey Milyan says:
    January 12, 2007 at 10:00 am

    Boris,

    You are supposed to be on vacation. Stop working!

  3. Tom Hale says:
    January 12, 2007 at 3:07 pm

    Time and Information management are the Bugaboos. ‘Nuff Said – Gotta go read some more ;-)

  4. Kim Krause Berg says:
    January 12, 2007 at 6:51 pm

    Glad to know I’m not the only curious one! Thank heavens the poll is fast and easy to use, LOL. Had no problem fitting that into my day.

  5. Andrey Milyan says:
    January 13, 2007 at 12:02 am

    That was the idea ;)

    At first I wanted to finish with the question but I know you guys are too busy to drop me a line. The poll seemed to be a good alternative.

    I would still love to hear about your day, if you care to share, of course.

  6. Kent says:
    January 14, 2007 at 3:08 pm

    My secret is simple: have a great team to back you up. There aren’t enough hours in the day to read, write and actually get work done. I divvy up responsibilities for reading and writing across the Anvil team, which allows me to focus on attending and blogging about select conferences as well as run a business.

  7. Andrey Milyan says:
    January 14, 2007 at 10:51 pm

    Hi Kent,

    Let me just say that you are doing a great job in keeping up, even if you do share your responsibilities ;) Your articles and conference coverage are exceptional. We are all looking forward to your coverage of the SES in NY on this blog.

    Andrey

  8. Tim L. Walker says:
    January 30, 2007 at 8:49 am

    Your poll doesn’t allow for those of us that spend more than 10 hours/week reading SEM/SEO blogs/forums, etc. :P

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