Archive: June, 2008

Pity the poor search marketing expert. The days are spent in meetings or lecturing in some strange city while the nights are sent sleeping off the excess of the evening before in some strange bed in a hotel room one really can’t afford but stays at anyway. That nervous twitch? Somehow one gets used to it. Many of us spend more time in the air than we do on actual roads. I’ve traveled many more miles in airplanes the past few years than I have in automobiles, trains, ferries or buses added together.
I am sitting in my parents’ backyard in the west end of Toronto. I am however working, not relaxing as I truly need to. The Search Engine Strategies Toronto 2008 conference ended 36-hours ago and my brain, body and soul are still reeling from exhaustion, elation, excitement and outright fear. Yes, you read that last word correctly, fear…