Comments on: Where do they find the time?! https://www.simianenterprises.co.uk/blog/where-do-they-find-the-time-45.html Web development, Coldfusion, CSS, a bit of this, a bit of that... Wed, 08 Apr 2015 20:08:13 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=4.2.7 By: Sam Barnes https://www.simianenterprises.co.uk/blog/where-do-they-find-the-time-45.html/comment-page-1#comment-19 Wed, 22 Apr 2009 20:03:23 +0000 http://www.simianenterprises.co.uk/blog/?p=45#comment-19 Ha, nice post, and a question I’ve often asked myself!

I think many of the guys you talk about started out as hard working dogs and stayed that way for many years, gaining experience enough along the way to start posting the odd article here and there. They managed to get a following and started writing more and speaking, while working too – hardcore dedication!

At some point or the other I think companies have caught on to the fact that having a well known web celeb as an employee has massive benefits to their business in terms of brand building = work = revenue.

If I ran a company and had a web celeb employee I think id defintely give them the time to get the company name out there as one of the elite while I hire new people to take over the work they used to do full time…

]]> By: Paul Randall https://www.simianenterprises.co.uk/blog/where-do-they-find-the-time-45.html/comment-page-1#comment-17 Wed, 22 Apr 2009 10:19:01 +0000 http://www.simianenterprises.co.uk/blog/?p=45#comment-17 I think the big contracts these companies get allows them to spend a bit of time being up-to-date on the latest thing, researching, testing and implementing new techniques.

For your average £1,000 site there is little room for 4 hours of research.

But also, a lot of speakers do have clients, dConstruct, SXSW and other conferences are their clients. They are being paid to speak about the web, and that must make them constantly use/play with the latest technique/technology/framework.

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