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filled it out, and sent in an application . I repeat, I didn’t expect anything. When you’ve lived in Omsk your whole life, and you’ve been told since birth that it’s a hopeless hole from which you should immediately flee, losing your slippers, you don’t have any particular illusions when you apply to join the Council of the coolest business publication in the world. You love your city, and you’re lucky to have found your dream job there, but your provincial complex is stronger.

Oddly enough, I was told that I had passed the application stage and now I had a 15-minute phone interview with a representative of Forbes . I won't describe my feelings before this conversation (by the way, all interviews take place at night due to the 11-hour time difference), just see the previous paragraph.

During the interview, I was asked what exactly I do as a marketing director, whether we really have such-and-such an annual turnover, whether I have any awards that I forgot to mention on social media, etc. At the end of the conversation, the Forbes representative said that he was leaving for a 15-minute meeting with the committee regarding my argentina number data candidacy and would communicate their collective decision by email.

Of course, I expected a refusal (especially since I don’t have any awards, except for school ones)). But 15 minutes later I was informed that Forbes was delighted with our acquaintance and was glad to see me in their community — and they sent me mountains of instructions on how to settle in on their site, rules for writing articles, badges, banners, etc.

Here you have Omsk.


To date, 14 of our articles have been published in Forbes . In fact, everything turned out to be simpler and faster than the instructions say. The first article slipped through without a single edit (only proofreading), the second and third were subject to some censorship: no brands are allowed to be mentioned, even other people's + a very strict approach to any mention of covid, the pandemic, etc. Even these words themselves are sometimes prohibited.

But in general, it takes no more than a couple of weeks from the time an article is submitted for review until it is published. My editor, Kimberly Vallentine, is extremely sweet and tactful, even when she says that such and such a phrase had to be removed. At the beginning and end of feedback letters, she always writes compliments about the article.

The editors constantly invite you to the forum and the expert panel to leave your opinion on current issues. The expert panel is an easy way to be published without writing an article. If your answer to the editors' question seems valuable, your quote with a photo, etc. is published together with the opinions of other experts in a thematic collection article.