Man, what a busy weekend when you need to be operating in US time zones and you live in New Zealand! Product launch ended up working out at about 3am NZ time on Saturday morning... needless to say my weekend was non-existent but I have time-shifted it to the start of this week.

I was busy working in with a joint venture between to companies here in New Zealand that managed to pull together an amazing bundle of the web's premium online guitar and singing lessons.

My role was to provide IT support, payment system integration and fulfillment services while working in with all the bundle partners to make sure we could deliver their products. If you want to check out the websites there are links below and product banners on my blog to click through to them.

Pretty much this bundle deal is an asspiring singer/songwriters dream set of products to help them on their way up and adds to the ever popular "bundle offering" that seem to be happening more and more at the moment as a way to offer excellent value to customers and get product creators working together.

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Myself and my partner Julia went out for Teppanyaki last night, sort of a reward for finishing one of my University assessments (not to mention I'm really into Japanese food!) Having never had Teppanyaki before I was in for a treat... The chef was great, he had all the tricks flipping produce and seafood all over the place, bouncing eggs on his spatula and making some serious flames.  At the end he wrote us a "thank you" note in salt done upside down and back to front, all very engaging and exciting to watch. I quickly got a sense he wasn't just cooking food... but more giving a performance... telling a story.... So wouldn't it be great if all products and service were like this... great ideas that tell a story, feel like a performance and engage us deeply.... Do you and your company make Teppanyaki products and services? Food for thought. read full post

I finished reading Seth's book tribes a few weeks back and really enjoy his work... Check out this great video, I will be posting a few other videos and interesting internet/techy/new thinking bits and pieces over the next couple of weeks as there are no journal questions for the next 2 weeks as we are on a break from university. read full post