Photographers are increasingly caught in the video crossfire wars between Tik Tok and Instagram (read this article). Their anger has resulted in many photographers shifting where they spend time their time to Twitter for discoverability and NFT marketplaces for sales. Photographers have a decision to make. Do you start dancing…

Digital art collecting is possible without NFT’s, the blockchain or Ethereum, if you don’t mind that your art… …isn’t easily saleable …isn’t easily purchase-able …isn’t easily prove-able that you ever owned it. For most people, downloading images they like off the Internet is enough. Go ahead and create a collage…

A lineage of cohort based connection that connected me with an opportunity to be a founding coach at Maven. — I first met Wes Kao in New York as an alumni of altMBA10 where she was in a hurry to help people see what they were capable of as co-creator and executive director of Seth Godin’s altMBA. Wes’ began thinking with precision about marketing a lot earlier than bringing altMBA…

Behind the Scenes at Buy NZ Made in 2020 — There is no magic bullet to productivity in business, but there are productivity levers that can reshape and reform how you get to the outcomes you want. But you need to have a plan. This article shows what activities Buy NZ Made focussed on in 2020 behind the scenes using…

2020 Book Review — Books with multiple on-ramps, make it easy to go on a short journey and arrive back home with a satiated mind. The Practice is a compact prose yet packs in 219 (two hundred and nineteen!) on-ramps of opportunity. Here’s the five that jumped off the page as I read them…

Ship Creative Work — The Practice is the 20th book by Seth Godin and I hope it does for you what it did for me when I took a deeper inspection into Seth’s practice of merely shipping the work. The next section describes the creative practice work I’ve shipped to help New Zealand businesses…

What to consider before decided your provenance strategy. — You don’t have to label your product with the ‘New Zealand Made’ Kiwi trademark. There are many alternatives and in this article we look at 6 alternative approaches that might work just as well for you. 1. Write ‘New Zealand Made’ On Your Product You don’t need to show a logo. You could simply write the words ‘New…

There is so much that can be learnt from our peers. — Getting better at business is an incremental process and one thing I know about Kiwi business owners, is we’re interested to hear what our neighbour is up to. We’ve all had that moment when you meet up with someone who sparks an idea that you take away with you… despite…

Sharing uniquely Kiwi stories that are contributing to New Zealand’s future. — Kiwis love to hear what Kiwis get up to. Stories resonate. Stories get retold. So of course a podcast that featured A Kiwi Originals made sense. Now you can copy the playboook for your own membership organisation. Representing Your Members. Sharing Their Stories This article is for membership groups who want to go beyond ‘traditional digital’…