After a bit of a sleep in, I started the day with the usual breakfast. I spent most of the morning catching up on emails from the last couple of days, and working on the FitGenes Labware SRS. The others went to a meeting at Konami.
Brett came back, and we met up with Ange to go to Kashiwa. We grabbed a bite of lunch at the station, and then caught the 3 trains across town. Dai-san picked us up from the station and took us to the stadium. We walked in, hoping we wouldn’t get a 3rd strike.
Urata-san was the only person there, and he gave us positive feedback. I checked the Dashboard, and the Player Login Screen logs, and they had been using the complete system (as they had told us). So things were much more positive here. The downer was that Urata-san isn’t a decision maker, and the decision maker’s weren’t there. So the trip wasn’t a waste of time, but not as productive as we had hoped it would be.
Dai-san took us to his house, where we met his wife and had some Iced Tea. He pulled out some old documentation he had, from a 1997 proposal to the Japanese Market. The things we keep! He then showed us his motorbike…
We had been discussing this over the last couple of days, and are now convinced that we need to change our marketing strategy. Luckily we actually do have a strategy in mind, that we will now be executing, so hopefully Dai-san manages to come through.
We caught the train back to Shinagawa. I got some FitGenes work done, before we went out to dinner. Once again, another fantastic meal. Just after we arrived, Kaoru called to say she had reached Shinagawa station so I went and picked her up. I somehow managed to find the restaurant again (it was in a complicated area of Shinagawa, which I hadn’t been to before).
The Sportainment boys had had a fairly successful meeting at Konami, and needed Brett to go in to discuss running League’s with them, and how they can make money. The change of management that occurs every 3 years means the same explanations need to be given over and over again, about how to make money running competitions.