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Just-Eat.co.uk Fantasy Football League and the winner is….

May 4th, 2010 · 2 Comments · Just-Eat, Personal stuff, Uncategorized

Well another season is coming to a end and it looks like the buttressbabes are looking certs for back to back league titles.
I dont know what to say other than the usual cliches, ‘it is always harder to win the title in your second year’, ‘the league never lies’ etc [...]

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PR in Egypt and Reuters! And it is the Haggis Story

May 4th, 2010 · No Comments · Just-Eat, Uncategorized

Haggis? Is that the hairy chap in Harry Potter?
Our team have been in Glasgow recently spreading the word about Just-Eat, and we thought it would d be a bit of fun to see just how much people know about haggis across the UK. It turns out not a lot…
Our research team have [...]

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Ben Jones Blog Post 5 – Just-Eat salesman in Canada

May 2nd, 2010 · No Comments · Just-Eat

You wait all day then two come along at once…. ?
Its 21:23 here in Canada and 17C, things are good. Slowly re-building my pipeline and plodding along nicely. (And as Henry says, our plodding is an athletes sprinting)
I was thinking that in previous blogs I have not mentioned the ‘competition’. [...]

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Ben Jones Blog Post 4 – Just-Eat salesman in Canada

May 2nd, 2010 · No Comments · Just-Eat, Uncategorized

So it’s been a while since my last update/ Blog….

We done our bitz up in Ottawa it went well, lessons were learnt on how to do it better next time. But we have almost 50 restaurants there now, and are getting few orders as well

Processes are now finally being [...]

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Up and Running in May

May 1st, 2010 · No Comments · Just-Eat, Personal stuff, Uncategorized

This weekend has been great already. Takeaway order wise it has been totally without precedent and speaking to some of our restaurant partners it is great to hear they are having a good time too. We also had a super April as a business so onwards and upwards.
Outside the world of Just-Eat it has also [...]

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A new pizza topping to try, locusts!

April 23rd, 2010 · No Comments · Just-Eat, Personal stuff

If you fancy something different on your pizza then ask your restaurant if they can help you out with this new pizza ingredient.  It makes a change from pepperoni.

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Haggis is a animal that lives on a hill

April 23rd, 2010 · No Comments · Just-Eat, Personal stuff, Sales

The latest press coverage of Just-Eat.co.uk. A nice funny story covered by the Daily Mail, The Sun, Metro, Daily Star, Daily Record and Scotsman.   The full story is here.
As a Welsh person exiled in England it made me laugh to think that in the UK the best pick up from newspapers PR wise [...]

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Just-Eat.co.uk ‘new strapline’!

April 16th, 2010 · No Comments · Just-Eat, Personal stuff, Sales, Uncategorized

Our resident graphics pro Jakub Huttner at Just-Eat pulled the below graphic together following a interesting discussion we had as a business about what the key phrases are in defining our culture as a business.  We are having several important discussions at our company about how and what our culture should be now and for [...]

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Just Do It!

April 6th, 2010 · No Comments · Just-Eat, Personal stuff, Sales

I received this from Jesper Buch it made me smile and is good fun. To view click here.

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Ben Jones Blog 3 From Canada – The first Just-Eat salesman to move intercontintal!

April 1st, 2010 · 1 Comment · Just-Eat, Sales

From Ben Jones a UK salesman that moved from Just-Eat.co.uk to Just-Eat.ca in January.
“26C THIS WEEKEND. (this would usually be followed by an exclamation mark however i’m making an effort not to use so many).
It is today the last day of march which means we sales poeple have about 8 hours to pat ourselves on [...]

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