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Free Belly & Brain i-phone game!

October 23rd, 2010 · 1 Comment · Just-Eat, Personal stuff, Sales

I am thrilled to announce that the Belly & Brain iPhone game has just been personally approved by Steve Jobs and is now launched all over planet Just-Eat!  We really hope you enjoy it. The two little guys are a fun part of our brand and company, this game really brings them to life.
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Just-Eat.co.uk on Dragons Den Tonight – “The UK’s Market Leader”

September 24th, 2010 · 2 Comments · Just-Eat, Personal stuff

I watched the usual and 100th re-run re-visit of one of our smaller (couldn’t resist that…sorry!) competitors on dragons den tonight, still with the same conclusion as last time that just-eat is the biggest, best and market leader (their words not mine).  I am sure that is why they did not get the investment, again.
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It is all about relationships

September 4th, 2010 · No Comments · Just-Eat, Personal stuff, Sales

I recently watched the BBC documentary about how David Cameron and Nick Clegg made a deal to share power and make a coalition government.  It provided a few interesting insights into how the balance of power was decided post the general election, but what I hear you ask does this have to do with Just-Eat.co.uk [...]

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Restaurant Websites – food for thought

August 14th, 2010 · No Comments · Just-Eat, Personal stuff, Sales

I read this today courtesy of an old takeaway friend Mark Hall. It made for interesting reading in terms of restaurant website products. More to follow when i’m back off holiday, otherwise Gemma is going to kill me for sitting on the laptop when I should be sat talking to her.

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Food and Drink Digital Interview

August 2nd, 2010 · No Comments · Just-Eat, Personal stuff, Sales

This is a interview that I did recently with Food and Drink Digital magazine. It is great to see Just-Eat more and more becoming the voice of independent takeaways.  The more we can help and drive the awareness of our member restaurants and sector the better!

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Company Culture Clip and Motivation

July 19th, 2010 · No Comments · Just-Eat, Personal stuff, Sales, Uncategorized

This was a interesting clip our CTO Carlos sent me that I thought was worth sharing.  This is also a clip that sums everything about the team at Just-Eat from start up until present day.  There have been many people who have helped build the company not just guys like me that joined long after [...]

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Restaurant Choice and Customer Satisfaction

July 17th, 2010 · No Comments · Just-Eat, Personal stuff

As ever it has been a busy, fun and exciting week at just-eat! I really wonder where the time goes sometimes but we have made two great steps for you our customers.
Firstly we are focusing and have now built a new team that are dedicated to making sure we provide the right restaurant choice to [...]

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One of my favourite sales mgt training clips

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

This is a super old film with some great sales mgt fundamentals in it.  Don’t worry about the black and white bit and old fashioned script, this stuff is gold dust! Whether you work for just-eat in the takeaway industry or not, the sales lessons in this will be helpful. It is all about good [...]

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More Crazy Entrepreneurs

July 4th, 2010 · No Comments · Just-Eat, Personal stuff

I read this in the newspaper today and thought it was interesting to share that what we actually needs is more crazy entrepreneurs in Europe and more  people to back them according to the CEO of Google. One thing for sure is that how every many new ‘crazy’ entrepreneurs there are Google will benefit!

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The Pizza Wars!

June 7th, 2010 · No Comments · Just-Eat, Personal stuff, Sales

Having worked in a industry before just-eat that had the cola wars, looks like I have now found myself in a industry with the pizza wars. We like a battle (one of my favourites fyi) at Just-Eat so we’re very relaxed to see things getting spicy with these two big corporates, the reality is the [...]

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