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Loved this youtube video about Newport, Wales!

July 24th, 2010 · No Comments · Personal stuff

This video made me laugh when I saw it, it has been a big hit on youtube this week. I liked it so much I thought I would share it with you all.

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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.

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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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Sugar Loaf Mountain in Wales

June 7th, 2010 · No Comments · Personal stuff, Uncategorized

Yesterday my wife (Gemma), brother (younger, thinner but still has the  ‘Buttress hairline’  Tom) and me climbed Sugar Loaf mountain in Wales. If you are ever in this part of the world and enjoy a good walk, then give this a try,  it is not difficult to do as long as you can walk from [...]

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Be Careful what you publish!

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

Made me smile….Welsh Sign post.

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We are the Champions no time for losers…..

May 10th, 2010 · No Comments · Just-Eat, Personal stuff

The Just-Eat fantasy football league has come to its usual conclusion with the ‘Buttressbabes’ once again finishing top of the league.  I would like to say it has been a long hard battle to win the league but that wouldn’t be true, hopefully there will be more of a battle when hostilities commence [...]

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Vote Belly or Brain

May 6th, 2010 · No Comments · Just-Eat, Personal stuff, Uncategorized

Today is a huge day for Britain politically with the General Election and naturally at Just-Eat.co.uk we are getting in on the fun.  Today we would ask you all to also vote Belly or Brain. For more information on bellyandbrain check out bellyandbrain.com

I have always been really interested in politics and will certainly [...]

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