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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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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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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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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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Just-Eat World Party!

May 24th, 2010 · No Comments · Just-Eat, Sales, Uncategorized

One of the great parts of our social culture at Just-Eat is the annual World Party.  It started last year in Dublin and this year we took the whole of the international team to Centre Parcs at Elveden Forest. Around 140 people descended on the park on Friday for paint balling, archery, laser shooting and [...]

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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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All salesman should watch the ‘Boiler Room’!

April 22nd, 2010 · 1 Comment · Personal stuff, Sales

I saw this film many years ago and every so often see a clip or scene on youtube. I have to say for all budding sales people it does have some real gems in terms of tips and the mentality a good sales professional needs especially when you are in a cold calling environment.  If [...]

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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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