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Belly and Brain ‘on The Simpsons’!

March 27th, 2010 · No Comments · Just-Eat, Sales

I received several comments and mails from friends and also our loyal just-eater customers yesterday evening regarding the on going TV campaign. The general buzz was around the fact that our bellyandbrain TV ad was on during the break of ‘The Simpsons‘ yesterday.
I have to say it was a great slot for Just-Eat because The [...]

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Just-Eat.co.uk – Cardiff Radio Ad

March 23rd, 2010 · No Comments · Just-Eat, Sales

Ahhhhh a great moment. The most ‘wonderful’ capital city in the World finally gets to hear from mass media about the best online takeaway ordering site in the World, Just-Eat.co.uk.  If you’d like to listen to the ad please click just eat radio ad. (love the Cardiff/Newport accent on the ad reminds me of home, [...]

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‘Ben Jones in Canada Blog Post 2′

March 22nd, 2010 · 2 Comments · Just-Eat, Personal stuff, Sales, Uncategorized

It has been a very busy two weeks since my last update. Since then we now have another sales rep in Ottawa, and we also now have a sales director in the form of Rocco.
Rocco is going to be an amazing asset to just-eat canada and Just-Eat as a whole! He’s a cool, laid back [...]

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Ben Jones First Update From Canada

March 6th, 2010 · No Comments · Just-Eat, Sales, Uncategorized

When I was recently in Canada I asked one of our ‘old’ UK salesman to start sending me a update for all the UK team and restaurants that read my blog. Ben has left his home town in Norwich and moved to Toronto to help Just-Eat launch there b2b wise. Ben was a top performer [...]

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Top 10 UK restaurant website – Hitwise!

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

Last week Just-Eat.co.uk received a accreditation as a top 10 UK restaurant website from hitwise. Very nice! We are all so busy just growing and building right now that we don’t have time to stop and draw breath to celebrate these kind of things, instead we bottle all the landmarks up and have a few [...]

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TV was huge…’too’ huge!

February 27th, 2010 · No Comments · Just-Eat, Personal stuff, Sales, Uncategorized

Wow so I guess that proves TV works!
It is never easy to admit you’ve made a mistake or are wrong but honesty is always the best policy so here I go…Last night between 18.45 and 20:00 we were unable to keep up with the demand for our site, basically we operated more like belly than [...]

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Our First National TV Campaign

February 19th, 2010 · No Comments · Just-Eat, Sales

We are really proud to be following up our first TV campaign last November with our first national TV campaign NOW! It kicked off today and having seen the ad several times tonight over a lamb madras I have to say the ads look great even if I do say so myself!  Congrats go to [...]

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The first intercontinetal Just-Eat Salesman

January 30th, 2010 · No Comments · Just-Eat, Sales, Uncategorized

Yesterday I received a update from Ben Jones who recently went from the UK team to the new Canadian team. Please see the update below, this epitomises the ‘just-eat’ spirit.  It is never easy to start a new market up from a restaurant perspective but Ben has shown that if you do whatever it takes [...]

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Kashmiri Spice – Manchester, on BBC Radio!

January 28th, 2010 · 2 Comments · Just-Eat, Sales

Congratulations to Sheraz on the interview with BBC radio and of course winning the Just-Eat survey.  Sheraz you could have mentioned the internet not the phone for ordering takeaway though, only my grandad still uses the phone!
It’s really great to see local and national media taking a genuine interest in our takeaway restaurant [...]

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Merry Christmas!

December 20th, 2009 · No Comments · Just-Eat, Personal stuff, Sales, Uncategorized

Irfan Rafiq (part of our super sizzling marketing team) made this. I hope it makes you all smile. Merry Christmas from all of us at Just-Eat.
In the video are Klaus our CEO, Rune our Product man, Mike our CFO, Mat our Marketing guru and yours truly.

Our office team also made there own version……

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