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A great day at the rugby!

November 21st, 2010 · No Comments · Just-Eat, Personal stuff, Sales

Edin from Firezza, Pak from a Chinese supplier here in the UK, Josh from Eatstudent, David Power who does my job in Canada for just-eat and our good old CFO the one and only Mike Wroe attended the Wales v South Africa rugby game last week in Cardiff.
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Just-Eat.co.uk buys Eatstudent.co.uk

November 16th, 2010 · 2 Comments · Just-Eat, Personal stuff, Sales

Great news for the growth of online takeaway food ordering! Josh Magidson started eatstudent.co.uk while at university and has done a great job to build a student focused takeaway website. We loved both him and the concept, as a result Josh and we made a deal to buy the company. The real advantage of eatstudent [...]

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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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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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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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