Sorry for the delay with this months competition winners folks.  I had a lovely visit to the hosptal that kinda held things up abit!  Back on track again so here’s our pick of the 10 most interesting pet names.

Congratulations to Bernard, Ollie, Alma, Dee, Chris, Niamh, Cassandra, Kevin, Alison and Imelda.   We had a great giggle at your pet names for your partners…..dont forget to share your choccies with them!

We are looking for a Customer Support Representative to join the DoneDeal team.

Some details about DoneDeal:

• DoneDeal was set up in 2005.
• We are based in in lovely offices in Wexford town.
• Over 3.5 million Irish people visit the DoneDeal website every month, and it’s growing fast.

Also, DoneDeal has hit a lucky streak with the awards:

1. Winner of Wexford’s Best Online Business Award.
2. Short-listed for the All Ireland Marketing Awards.
3. Winner of IIA NetVisionary Internet Marketer Award.

In short, DoneDeal is one of Ireland’s fastest growing web sites, and we need more great people to keep growing at this speed. There will be lots of learning, lots of growing, and lots of fun.

You Need These Points:

1. You MUST have basic computer skills which include Email, Microsoft Word.
2. You MUST be a frequent user of the Internet.
3. Have excellent written and verbal communications.
4. Have excellent customer service skills.
5. Have good time management skills.
6. Have a task oriented and energetic approach to work.
7. Have experience of successful problem solving.
8. Have the ability to work on own initiative.
9. Be based in or around Wexford town.
   
10. Previous work experience of a minimum 5 years.
    

We ask for a lot…

… but we also offer great things:

1. You will learn a lot of new cool stuff about the internet.
2. Enjoy a great work environment with lots of fun.
3. Be part of a great group of people who want to help make the world a better place.
4. Have a lot of freedom and a lot of responsibility.
5. Work with one of Ireland’s fastest growing web sites.
6. Salary between €19,000 – €25,000 depending on experience.
   
7. And last but not least: a good salary to match your knowledge & experience.
   

Your main responsibilities at DoneDeal will be:

• Manage and reply to emails received from clients. The work involves both email and phone responses.
• Manage our online help system.

But we also want you to be involved in other things, for example:

• Write on our blog.
• Help out with events.
• And anything else that you are interested in…

How to Apply

Applications for this positions have been closed.

Roses are Red, Violets are blue

We’ve got some lovely choccies for you!

To celebrate Valentine’s Day, we’ve got 10 boxes of chocolates (the food of love!) to give to our lovely romantic readers.  Just between us, Declan’s pet name is Stud Bunny and Emer is also know as Sweet Cakes!!

Just leave a comment below of your favourite pet name for you or your lover and our favourites will get the goodies.  We’ll pick our favourites on Thursday 11th February, so get your entries in quick!  So don’t be shy – the slushier, mushier and gushier the better.

Case Study

A few days ago we launched a case study about DoneDeal. It describes how DoneDeal came to be, and what we did to help the site grow.

The DoneDeal team is fairly good with computers, but writing intelligibly is not our forte. Therefore we asked the mighty clever Brian Skelly to do the actual writing for the case study.

To make the story a bit more interesting to read we also got help from our talented friends in WHPR with the layout of the document.

We hope the case study can give some inspiration for budding entrepreneurs.

You can download the whole document from our case study page.

Simon & DoneDeal

February is Simon’s month on DoneDeal. For each ad we give 30 cent to Simon Community, to help them with their fantastic work.

We met up with Chris and Annette from South East Simon Community a few days ago. They told us about all the great work they do to help people who risk becoming homeless.

Simon Community gives out free food packs to make sure people do not have to spend their last pennies on food. And they are planning to expand this great service all over the South East over the next few months.

We hope we can help Simon with their very charitable work. You can read more about why people become homeless on the Simon site.

What do you think about this idea? Do you like it? What can we do to make it better? Please let us know by filling in the comments below.