Right – thanks Hannah and Celia. I am back now so I will take the final slot and let you all know how it ended!

Day 5

• Peterborough – Lowestoft
• Distance Travelled: 115 miles (yes, that’s right, 115 miles)

It was a long hard slog over to the east coast, I didn’t finish until after nine in the evening. My motivation was to complete the task before the weekend so that myself and the ’support team’ could enjoy a little family time.

As it was so late I met with Lee Bromley from Submission Technology on the Saturday (they donated an absolutely amazing £500!)

Jason, Lee from Submission Technology and Support team

Unfortunately Darren Loud who heads up the affiliate team was off with the flu. I had planned to interview him for the blog so instead I caught up with Director, Neil Durrant on Monday. Here is his interview:

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Hello everyone! As Hannah is on leave I have the dubious honour of sharing the latest installment from Jason’s adventure with you all. But before I pass over to Jason I’m going to grab my minute in the spotlight and introduce myself. My name’s Celia and I head up the PR over at Commission Junction (and across ValueClick) Right then, where was I? Oh yes Jason…

Wednesday’s report – in Jason’s words

• Leicester to Peterborough
• Distance – 42 miles

Day four was a very simple cycle route, no meetings booked for the morning so straight off we go, the only difference today was the weather – rain!!!!

Jason reaches Peterborough

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We are recruiting for four positions in the UK office so if you are or know a brilliant person who can fill any of the following roles then please get in contact Cheryl on cingram@cj.com. Please, please don’t contact her if you’re a recruitment consultant as she will kill me!

• An experienced Sales Manager to work as part of our sales team to develop new business for Commission Junction
• An experienced Account Manager to work as part of the Commission Junction Agency team
• An experienced Account Executive to work across our portfolio of advertiser accounts
• A financial Accounts Assistant to join our finance team

Please get in touch if you can help!

The tally is at £1,225 for the Kids Company so far. Thanks to Elaine from AllKids for her generous donation. http://www.justgiving.com/CJ-goes-mobile/

Anyway – with no further ado let me hand over to Jason for Wednesday’s report

Wednesday’s report – in Jason’s words

• Lichfield to Leicester
• Distance – 40.1 miles (ahh that’s better)

After a tasty fusion curry in Lichfield the night before and some sleep I felt ready to take on today’s much shorter offering. Doug was waiting in his kit when I arrived as his team were working away on his many enterprises.

Jason and Doug at Doug's Office

Amazing – we have already exceded our £1,000 target and raised £1,050 for the Kids Company. Well done Jase and thanks to Julie Hegarty and Doug Scott for their generous donations yesterday http://www.justgiving.com/CJ-goes-mobile/ 

Jason is getting very tired but don’t panic! He is still going, cycling his little heart out. At the moment he has some company from Doug Scott which should keep his spirits bouyed. Here he is with Tuesday’s report.

Tuesday’s Report – in Jason’s words

• Sheffield – Lichfield
• Distance – 80ish (probably more as I lost count)

Tuesday started out much more smoothly then the day before. My meeting with Dominic Butterell and Nat Portman from Quidco started promptly at 9am at their offices.

Jason and Dominic

Here is a little bit of information from Quidco about their operations in Sheffield.

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We are 78% there in meeting our donations target! http://www.justgiving.com/CJ-goes-mobile/ Thanks to Simon T, Dave Thompson, Dominic Butterell for their generosity. Also a MASSIVE thank you to Submission Technology who donated a whopping £500!

Monday’s report – in Jason’s words

• Liverpool – Manchester
• Manchester – Sheffield
• Distance – Approx 81 miles (91 miles including the wrong turn)

Day one got off to an interesting start as my support team was in tatters. Wife (Helen) had food poisoning and child (Eve Rose) had a rough night so we didn’t set off until 10-ish.

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Tools like Twitterfeed can be set-up to update your Twitter automatically with the titles of your blog posts, and, if you want to get clever, you can syndicate the blog post titles to multiple sites by setting Twitterfeed to feed through to Ping.fm or HelloTxt.”

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First off – thanks to Skimlinks, Top Cashback, Tom Marler, Florian, Cheryl and Alison for their kind donations to the Kids Company. £215 raised so far which you can add to here  http://www.justgiving.com/CJ-goes-mobile/

Jason is wiring in his progress reports back to me in CJ HQ so I had this waiting for me when I got in this morning. Apparently I have a photo of Jason in lycra to ‘look forward’ to later today. What a dubious honour.

Sunday afternoon – in Jason Baker’s words

So here I am, sitting in a restaurant in Liverpool’s Albert Docks after a near six-hour journey with my support team (wife Helen and baby Eve Rose – the latter being the reason for the long journey) and I am actually starting to feel nervous about the journey ahead.

Jason and Support Team

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Thanks Hannah for the post about my adventures next week. I will be a little less delicate with my post and put the JustGiving link here:-)

http://www.justgiving.com/CJ-goes-mobile/

Commission Junction is going mobile for a week!

From this Monday (17th August), our very own Mr Jason Baker will be taking CJ on the road for a week. He will be doing 5 (or 6, legs depending) days of cycling and meetings along the route mapped out below.

The plan is this:

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