The good:
The last 2 days have been pretty busy around here. We spent a few days doing some upgrades on our site - cosmetic for now - to accommodate the spa deal that we had agreed with The Atlantis. The result: over the course of 40 hours we had total deal sales of over AED 220,000. What was amazing to us was that of the 325 vouchers we sold for this deal, only 1 transaction was paid for in cash. The remainder were pure e-commerce transactions. I’ve said for a while now - probably a year now at least - that given great value and a proper platform, that the will was there for e-commerce. The last few days is a good step in that direction.
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We like to give an update of who we’re doing and its been awhile…plus we wanted to free up some blog space for some pretty cool announcements coming from us over the next few weeks, so here is where we’re at: current cities: Dubai, Abu Dhabi, Beirut and now Amman future cities: look for 2…
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We’re happy to announce today that we’ve now saved UAE buyers over AED 1,000,000…and counting.
GoNabit launched in Dubai in May and in Abu Dhabi in June. As the first group-buying website in the Middle East, the first globally to offer deals in Arabic, and the first to reward the referrals of our nabber community, we’re happy to be the first to cross this important threshold.
One of the core company values at GoNabit is that “no one wins unless everyone wins”…
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Value evanglists have been spreading the word about GoNabit because its a great thing to do, they want to do cool stuff with their friends, and because they want the deals to tip. Hey you value evangelists! We love you for your sharing, and now we are putting a price on that love: $10.
Registered users will get a reward of $10 of Store Credit every time a new buyer uses their personalized referral link to nab it for the first time on GoNabit.
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There’s a great - and very grassroots - charity started in Abu Dhabi recently called Building Walls of Wisdom that raises money to build small schools in communiities of need. GoNabit has decided to support BWOW and we wanted to spread to word on the great work that BWOW is doing. They’ve already raised money to complete projects in Ecuador and Kenya through Free the Children and are currently raising funds for the new project.
Apart from a strong belief in doing things that matter, we also share the belief that people can acheive more through collective action than they are able to achieve independently. BWOW really is a case of committed individuals coming together for good.
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Starting last Wednesday, August 18th GoNabit.com came under a massive Distributed Denial of Service Attack. There is more info here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Denial-of-service_attack, but essentially this means that someone maliciously compromised many other computers and then used them to flood our site with a huge amount of traffic with the intention of making it inaccessible to our…
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GoNabit is the world’s first Arabic language group-buying site.
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A picture’s worth a thousand words. And there’s nothing better than saving memories with photos, right? As previously mentioned on our Facebook and Twitter accounts, we’re going to hold monthly photo competitions. Each month, the GoNabit team will judge all the photos of Nabbers using their vouchers that have been sent in and shared on Facebook and…
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23 June, 2010, Dubai: Venture-backed GoNabit has become the first group buying platform to launch in the UAE. Bringing one of the Web’s fastest growing retail phenomena to the Middle East, GoNabit sources ultra discounted daily deals from local businesses to be sold to its subscribers within a limited period of time.
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A few weeks back I got a great email from a really great person. We had posted a role for Community Manager in Abu Dhabi on our job site. A few days later a got an email that really surprised and impressed me:
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