July Photo Competition for Dubai and Abu Dhabi

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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My 10

10 Reasons animals don’t shop online:

Stuck on shopping: With bears getting honey all over the keyboard they’re always getting the keys stuck and adding more items than they can afford. Bears have had their caves repossessed in extreme cases.
Card security: Goldfish are always losing their credit cards. Writing their card info on the side of their tank with a Sharpie worked ok for awhile, but they always forget what the numbers mean…

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Social Commerce Startup GoNabit Launches in the UAE

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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Making Payments on GoNabit

We launched two weeks ago and since e-commerce is such a new concept for some in the region, we thought we’d explain how we handle online payments…and with 25-75 credit card payments each day on GoNabit we’re probably one of the biggest e-commerce websites in the Middle East. Not bad for 2 weeks work.

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How to Get the Job You Really Want Using Social Media

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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Pioneering Group-Buying and Social Commerce in the Middle East

The experienced team behind GoNabit is pioneering group-buying and social commerce in the Middle East by launching GoNabit.com – the first group-buying platform in the Middle East.

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What We’re Working On…

It’s been 2 months since I started working on GoNabit. Starting any business is super exciting and challenging, but the rewards lie in putting something together that is meaningful and valuable to peoples’ everyday lives. “Do what matters” and “make something people will use” are phrases attributed to several people, but the value found in these phrases out-strips the…

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Commerce Going Mobile

Juniper recently put out a report on Mobile Marketing & Research Studies. As Gaith over on ArabCrunch pointed out in his summary of the article, mobile marketing provides the opportunity for brands to react and iterate campaings quickly, leverage the growing smartphone category, take advantage of sms as a medium, and really be smart and…

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GoNabit: Social Commerce through Group-Buying

There’s something of a trinity of hot social commerce solutions emerging for 2010… Private Shopping Clubs f-commerce (e-commerce within Facebook) Group-Buying GoNabit.com is a Social Commerce, Group-Buying site launching in April in the U.A.E. Social Commerce? Social commerce is the use of social media in the context of e-commerce, and the overall socializing of the online…

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Ready to nab it?!
GoNabit offers 50-90% off the best to see, eat and do locally. 

As the largest group-buying site in the Middle East, you can nab it in Dubai, Abu Dhabi, Beirut, Amman, Sharjah and more cities coming soon.

Click here to see the deals!