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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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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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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