What would a social commerce website be without useful social media features? Well, Foursquare just released an “add to foursquare” button that lets Nabbers visiting our site add a reminder to visit that business as a “to-do” item. You’ll receive push notifications to your phone (via the app) whenever you check-in nearby.
If you’re on Foursquare then we hope you’ll find this little addition to GoNabit useful. This way you can easily create a push a “to-do” reminder to do the things you got interested in - or preferably nabbed - on GoNabit whenever you check-in near that business via Foursquare.
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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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You have a blog. You put some time into it writing passionately about what interests you and what really gets you up in the morning. Over time a few people discover it, and then a few more, and before you know it you have a little community growing of people with the same affinity. After a while you think that its time to make some money from these efforts - to pay for your time. You think: Google ads? Yeah, thanks for the $14.58 per month from that!
Since we’ve launched our referral rewards there’s now an easy way to leverage your existing audience to get great local stuff for nothing.
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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 ...
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The is the first in our series (that could be a series of one) posts about ‘questions you’ve always wanted to ask but didn’t’.
We get asked all the time about the types of businesses that we work with, and why a business would or wouldn’t be featured on GoNabit, and when GoNabit is the right marketing tool for their business.
Types of Businesses
If you browse through our Past Nabits you’ll see a snapshot of the kinds of businesses that we work with: spas, salons, restaurants, events, fitness, activities, retail and some other things a bit more quirky.
We deal primarily with service-based businesses and really look for great places you’ve never heard of, or great places that you know - but don’t know enough about, or where you need a little kick to go back and try them again. (notice the recurring theme here? “great”) For businesses - and pianists - greatness is wasted if enough people don’t know about you.
When to get your business Nabbed
It’s my first time
Ever said: “If people only tried us once, they’d become regulars”? We are for you. We promote your business through visuals and creative copy written by our in-house Naguib Mahfouz, and structure our deals to create easy ways to try you out. You get butts in the seats and the chance to wow them and win them back over and over.
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GoNabit is the world’s first Arabic language group-buying site.
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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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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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