Kolektiva And Kupon Vilag, Central Eastern Europe’s Leading Daily Deal Group, Celebrate Third Anniversary Of Original Site Launch
Kolektiva, a revolutionary and market-leading daily deal site is celebrating their third anniversary this week, cementing the site as a daily deal contender in Central and Eastern Europe. The site’s first launched January 22, 2010 with an offer for 50% off pizza, pasta and wine at Vapiano, which is similar to American’s Olive Garden and offers casual dining in an Italian style atmosphere. The offer reached out to over 2,000 potential buyers and raked in 42 promotion purchasers by the deal’s end.
Fast forward to present time, Kolektiva…
How Facebook is Faring in the Middle East and North Africa [Infographic]
Facebook has pumped up their efforts to break into new territories and the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) are proving to be a profitable move for the social media giant. Since early 2012 these areas have added more than 10 million new users with Egypt alone responsible for 2.5 million. The fastest-moving countries within the social media market are Qatar, Libya and Iraq. By teaming up with Myriad Group (mobile phone sector) Facebook plans to add millions more.
Social media analytics platform,
Running Daily Deals Abroad (Part 2)
Editor’s note: The following is a guest post by Marc Horne. Marc is a co-founder of DailyDealBuilder.com, provider of daily deal software, solutions, and sales training.
I initially wrote about the daily deal industry abroad and have since been traveling in Europe and have taken notice of a few key things about the deal industry…
My first and foremost observation is that when traveling abroad, daily deal sites do not cater to foreigners. Redeeming coupons and vouchers as a local…
Running Daily Deals Abroad
Editor’s note: The following is a guest post by Marc Horne. Marc is a co-founder of DailyDealBuilder.com, provider of daily deal software, solutions, and training.
I am traveling in Paris and Amsterdam for a Workation (part work / part vacation) and one of my objectives is to closely monitor and take note of the workings of daily deals and coupon sites in Europe. We have noticed over the past couple of years that the demand to start a daily deal site in countries outside of the…
Cobone Study Reveals What’s Hot in Daily Deals Across the UAE
Travel sector dominated
Believe it or not, even after all the news on daily deal fatigue there are still those entrepreneurs with aspirations of breaking into e-commerce via daily dealing. For those that feel the need to follow through, Cobone, based in Dubai, has released a very informative info-graphic packed with data and highlighting those categories that are the most popular.
The data was collected from a focus group of 10,000 and depicts a sampling of their primary interests. It should be little surprise…
Groupon Adds YaDig.com as a Partner
Making offers transparent
In the ongoing plan to make an imprint in the UAE, Groupon has added YaDig.com, the region’s review site, as a partner to bring users a better online experience. Internet users can now read and review businesses and or services before they buy an online deal. In an effort to better educate the UAE consumer, the partners believe that it benefits their uses to learn more about those companies before hitting the voucher ‘buy’ button. YaDig’s honest user reviews will, for the first time…
Groupon Launches its Arabic Website
Knocking on the UAE’s doors
The golly green G (Groupon Middle East) of daily dealers launched the Arabic version of its website this weekend just in time to capitalize on its presence in the Gulf region where the company has plans to open six regional offices. The company stated in the press release that “Groupon’s decision to develop a website that is catered exclusively to the audience in this region comes as a result of the company’s continuous effort to share their exciting offers with…
Jabbar May be Unloading the Daily Dealing Cobone
A leader in eCommerce across the UAE
Jabbar is the leading company in the consumer e-commerce sector in the Arab World. The company was established in late 2009, just after the acquisition of Maktoob.com by Yahoo! Incorporated. Jabbar already boasts an impressive portfolio of online brands, all leaders in their respective niches, and all-together generating the largest online consumer e-commerce volumes in the region. Here’s the kicker, Jabbar is currently owned by the same founders of the original Maktoob Group, who after the acquisition, decided to spin-off…
Egypt’s AlZwad Launches Dealazion to Help Target Daily Deals
Many industry watchers felt that LivingSocial’s exit from Egypt was an indicator that daily deals cannot be successful in the region. Also, with many daily deals sites available, consumers too have been experiencing fatigue over going through the various sites in search of a low price for a product or service they want. Now, AlZwad has launched Dealazion to overcome these challenges.
At a basic level Dealazion is a deal aggregator that is available on mobile. However, the new app offers a lot more than…
Groupon Plans to Expand yet Sees Consolidation in the Middle East
Money to be made in the Middle East
Groupon’s Middle East division has been keeping a close eye on the economic and political developments of the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC). The GCC includes Bahrain, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, and United Arab Emirates. Jordan and Morocco have been invited to join the council. On 6 March 2012, the six members of the GCC announced that the Gulf Cooperation Council would be evolving from a regional bloc to a confederation, in possible response to Arab democratic unrest…
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