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Do A Deali - Part 3 (the conclusion)

February 26, 2020

At some point, during the high of it, all my business partner fell ill, which would slow down our momentum. By this time, we owed our family and friends money; I had not been paid a salary in about 6 months; I had also helped to fund the salaries of the small team we needed to keep the other business afloat and, our dream of becoming millionaires from this “overnight success” was slowly slipping through our fingers.

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Do A Deali - Part 2 (the solution)

August 27, 2019

We set out to fix this mess! (see Part 1 - The problem) We’d build a platform that wouldn’t hurt the merchants pocket or reputation, but would actually create an environment where they could start to build/rebuild brand recognition and then later reward customers for their loyalty. And for the customers well, we’d give them deals they actually wanted, when they wanted it, wherever they were. 

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Image from Compareguru.co.za

Image from Compareguru.co.za

Do A Deali - Part 1 (the problem)

July 08, 2019

At the time in South Africa, Groupon was the best thing since sliced bread. This was mostly because of their marketing of unbelievable deals that any sane person could not pass on. Having deals sent directly to your inbox every morning so early that it would set the tone of the day to #winning, was unheard of and we.lapped.it.up.

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How we broke an e-commerce giant!

April 29, 2019

We took a price aggregator with an awesome built in product and price comparison tool, made it responsive (the task) but at the same time stripped it of everything engaging. I’ll tell you how and what happened next.

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