The Middle East’s number one job site, Bayt.com, announced today that is has launched a full-fledged Classifieds section on its website under the zeDeal marketplace platform, expanding the array of lifestyle features available to the largest and fastest-growing professional community in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region and providing the region with its first pan-regional multi-tier aggregated online marketplace for goods and services.
With the convenient and easy-to-use Classifieds platform, the Bayt.com community – which already includes over four million registered professionals from across the MENA region – can enjoy a leading lifestyle service by selling or buying goods online in a high-traffic marketplace. Users benefit from an array of advantages, including pan-regional reach for goods and services among a professional community, efficiency of pricing dynamics in a transparent online marketplace, state-of-the-art instant search tools and unique options for positioning products and services for purchase or sale. The efficiencies of the Bayt Classifieds marketplace are further enhanced by virtue of its unique standing as a broad marketplace aggregator engineered to address the needs of both wholesalers and retailers across the region.
The demographics and psychographics of the Bayt.com community of registered professionals and visitors lend themselves extremely well to the Classifieds platform as they are largely internet savvy, upwardly mobile professionals with healthy propensities to turn over goods and services and a strong desire to enjoy highly efficient marketplace dynamics.
To access the new platform, on the main Bayt.com site, visitors can presently simply click on the Classifieds tab, which will take them to a dedicated Classifieds page. On the Classifieds homepage, sellers can click on the 'Post a Classified' tab which guides users through posting their own classified advert and enables them to mark their properties on the local map. Keyword search option allows buyers to quickly find what they’re looking for, or browse for products via a variety of specific product categories which include property for rent, items for sale and services.
In addition, users can conduct the more advanced filtered search. The search engine uses Bayt.com’s state-of-the-art award-winning search and filtering tools, so users don’t need to waste time sifting through irrelevant matches. Visitors can add the Classifieds that are of direct interest to them to ‘My Favorites,’ and also have the option to save their searches, which can easily be accessed again on their next visit to the site.
“Sifting through classifieds can often be a highly time-consuming activity, so in launching Bayt.com Classifieds, we wanted to provide an easy-to-view and use, uncluttered space where the region’s professionals and other visitors can easily and efficiently buy and sell goods and even services online,” said Omar Tahboub, Vice President of Engineering at Bayt.com. “Bayt.com has built its stellar reputation over the years by maximizing the efficiency and effectiveness of the Middle East recruitment marketplace by moving it to the online universe and we hope to do the same to a regional aggregated marketplace of goods and services outside of the recruitment industry.
Bayt.com’s phenomenal traffic, technologies, brand equity and market share to date naturally lend themselves extremely well to this new lifestyle platform that our professional community has repeatedly requested. Moreover, as the largest recruitment services platform in the Middle East, we have also been pressed to augment our recruitment offering with a platform for freelance talent and other contractual services which the new Classifieds platform very effectively provides.”
The Bayt.com Classifieds service benefits immensely from Bayt.com’s international registered user base, meaning that users are not only limited to buying or even selling goods and services to others in their own city or country – instead Bayt.com users from across the globe can utilise the service. This is crucial for maximizing efficiency and also for the vast segment of the region’s professionals who are geographically mobile and who would like to build loyalty to just one multi-tier online marketplace and use it to buy and sell all essential goods and services at either end of their relocation.
‘’Bayt.com has always been committed since its inception in2000 to empowering its community of loyal users with the tools and information they need to build their lifestyle of choice and our latest expansion foray is completely in line with strategy of continuously enabling and empowering the MENA’s professionals. By reaching out beyond online recruitment with an international, highly transparent, highly innovative aggregated online marketplace for goods and services, we are adding more value to our users experience and filling a gap that has always existed in the MENA for a comprehensive multi-tier online marketplace that addresses all the region’s goods and services needs” continued Tahboub. “With Bayt.com’s unparalleled reach and experience as a pioneer in the Middle East and North Africa region’s online space, we are looking forward to providing new and existing users with services and solutions that facilitate and add value to their lives – online.”