I’m a little late to talk about this one, but last Sunday, January 16th 2011, was Egypt Yellow Pages first event for 2011, the best thing we thought we would do this year with, is to honor our partners and give them a big thank you for being so awesome through 2010… Our event title is Enhancing Local Search And Location-Based Services With Key Strategic Partnerships…
Hosted in the Four Seasons Nile Plaza in garden city, more than 40 communications media specialists, editors and journalists covered the event that was attended by Egypt Yellow Pages strategic partners: Ministry of state of administrative development – e-Government, Nokia/Navteq, Al Masry Al Youm and Akhbarak.net
The event started with the keynote from Marc Lambert, managing director of Egypt Yellow Pages. The speech was so insightful, Marc explained how our strategic partners will help us enhance the local search services on more platforms by making it available through our partners sites and in the same time focusing on offering location based services which is the future of the local search…
Marc Lambert giving his keynote in the event
I had the opportunity then to present some figures and insights about our achievements in 2010, which ended up with us having more than 175,000 business listing in our database out of which 115,000 are geocoded. At the time i am writing this blog post, we have about 180,000 listings and approaching 120,000 geocoded listings… 2010 was also a year that witnesses tripling our website traffic from 400,000 visits per month to over 1.2 million visits, a truly new milestone for local search in Egypt.
Mohamed Salah, Director Digital Media, Egypt Yellow Pages presentation about insights and search trends in Egypt for 2010
Our partners were the ones who presented our strategic partnership details to the media, the following were representatives of our partners:
Mathia Nalappan, General Manager – North Africa, Nokia
Phil McKinnon, Head Of Marketing – North Africa, Nokia
Mohamed Abd El-Jalil, Head Of Solutions Sales – North Africa, Nokia
Sahar Afia, Project Manager – Government Services Development Program, Ministry Of State For Administrative Development
Kismet EL-Sayed, Shareholder / Business Development Director, Al-Masry Al-Youm
Osman Ahmed Osman, Founder, Akhbarak.Net
Here are more photos from the event
Osman Ahmed Osman, Sahar Afia, Marc Lambert, Mohamed Abd El-Jalil, and Kismet El-Sayed
Lars Morey (Director Of Sales, Yellow Pages Egypt), Phil McKinnon (Head Of Marketing – North Africa, Nokia) and Mathia Nalappan (General Manager – North Africa, Nokia)
Journalists and reporters attending the Yellow Pages event
Kismet El-Sayed, Shareholder / Business Development Director, Al-Masry Al-Youm
- Osman Ahmed Osman, Founder – Akhbarak.net
Finally, a big thank you to everyone who attended the event and made it successful 🙂
Mohamed Salah: Product Management, Entrepreneurship, Digital Marketing, & Local Search 