We have mentioned earlier that we will be adding Darrbers on eMapia.com to help people ask for delivery for items they buy from eMapia.

Well, the process has just started, but we have to tweak it a bit till we reach the final version of this change. at the moment, some of the Darrbers appear on eMapia, but most of them are called Darrbers without mentioning their name or real location. we will be working in the following period in fixing this issue and placing Darrbers on their main areas.

In the USA alone, more than 600,000 employees lost their jobs during January and February 2009. This number is scary, if we assume that on average they get $2000 a month, then the income lost is up to 1.2 Billion every month!

As this is an international issue, people cannot find jobs easily by going oversees or by trying different cities. every country has its own problems in this matter and layoffs are happening nearly everyday everywhere!

It looks like one logical solutions is to depend on your self, try offering your services or selling something that can be off use to people in order to receive some cash that can help in managing basic life requirements.

Darrb.com offers an window of opportunity to offer your services as a Darrber, or a person willing to deliver stuff at an agreed rate. your good service will help you in making future deals directly with your customers!

we hope the website can be of help at these tough times, as it was mainly built to help in solving the unemployment issue!

Looking back a year and finding the milestones we have achieved, we believe that we have created a tool that gives people an option that wasn’t available before to send and deliver different kind of items.

We have 123 registered Darrbers ready to deliver different kind of items within many countries around the world. More than 60 requests to deliver items with a good delivery rate.

Its obvious that we need to focus on many things in order to boost the number of requests and engage our users with the website. One of the things we will focus on in the period ahead is to link Darrb with marketplaces, improve the confidence level of people to
encourage them to use the services Darrbers provide and improve the flexibility and userfriendlyness of the website in general.

We have a lot of interesting challenges upfront, and we will work with different means to smoothen them.

Users can now contact Darrbers without the need to add items through Darrb.com!

The new feature called “Contact Now”, allows users to get the contact number of their selected/prefered Darrber by clicking on the “Contact Now” button next to his name in the Darrbers page.

By answering 3 basic questions, you will get the contact number of the Darrber immidiately. As a reference, a notification email will be sent to the Darrber with the details of your request.

This feature gives users the flexibility to contact the Darrber they want to deal with directely without the need to add any item.

The Auction based requests will still be available, which will help provide users with a competitive price/duration for their delivery.

More features are on the way and will be announced accordingly.

There is a new rule in Dubai. One Villa, One Family!

Many families where trying to save some cash by sharing the same villa they live in with other families and split the rent between them. Many villas in different areas within Dubai got packed with a huge number of people that split the rent. This is not legal any more, although there is no similar rule for sharing apartments.

This led many families to move houses from one area to another, many went to different cities because of budget issues, which increased the demand on packing and relocating services.

Darrbers can make use of this even outside Darrb.com, as many people will require their services.

Companies started registering as Darrbers to offer their delivery services through Darrb.com.

We have mary374 who has a a freight company in Greece and Smart Move that offer door to door moving, packing and relocation services in the UAE.

I  believe this is a good move as people can use their services if they wish to deal with companies at some level.

We have added a new feature on eMapia that allows visitors to view the site in Full Screen mode.

This feature gives the visitor the ability to zoom by scrolling in and out. It also provides a summary display of every item available by only pointing the cursor on the selected item.

Using the Full Screen mode, visitors can click on Show Items link available in the header to be able to see all items within the current zoom level through their thumbnails, which allows visitors to filter the items in a very convenient way.

Let us know what you think about the new features!

More on eMapia and its relation to Darrb.com can be found here.

1000ideas.ru is a Russian website that recently reviewed Darrb.com.

I don’t understand Russain, but thanks to Google’s translation service that allowed me to understand what the review was about.

The following are captions of the tranlsations, the first is from Russain to Arabic and the Second is from Russain to English:

Russian to Arabic:

Russian to English:

What is really interesting is that the “Darrber” is called “Darrbarov” in Russian! Thanks to 1000ideas.ru for the coverage and the very interesting information.

It important to concentrate on the value of creating teams to cover a wider area than what a single Darrber can cover.

We encourage darrbers to look for people that share the same interest (even if they don’t have internet access) and form a structured team to seriously cover areas around them. After creating the team, the Darrber might want to register with his new Team name and write more details about him and his friends and their capabilities providing pictures and other details that encourage people to use their services. Knowing the team’s capabilities will defenitly increase the chances of getting more business as people can trust them and relax that their items are in safe hands.

Let us know if you need any help in creating such teams, we will more than happy to advise or help in editing your profile page to suite this need. The least we can do is to announce the establishment of such teams here in the blog!

We have received a number of emails of people showing interest in becoming Darrders in their countries and wanting to become”very active” in certain areas.

That’s very good news! we actually encourage this and have previously talked about becoming International Darrbers.

Its very important to make it clear that no one requires our approval to cover parts or all of his country, its absolutely open to everyone to become a Darrber and cover whatever areas he desires. People will easily find you through search and can use your services whenever they need it.

Here is how to become a Darrber and here is how to send items through Darrb.com.