{"id":65546,"date":"2023-08-13T07:23:08","date_gmt":"2023-08-13T07:23:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/startup.info\/?p=65546"},"modified":"2023-08-14T21:14:29","modified_gmt":"2023-08-14T21:14:29","slug":"shoppote","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bonjouridee.com\/en\/shoppote\/","title":{"rendered":"Shoppote : an app to discover local retailers in your area"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"p1\">\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\" style=\"color: #000000;\"><b>  <\/b><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">A team of three friends (All Cameroonians) connected over the years,<strong> Etang EGBE<\/strong> has lived and worked in <\/span>India<span style=\"color: #000000;\"> for over 8 years where he met <strong>Cedrick TANDONG<\/strong> who has been a childhood friend and schoolmate of the third co-founder, <strong>Allen ABEN<\/strong>.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><em>Etang EGBE<\/em>, spend the <\/span>majority<span style=\"color: #000000;\"> of his professional career living and working in Bangalore, India. Where his last worked as r Product Engineer for Telecom BSS company (Subex Ltd) where he travelled 27+ African countries giving an overview of the internet penetration and retail last scape of Africa. He is our CEO driving product strategy and company vision.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Adding to his Experience, <em>Cedrick TANDONG<\/em> is an MBA graduate from Grenoble School of Management, France with experience in Business development and management through his professional Career at Tata Consultancy and TWU.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"> <em>Allen ABEN<\/em> is a financial Executive for Soletanche (VINCI), with his experience in the financial field Allen helps advise the CEO on financial reporting and auditing.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">&#8220;<em>We have been working together for more than three years to build this project to what it is today.<\/em>&#8220;<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\" style=\"color: #000000;\"><b>Link to online video\u00a0\u00a0<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"boombox-responsive-embed \"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Shoppote - Your Shopping Guide\" width=\"1160\" height=\"653\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/YTBMi_cnUPs?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\" style=\"color: #000000;\"><b>Your products and services\u00a0<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Traditional shopping has been the norm for years in the unstructured retail market of Cameroon and Africa at large. E-commerce has not been able to convince local shoppers to go online and pay for product and services considering over 98% of transactions in Cameroon still happen&#8217;s offline.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Today, with the fast growth of mobile internet penetration, shoppers go online to find product information and how to obtain the product they are interested. Whereas, local brick-and-mortar business seeks to compete with online businesses and stay relevant to the digital consumer.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\"><strong>Shoppote<\/strong><\/span> is a local product discovery platform built to bridge the gap between mobile digital consumers in Cameroon and Offline retailers.\u00a0In true sense, Shoppote adds a digital user interface that sits on top of physical shopping world &amp; helps both retailers &amp; shoppers to seamlessly connect over the most preferred mode in Cameroon \u2013 Mobile. With Shoppote app, Shoppers as per their location discover in-store offers, locate stores nearby, check latest trends and still maintain the charm of physical shopping \u2013 touch, feel &amp; family outing. Retailers on the other end use Shoppote as a marketing platform and attract new &amp; repeat foot traffic to their stores (increase sales).<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\" style=\"color: #000000;\"><b>Your website\u00a0<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/shoppote.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/shoppote.com\/<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Applink:\u00a0https:\/\/play.google.com\/store\/apps\/details?id=com.shoppote.consumer<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\" style=\"color: #000000;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A team of three friends (All Cameroonians) connected over the years, Etang EGBE has lived and worked in India for over 8 years where he met Cedrick TANDONG who has been a childhood friend and schoolmate of the third co-founder, Allen ABEN. Etang EGBE, spend the majority of his professional career living and working in&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":66064,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1737],"tags":[1895,1896],"class_list":["post-65546","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-application-mobile-en-2","tag-retail-en-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bonjouridee.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65546","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bonjouridee.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bonjouridee.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bonjouridee.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bonjouridee.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=65546"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bonjouridee.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65546\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":213158,"href":"https:\/\/www.bonjouridee.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65546\/revisions\/213158"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bonjouridee.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/66064"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bonjouridee.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=65546"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bonjouridee.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=65546"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bonjouridee.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=65546"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}