Project Year: 2017

Context

During the time I worked for OLX, I’ve used to run a lot of Facebook Lead Generation Campaigns for OLX Real Estate Vertical.

Challenge

The main challenge here is the leads were generated on the Facebook platform and not directly into the website. Since there was no process in the backend/webhook to get those leads and send them to the Real Estate property owners. So the Commercial OPS team downloaded and filled manually hundreds of forms similar to this on the left. This used to cost 3-4 hours every day of a Commercial OPS Analyst.

Challenge

The main challenge here is the leads were generated on the Facebook platform and not directly into the website. Since there was no process in the back end/webhook to get those leads and send them to the Real Estate property owners. So the Commercial OPS team downloaded and filled manually hundreds of forms similar to this on the left. This used to cost 3-4 hours every day of a Commercial OPS Analyst.

Solution

I’ve built (with the guidance of OLX devs) a Google Chrome Extension to automate part of the process (sending the leads). This chrome extension consisted of:

• A HTML Page with a text input (screenshot below)

• The Analyst just needed to paste all lead info from a CSV there
• The leads info was submitted in a JavaScript loop function through a form on the frontend of OLX Real State Vertical.

You can find the project code here.

<aside> 🗒️ Important to note this was still a manual process - but reduced the time spend in this task from 3-4 hours daily to 20 minutes. That approach was chosen by the coding skillset/resources I had at that given moment.

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<aside> 📎 Technology used: JavaScript, React, HTML/CSS

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