{"id":110187,"date":"2016-01-27T09:00:47","date_gmt":"2016-01-27T07:00:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=110187"},"modified":"2016-01-27T11:41:34","modified_gmt":"2016-01-27T09:41:34","slug":"how-to-get-the-best-comparisons-when-shopping-around-online","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/industry-news\/110187\/how-to-get-the-best-comparisons-when-shopping-around-online\/","title":{"rendered":"How to get the best comparisons when shopping around online"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hippo.co.za\/\">Hippo.co.za<\/a>\u2019s #ComparisonDonts campaign emphasizes the importance of getting quotes online and making comparisons the right way.<\/p>\n<p>When it comes to getting the best deal, you have to shop around, and the quickest way to do this is through an aggregator site.<\/p>\n<p>On Hippo.co.za, you can save time and money by comparing quotes and benefits from a range of SA providers, for things like <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hippo.co.za\/car-insurance-quote\/\" target=\"_blank\">Car Insurance<\/a> or Personal Loans.<\/p>\n<p>Simply complete a quick online form and then click \u201cGet results\u201d to see illustrative Personal Loan quotes side by side.<\/p>\n<p>But there is a right way and a wrong way to make comparisons, as the funny #ComparisonDonts video clip below illustrates.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"640\" height=\"400\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/csCfAh3xB4I\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>The #ComparisonDonts advertising campaign aims to encourage more South Africans to shop around for various products from a range of SA insurance and financial providers before they purchase.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn this case, we explain how\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/hippo.co.za\/\" target=\"_blank\">Hippo.co.za<\/a>\u00a0instantly sources up to 17 quotes from a range of Car Insurance providers, wrapped in a humorous delivery that we trust consumers will remember,\u201d\u00a0says Derek Wilson, Head of\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/hippo.co.za\/\" target=\"_blank\">Hippo.co.za<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Watch more <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hippo.co.za\/comparisondonts\/\" target=\"_blank\">#ComparisonDonts<\/a> videos on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/hippocompare\" target=\"_blank\">Youtube<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/HippoSA\/?fref=ts\" target=\"_blank\">Facebook<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Hippo_co_za?lang=en\" target=\"_blank\">Twitter<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hippo.co.za\u2019s #ComparisonDonts campaign emphasizes the importance of getting quotes online and making comparisons the right way.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":46,"featured_media":110189,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10459],"tags":[11053,26,11051,4023],"class_list":["post-110187","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-industry-news","tag-car-insurance","tag-headline","tag-hippo","tag-insurance"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110187","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/46"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=110187"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110187\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":110265,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110187\/revisions\/110265"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/110189"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=110187"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=110187"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=110187"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}