Delighted to report that DPFOC Canada is now open for business. We look forward to offering our Canadian clients the same unparalleled results that we continue to deliver for our existing clients. For more on DPFOC Canada, see www.dpfoc.com/canada

The Irish duo still in their early twenties, John and Patrick Collison have seen the value of their online payment processing business “Stripe” valued at $100m based on the latest round of fund raising. Having become millionaires while still in their teens, they were obviously ones to watch but to be taking on PayPal and achieving this sort of a valuation brings them to a whole new level. Hat off to them. Check out the full Bloomberg article on this here: http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-02-09/stripe-said-to-get-funding-valuing-online-payment-startup-at-100-million.html

All at DPFOC are delighted to announce that we will be launching in Canada in early March. The runaway success that Matt King is having in Australia buoyed us to go ahead and tie up with Lisa Hallgren in Alberta as the new partner and MD of DPFOC Canada. Lisa brings a wealth of business experience to DPFOC and shares the ethos of the company of genuinely being a profitability driver for our clients. Training begins on Monday and we look forward to hitting the ground running in early March!

Go DPFOC Canada!!!

Buoyed by the great work being done by Nidhi and her team for the initial batch of Australian clients, we are now pushing ahead and beefing up our sales team over there. Our first testimonials from Australian clients have been added to the  testimonials page which is very exciting for us. While Nidhi was at it, shei has overseen our Perth landing page climb to position 5 for “seo company Perth” bouncing kangaroo like (couldn’t resist!) past incumbents that have been around for years!  Under the able stewardship of Matthew King, MD of DPFOC Australia, Nidhi and her growing team are achieving great things and the only way from here is up!  Alas, things are again getting a bit tight in our 150capacity state of the art offices in Jaipur so Kalpesh will soon be heading back to the estate agents looking for an office block as opposed to a building!

In other news, AdWords users can now specify that they only want their adverts to appearto mobile users on specified operating systems. For example, a developer of a native Apple app, can exclude visitors coming from Android, Windows, RIM etc. This is useful for some advertisers no doubt. However, as more and more businesses are developing cross platform compatible, web based apps as opposed to native, this feature’s usefulness will likely have a limited shelf-life. No harm to know it’s there all the same.

As 2011 draws to a close, we are reflecting on what was an incredible year by any standards for DPFOC. In the midst of challenging economic conditions, we have grown far more quickly than even our most ambitious forecasts would have suggested. This has been achieved due to the remarkable efforts of the team at DPFOC who everyday come to work with the genuine goal of being a profitability driver for our clients. By achieving this, more and more companies are choosing DPFOC as their online marketing partner. We look forward to 2012 when we will work equally hard to ensure that we are at the cutting edge of our field and constantly leveraging this expertise to the benefit of our clients.

On behalf of all at DPFOC, I would like to thank all of our clients for their support throughout the year and wish everyone of them a prosperous 2012.