How do we provide better marketing driven services to our clients?

Frederic Levy joined our team a few weeks ago and contributes to bringing innovative professional marketing solutions to our clients. Indeed, our business scale is evolving fast and Frederic has already driven us to think ahead and to move towards incorporating a new strategic vision thanks to his extensive advertising experience.

We are proud to welcome Frederic Levy at the VP–Strategy and Communications seat. With over 10 years experience in the Entertainment and Brand Content industry, Frederic reinforces Yellowasp competencies with strategic marketing and advertising concepts to our set of skills.

This is why we are glad to have him among us and participate in brainstorming and conceptualizing original creations to exceed our clients’ expectations.

Since July 1st, Yellowasp hosted Friendster’s Philippine operations in its Makati office. Friendster Inc, the world’s 7th largest website and #1 social network in Asia, has been operating in the Philippines since 2006. The Social Networking leader employs nearly half of its worldwide staff in its Makati location.

Yellowasp and Friendster have the same needs for quality driven development processes, technologies and IT infrastructure. Friendster will leverage the expertise of Yellowasp for the hosting and management of its Philippine employees. Sebastien Caudron, our Yellowasp Managing Director, confirmed his enthusiasm regarding this partnership: “We are very pleased to welcome Friendster within our walls. Friendster will make the most out of the quality of our multi-cultural strategic profiles, all working in a well-managed environment.”
http://www.friendster.com

The GoAdv Group, created in 2004, is an independent online media company, specializing in the generation of qualified traffic on the Internet. Counting both Excite Europe and Better Deals among its network, the extensive company growth experienced in the last three years has resulted in a workforce of over 100 across Italy, Ireland, France and now Manila. In 2007, GoAdv was listed on the Alternext of Nyse-Euronext, Paris.

Originally European-centered, GoAdv is looking to reproduce its successful strategy for growth experienced in Europe and move into emerging markets in Asia, embarking on brand new projects with the Philippines as their chosen gateway.

The expansion to Manila proves that professional friendships have tangible benefits: Yellowasp gladly offered its services to provide GoAdv with the opportunity of focusing on business generation rather than investing precious time in “setting up shop.” Yellowasp and GoAdv can look forward to boosting each other’s skills and supporting one another on their professional endeavors.
http://www.goadv.com

Yellowasp’s activities are growing so do our team! The first semester 2008 is running successfully with lots of new projects and clients’ expectations to fulfil. For that, we are developing our “Dedicated Consultant” services and also hosting a new batch of designers, HTML/CSS integrators, Flash specialists, PHP and Java developers. Among all of them, we would like to welcome: Brian, Dennis, Francis, Eiselle, Raymande, Albert… To handle these changes, our admin team is also growing with our latest coming HR Assistant: Ana Lea.

Following the success and popularity of Makati Map, it is getting a makeover to cover a much wider scope: the whole of Makati, including Fort Bonifacio, Ortigas and Malate. Not only that, you can share your knowledge with others by adding building names, streets and other Manila land marks through our suggestion box. We welcome your ideas to improve our Map and make it more informative.

To view Makati map please visit http://www.yellowasp.com/makatimap/

Yellowasp PCB started in 2003 to fill the gap in the market for production of high quality engineering services for Printed Circuit Board manufacturers. Since then, Yellowasp PCB has gone from strength to strength and is now an ISO certified company, hence, Yellowasp PCBs’ reputation in the industry certainly precedes it.

Currently, we are delighted to welcome in Manila Colin Smithson, our Yellowasp PCB Managing Director for the UK. Colin joined us in a friendly atmosphere of picture shooting with the whole PCB team.
These pictures will serve as new features for the coming Yellowasp PCB website. Under construction, the launch is planned May 2008.

Let’s visit soon our new Yellowasp PCB website: http://www.yellowasp-pcb.com/

Since Yellowasp joined forces with European Online Marketing leader NetBooster Group and created NetBooster Asia, our competencies never stop evolving. With Yellowasp’s knowledge in Web Services & Development and NetBooster’s expertise in Online Marketing, the future looks promising.

Yellowasp can now offer a much better online range of services that include SEO (Search Engine Optimization), Social Networking, Online Reputation Management, etc. Having Pascal Chevalier in Manila for a few days was a good opportunity for us to get further knowledge through his conferences. It was also great for us to share with Pascal Chevalier our Asian expertise and culture!

February saw the launching of the in-house training for all Yellowasp staff. These training sessions were facilitated by skilled Yellowasp employees who are knowledgeable about certain aspects of Yellowasp’s technical services such as Drupal or Joomla. These mini training sessions are performed everyday in order for the employees to learn a new skill and inspire them to achieve new feats. Upcoming training sessions will include Flash, and many more to come.

The website of the European International French School based in Parańaque (Metro Manila) has been launched. It features information, news and events about the school and its offered services. The website was implemented using PHP and also includes some Flash animation.

To check out the new website please visit: http://www.eis-manila.org/eis/

As an addition to the new office, Yellowasp has taken on a new Production Manager. Matthieu Gaillard has been living in the Philippines since 2003. Matthieu will oversee projects and staff in the new Yellowasp office. We are happy to welcome him and join the rest of the family at Yellowasp.

More employees require more space. Bearing this in mind Yellowasp is proud to announce that with the New Year, there is also a new bigger office space for the Yellowasp team. Located at the 18th Floor of the Antel Corporate Center in Makati Central Business District, the company opened its new and improved office all ready for the expected growth in the coming years. The new office is spacious and has fresh color schemes designed by Francesca De Guzman of Bellecorp. All to create an atmosphere that is pleasant and friendly to work in at Yellowasp.

Following the rapid growth of Yellowasp over 2007, this was the biggest Christmas party to date. Set at the rooftop of Alpha Salcedo Condominium in Makati City, a delicious dinner buffet was served while having games and a formal presentation of awards by President Seb to employees who have exceeded expectations.

This Christmas party set the standard, but with Yellowasp’ continuous growth we might need a bigger rooftop in 2008!

In the recent months, Yellowasp has taken on international students to partake in an Internship toward their final degrees. This has proven to be very successful both for the company and the participant. We are keen to offer opportunities to students wishing to embark on an internship within our company. Guillaume Laborie, a dynamic and high spirited French student from Strasbourg Business School, experienced working in the innovative field of Blog Marketing for six months. He enjoyed learning with his Filipino colleagues and never forgot to take the lead at the Sport Fest.

September saw the official launch of Yellowasp’s Sports fest – a sports tournament with the intention of promoting sports whilst bringing everyone in the Yellowasp team closer together out of the working environment. Over a three-month period, basketball and badminton tournaments were competed in by four teams namely Blue, Green, Yellow and HFIG.

The sports fest was a hugely successful event that was fun, and became something everyone thought should be done again in the future.

Yellowasp, a reputable Web Agency composed of European and Asian nationalities, together with Online Marketing giant NetBooster Group, join forces to form NetBooster Asia providing high quality Online Marketing Services.

The joint venture is in an ideal stage because the Asian Market is seen to have a big potential in online business. Thirty-sixty percent of Internet users in the world live in Asia and online spending is projected to grow to 16.1 Billion USD in 2009.

Yellowasp Corporation President, Sebastien Caudron said; “The Asian market has enormous potential in the online marketing industry and I believe that this partnership will be able to grab that opportunity. Yellowasp’s vision of venturing into Online Marketing is gradually transpiring making us more determined to be the best. Our Asian market knowledge, strategic location, educated and multi-cultural workforce, and NetBooster’s expertise would definitely make this partnership exude presence in Asia as a high quality Online Marketing Agency.”

NetBooster Group Chairman, Pascal Chevalier added: “This operation will enable us to accompany our European customers to the Asian market and to take advantage of the growth potential which can help us gain local Asian customers gradually.”