Quoakle Blog
Congratulations to Samuel Taylor from Gloucester on winning the very first Quoakle Quiz! The quiz was featured in the centre pages of the bi-monthly magazine, Keep it Gloucestershire. Samuel is pictured with friend, Sean Cresswell, enjoying a delicious lunch at the popular waterside restaurant, The Wharf House last Thursday, 10th June. Waitress, Anna, looks on as Samuel and Sean enjoy some mouth watering dishes...a sirloin of Herefordshire beef with creamy green peppercorn sauce and Cotswold pork filled with apple and fig, served with a creamy sweet potato mash! Quoakle is very grateful to have had the sponsorship of this quiz thanks to David Penny, manager of The Wharf House. To find out more about The Wharf House, one of the top restaurants in Gloucestershire, follow this link to Quoakle's Restaurants in Gloucestershire page. Click on The Wharf House logo which can be found in both the Waterside and Modern European categories.
Quoakle Director, Nigel Steele, presents Steve Finney (Interserve Mission Mobiliser - South) with a cheque for third world relief. The money is directed towards an exciting Clean Water project in India.
In order to get Quoakle better known and more widely recognised, we have entered a competition with Barclays Bank called 'Take One Small Step'. If we get in the top three it will really help Quoakle become more widely known and take off as a business. If we win, even better!Rich Smith from Talking Donkey Films spent a long and busy day filming in Gloucestershire last week and many hours editing to produce a short video for the competition.Please take a look at our 2 minute video and show support for us on the "Take One Small Step" website today, or tomorrow!Then if we get in the final, please do vote for us!Thanks for your interest and support.Nigel and Helen, and all the Quoakle Team
The Quoakle team grew yesterday, with some great help provided by enthusiastic volunteers. Young people from Gloucestershire and their friends from Mallorca worked with the Quoakle team to visit nearby village Highnam delivering leaflets.We continue to work hard to grow awareness of Quoakle across the counties, and delivering these leaflets to locals is just a small part of that. However, we had great fun yesterday and we're really grateful for all the help given on such a beautiful sunny day!
2009 – Has been a great year for Quoakle!Just some of the developments and achievements....- More part-time staff taken on board, Sean Cresswell & Jeannie Mason – Sales and Andy Smith-Marketing- Gloucestershire Heating page goes live with 4 categories- Quoakle expands into Oxfordshire, Wiltshire, Herefordshire,Bristol & Avon, Warwickshire, and Worcestershire- 2 Dutch Business students spent 3 months working for Quoakle-particularly successful in developing twitter marketing- Businesses in Gloucestershire begin paying for the yearly advertising- Quoakle CMS designed by Jeremy Onion and Mark Finney was launched in September after months of development work- Business Development Executives start to create logos on their own! From making the phone call to confirmation of logo advertisement.- Quoakle website continues to develop- Lots of great new pages thanks to web developer Mark Finney- Quoakle celebrated 3 year anniversary in October! Team went to Cheltenham and Gloucester to hand out leaflets and balloons, raising money for Interserve’s project providing water for Indian villages.- Over 45 Businesses in Gloucestershire displaying Quoakle Leaflets- Large A3 poster displayed in Gloucester train station- Quoakle office is decorated, providing a dedicated space set aside for the Quoakle team- T-shirts,hats,pens and hoodies have been produced advertising Quoakle brand- The new alternative logo...
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In October, Quoakle Director, Nigel Steele, and Quoakle Office Manager, Naomi Clayfield, visited Red Box Studio in Birmingham to film the first Quoakle "Gogglebox" video. The video is an introduction to Quoakle and can be seen on all the Quoakle logo pages. The video is around 30 seconds long and explains how Quoakle works with images and logos instead of text. We hope this exciting development will increase interest in the site as well as help new users understand what to do when they arrive on Quoakle - the graphical directory.To see the new video please follow this link: https://quoakle.com/gloucestershire/restaurants/
At the beginning of October, Quoakle celebrated its third birthday.Quoakle staff wanted to do something a bit different from the usual sort of birthday celebration and hatched a plan to help a third world charity.Keeping it in the family, Quoakle's Head of Web Development, Mark Finney, teamed up with dad, Steve, who works for the Christian charity, Interserve. One of Interserve's projects is helping villages in North India get clean drinking water by digging new wells.On Saturday 24th October, Steve drove Interserve's promotional rickshaw into the centres of Cheltenham and Gloucester.The weather in Cheltenham was wet and windy so not very good for busking. However, the determined Quoakle musicians still played quite a few jazz and other easy-listening songs.The authentic, Indian rickshaw created plenty of interest on the journeys from Churcham to Cheltenham and from Cheltenham to Gloucester, driving at the front of a convoy of Quoakle vehicles.On arriving in Gloucester's Eastgate Street, the rickshaw was parked in the covered walkway outside BHS, where shoppers were also able to enjoy some quality busking from Quoakle staff cum musicians. On the guitar was Ben Steele, keyboard Mike Gladwell and Saxophone Tim Steele. The weather in Gloucester was fine and so hundreds...
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During October, the Graphical Website Directory - Quoakle.com celebrates its third birthday.Quoakle staff wanted to do something a bit different from the usual sort of celebration and have hatched a plan to help a third world charity.Keeping it in the family, Quoakle's Head of Web Development, Mark Finney has teamed up with dad, Steve, who works for the Christian Charity Interserve. One of Interserve's projects is helping villages in North India get clean drinking water by digging new wells.On Saturday 24th October, Steve is going to drive his Interserve promotional rickshaw into the centres of Cheltenham, then Gloucester. He hopes to arrive in Cheltenham about 12 o'clock, staying until 2.00p.m. before moving on to Gloucester for a couple of hours between 3.00 and 5.00p.m. Shoppers will be treated to some quality busking from Quoakle staff cum musicians. On the guitar will be Ben Steele, keyboard Mike Gladwell and Saxophone Tim Steele. The Churcham-based company is hoping its third birthday celebrations will raise a few hundred pounds towards Interserve's clean water project.
Last week Simon Cardwell from Weston-Super-Mare visited Gloucester company Quoakle to give the Toyota Estima a new "Quoakle-look". Simon Cardwell has his own Company, Claron Graphics. Look out for Quoakle directors Nigel and Helen Steele, driving around Gloucester with the smart new Quoakle advertising.
Our growing Quoakle team has been working hard recently to make Quoakle one of the top 5 Gloucestershire directories. Lots of technical work has gone into increasing our google rank and generally making Quoakle.com more accessible to local people.One of the major updates is that we've started 'tweeting' on Twitter. If you're a member, then you can become a follower of Quoakle and check out on regular updates by visiting us here:twitter.com/QuoakleAs well as that - we're gaining more customers!
