Category: Development

The Quoakle “Wedge” puts in appearance at the first Gloucestershire Motor Show

The Quoakle "Wedge" co-made by Roger Hewlett and becoming a familiar sight around the roads of Gloucester was seen at its first Motor Show on Saturday, 12th June, Gloucestershire Motor Show.The Gloucestershire Motor Show was opened by Gloucester rugby star, Phil Vickery, who swapped rugby boots for driving gloves to open the Highnam-based, car show last weekend. More than 100 classic cars took centre stage.The Motor Show was organised in aid of two charities, the Pied Piper Appeal and Cruise Bereavement Care.

Quoakle Launches New Promotional Video For Barclays Business Idea Competition

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 Highlights of 2009!

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... Read More

Quoakle Team Produce Exciting New Video

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/

Quoakle’s latest advertising vehicle

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.

Recent progress…

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!

Welcome back! Quoakle in 2009!

Welcome to a new year with Quoakle - the graphical directory!It's been a long time since we've posted anything here on the blog, but we're so excited about where we're heading this year that we wanted to ressurect the blog to let you know how we're doing and what we're up to along the way.We've started 2009 in a new renovated office, fairly recent additions to the Quoakle team and many new features to come for the site, enabling you to find local businesses on the internet quickly and easily.With valentines day coming up, why not check out our Restaurants in Gloucestershire site and book your evening out with us!www.quoakle.com/gloucestershire/restaurants

Two Cheltenham Restaurants Top 600 hits

Two Restaurants from Cheltenham have now topped the 600 mark. Users of the Quoakle Restaurant directory have now made over 628 visits to the website of Zizzi, the popular restaurant in Suffolk Square.The website of the Speciality Restaurant in North Place, Storyteller, has received 620 visits from Quoakle users.To visit these websites click on the link to the Restaurants in Gloucestershire page.

Significant Development Meetings help to take Quoakle forward

During the last few weeks, a series of significant meetings have taken place focusing on different aspects of the development of Quoakle - the graphical directory.The first meeting was held in Bristol with a Technical Consultant from the East of England. Further meetings are likely in the near future. Other meetings have been held in the Gloucester area. The first with a Business Consultant from Bristol, looking particularly at roles within the company and also looking at the financial structure. Also one of the Directors met with a Marketing and Sales Consultant from Leicestershire. A range of ideas were put forward in this meeting including some possible joint projects. It is anticipated that follow up workshops and seminars will take place early in 2008.All in all there are some very promising developments in the pipeline!

A Big Welcome to Vets from across the county!

Quoakle is very pleased to welcome 5 new vets onto the Pets Graphical Directory: Lansdown Veterinary Services from Stroud, The Brambles Veterinary Surgery from Churchdown, Gloucester, Severnside Veterinary Group from Lydney, Stow Veterinary Surgeons from Stow-on-the-Wold and Simply Pets from Stroud and Gloucester.

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