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 colours launched- white on blue
- New Quoakle CRM created from the well developed Access database.
- Quoakle gets listed by the important Dmoz directory
- Topics slowly expanding into the 7 counties, more businesses sign-up for the free 3 month trial
- Google ranking for Quoakle gets better! Now 3 out of 10
- Jeannie sees more businesses sign up in Wiltshire! As Wiltshire directory really takes off!
- Office manager Naomi Steele gets married at the beginning of August
- Quoakle links up with developed4u webdesigner Dave Southey and Quoakle web designs produce first website .....Gloucester Garage
- Quoaklecards – the online business card is now using its very own CMS designed by Jeremy Onion. The first of the new online business cards to be developed is Stone end Kitchen... Wedding Catering Gloucester
Wow! What a year!
Wednesday 30 December 2009
Thursday 17 December 2009
Quoakle Team Produce Exciting New Video
In October, Quoakle Director, Nigel Steele, and Quoakle Office Manager, NaomioClayfield, 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: http://www.quoakle.com/gloucestershire/restaurants/
Tuesday 27 October 2009
Quoakle's 3rd Birthday Celebrations!
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 of people were able to enjoy the music, as well as the children passing by receiving the colourful Quoakle balloons.
The Churcham-based company, responsible for the development of Quoakle, is hoping its third birthday celebrations will raise a few hundred pounds towards Interserve's clean water project.
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 of people were able to enjoy the music, as well as the children passing by receiving the colourful Quoakle balloons.The Churcham-based company, responsible for the development of Quoakle, is hoping its third birthday celebrations will raise a few hundred pounds towards Interserve's clean water project.
Thursday 1 October 2009
Birthday Celebrations aim to help hundreds in India get clean drinking water - Saturday 24th October 2009
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.
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.
Monday 14 September 2009
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.
Wednesday 15 April 2009
recent progress...
A 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/Quoakle
As well as that - we're gaining more customers! Our latest uploaded logo is the Pixel Photography, so if you're thinking of getting married and need a photography - visit Quoakle.com and our weddings page today!
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/Quoakle
As well as that - we're gaining more customers! Our latest uploaded logo is the Pixel Photography, so if you're thinking of getting married and need a photography - visit Quoakle.com and our weddings page today!
Wednesday 4 February 2009
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!
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