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 Quiz Winner Celebrates at top Gloucester Restaurant!

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 helps Clean Water Project in India

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.

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

Spanish Volunteers help 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!

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 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!

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/