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.

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'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...

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!

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. http://quoakle.com/gloucestershire/restaurants/

It's not surprising that Cheltenham Restaurants are getting a high level of internet traffic as easily the most popular keywords on our Google Adwords campaign are "Restaurants in Cheltenham". Look out for our other sponsored links. We are using literally thousands of keyword phrases in over 60 Ad groups and we are pleased to see that we are successfully directing users to useful Gloucestershire websites - quickly and easily.

Significant Development Meetings help to take Quoakle forward

During the last few weeks, a series of significant meetings have taken place focussing 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!