Quercus.io Communications is a boutique communications firm based in Oakland, California that offers a full array of services for growing your business and brand.
We build multi-channel outreach plans to clarify and exceed your business needs. From digital brand overhauls to media relations campaigns to interview preparation, we make sure your story connects clearly with the people that count.
We craft a detailed communications strategy plans that move your business forward.
Antonio De Wolk
The son of two Bay Area veteran reporters, Antonio grew up in newsrooms. He is a veteran communications pro with a speciality for distilling a common-sense core from complex information, and bringing that story home across web, print and community channels.
Antonio wields extensive experience in internal and external community relations campaigns, digital brand overhauls, and capital campaign development across the San Francisco Bay Area. He is a veteran of a half-dozen national, statewide and local political campaigns - including campaigns for Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton
A former newspaper columnist, public school teacher, and startup founder, Antonio combines a talent for inspired storytelling with an understanding of what moves an audience to action.
Our Values
Noise is cheap. A surprising number of firms will dust off an old client business plan, fill in the blanks with your particulars, and rinse, repeat. The same old social media post playbook, the same re-hashed crisis response statement, the same ‘we’re excited to announce’ copy/paste press release.
We’re not in this business to churn new accounts out and build high retainer fees from cookie-cutter work.
We love what we do. We love telling stories that matter, to the people who care. We live for honing how we tell that story until it sings, finding just the right turn of phrase, that crisp adjective, that simple sentence that brings it all together. We thrive diving into the deep end, distilling the “why” through research and interviews. We nerd out about finding new channels and ways measure that story’s reach - and then nerd out again when we head back to the drawing board to iterate and go again.
We are unapologetically fascinated to understand what drives you and your business. We’re thoughtful and strategic about finding the perfect audience that’s hungry to hear it. We’re talented at connecting your business with your community by using simple, strategic storytelling that resonates across channels.
We’re here to help you tell your story to the people that matter most - because when you succeed, we succeed. That’s our business plan.