Hello you fabulous lot!
How is everyone feeling?
Glad to be back in a routine, dazed and confused, positive yet tentative, confidence crushed, raring to go? Ask us that question on any given day and at any given hour and you’ll hear one of the above or perhaps be treated to our now, much practised, Gaelic shrug.
What crazy old times eh. We just hope you have all made it this far relatively unscathed and still liking whoever you’ve been locked up/down with! Maybe soon we’ll catch up in person at a trade show and happily swap stories over an exorbitantly priced latte and pastry. The good ole days!
Until then, here is a run down of Little Dog News Nuggets that might be of interest now or to squirrel away in your mind palace for a later date.
Welcome home.
We’ve finally sorted a homepage for trade customers which means when you order or view online you’ll be taken to the VIP area, away from the great unwashed and privy to lots of behind the scenes offers and information. What’s Hot, Special Offers, Latest News & our Showroom as well as our YouTube channel which is brimming with useful videos on POS display units, new collections and one or two bits of silliness that might brighten your day. Plus, (when we’ve got our act together which is any day now) there will be a sneaky peeks into the future with a Coming Soon room and a bargain central Clearance section which is frankly so cheap we could simply call it free stuff!
What’s in stock?
Despite the shipping container crisis, poor parking on the Suez and the world going to hell in a hand cart, we’ve been quite lucky with deliveries and have approximately 95% of our Spring/Summer 2021 gift lines now in stock.
The Dispatch room at Little Dog Towers is neatly stacked with NEW fresh loveliness including china gift mugs, cushions, magnetic notepads, desk jotters, bookmarks, prints and of course lots of new greeting card designs.
The only gift lines we are still waiting for is our tinware which includes dog biscuit tins, bird seed tins and dog bowls. They set off in March so we have everything crossed they’ll be making an appearance sometime soon.
Little Dog, are you In or Out?
We are always in! The showroom has been dressed to wow and inspire so if you feel the need to squeeze a cushion, pull on a dog lead, ping test a china cup or gage the height of our card & gift spinners you are very welcome to visit. It’s a large airy space and we have masks and sanitiser aplenty as well as a fully functioning bar! We are conveniently located in the centre of England – Derby and just round the corner from Richard Lang. So if you happen to be passing, do give us a call and kill two birds with one stone. We’ll happily rustle up breakfast, lunch or supper to give you a lovely buyer’s experience.
t:01332 290605 or email gavin@thelittledog.co.uk to book an appointment.
We are very flexible on times and dates and will do our best to accommodate your work schedule.
PGLive 27th/28th July Business Design Centre London
Our first (pencilled in) date in the diary for 2021. Giddy with the excitement at complimentary tea and coffee and the chance to show you our new card collections including Christmas. It’s been a long time since we’ve exhibited at a greeting card show, so that, alongside the challenge of wearing clothing without elasticated waists means PGLive is going to be buzzing with excitement and pain.
Autumn Fair 5th-8th September NEC Birmingham
Another pandemic permitting diary hopeful. Lots of changes and a chance to dazzle you with fabulous display ideas alongside new collections and gift lines. Fingers crossed by September, we could well be mask free and diving elbow deep into the complimentary sweetie bowl without a care in the world!
May’s Special Offer
The plus side of this bizarre time is the breathing space we’ve had to look hard at where we can improve. Spoiling you lovely lot is right at the top of the list! We’ve got some ideas and with the changes to our trade section on the website, we now have a much easier way to show you our gratitude and make you feel loved!
May’s offer is an easy and topical one to get us started. Place any £350 order this month and receive a complimentary fully stocked hand sanitiser unit with an RRP of £84. Despite the industrial sized units placed near most retail doorways, we are still experiencing a high website demand for these handy pocket sized sanitisers so hopefully you’ll benefit from the same demand in-store too.
WebOchures
And just a little reminder that all our latest brochure offerings are available in a PDF format at a resolution that makes them super easy to email/download. We’ve broken the big brochure into smaller categories and collections for your viewing ease and you can access them all by following this link. Little Dog Online Brochures
Alternatively, if you want a break from your screen and prefer to sit down with a nice brew and make notes on the page then we can happily send you a printed version in the post. It won’t be our usual high gloss affair but it does do the job.
Email gavin@thelittledog.co.uk or call 01332 290605 and we can easily sort that for you.
Shout Outs & Features
Another little way we might be able to help. We will happily do shout outs on our social media platforms and wave a flag for your establishment, images of product displays or maybe a photo of you enjoying a mid morning brew in a Little Dog mug, or perhaps a photo of your own furry one? Pet photos are very popular on our pages! Anything we can do to help spread the word is fine by us, it might amount to nothing but it costs nothing to try so let’s give it a go. And if you’d like to be part of our new monthly Shops We Love feature, email studio@thelittledog.co.uk with the subject heading Shops We Love and Anna will send you the Q&A and image suggestions.
The Old Fire Station Chocolate Shop in Tarporley Cheshire
And that my dears is pretty much all of our news worthy nuggets this month. So while you bask in the joy of face to face conversation and hopefully have healthy daily takings, we are working hard on our 2022 calendar and diary offerings, ready for previews at the end of the month.
Good luck, here’s to Onwards and Open, all the very best
Gavin, Anna and Nathan
