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Well, I didn’t have the energy to “blog” while doing the Atlanta Gift Show. Truth be told, I was simply beat after working the booth each day.
It was great meeting some of you at the show – it’s always good to put a face with an email name. J
I have good news and bad news to report tonight.
Let’s do the bad news first:
Our salt-water fish designs have ALL been sent back to China. US Customs refused to allow them entry and we need to try again. For those of you that have these on backorder, my supplier has stated they need about a week to fix the problem. At present, we should be shipping these by the 2nd week of August. As always, we cover the postage costs for all backordered items. Once we get them in-hand, I’ll update you all via the blog. Sorry about this – I went with a new supplier for these and its cost us some time. The designs turned out great, so hopefully, the wait will be worthwhile.
All right – on to the fun stuff.
1. Our next shipment of acrylic displays are due in next week – for those of you that are expecting a display, we’ll be sending them out ASAP.
2. I am excited to announce Shoe Charms, Ltd. in England has officially signed on as our exclusive distributor to the UK and Europe. They are operating from www.shoedads.co.uk and have already started fulfilling orders “across the pond”. For those of you (both retailers and consumers) looking for ShoeDads a bit closer to home – please check out this web site and order locally to save on shipping costs! The Shoe Charms folks are great to work with and I am excited to have partnered with them.
3. We are currently in talks with local distributors in Canada, Australia, and the Philippines. If you are a retailer in any of these countries, please drop me a line so I can pass your name along to the folks that will be our distributors in these regions.
4. I am still behind in loading all the new designs we’ve received over the last two weeks. I have managed to post the Dalmatian, Jack the Pirate, the Rainbow Dandelion, and the American Bald Eagle designs. More are coming over this weekend – the delay right now is getting decent photographs for the web site.
5. Lastly, we are about to embark on our Christmas designs. We have about 6 designs identified, but would love to hear from you for more ideas. Please send an email to designs@shoedads.com with your thoughts on what designs you’d like to see for the upcoming holiday season. We are non-denominational over here, so feel free to send over what you think your customers would like – I may even throw in a Festivus (for the rest of us) design. J
-Dave
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