A Facebook Post

So Facebook announced earlier this week that they are no longer insisting that people do competitions through an official (and most often expensive) app. That now means that we can 'officially' do Facebook competitions on our pages - phew!

Facebook's changed a lot over most recent years and there's no doubt, it most certainly has made it a great deal more difficult and costly for businesses to promote their brand and products or services. Did you know that, even by 'liking' a Facebook Page, you will still only see a fraction of posts that page will publish? Facebook does this deliberately to try and encourage the page owner to 'Promote' or rather, pay for their post to be seen. But easing up on their rules about competitions should make it slightly less difficult to promote our brand!

Well in light of this we have launched our biggest competition to date: Guess Our Best Seller For Autumn/Winter 2013?!

Simply go onto the Samantha Holmes Facebook Page. 'Like' our page and then 'like' and 'Share' the competition (the one with this image). Once you have done this you can comment on the picture stating the letter of the product you think will be our best selling and why you think so. It's that simple! If you are correct you will be entered into a draw to win that product. The winner will be announced 10th January 2014. Well we won't know what's sold best over the Christmas period until then will we?

It's always exciting when we get a big delivery from Peru - lots of new, shiny products. One of the lovely things about our collections is that no two handmade items are exactly the same, especially the furry products, so opening those boxes is always fun to do. Over 10 years in this business and it's still a little bit like Christmas!

So that's the first of our Peru stock deliveries to fulfil our Autumn/Winter Trade orders, plenty more things still to come but it's always exciting when the hype begins in July/August. All new products for this Autumn/Winter will be available to purchase from our website (www.samanthaholmes.com) shortly but in the mean time please make plenty of 'Ooooooo's' and 'Ahhhhhhh's' at our beautiful 'Fur Hot Water Bottle Cover' that we had exclusively made in Taupe for our Swedish distributer, Werannas...it's so gorgeous that we might just have to get some more in - I'm in love!

Shiny and New!

There's cause for much excitement today in the Samantha Holmes office - we're delighted to announce that yesterday evening our brand-new, shiny, all-singing-and-dancing website went live!

Some browsers may not have updated yet and may still be showing our old website. pressing the 'control (Ctrl)' button and 'F5' button together can fix this but not in every case.

Old Website:

New Website:

The new website features many new bits and pieces such as links to all our social media pages and of course the blog which will be kept up-to-date from here on in! 

The product pages now have a much larger selection of images which are able to be zoomed in on - this should make seeing the detail and type of knit incredibly simple.

The Trade side of the website (the side used for shops/businesses placing bulky orders) has been completely re-designed. This now looks very similar to the public side of the website. It's now easy to view collections/ ranges and all images (with zoom) are now available for them as well - well it's only fair!

Of course, like with all new websites, we are expecting there to be a couple of hiccups in the first few weeks after launch. We are currently still working on a number of known things but if you have any problems using this site we would really like to know about it. 

Any thoughts and comments are always welcome!

Happy Shopping!