Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year

Many thanks to all our customers and suppliers for helping us to build a very successful group of sites. As a family run business, we pride ourselves on customer service and the excellent price of the goods we offer. You have all helped tremendously with your comments and of course the avalanche of orders that you have placed with us over the last twelve months.

We have a lot of surprises lined up for 2008 including new ecommerce sites, an online .tv channel that will include useful (and some humorous) video clips and provide a forum for you all to share ideas.

Our SEO experts at Blueclaw continue to shine with the keyword "Bins" reaching number one spot, ahead of Amazon amongst 31,900,000 returned results - now I call that a great result!!!

We are also looking at sending more emails primarily aimed at providing useful hints and tips rather that trying to sell product. We have spent many years in the trade fitting the products we sell so its about time we started passing our knowledge on to you more frequently.

I'd also like to take this opportunity to plug (a dirty word I know) our new wood turner, Mick Hanbury.

Handturned knobs are sold on Kitchen Door Handles and they are simply exquisite. Any design, size or timber can be catered for and, although expensive, words cannot describe the difference these make to a kitchen of piece of furniture. We will be greatly expanding the range in 2008 and will even start to offer knobs turned from Corian to match the worksurface that you choose - how cool is that!

Anyway thats all for now so enjoy the Christmas break and we look forward to talking to you in the New Year.

Latest News..

A customer recently commented that I had not updated the blog for a while so here goes...

We are in the final stages of completely revamping www.diyessentials.com which will give us some great new tools for promoting products. There will also be a complete facelift before Christmas giving a fresh new look to the site and making it even easier to navigate.

We have been investing heavily in Search Engine Optimisation which I am happy to report is working extremely well. I had a quick peek at the performance of one of our keywords tonight in Google. The keyword is Bins and we rank 1 in Google amongst 19,500,000 results.

Across the group we are now getting in excess of 50,000 unique visitors per month so a big thank you has to go to Fergus at Blueclaw for his continued efforts.

We are also looking at starting a newsletter rather than sending out special offer emails. The newsletter will contain offers but will also feature some real life stories about projects that customers have undertaken, what problems they have had and how they have overcome them.

Our latest site www.kitchen-storage.co.uk has taken off in a big way. It still needs a lot of work but with over 4,000 kitchen related products to choose from it is a must visit for anyone looking at putting in a new kitchen or revamping an existing one.

Thats all for now but keep watching this space as there is some VERY exciting news just around the corner...