Zuma's Summer Holibobs

Summer has arrived and we are most definitely ready for our holidays. Mummy and Master C are taking little stuffed Zuma away to Miami and Disney and because I can’t fly too far I’m going on my holidays to the farm down the road. I’m looking forward to spending most of my time playing with the other farm dogs and keeping busy all day. There are so many activities to do I´ll never get board.




Activity Pack fun for all the family

We love to do activities at home and Mummy has put together a new Zuma the Dog Activity Pack in partnership with Popagami to keep us busy on rainy days and lazy days in the house. Soon available to buy exclusively online this cute little pack contains 12 large and 12 small full colour Zuma’s and 12 large and 12 small black and white Zuma’s that you can colour in and create your own version of Zuma the Dog. Priced at just £3.50 we can guarantee you’ll have lots of fun! Take a look online now.

 

Next week, I’m sure I’ll receive lots of texts from Mummy with photos of Master C and Stuffed Zuma having lots of fun. I’ll be sure to share them with you as they happen. Keep an eye on my social media including our super fun Instagram to keep up to date with their antics abroad.

Happy summer holidays

Much Love

Zuma xx

 

 

SMALL DOG TO GAIN MORE LEGS IN THE UK MARKET

Zuma the Dog set to grow with new  business strategy.

Glastonbury based Start-up Children’s wear brand has set a new strategy to concentrate on its home market and grow sales through expanding its team of sales reps and distributors.

Trading since 2010 entrepreneur Samantha has singlehandedly developed Zuma the Dog’s brand philosophy and style, creating sales and recognition worldwide. The owner and creator of the small clothing brand has spent so much time focusing on sales outside the U.K, that she admits, “sales here have slipped”. Her new strategy is to now take on more team members to get the brand back into the UK retail market and into the hearts of the public, where it belongs.

Samantha invites all interested parties to contact her direct via email on sam@zumathedog.com, Show rooms, sales reps, wholesalers and distributors are all welcome to get in touch for more information. Alternatively you can visit our wholesale page online and learn more about our brand and register your interest.

                                          
 

 

Join us and get rewarded

 

Our Kickstarter campaign is well underway and we are making ways to make it easier for you to join us in funding our exciting project. We have added in two new reward levels. So, now you can pledge as little as £5.00 and £10.00 will get you a signed photo of ME! I think it's worth it.

We also have the original reward packs that start from £50.............

 

                             .........and £100.........

.......and there are two other rewards level packs too. We are having so much fun making this whole campaign entertaining for you and we hope you are enjoying it as much as we are.

Please remember to share our fun posts and don't forget to take a look at our Kickstarter page.

 

Here's the link to make it easy. Awesome!

 

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1511620017/winter-2015-range-by-zuma-the-dog

 

Much Love

 

Zuma

 

xx

 

SMALL DOG MAKING BIG WAVES IN THE CHINA

            Zuma the Dog testing the Chinese retail market

 

Glastonbury based Start – Up Children’s wear brand has launched their first campaign on Kickstarter to raise investment and brand awareness to trial their clothing line in the Chinese market. They were approached by the Chinese retailer Oriental Chushuai six months ago who love their European style and want to stock the brand in their stores from September. This requires some funding for the small brand, so have turned to Kickstarter to start the process moving forward.

Samantha Morgan-Bertish founder of Bertish & Company Ltd and owner/creator of Zuma the Dog knows the brand would fit perfectly into this market with its quirky European style. “With the right funding, investment and partners we can see the brand grow quite nicely, with the vision to have its own stand alone stores”.

Zuma the Dog

Stylish – Fun and bright colours that stand out in the crowd.

High Quality – Well made product designed to be passed down the sibling ranks

Innovative – Inspired by the family pet, who can be tracked on social media and interact with customers.

Not trend led – Has a style of its own and can be worn all year for any season or occasion guaranteeing full use of the items before the child grows out of it.

Kids love dogs!

Trading since 2010 entrepreneur Samantha has singlehandedly developed Zuma the Dog’s brand philosophy and style, creating sales and recognition worldwide. She invites you to take a look at her project and interested parties can contact her direct via email on sam@zumathedog.com, to talk more about the campaign and her company before they make a pledge. The campaign will run until 25^th April 20125.

Search Zuma the Dog at www.kickstarter.com or simply follow the link below.

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1511620017/winter-2015-range-by-zuma-the-dog

Website: www.zumathedog.com

 

 

Exciting Times for Zuma the Dog

It may have appeared in recent months that we have been quiet on our social network sites, but there is always something happening behind the scenes, at home and with business. Mummy is always heading off here and there. Meeting for this, meeting for that, but lately I see something big is happening and Mummy seems more excited than usual.

She has explained that some people in a country called China has taken a real interest in ME! Yay! GO ME! But I think she is referring to my clothing line. She has been talking at length with them for many months now and they would like to launch the brand in the Chinese market starting with their own stores and act as our agent to grow Zuma the Dog nationwide.

How exciting is that!?

This is such an awesome opportunity and with this will come some hard work and Mummy will now need to look at funding and investment to make this happen and she is even looking in to taking on a partner to complement the skills she already has. This will mean a real change for Zuma the Dog, a step up in the business world and a chance to step out on the worldwide market and become a real competitor in Children's clothing.



To get the ball rolling she has launched a Kickstarter campaign and hoping you will all like to have a hand in helping our little brand develop and achieve its potential in growing into the household name we know it can be.



 

Go on! Have a little look see at this link make a pledge and remember to share, share, share the love.

 https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1511620017/winter-2015-range-by-zuma-the-dog

With Zuma the Dog in the Chinese marketplace we are really making progress with our vision.

Much Love as always

Zuma XX

 

Back to School

So, this week is Back to School week. I don’t know about you, but it has certainly been a very long summer break. Master C certainly needs to be back amongst his friends and Mummy really needs to get back into work mode and get her focus back to ME and all things that surround ME! Ten weeks is really far too long for the schools to be closed in my opinion.

I spent a good chunk of my time hang out with my favourite trainer, playing at his farm and being generally quite spoilt, while Mummy and Master C gallivanted across the globe in search of inspiration for new styles and Mummy tells me she even wrote a new Zuma the Dog book. Can’t wait to start seeing that come to life.

Mummy said she was sorry that I couldn’t come with her and was sad I couldn’t experience all the fun they had in Brazil and England. She took stuffed Zuma with her to make up for it and it does look like he had a great time. To be honest though, I know I had the best time where I was and as much as they enjoyed seeing lots of new things and making friends with strange new creatures, rolling around in a dusty old farm, digging up rotten old balls and long walks on the sunset beach is a much better holiday for me.

 

Apparently Stuffed Zuma got really good at photo bombing and here are some of Mummy's snap shots to prove it. 

Relaxing and enjoying the river in the Rainforest of Brazil

 

"Look Mummy, this is where they grow Bananas"

 

"Don't you think this would make a great location for a photo shoot for Zuma the Dog?"

 

The locals are so friendly

 

Super fun ride on the cable car. Mummy and Daddy zipped lined down this.

 

Awesome view of Balneario Camboriu from Unipraias Adventure park

 

We loved all the animals and birds at the Botanical Gardens in Joinville

 

A romantic trip through the Rain Forest by train

 

So many palm trees at Rua da Palmeira

 

I am relaxed and ready to face my public and enjoy what is ahead for Zuma the Dog. New school term equal new adventures for us all. Bring them on!

 

Much Love

 

Zuma XX

 

 

Back to Business

We love learning language at our office, new words every day. I’m learning Pekingese, Dachshund and Shih Tzu. and I have to say the accent on Shih Tzu is quite difficult to get to grips with. Foreign language learning for children is really important in the world we all live in today and here at Zuma the Dog HQ we are continuously looking for new ways to promote our new bilingual books series as well as the books of our affiliates.

 

Our original book series can be bought online and in goodbook retailers, but our bilingual range is a little more niche and we have come up with a plan to get this range into your homes with Zuma the Dog – Books at Home. This is the chance for you to get the books at home. Sell the books and earn commission on sales. Meet new people. Hold parties and events. Build a network and earn commission on their sales and work all this around your daily routine. Sounds pawsome to me!

 

Print & colour activities for parties
and events

It’s simple to get started just email us at zuma@zumathedog.com to order your starter kit, which includes 15 books, 10 stuffed dog key rings, our printable Books at Home catalogue and order form and other children's activities. 

 

Stuffed key rings comes in your
starter pack

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Build your network and become a team leader and watch your income grow. Below shows a simple diagram of how this can work for you.

 

 

 It's up to you how many team members you have on level two and how many team members your level two team want to take on. Remember the bigger your team, the more you earn!

 

 It's easy, simple and fun! I am here to take your enquiry. Get in touch today! 

 

Much Love

 

Zuma xx

Born Flea!

I’ve now been living in paradise for two years and it occurred to me just the other day that since I’ve been here I have not once had a single flea. In the UK it felt at times that I was the only dog in the world that hosted these annoying little pests. That they all came to live on me and no matter how many times mummy washed and Frontlined me and sprayed the house I would always remain the most desirable host for fleas. The summer months were particularly the worst and she would often worry about the chemicals she was putting on my skin and how they would affect both me and Master C, if he was to get any on him. How harmful are these pest control cures to the environment and the home?  It wasn’t something I thought about much until I was sat scratching my ear with my back foot, just yesterday and then remembered that this was something I used to do more often than I care to admit. This got my little mind thinking. What has changed? Why am I now completely critter free? What has changes about me? Am I truly Super Zuma?

After a little research online I soon discovered the little known fact that FLEAS DON’T LIKE SALT! Pawsome! This means, now my lifestyle has changed, becoming a beach bum, all the surfing and paddle boarding I’m doing is not only giving me a great doggy cardio workout, but it’s also repelling the fleas. More online research says that even pool water that contains chlorine will also repel the little parasites as chlorine is also salt. This is possibly the best news I heard all week!

I understand that I am a lucky pup living by the sea and having a pool in my garden which gives me access to as much salt as my little fluffy body can take, but we have thought that perhaps there is a way you can tell your humans about this natural way to get rid of those pesky fleas.  I suggested to Mummy that a mixture of salty water put into a spray container and sprayed all over your fur could help prevent infestation. Give it a try. I’m sure you will be amazed with the results.

I’m heading out to beach for another dip in the sea and to try out my new wetsuit! Let me know how you get on with our natural flea repellent remedy.

There's no fleas on me!

 

Much Love

 

Zuma XX

Lights! Camera! Action!

 

This year seems to be flying past so fast, spring has certainly settled in and before we know it summer will be here. There has been so many bank holidays just lately and Master C has been off school, so Mummy has had less time for me. I’ve spent some time woofing at the postman and the builders working on the house next door and dreaming about what I would do if they accidentally fell off the wall and landed in the garden. I’m pretty sure I would give them a nice fright, just for my own pleasure. It’s funny seeing humans jump when they hear my high pitch woof.

Mummy and Master C have spent some time over the Easter break being creative and making animated movies starring yours truly. Master C has had fun creating his characters, making the Popagami army and drawing the scenery and I’ve enjoyed watching them focusing on ME! Even though it is indirectly. The movie has made me out to be the hero (as I am), fighting the evil alien invaders and It’s been nice seeing my human family have fun together doing creative activities. For a small boy Master C really does have a great imagination. The result is pawsome! Check it out here and feel free to share his talent. It would be dogtastic to see this go viral!

 

 

I’m pretty sure Mummy will find a way to use this as a way to market my clothing brand. There is always something going on here at Zuma the Dog HQ and often I get dragged into being involved one way or another. I'm seven and a half now and getting too old for all this silliness! I think I’m going to just sit here for a while, staring out to the garden and dream up other ways the world can focus it’s attention on me.

 

 

Much Love

 

Zuma XX

We made it!

We made it!

It looks like we have finally come through what appears to be the wettest winter for hundreds of years! I feel we are starting to come out of hibernation, out of our homes and we have certainly started spending more time at my favourite location. I think Mummy is getting me to meet lots of new doggy friends and wearing me out as much as she can at the beach so I don’t woof so much at home.

Love learning new beach activities

We have started with some fun activities which has included Stand Up Paddle boarding (SUP), which I wasn’t so sure about at first, but as long as I remember not to jump head first into the sea I will be fine and will probably enjoy it more as time goes by. Mummy tells me there is a Dog Surf competitions coming up at Praia do Guincho in May and would like me to take part. Do you think I can get myself trained in time?

Fun and Frolics at Praia do Guincho

The beach is coming back to paradise after it took some serious battering from the storms in January and it even looks like the sea is starting to deposit the sand back in its rightful place. With the plants coming back to life and Easter on its way we definitely have a good positive feeling about the new season ahead.

New and exciting projects and developments are happening at Zuma the Dog HQ and the most recent to be rolled out this month is our new Zumathe Dog – Books at Home programme. We have designed this for our customers who enjoy our books, can sell them and earn commission for sales of our Zuma the Dog Book series. With the world becoming smaller we recognise that foreign language learning for small children has become more of a necessity to get ahead in our competitive world. Our original book series have been made into a bilingual range to include popular European languages like Spanish, French, Portuguese and German. More are on the way and teamed up with our product partner Popagami we have come up with a tight range of books both parent and child can enjoy and learn from.

We are encouraging people worldwide to join and become team leaders and develop their own network where commission can be earned on team sales. We would love to hear from you, so please get in touch with me at zuma@zumathedog.com

 

 

The sun is still beating down on the garden and this blog post is taking up precious sunbathing time. While mummy has her back turned I’m going to sneak off and get some more sun time before it disappears behind the fence.

I look forward to hearing from you.

Much Love

Zuma XX

 

Happy New Year and happy year of the horse! It already seems like ages ago and January seems to fly by so fast. For many it’s been an interesting start to the year. With snow storms in the USA, high winds and rain battering most of the west coast of Europe bring destruction and floods to many households. It’s almost in a biblical sense.

Boardwalk blown away by winds

High tides destroy Praia do Guincho

The destruction we saw in Portugal was sad. The beaches torn up and we lost my favourite boardwalk to the beach from high winds, but I am fortunate that the beach is still there and I am able to run and play like any other day. My thoughts go out to those from home who are not so fortunate. My home county of Somerset has been hit so badly by the storms almost all of the levels are submerged in water. Mummy recalls times as a child when the river near her home would burst its banks and the field below her childhood home would fill up with water, but never in her days has she seen such massive floods and so much devastation. She remembers that after the floods came the freeze and the field below her home would freeze over and all the children from the neighbourhood would come to ice skate. The floods brought fun and fond childhood memories not destruction of homes and loss of business to the farmers.

Burrow Bridge Mount in the Floods

Somerset Levels overcome with floods

I was told by a family member that the local council stopped the dredging of the rivers in Somerset many years ago due to cutback by the government. With global warming and the extra rain that has been falling the rivers have not been able to cope, bursting their banks and causing these floods. I’m sure there is more to it than that, but surely the cost of this devastation out ways the cost of keeping the rivers clean? Here Mummy has found and interesting video which touches on the real cause of the problem.

It’s so sad to see my home where I grew up covered with water and seeing very little help coming. It’s been almost two months since the start of the floods in Somerset and will anything be done to compensate these people? A message to the UK government: Remember, Charity begins at home!

 

Much love

 

Zuma XX

Competition time!

With Halloween over for another year we take a quick breather as we move into the next set of end of year celebrations. Guy Falks night in the UK this week, Thanksgiving at the end of the month in the USA and the grand finale that everyone looks forward to. YAY!!!!!! Christmas is coming!!!!!!!

We are starting to see sales increase as people start to shop early and buy Christmas gifts for loved ones. We also like to help out in other ways and team up with our online partners where we can. Zuma the Dog is available to buy on many websites, which include. www.loubilou.com www.zulily.com www.zulily.com.uk www.casabu.com www.amazon.co.uk www.amazon.com as well as our own website www.zumathedog.com. This month it was time to team up with Casabu and we got involved with their "Baby Raffle Extravaganza". For just £2 per ticket you could be the luck winner of £2000 worth of nursery and baby items.

Win the Casabu Raffle of the year!

 

The Casabu team has pulled together a fantastic raffle with one lucky winner set to receive an unbelievable prize bundle of over 50 items of essential nursery, baby items and toys.....one ticket gets you entry to the raffle of the year!

 

Prize draw will take place on November 5th

 

Click here for further information

 

 

Fingers, or paws crossed for you all and good luck.

 

Much Love

 

Zuma xx

 

 

 

http://9nl.eu/CasabuRaffle

Colour Me Better

Great news, Daddy Zuma is back on his feet and able to play again, well, almost. I think it will still be some time before he's able to take part in the kind of play I enjoy. While he was getting better from his accident he worked on some of the new print and colour pictures of me which are on my website. I'd rather run around the garden or a beach all day, but when we're stuck inside I like to see pretty pictures of me which other people have done. Mummy has put eight different drawings of me on the website, including three which are specially done for Halloween. Now that Halloween is nearly here the weather is drawing in and there is less time for outside play, why don't you get creative? Colour in one of my pictures and then tweet them to me. There's Franken Zuma, Jacko Zuma and Zuma Potter to choose from.

 

 

 

You can find my twitter account, and so many other things about me on the website. Every picture I get I'll share with all my other friends so they can see how well you've done.

I look forward to see what you all come up with and show the world how talented you all are.


Much Love



Zuma XX

The Ending Summer

The summer is starting to come to an end and for many of us it feels like it just got started. I’ve had a great time off, a wonderful doggy holiday, but now we are getting back into the full swing of it. The kids will soon be back at school and it’s only a matter of week before we start to celebrate Halloween, Thanksgiving and Christmas! Can you believe that?



Samples heading out to new distributors

Zuma the Dog head office was at a standstill for a while, due to Daddy Zuma having a serious accident, an eight week hospital stay and weeks of hospital treatment and physiotherapy. Now we have slipped into a nice little routine which includes the hospital visits, HQ is moving forward again. We’ve been busy catching up and Mummy Zuma has been hard at it again securing new distributors, covering the USA, Russia and Ukraine. Along with the licensing deals signed at the beginning of the summer Zuma the Dog is set for large growth in business over the next year. Summer 2014 order are being taken, winter 2014 range is designed and research for summer 2015 is under way. So much going on that we really now need to stay ahead.



Samples heading out all over the world

On top of all this great news we are also being featured in two great magazines over the next two months. Firstly is with Beebo magazine, the Southwest’s must have family magazine. Here we get to tell you all about our brand for those who are not familiar with us and with a cute colouring competition we get to give away one of our hoodies with various other surprises.

In October we are honoured to be featured in CWB magazine, which will expose our brand to all of the Children’s wear stores and boutiques throughout the UK.

For our tiny little family run brand all about me (the family pet) we really are making waves in the big wide world and with all my recent trauma issues almost solved. Life is becoming most pleasurable for Zuma the Dog.



Can I get a high five?

 

Much love

 

Zuma XX



Summer Holidays

 

Zuma is off having a wonderful time running around the Quinta of his trainer Altino with his other dog buddies and enjoying his summer vacation, so while he is having so much fun. I am left to fill in his work obligation which means writing his blog for this edition.

We visited Zuma yesterday to see how he was getting on and it turns out he’s loving every moment and Altino tells us he is the best behaved dog there. I find that hard to believe, but we are happy that he is calm and relaxed and having a nice time.

Zuma with his Trainer Altino. Loving his holiday time

We are now moving into summer holiday time and we all start to think about what we are going to do with our little ones to keep them occupied during these 6 weeks. For many you will be going on vacation to a sunny resort with family, maybe summer camp is calling, but for most the summer holidays are a time where we can spend time with our kids, choose fun activity and play outside (weather permitting).

We at Zuma the Dog HQ are working away creating new product ideas and designing new ranges to keep you all up with the latest styles and kids trends, but while all this is going on we have also found some time to search for and recommend some activities you can do if the weather changes and need something to do indoors.

We have listed five of our favourites.

1.       Colouring-in crazy? Visit www.zumathedog.com and click on “print & colour” to download free our simple Zuma the dog characters

2.       For creative indoor fun you can download for free our Zuma the dog pop-ette with pals. Go to www.zumathedog.com and click on “print & colour” to see our Popagami Zuma the Dog to colour in and make.

3.       Love Popagami? We recommend you go to www.popagami.com  where you can download full colour versions of Zuma the Dog and other characters to make and create plays and stories with.

4.       We love Tilly and Tam. Doggy friends of Zuma with new stories every week and games to play check out www.tillyandtam.com/playtime/

5.        Lots of free download able craft fun here at http://www.activityvillage.co.uk/crafts

We certainly know that Zuma is playing outside and has gathered together a football team with his other dog buddies. As he is having such a wonderful time I am wondering whether he will want to come home.

Enjoy your summer holidays and play safe whatever you do.

Much Love

Sam (Zuma’s Mummy)

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