Spring Has Sprung!!

Goodbye Winter and hello Spring!! The Midwest has been seeing some really gorgeous days lately.

Spring is a time when the world starts to come to life, and Brown Sugar is falling right in line!! There are so many projects that we are working on!! One our biggest tasks right now is the planning of our "official" launch party. We have so many awesome ideas, a plethora of stylish venues to look at, invitations to design, swag bags to create... and the guest list? We don't even want to get to that, just yet!! Check out a pic from our last "power lunch" at BW3's... we might keep the meeting place casual, but we are definitely ABOUT BUSINESS!!

Also check out a pic of me and Kristin scoping out one of our potential venues!!

Other projects in the works are our promotional materials!! We cant make it to the top without marketing and advertisement right? We are currently designing our brochures, postcards, etc. You name it... we have it with BROWN SUGAR on it!! Be on the look out!!

Today, Brown Sugar Affairs will make due on our exclusive invite to attend, Zhou B Art Gallery's "Open House for Chicago's Special Events Industry". The art galley will be showcasing its venue space, preferred vendors; such as caterers, florists, wine/liquor companies, and other necessitates/people needed to make the special events industry thrive. This will be a great opportunity for Brown Sugar to establish new relationships, with Chicago's top vendors, and to mingle with our counterparts in this arena. I am really looking forward to this evening!!

Until next time!!

~brownsugarkv

Women of Color Conference 2009

Last Friday Brown Sugar- minus one, attended the Women of Color conference in the "Circle City" (Indianapolis).

The conference was lead by a group of dynamic women, all with one common goal. To recognize, promote and strengthen the advantages and abilities of women of color in the business arena. This was a great opportunity for Brown Sugar to learn new skills in networking, how to land city and federal contracts, and how to best brand ourselves as well as our business. Also the conference afforded us the opportunity to interface with other business owners and seekers, to speak with peers about their various endeavors. We were able to establish new relationships with those, who we may be working side by side within Brown Sugar's future!!

We were able to promote ourselves and our business, we passed out many business cards, and got great feed back!! Brown Sugar garnered many compliments on our beautiful and enticing business cards!!! We were told by other professionals that, just by seeing the concept of our logo, it made them want to find out more of what we were about. That is surely great news to us!!

We thoroughly enjoyed our experience at the conference, and will be utilizing all of what we learned and those that we have met, to the advancement and productivity of Brown Sugar...

And if you know the ladies of Brown Sugar, you know that we couldn't end our weekend without a little food, fun, a movie (Madea Goes to Jail... HILARIOUS!!!), and some "chocolate cake"!!! ;)

~brownsugarkv