| Kelly J.Bloom will be our keynote speaker and guest for the 2009 Alabama Soap & Candle Association Meeting! We're very excited! Kelly will speak to attendees of the 11th Annual Alabama Soap & Candle Convention on Trademarking & Branding Architecture for Your Soap Business. The creation of a product brand, marketing it, and subsequently trademarking it works in a synergistic manner to create a trifecta for your business. This method of branding architecture ensures your greatest ROI of time and money while ensuring the commercial value for your business, and places you on an equal footing with larger industry competitors Kelly will also cover the importance of creating and maintaining Good Manufacturing Practices (GMPs), a topic that has been become important to all of us in the wake of the The FDA Globalization Act, with the likelihood of stricter regulations in the near future. |
Bill and Trina Wallace, of Snowdrift Farms, will be unable to attend as planned, due to illness. We all wish Trina and Bill the best, and hope that they may be able to attend at some point in the future. We are very fortunate that Kelly Bloom so generously offered to fill in for us at the last minute. Thanks, Kelly!
We hope you will come and join us too! The 11th annual Alabama Soap & Candle Association Meeting will be held at the Doster Center in Historic Downtown Prattville, Alabama! We have a link to the Rand-McNally website that will give you step by step directions to the meeting location when you provide your starting point.
The Alabama Soap and Candle Association began as the Alabama Soap Meeting in 1998 with 4 members, and has grown to well over 100 members. We have a Yahoo Group that you can join to keep up with activities like monthly luncheons, our winter gathering, and more.
We promise fun, fellowship, food, (my three favorite "f's"!), education, and some awesome shopping opportunities. There will be several vendors there from whom you can buy on the spot, and many of our generous sponsors will provide samples of new products so we can try before we buy. Put this event on your calendar now.... it'll be the *must attend* event of the Summer of 2009! There are always several swaps that you can participate in. We promise you two fun-filled days of amazing speakers and demos. We have had amazingly generous sponsors who provide items for door prizes and for our goodie bags. I'm sure that they will be even more generous in 2009. Some of our vendors may offer specials such as free delivery to the meeting.
We'd love to see you there! Make plans now to be there next year, Friday, June 12th and Saturday, June 13th, 2009.
We must apologize. We were having SO much fun this year (2008) that we forgot to take a group photo, but here's a photo of the 2007 Meeting attendees.... many weren't available for the photo, but we all had a fabulous time!
Click on the envelope to send us an email
(alabamasoap@earthlink.net),
or call
205-706-4986 today! We look forward to hearing from you.