Citizen Brand

TwoHands update

Brady and Alicia are about two years into their online business selling fair trade goods at TwoHandsWorldshop.com.  It's growing quite nicely because they are doing some very cool things to market themselves.

Last Saturday, more than a hundred folks braved some cool, rainy weather to attend the Lawrence version of a worldwide coffee break.  The event at Watson Park in Lawrence was sponsored by TwoHands and served up some great fair trade coffee to the attendees.

On May 19th, TwoHands will cosponsor a special showing of the film "Black Gold."   The film has received rave reviews in telling the story of how one man fights for a fair price for his coffee.  It should make us think more carefully about our morning cup of joe and where the beans for it started.

Finally, TwoHands will be present for the big Wakarusa Festival from June 5-8 at Clinton Lake outside Lawrence.  Brady and Alicia will have fair trade products on sale throughout the festival which is fast becoming one of the big music festivals in the nation.

Great stuff!

Another cup of Joe

The returns are in....no not that other election.  This one is truly important.  The 12 best cups of coffee according to Fast Company anyway.

I'm very happy to see that Kansas City born and bred The Roasterie has two of the top 12.  They deserve it.  (They are not a client, although I wish they were.)

The selections are made by The Coffee Review, a Berkeley, California based coffee publication. It conducts objective, blind cuppings in which industry experts rate the coffees based on aroma, acidity, body, flavor and aftertaste.

While touring the site of The Coffee Review, I found a link for a great book from National Geographic called The Ten Best of Everything.  It's compiled by veteran travelers Nathaniel and Andrew Lande and is billed as an entertaining and authoritative book from National Geographic full of "ten best" lists ranging from Arnold Palmer's ten finest golf courses to Luciano Pavarotti's ten favorite opera houses to the ten best coffees and teas in the world.

Sounds like a perfect book to browse through with a good cup of coffee close by.