We began in 2015 as a small business offering full-service travel, meetings, and events. We enjoyed great success helping our customers with business and leisure travel and meeting and event planning. Our success was based on our ability to listen to our customers and provide them with quality, actionable advice.
In mid-2020, we took stock of our internal expertise with over 25 years of experience in communications and public relations, government affairs, nonprofit management, and business development. We rewrote our capabilities statement to include these new offerings. We recognized we needed to change our company name from Yeego Travel Meetings and Events LLC to Yeego Connect LLC, encompassing our broader scope. We needed a short period to retool with software, hardware, and equipment and develop trust with our current clientele to compete professionally in these new service sectors and establish future growth.
As one of 140,000 independent professional travel agencies in the United States, we needed to rethink our business model, brand, and offerings to survive as a small business during the COVID-19 global pandemic. We found the energy to push forward and offer our other valuable in-house services to our clients struggling to maintain their vision and mission. We all came out stronger and wiser.
Yeego Connect has a coveted reputation in communications, public relations, and management services for tribal nations and nonprofit organizations. We continue to market our expanded offerings and expect our company's travel, meetings, and events portion to recommence after the pandemic.